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Welcome Carol Werther, a longtime resident of White Rock and Lake Highlands, as she joins our office full time in January. With 25 years in the mortgage industry she looks forward to helping you with all your mortgage needs.

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Volume 20 Number 1 | LH January 2012 | CONTENTS

features 31

Crime ﬁghting via computer

Dallas police are using Facebook, Twitter and You Tube to catch criminals.

Blog heaven

Neighborhood bloggers ﬁnd an online niche.

La vida local

An improved coffee café, new construction and Nothing Bundt Cake comes to Lake Highlands.

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26 Social Studies

Like or dislike it, it seems neighborhoods are changing with new technology. Photo by Can Türkyilmaz

launch 14

The producer

A conversation with indie ﬁlmmaker Cameron Nelson. ON THE COVER: QR code is short for Quick

Response code. If you have a smartphone with a camera, you can scan the code to unlock any number of things on the internet. Here’s how to get started: 1. Download a free QR code reader app to your phone. 2. Launch the app and point your phone’s camera at the big QR code on our cover. 3. That will open advocatemag.com/social, where you can learn about all the

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Soup’s on

Warm your belly with hot and hearty seasonal bowls.

15 Lounging around

LHHS grad Lyndsey Jones is a staple at Dallas nightspots. Photo by Can Türkyilmaz

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A chAnce encounter Digital news can’t compete with the surprises newsprint offers It’s cold and wet and windy outside, and brownish-red leaves whip through the yard. Can I complete the dash without becoming soaked as rain pounds our driveway, bouncing up on the porch? It’s probably only 60 feet, the distance from our front door to the sidewalk, but this early in the morning, with the darkened sky strangling the light, there might as well be a mile between me and the three rolled-up newspapers on the lawn. I’m waiting, knowing full well that everything in the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times can be found online, but I still like to feel paper between my fingers as I sift through yesterday’s news looking for things that still have meaning today. Today, I’m virtually a loner on this trip — the neighbors’ lawns are mostly empty. In fact, given our headlong flight to electronic information, I’m almost embarrassed to be seen with newsprint. Years ago, if something big happened, we might have been teased with information on television or radio, but we would have waited for the newspaper to make sense of it all. We may have had opinions, but we couldn’t do much with them — sure, we might have wanted to remind Donald Trump he’s an idiot or tell Lindsay Lohan to quit screwing up her life, but by the time we hand-wrote our thoughts and found a postage stamp, the energy driving the hate was pretty much gone. We don’t have that problem anymore, because in seconds I can join the many thousands on Lohan’s Twitter account or Trump’s Facebook page letting them know exactly how disgusted we are with their antics. No matter if tomorrow I’m not so hot under the collar and maybe even wish I’d

held my digital tongue; there will be something else fueling my anger by then. Social networks and the internet are doing a lot of great things in our neighborhoods these days, as you’ll learn from our cover story this month. Neighbors are finding each other, cops are tracking criminals, pets are being found, stores are selling stuff; while waiting for our monthly magazine, you can even find daily news updates for our neighborhood at advocatemag.com or on our Facebook page or Twitter feed. The internet makes all things accessible instantaneously, so there’s no wait to have questions answered or information found, as long as you know exactly what you’re looking to find. But for me, a newspaper on newsprint still offers something more — the opportunity to stumble across something I didn’t know I needed to know. Like the story I read the other day about the death by brain

A D V E R T I S ING P H / 214 . 5 6 0 . 4203 office administrator: JUDY LILES 214.560.4203 / jliles@advocatemag.com advertising sales director: KRISTY GACONNIER 214.560.4213 / kgaconnier@advocatemag.com display sales manager: BRIAN BEAVERS 214.560.4201 / bbeavers@advocatemag.com senior advertising consultant: AMY DURANT 214.560.4205 / adurant@advocatemag.com advertising consultants CATHERINE PATE 214.292.0494 / cpate@advocatemag.com NORA JONES 214.292.0962 / njones@advocatemag.com PATTI MILLER 214.292.0961 / pmiller@advocatemag.com JENNIfER THOMAS VOSS 214.635.2122 / jvoss@advocatemag.com fRANK McCLENDON 214.560.4215 / fmcclendon@advocatemag.com LIz BOVARD 972.922.2790 / lbovard@advocatemag.com classified manager: PRIO BERGER 214.560.4211 / pberger@advocatemag.com classified consultant SALLY ACKERMAN 214.560.4202 / sackerman@advocatemag.com marketing director: MEGHAN RINEY 214.292.0486 / mriney@advocatemag.com E DI TOR I A L P H / 214 . 29 2 . 20 53 publisher: RICK WAMRE 214.560.4212 / rwamre@advocatemag.com

i still like to feel paper between my fingers as i sift through yesterday’s news looking for things that still have meaning today.

managing editor: CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB 214.560.4204 / chughes@advocatemag.com editors KERI MITCHELL 214.292.0487 / kmitchell@advocatemag.com EMILY TOMAN 214.292.2053 / etoman@advocatemag.com RACHEL STONE 214.292.0490 / rstone@advocatemag.com

damage of a 28-year-old Minnesota hockey player, or the story about why Army wound up beating Navy for the 1944 college football championship. These stories are on tablets or smartphones, too, but they’re harder to find because we have no reason to look for them. I could survive without that random knowledge. But the information itself, stumbled across as I randomly flipped newspaper pages, offers something to ponder, to the extent pondering something is possible anymore. Anyway, the rain finally has slowed to a drizzle, so I’m going to scurry down the steps, across the lawn and out to the street where the newspapers lay coiled in plastic. I’ll enjoy them as long as I can, because like all of us, their time will end. Sooner, it appears, rather than later.

web editor: CHRISTY ROBINSON 214.635.2120 / crobinson@advocatemag.com

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There was a time when Advocate Magazine was just Advocate magazine, but over the last few years, we’ve evolved into Advocate Media, comprising blogs, podcasts, videos, Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and email newsletters. Some of the aforementioned items concerned us, and in fact, Advocate editors had trouble becoming accustomed to using social media in our daily routine. Below are excerpts from a 2009 podcast featuring our ﬁrst web director, Kris Scott — the voices belong to her, editors Christina Hughes Babb, Rachel Stone and Marlena Chavira-Medford, and photo editor Can “Turk” Turkyilmaz. We admit: The audio on this thing is truly awful. And we introduced the podcast with a song. It’s supposed to be funny, but we have a weird sense of humor. We had fun with the podcasts in those days, because we were pretty sure that that none of you listened.

Listen to the entire show. CHB: Today’s topic is Advocate in the age of social media … I guess. I actually just made that up … Kris Scott has been leading the Advocate’s social media effort, so I’ll start by asking her, “Why are you making us do this?” KS: I read recently that people are spending half their time on Facebook and, less so, Twitter than on destination websites, such as Advocatemag.com. So those who were once going to our website might be spending that time on Facebook now. I kind of think of Facebook as the Yellow Pages of yesteryear, in that, if you want to learn something about a business, you go almost

immediately to Facebook, so we needed to have a presence there for that reason alone.

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KS: We used to be a monthly magazine and people read it and then put it down. This way, we can be in your face all the time. MCM: And people can now see our faces, on Twitter, rather than just our names and our bylines.

KS: And your pictures are all pretty cute. CHB: Thank Turk for that … and we get to see our readers’ faces and get to know you. KS: It is an amazing dialogue. And it helps you guys do your jobs, too, because, say you are covering neighborhood seafood places, you can get on Facebook or Twitter and get feedback from neighbors about their favorite places. … and we are going to be giving out free things so follow us … friend us?

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CT: Friending is on Facebook and following is on Twitter. RS: Yes, and Twitter is a good place to ﬁnd breaking news, right? MCM: We learned about Bliss restaurant’s new location on Twitter, and we announced that In–N-Out Burger is coming to Dallas on Facebook. KS: And you can use it for fun stuff, like those photos we posted of the best-dressed ﬁre hydrant. PODCAST

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LETTERS&Comments

Welcome home It is wonderful to see a great Lake Highlands kid like Ethan Everett come back to live and now work in Lake Highlands. (“ViewPoint Bank opens,” Advocate Back Talk blog, Nov. 12). Having a new business locate in Lake Highlands is a step in the right direction to getting our retail community growing again. —Peggy Hill

Teen-driver tragedy A 16-year-old should not be allowed to drive — way too early (“Teenager dies in Northwest Highway crash,” Advocate Back Talk Blog, Dec. 1). Sadly, I am not surprised that this happened. At least the other people that he hit weren’t killed.

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All teenagers should read this; it’s a warning for them that they are as vulnerable as anyone else. My heart goes out to the family during this tragedy. This young man was just beginning to live. —Blatimer80

A different take on the marathon Now that is truly a unique angle. (“The White Rock Marathon coning guru,” December 2011 Advocate). Advocate, you have outdone yourself! —TG

Medically Supervised Weight Loss

Gary Wright is truly a quiet force behind the scenes. The task is not glamorous at all. It’s methodical and quiet during the night but turns into a wild ride close to start time. —Shannon Metcalf

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WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR 2011 HOME TOUR SPONSORS

CRYSTAL SPONSORS

Aging experts Great article on two of my favorite people (“Peter and Miki Snell know how to age well,” November 2011 Advocate)! If you’re interested in trying orienteering, the navigation sport mentioned in this piece, visit us at North Texas Orienteering Association (ntoa.com). Peter and Miki were among the founders of the club in the mid-’80s and still join us for some events. —Lisa Werner Carr

Supporting new neighbors Thanks to everyone associated with support for Family Gateway (“Supportive housing at Montecito Palms apartments,” Advocate Back Talk blog, Nov. 17), as it is through efforts such as yours that we achieve our mission, helping homeless families with children become self-sufficient. —Ralph Doherty, chair Family Gateway, Inc.

Correction: In the December 2011 Advocate, a photo in the Scene and Heard section ran with the wrong caption. The caption should have indicated that the photo, by neighborhood resident Wendy Quandahl, was from a flag retirement ceremony held by oldwornflag.com and Sons of the American Revolution at Lake Highlands’ Flag Pole Hill. To see more photos from the ceremony visit advocatemag.com and SEARCH: ﬂag retirement.

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Q&A: Cameron Nelson When he was a student at Lake Highlands High School, Cameron Bruce Nelson was, by his own admission, a “total delinquent”. He had a rebellious streak that gave rise to class ditching and rule breaking, and drove his distressed parents to send him off to boarding school his senior year. But Cameron, like many a great troublemaker before him, was just an imaginative soul itching to find its place in the universe. Mere months after being temporarily ousted from home and school, he improved his academic standing enough to successfully finish high school and enter university of Texas at austin where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Since, he has traveled the world, immersed himself in myriad cultures and honed his music skills, and has written, shot, edited and produced a handful of movies. These days he just premiered a documentary and is working on his first feature-length film.

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Any interest in film or theater in high school? I wasn’t really into much in high school or what it had to offer. I had a hard time, but I guess I was just trying to find my place. I didn’t go about it the best way, but by the time I got to college, I felt more in control; I settled in and allowed myself to learn. I realized that the world was so big and that there is so much out there.

When did your interest turn to moviemaking? When I graduated from college, where I had double-majored in cultural anthropology and history, my dad gave me a camera. I brought it along on a trip to South Africa, which is where I fell in love with film. I had always been into music and visual arts — I guess when I discovered film, I saw it as a marriage of the two … I scored the films myself.

So, you saw the score as an elemental part of your films? Not necessarily. It’s more like seeing the film, the score and the images, as a symphony itself.

When you returned to the United States, you didn’t go right into filmmaking, either. Instead you did something rather unconventional. Yes. A friend and I decided to become migrant workers for a while. We wanted to make and save a lot of money, and have an experience, so we worked on a farm in southwest Virginia. We formed an art collective and tried some different things — live music, making music videos, touring with a band — but the idea of film was still speaking to me.

What brought you back to DFW? I really came back here for a girl, Jessica Fuentes, who would become my wife and part of the core membership of our film production company, Rambos Rainbos.

Tell us about some of the things you have done so far. Short films “In Kind” and “New Animal” premiered this year at festivals. We have done a documentary about a grass-fed cattle ranch in Greenville, Texas, and how farmers manage during a terrible drought.

I am two-thirds of the way into our first feature length film about the farm that I lived on in Virginia — a lot of my work is autobiographical in some ways.

“In Kind” is about Robert Drake, a 50-something man who obsessively rides his bicycle. You’re barely 30, so how do you relate to him? I find a lot of connections with Robert Drake, whether it’s through people I know or my own experiences as a stepfather. I won’t spoil it, but at the end of “In Kind,” you suddenly see him in a completely different way. That is a huge part of what I do — playing with people’s perceptions. Making the audience understand that things usually are not as they seem at first look.

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Are you involved in every aspect of your movies? I write, direct and produce. My wife is extremely artistic and designs sets and costumes, directs photography, and the third member of our core team is Mark Howell. I’ve had help from Frank Mosley, a filmmaker from Arlington has helped me with getting local actors. Waxahachie’s Jodie Moore plays the lead in “In Kind” and [Lake Highlands High School grad] Wilbur Penn plays a guy who interviews him for a job.

Somewhere I read that your films are often almost “uncomfortably intimate” — why and how do you evoke that? I like to make the viewer feel what the character is feeling — like in “New Animal,” we are on the side of the highway in a car with an arguing couple. The camera is in the car, and the audience feels cramped and smothered, like the character feels. I like to focus on evoking a feeling rather than spelling everything out in the script, which is why I like a lot of European directors such as Antonioni. When directing, I like to have long talks with the actors and let them get to know and develop the character themselves. I plant the seeds and let the character grow in them — you have to have a lot of faith in your actors to do that.

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all that jazz Lyndsey Jones “I want to make it big,” says Lyndsey Jones with a laugh. The question, “What are your hopes for the future?” was admittedly a silly one. The 21-year-old Lake Highlands High School grad has remained, since early childhood, unfalteringly on-track in her quest. She’s been playing the piano competitively since age 5 and, as an adolescent, started voice training. She sang in the high school pop choir, and kept practicing and studying music throughout her college years. These days, local nightspots love her Stevie Nicks-meets-Norah Jones presence so much that she has ongoing gigs at both Terilli’s on Greenville and The Library at the Warwick Melrose Hotel (as well as one at a venue in Plano). “I’m booked about 5-6 nights a week right now,” she says. She spends her daylight hours working at Z Gallerie, a hip north Dallas furniture store, and says that she loves interior design and concedes that design could be part of her future plans, however, she stresses, music (for now) is now her life. Her current album, “What a Day,” consists of jazzy covers from Alicia Keys, Van Morrison and Sara Bareilles, plus an original — the title track. She’s working on a second album that will showcase her songwriting talents. Her mom and dad, Jeffery and Crysta Jones, live in Lake Highlands with Jones’s siblings Adam, Rachel and Nick, who is in the Espree pop choir at LHHS. —Christina Hughes Babb CATCH JONES MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS AT TERILLI’S OR TUESDAYS AT THE LIBRARY BAR. Visit lyndseyjones.com or iTunes to purchase “What a Day.”

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Stock up on sweets The online bakery, bakingforgood.com, will donate 15 percent of every order to the Dallas Hearing Foundation, or choose from a list of other worthwhile charities. Baking for Good offers stylishly packaged brownies, cookies that look almost too pretty to eat, and even vegan and gluten free goodies, and they deliver everywhere in the United States — so bring them home or send sweets to a faraway friend. The Dallas Hearing Foundation, one of Baking for Good’s charity partners, provides hearing aids, cochlear implants, medical and surgical treatment, audiology services, auditoryverbal therapy, counseling and educational services for children and adults who do not have insurance or other resources to access these services. Learn more at dallashearingfoundation.org or by calling 972.424.7711.

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Based on the popular 1985 book by Laura Numeroff, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” tells the tale of a young boy and the adventure that ensues when he innocently gives a mouse a cookie. For ages 4 and older. Rosewood Center for Family Arts, 5938 Skillman, 214.740.0051, dct.org, $12-$24

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The Lady: White Rock Lake Museum Exhibition

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Watch the LHHS Wildcats take on the Jesuit Rangers. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. LHHS, 9449 Church, 469.593.1126, $3; students $2

This popular event, 2-3 p.m., gives children the opportunity to improve their reading skills by reading to Heart-of-Texas therapy dogs. Kindergarten through fourth-grade participants may either bring their own books or choose on at the library. Audelia Road Library,10045 Audelia, 214.670.1350, audeliaroad@dallaslibrary.org

The local legend of the Lady of the Lake is brought to life through the interpretations of 17 local artists. Paintings, photographs and mixed media tell the story that has intrigued and mystiﬁed generations of White Rock area residents. Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8749, dallasculture.org, free

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New Year’s 5 Mile Run at Flag Pole Hill The New Year’s 5 Mile Run invites athletes and couch potatoes alike to start the new year off on the right foot … and the left. The race, which begins at 10 a.m., runs from the park ofﬁce on Flag Pole Hill down Goforth and West Lawther to Fair Oaks. Flag Pole Hill, 214.821.0909, runontexas.com, $25, 10:00 a.m.

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JAN. 14

For the Love of the Lake’s Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up Join FTLOTL and the Dallas Park and Recreation Department from 8.a.m.-noon and help keep White Rock Lake a clean and enjoyable place. This clean-up effort hasn’t missed a month since April 1996. Meet between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. at the FTLOTL ofﬁce; the event lasts until noon. 1152 N. Buckner, 214.660.1100, whiterocklake.org JAN. 21

Pet Project Pinot’s Palette is hosting a “Paint Your Pet” class. Send the shop a picture of your favorite animal companion, sign up for the class, and walk away with a one-of-a-kind painting. 6465 E. Mockingbird, 214.827.4668, pinotspalette.com/lakewood, $35

JAN. 28

LHHS Choir Garage Sale Support the LHHS choir by shopping the LHHS Choir Garage Sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Everything from large furniture to clothing will be on display, and proceeds beneﬁt all high school choirs. LHHS cafeteria, 9449 Church, 469.593.1061, risd.org/schools/lhhs

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Lake Highlands High School theater department presents “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a Tony Award-winning musical comedy about a ﬁctional spelling bee set in Putnam Valley Middle School. Through the show, the audience is integrated into the performance, making this a fun, interactive event. Performances begin at 7 p.m. LHHS auditorium, 9449 Church, 469.593.1065, lhhstheatre.org, $10-$13

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The world of cheap wine is in flux as we celebrate the Advocate’s 10th annual Cheap Wine extravaganza and $10 Wine Hall of Fame. Cheap wine is more popular than ever, but the wine industry — and especially the wine writing part of it — seems to resent cheap wine more than ever. Their reasons aren’t quite clear, but chalk up much of the backlash to the fact they’re tired of cheap wine, and want to get back to making and writing about the expensive stuff. We can be a bit snobbish, no? Nevertheless, the 2012 Hall of Fame added seven wines, and dropped only four: Anne urgau and the Vinum Cellars chenin blanc , which are scarce around here, and the Toad oir Rose. It’s especially sad to drop the Toad has been a fixture since the Hall started. But tage, for whatever reason, is more white ziné, and it doesn’t meet the Hall’s standards. ew wines are Pacific Rim Dry Riesling, a ich has been in and out of the Hall several ek Fume Blanc, a stellar sauvignon blanc a; Chateau de Riviere, a French red; La lciano d’Abruzzo, a classic Italian red; the Torrontes, an Argentine white; and the Ses brut and rosé sparkling wine from Spain. s the rest of this year’s Hall of Fame: ejeh_ki" a white wine from Sicily, which ents the couple of dozen Sicilian wines have enjoyed over the past four years. Lity. I have not had a bad Sicilian wine in four , and most of them have been $10 Hall ity. J^[ '& m_d[s from California’s Bogle yards, and especially the old vine zinfan9h_ijWb_de" the Spanish sparkling wine, h comes in brut (dry), extra dry (sweeter brut) and rosé. J^[ O[bbem!8bk[ 1-liter boxed sauvignon c from Chile. J^[ =WiYed Ckia[j[[hi0 White blends southwestern France, including Doe Tariquet, Domaine Artigaux and Doe Duffour. —Jeff Siegel SIEGEL’S WEEKLY WINE REVIEWS r every Wednesday on lakehighlands.advomag.com

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Sweet and sour cole slaw Cole slaw exists in an inﬁnite number of variations, and this version tweaks it yet again. Serve this on New Year’s with black-eyed peas and your favorite $10 wine. GROCERY LIST 1 Tbsp white sugar

2 Tbsp canola oil

2 Tbsp brown sugar

1/4 c distilled white vinegar

1 tsp mustard powder

1 lb green cabbage (about half a medium cabbage)

1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper

1 large carrot, peeled

1/2 tsp celery seed

1/2 bell pepper

Ask the wine guy How popular is wine in the United States? Depends on whom you ask. We drink more wine than anyone else in the world, but our per capita consumption is very ordinary. Wine and beer have been trading off as the most popular alcoholic beverage in the country, but very few of us drink that much wine: Just 20 percent of the U.S. adult population accounts for 91 percent of all wine consumed. —Jeff Siegel

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iNeighborhoods At 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday in the Woodbridge neighborhood, a young man in a gray hooded sweatshirt is checking every car door on the block. He even approaches a car parked in a circular driveway, just feet away from the homeowner’s kitchen window. Right after said homeowner calls 911 and yells at the kid to “scram,” he alerts his neighbors via the Woodbridge Homeowners Association Facebook group, accessible only to Woodbridge residents. Of the approximately 230 families in the neighborhood, about 121 have joined the online group. (Woodbridge also uses Google groups, members say, for weightier discussions that affect the neighborhood.) Murray Morgan, who is on the I really get to Woodbridge homeowners board says Facebook acts as an “early know people warning” system when it comes and get a feel for Murray Morgan to crime watch, but it’s also been who they are on great for a million little things. Woodbridge Facbeook. Indeed, via the Facebook Homeowners group, families with teenagAssociation ers ﬁnd families who need pet, house or baby sitters; photos of strange sightings (a possum or a coyote wandering down the street, for example) are posted; residents who own businesses share information and discounts; meeting and party plans are hatched; and lost pets are reunited with worried owners. And in an effort to prevent doggie escapes, the Woodbridge group started a pet photo gallery, where members post photos of their pets along with their addresses, so that if an animal gets out, neighbors know where he belongs.

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“Facebook is for us what it is supposed to be,” Morgan says. “It connects everybody … I try to encourage other Lake Highlands (HOAs) to use it more. I think we do a really good job with it and enjoy a lot of participation.” But what of the pitfalls? “Actually, drawbacks are few and far between,” Murray says. “Sometimes, in their comments, people overreact.” There have been instances when Morgan and the other administrators have had to censor comments that could be offensive to other members. “We usually wait it out awhile … often we just let an argument play out … because we want to respect people’s freedom to speak,” he says. Online outbursts are really no different than what one might hear at an actual neighborhood or business meeting, he says. Still, it’s a private Facebook group whose comments need to be monitored for appropriateness. “I would always recommend that neighborhoods using social media have someone in charge monitor the comments,” he says. Some experts argue that social media prevents people from getting to know one another personally. “The hours per day of face-to-face socializing have declined as the use of social media has increased,” writes Aric Sigman in his 2009 book, “Well Connected? The Biological Implications of Social Networking.” “People who use these sites frequently are prone to social isolation.” Morgan disagrees. “That’s not the least bit true,” he says. “Our neighborhood meetings used to be 25-30 people, now it is 75-100, and I think that has everything to do with Facebook. Before, people might not come to a meeting because they felt like a stranger; now they come to look for the faces they know.” In Woodbridge, Morgan’s home is also known as the “community center,” he jokes, noting there is no shortage of face time with his neighbors. “But where I really get to know people, and get a feel for who they are, is Facebook.”

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A heavyset, bearded man recently went on a robbery spree in north and northeast Dallas neighborhoods. A security camera captured the guy holding up a Greenville Avenue Game Stop clerk. A few hours later, the Dallas Police Department had shared the video with its 400 YouTube subscribers, 8,000 or so Facebook fans and 7,000 Twitter followers. The police also posted the suspect’s image and other useful information about the search on Nixle, a nationwide network that alerts residents to public safety threats via text, Twitter or email (anyone can register free for Nixle alerts by zip code). “I saw this guy at the train station,” wrote one Facebook user. “He sure is ugly,” wrote another. Though it gives them a certain amount of junk to sort through, and the Game Stop robber at the time of publication had not been caught, police say enhanced communication can only help an investigation and encourage more people to help. “It’s a way of getting involved without getting too involved,” Sgt. Israel Herrera says about both social media tools and the relatively new crimefighting tool iWatch. The smart phone application allows users to give anonymous tips to police. Northeast Deputy Chief Gloria Perez recently told a neighborhood group that police follow up on all iWatch tips, and the Dallas Police Department reports that since its launch last January, it has received about 1,135 iWatch tips, many leading to arrests.

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FOURSQUARE Foursquare (n) A location-based mobile check-in service. The mobile app uses the GPS on your phone to help you check in at coffee shops, restaurants, bars, libraries, parks, events and other locations. Your Foursquare friends can view the places you’re hanging out, and some businesses offer specials to customers who show on their phone that they’ve checked in on Foursquare. You also can earn points and virtual badges for different check-in adventures.

iBusiness Months before it opened doors to diners, Goodfriend Beer Garden and Burger House near White Rock Lake had hundreds of Facebook fans. As Goodfriend Facebook page administrators posted construction pics, updates and even organized a summertime parking lot keg party, excitement grew. The restaurant enjoyed a packed house opening night and has been going strong ever since. Social media can work well for restaurants, says Lake Highlands resident Marshall Hays, who owns Lucky Duck Car Wash/Oil and Lube on Audelia and runs a marketing consultant business. “When you’re dealing with restaurants and food, people have a lot of questions,” Hays says. “What do other people think about this place? How’s the food? What is the atmosphere? What should I wear?” Those questions draw people to the restaurant’s Facebook page, he says, where they can ﬁnd the answers. It’s not so easy for a car wash, Hays says, though he is doing his best to use Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to promote his business and offer discounts. “I’d like to be able to do one and be done,” Hays says of the multiple social media venues, “but you have to stay with the cool kids, got to keep up.” But getting others on board has been a struggle, he says. “For example, someone is waiting for an oil change, and I’ll see they have

GLOSSARY Check in (v), check-in (n) The act of telling a location-based mobile service like Foursquare, Yelp or Facebook where you are, usually with that service’s smartphone app. Check-ins let your friends and followers see where you are and where you like to hang out. Used in a sentence: “Hang on, I’m going to check in on Facebook before we order drinks.“ “Hey, cool; I earned the Great Outdoors badge with that last Foursquare check-in at the park.”

“For example, someone is waiting for an oil change, and I’ll see they have an iPhone in hand, and I’ll say, ‘Hey, if you check in at Lucky Duck on Facebook or Foursquare, I’ll give you 10 percent off right now.’ “

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dallas.lib.overdrive.com Not only does the Dallas Public Library have a thorough and useful app (with the swipe of a ﬁnger, search the catalog, place items on hold or renew items checked out) but it also has an extensive selection of eBooks available to borrow. Options range from New York Times bestsellers (John Grisham’s “The Litigators”) to classics (Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”) to popular nonﬁction (Michael Pollen’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”). We tried it, and in less than 10 minutes, we were reading on our iPhone. A helpful guided tour takes library cardholders through the process.

FIND OUT whether your favorite restaurants passed inspection. dallascityhall.com/code_compliance/restaurant_food_scores.html They wouldn’t be open if they hadn’t, but the section located at this lengthy web address allows you to see whether the places you frequent are receiving high scores or barely making the grade. A quick search by name reveals how a restaurant fared on its most recent inspections.

RUN INTO Mark Cuban, Ebby Halliday or the Cowboys cheerleaders.

happytrailsdallas.com These local celebs are a sampling of the famous names and faces the Dallas Park and Recreation Department recruited to promote its recent trail etiquette campaign. Other than watching the amusing video, website visitors can view an interactive map to ﬁnd the exact layout of Dallas trails (both current and planned) in relation to streets, rec centers and other local landmarks.

Who’s blogging? In a digital world, anyone with a laptop has a shot at fame and fortune (OK, at least an opportunity to share their passions, help others and build up a loyal readership, which is pretty cool, too). Here are ﬁve ’hood-based blogs to follow.

Lowry Manders’s mommymanders.com

“Being with other people’s children is often so much easier (and more pleasant) than being with your own!” Such honest appraisals of parenthood paired with realistic approaches to solid parenting on any given day make mommymander.com both entertaining and useful. Blogger Lowry Manders is a children’s music teacher and mother with a master’s degree from Southern Methodist University.

Erin Willis’s mytable-lovestocook.blogspot.com

Via her blog, Erin Willis launched a Lake Highlands dining trend — backyard dinners. Every six weeks, weather permitting, Willis hosts a four-course gourmet dinner on her lawn. In between dinners, she posts recipe ideas along with fun kitchen-based anecdotes.

Joselyn Taylor’s operationsimplicityblog.com

This Merriman Park dweller’s quest to “end 2011 with less stuff than she started with” was featured in a recent issue of Better Homes and Gardens. She keeps a couple of other style, design and food blogs; all feature aesthetically pleasing scenes from daily life: simplelovely.com, raisingfoodies.com.

LEARN which park pavilion beat out Cowboys Stadium as the 2009 “Best of Show” award recipient from the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter.

dallasparks.org This little-known fact is touted in the online brochure “The Park Pavilions of Dallas,” which highlights 44 of the city’s shade-giving structures. Thirty-two of them were designed by respected architects who were charged with making the pavilions “contextual within the surrounding community and embraced by the neighborhood,” among other criteria. Q That’s how Lake Highlands North Park, near the recreation center, wound up with a pavilion harking back to the farmhouse that once sat on the property.

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Heather Baker writes about local restaurants, culinary products, recipes and books, and ﬂavors it all with “awww”-inspiring photos of kids and pets.

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One-time Exchange Club of Lake Highlands president Tommy Bailey tracks his physical and spiritual progress from his bicycle and with his camera. He has a way with sunsets and has logged 4,172 miles (since he started logging).

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Lake Highlands residents Jose Ramirez and wife Josefina Orozco have breathed new life into Northlake Shopping Center’s Divine Coffee Shop, giving it a thorough renovation and renaming it JJ’s Cafe. Though the couple purchased Divine in April 2010, they have just now finally seen their vision for the breakfast spot realized. They gave JJ’s Café an updated menu featuring crepes, cheese blintzes, scrambles and more. “We now also have a variety of flavored pancakes,” Ramirez says. The neighborhood breakfast spot is open from 7 a.m.-2 p.m., seven days a week.

Construction begins at Walnut Hill and Audelia Razing of the long-vacated building at Walnut Hill and Audelia officially has begun, and new homes could be built by spring 2012. Trucks have started tearing down the former Walmart in preparation for the White Rock Place Addition project. As we reported last summer, the 7-Eleven will stay, along with the new ViewPoint Bank, My Office, the vet clinic, the former florist space and the strip that holds Highlands Café and T. Hee Greetings. Everything else will be demolished. White Rock Place Addition, comprised of 17 single-family homes by three different builders — Highland Classic Homes, Nobility Homes and New Leaf Construction — could be complete by April 2012, Highland Classic Homes’ Mark Dann tells us. “We will need the weather to cooperate to meet that deadline,”

Mark Dann of Highlands Classic Homes on the White Rock Place Addition: “I think we are half sold out at this point.”

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Park Tavern to open at The Shops at Park Lane Park Tavern is set to open this month at The Shops at Park Lane. With hopes for a mid-month opening, the restaurant is the ﬁrst DFW venture for Chicago-based parent company Restaurants-America, which is also opening Townhouse Restaurant in the former Sushi Samba space at Galleria Dallas. Park Tavern will feature American cuisine in a “sophisticated urban setting.” The menu will offer a wide selection of small plates, sandwiches, salads and entrées, and the 6,800-square-foot restaurant will be located near Bailey’s Prime Plus.

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A mAnly exhortAtion Take the Rough Rider’s advice and go to church this year If you aren’t already a regular churchgoer, my New Year’s resolution for you is to become one. To strengthen my appeal, I enlist the old Rough Rider, President Theodore Roosevelt. I’ll splice in my own comments to spice up his “Ten Reasons to Go to Church,” which appeared in a 1917 edition of The Ladies Home Journal. (As always, substitute your own religious tradition for church; this is not the place to proselytize. Likewise, know that when Teddy says “men” he also means “women,” although they don’t seem to need as much convincing.) 1. In this actual world a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. Human beings are made to relate upwards (spiritually), sideways (socially), and downwards (naturally), so to speak. We stand most erect when we attend well to all these relationships. 2. Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some responsibility for others and the sense of braced moral strength which prevents a relaxation of one’s own moral fiber. We are what we do. If we want to be better, we have to act our way to it through practice. 3. There are enough holidays … devoted to pure holiday making. … Sundays differ from other holidays, among other ways, in the fact that there are fifty-two of them every year. … On Sunday, go to church. Amen. 4. Yes, I know all the excuses. I know that one can worship the Creator ... in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in one’s own house, just as well as in church. But I also know as a matter of cold fact the average man does not thus worship or thus dedicate himself. If he stays away from church he does not spend his time in good works or in lofty meditation. He looks over the colored supplement of the newspaper. Today we might watch color TV instead, but this excuse is usually a copout.

church. But unless he is very unfortunate he will hear a sermon by a good man who, with his good wife, is engaged all the week long in a series of wearing and humdrum and important tasks for making hard lives a little easier. I can’t speak for the preacher being a good man, since I only know one well, and he’s a stout blend of good and bad. Going to church helps me move the mix toward the good. It may for you, too. 6. He will listen to and take part in reading some beautiful passages from the Bible. And if he is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered a loss. Verily. 7. He will probably take part in singing some good hymns. OK, they’re not all good. And some are just choruses. But when the valley of the shadow of death looms, humming Lady Gaga won’t get you through. 8. He will meet and nod to, or speak to, good, quiet neighbors. … He will come away feeling a little more charitably toward all the world, even towards those excessively foolish young men who regard church-going as rather a soft performance. Many non-attending men seem to fear losing manliness in church, as if it’s really a woman’s world. Jesus was a real man, but he did love his mother. Just saying. 9. I advocate a man’s joining in church works for the sake of showing his faith by his works. Here, here. Real community is come-and-stay commitment, not comeand-go consumerism. 10. The man who does not ... connect himself with some active, working church misses many opportunities for helping his neighbors, and therefore, incidentally, for helping himself. Good church is good for you. Look for a good church that you can find, not a perfect one that you never will. Though many of these may seem quaint and old fashioned, the point is still the same today: God is worthy of worship, neighbors need caring for, and our souls require spiritual exercise.

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BAPTIST ForeST MeAdow / 9150 Church Rd. / Welcoming the mosaic of cultures living in our neighborhoods / www.fmbcdallas.org Worship 10:50 / Bible Study 9:30 / Tim Ahlen, Pastor / 214.341.9555 LAKeSIde BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425 Pastor Jeff Donnell / Worship 10:30 am & 10:31 am www.lbc-dallas.org wILShIre BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100 Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

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dISCIPLeS oF ChrIST eAST dALLAS ChrISTIAN ChUrCh / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185 Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship Gathering 9:30 am Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan / www.edcc.org

ePISCoPAL The ePISCoPAL ChUrCh oF The ASCeNSIoN / 8787 Greenville Ave. Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 8:00 & 10:15 am 214.340.4196 / more at www.ascensiondallas.org

LUTherAN CeNTrAL LUTherAN ChUrCh, eLCA / 1000 Easton Road Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222 FIrST UNITed LUTherAN ChUrCh / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln. Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org ZIoN LUTherAN ChUrCh & SChooL / 6121 E Lovers Ln. Sunday: Sunday School 9:15 am, Worship 8:00 am, 10:30 am, & 6:00 pm / 214.363.1639 / www.ziondallas.org

MeThodIST LAKe hIGhLANdS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com 9:30 – Sunday School / 10:30 – Fellowship Time 10:50 – Traditional & Contemporary Worship

NoN-deNoMINATIoNAL LAKe hIGhLANdS ChUrCh / 9919 McCree / 214.348.0460 Sun: Assemblies 8:45 & 11:30, Classes 10:10, Coffee 11:10 Home groups meet on weeknights. / lakehighlandschurch.org ShoreLINe dALLAS ChUrCh / 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane ShorelineDallas.com / 469.227.0471 / Pastor Earl McClellan Everyone’s Welcome at 9:15am / Children’s & Youth Ministry

PreSByTerIAN LAKe hIGhLANdS PreSByTerIAN ChUrCh / 214.348.2133 8525 Audelia Road at NW Hwy. / www.lhpres.org Christian Ed. 9:55 am, 9:00 am Contemporary, 11:00 am Traditional NorThPArK PreSByTerIAN ChUrCh / 214.363.5457 9555 N. Central Expwy. / www.northparkpres.org Pastor: Rev. Brent Barry / 8:30 & 11:00 am Sunday Services

UNITy UNITy oF dALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972-233-7106 / UnityDallas.org Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am

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education Case Gray of Forest Meadow Junior High received the MetroPCS Trailblazer Award for his exceptional work integrating technology into the classroom. The eighth-grade social studies teacher received a $5,000 award and an additional $5,000 to use in his classroom.

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THE SUSPECT LEAPED THROUGH THE WINDOW. Complex Business, Commercial or Family Disputes?

William R. Wilson Attorney at Law There are often many ways to avoid or resolve a dispute without costly litigation.

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The man seemed out of place, milling about in front Jack Reynolds’s home. Reynolds was not at home, so his neighbor across the street eyed the man closely. The suspect looked around and then peeked through the window. Soon the man disappeared behind the home — and then a light came on inside. The Good Samaritan across the street quickly phoned the neighbor right next to Reynolds’s home, and then called police. The neighbor then approached Reynolds’s home, but found the suspect already had ﬂed.

The Victim: Jack Reynolds The Crime: Burglary Date: Wednesday, Nov. 16 Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: 9300 block of Leaside

“They got what they could in two minutes,” Reynolds says. Unfortunately, the thief’s loot included some jewelry, a laptop computer, and a

Smith and Wesson .38-caliber revolver. The pistol was the biggest loss. Reynolds had owned the gun for more than 60 years, and it had been a gift from his father-inlaw. He has lived in the area since 1956, but has experienced very little crime. In recent months, the area has had two other breakins, he says. Dallas Police Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says to always check doors and windows to make sure they are locked. Cool weather may be great for opening windows and letting in the fresh air, but forgetting to lock them can be costly. Even though Reynolds’s watchful neighbor wasn’t able to prevent the crime completely, Jones says this crime is a great example of how a neighborhood watch can prevent a criminal from getting away with considerable stolen property. “Get involved in your neighborhood crime watch group,” he says. “It’s very important to get to know as many neighbors as possible so if they see something suspicious, they can call the police.”

Sean Chafﬁn is a freelance writer and editor of pokertraditions.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.

CRIME NUMBERS

32 7 16

Number of incidents that occurred in the streets surrounding the Skillman and Abrams intersection during a one-month period, including:

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SOURCE: Dallas Police Department crime stats from Nov. 8-Dec. 8

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With friends like these … do we need taxpayer money for libraries? Comment. Visit lakehighlands.advocatemag.com and search Audelia Library to tell us what you think.

Compared to other Texas cities, Dallas residents rank near the top for library visits, per capita. (Go, Dallas!) Yet, when it comes to library funding, we rank among the lowest — not only in Texas, but in the nation, too. Four years ago, our library budget was $32.3 million. Since then, it has been slashed almost in half — this year’s budget is $18.2 million. If that doesn’t bother you, consider this: Fort Worth spends roughly 40 percent more per capita than Dallas on its library system. I hope Mayor Mike Rawlings will correct this embarrassment before the next fiscal year begins in October. During a recent visit to the Audelia Road Library, I approached a woman shelving books to ask a few questions. I quickly learned I was speaking to Sandra King, the new branch manager, and I asked her how the library had been coping with the budget cuts. King told me that the Audelia branch’s hours haven’t changed, but the city moved staff around — King transferred from Arcadia Park to replace the Audelia manager when she retired. One impact of the budget cuts was happening right in front of me. “Now, we all help shelving books,” King says.

The need for help is understandable because Audelia Road has the highest circulation of all the branches in the Dallas system. (Go, Lake Highlands!) Our talk about shelving quickly led to talk of volunteer support, most of which comes from the Audelia Road Library Friends. The friends have been raising funds for our local branch since 1998. Their efforts translate to furniture, book shelves and carts, signage and even community garden activities for kids. Board member Janice Fowler leads the gardening effort. “The city cuts the grass,” Fowler told me. “That’s all they do.” Fowler donates generous amounts of time and energy beautifying the library’s landscape. Whenever I hear about taxpayers taking over maintenance tasks at a public building, I wonder if the city might be abdicating its responsibility. But some people believe patrons of the library should pay to maintain it, instead of taxpayers. Walt McCool, president of the Audelia Road Friends, doesn’t subscribe to that belief. “I have a lot of nostalgia for libraries from when I was a kid,” McCool says. “I don’t remember there ever being an admission fee.” In today’s world of ebooks and Google, might public libraries become obsolete? One glaring problem with both is that they require access to electronics. “There are so many people who don’t have access,” McCool says. “That’s what a library has always done.

But it’s more than that. It’s a community. It’s a meeting place. People do things at the library they can’t do anywhere else.” Relying on Google or Wikipedia for research has its obvious limitations. Wikipedia isn’t always accurate. Google and other search engines sell prime placement on the first pages of a search. How often do we look beyond the first page? And, while these searches are free today, they may not remain free in the future. Meanwhile, on a typical weekday afternoon at Audelia Library, it’s hard to find a computer that isn’t in use. Often we think of the library as a place that serves children (storytime, summer programs) and seniors (fixed income, extra time, and they read “real” books). But on a recent weekday visit at 2 p.m., I observed a mixed crowd: men, women, college students, professionals and retirees. McCool says friends of library branches across the city always turn up at town hall meetings and at City Hall to advocate for libraries at budget time, but he expressed doubt that the city will reverse its trend of cuts. “Once they started taking the axe to the budget, support of Friends’ groups became all that much more important,” he says. I agree and I disagree. I agree that supporting a library’s friends is important (visit audelialibraryfriends.org for more info), but I am holding on to hope that as long as Fort Worth spends more than we do on its libraries, Dallas will not rest easy.

Ellen Raff, a neighborhood resident, writes a bi-monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; FAX to 214.823.8866; or email editor@advocatemag.com.

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