2018 February Oak Cliff

In Breast Cancer Care, Communication Is Key

A breast cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. Suddenly, there are appointments to schedule, terms to learn and unfamiliar treatments to consider, all added to a flurry of emotions.

This is why communication is critical to delivering quality care for breast cancer patients. It’s also why Texas Oncology puts communication at the very center of its Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinics.

The new approach is tailored to give patients a better understanding of what to expect. “It’s not like the doctor says, ‘I’m going to refer you to another doctor,’ and you call — and wait — and try to make another appointment,” explains Linda Gage, a Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinic patient.

“They’re talking, they’re working together, and they coordinate things and get you through the process.”

Texas Oncology’s Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinics give patients access to complete breast health services, including high-risk screenings, hormone therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery. Patients can also benefit from full-service pharmacies on location, genetic testing, survivor support groups and much more. Patients also have access to social workers, therapists, dieticians and other specialists to help them — and their families.

In this approach, personalized cancer care incorporates the patient — making sure she or he is comfortable with the treatment every step of the way. The treatment itself results from a plan that a full team of physicians customizes to meet the patient’s specific needs.

“All of the physicians involved in the care of that patient will evaluate the patient up front,” breast surgeon Martin Koonsman says. “We present the patients with a well-thought-out multidisciplinary treatment plan.”

One of the Clinics’ essential resources is a “one-stop shop” appointment. A nurse navigator guides the patient throughout the cancer journey for moral support, starting with meeting the full team of care providers. In a casual, face-to-face discussion, the patient can ask the medical oncologist, breast surgeon and radiation oncologist any questions and discuss next steps for treatment.

Conveniently located throughout the Dallas area, Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinics are here to serve you at the following locations:

• Texas OncologyMethodist Charlton Cancer Center

• Texas OncologyMethodist Dallas Cancer Center

• Texas Breast SpecialistsMethodist Charlton Cancer Center

• Texas Breast SpecialistsMethodist Dallas Cancer Center

• Texas Breast Specialists-Mansfield

A breast cancer diagnosis can bring trying times, so Texas Oncology’s Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinics approach it with expertise and attention to each patient’s needs. Texas Oncology wants patients to feel comfortable talking about their needs and encourages them to get involved in their care.

F I GHT CAN CER

Texas Oncology brings cancer-fighting technology and expertise to your community, so you can have easy access to leading-edge cancer treatment. Our services include medical oncology, radiation oncology, breast surgical oncology and general surgery. We also provide access to national clinical trials and genetic counseling. With Texas Oncology, you can fight cancer close to home with your support network by your side.

TEXAS ONCOLOGY PHYSICIANS:

Ashwani K. Agarwal, M.D. • Mammo Amare, M.D. • Darshan Gandhi, M.D.

Arve Gillette, M.D. • Kesha Harris-Henderson, M.D. • Cheryl Harth, M.D.

Lakshmi Priya Kannan, M.D. • Atisha P. Manhas, M.D.

Srinivasu Moparty, M.D. • Inna Shmerlin, M.D. • Dilip Solanki, M.D.

TEXAS BREAST SPECIALISTS PHYSICIANS:

Allison A. DiPasquale, M.D. • Katrina P. Emmett, M.D. • Martin L. Koonsman, M.D.

To schedule an appointment, call Texas Oncology at 972-709-2580 or Texas Breast Specialists at 214-943-8605.

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By RICK WAMRE

Songs to love

The weird titles that hide in our playlists

When I switched to a new phone recently, my iTunes account voluntarily offered up a window identifying how many songs I have on the phone (762). For some reason, the very first song on that list was “I’m My Own Grandpa.”

This song didn’t make any year-end “best of” lists, nor did its writer win any major awards. But it’s a catchy little tune about a guy who finds out that by virtue of some unusual but legal marriages (he married a widow who had a grown-up daughter, who married his father, and they both had kids …). Eventually, all of this family business makes the singer become his own grandpa.

I’ve heard this old Moe Jaffe/Dwight Latham song played live once: We were in Wyoming on a family trip and stumbled across a “chuckwagon” theater, where a father and sons were playing Western music. It was funny at the time, so I bought it and promptly forgot about it. Until now.

So I started wondering what other odd-titled songs were lurking deep in my phone’s memory or, perhaps, in my own?

Maybe “Satan Gave Me A Taco” from Beck is one of your favorites? Sample lyrics: “Satan gave me a taco, and it made me really sick. The chicken was all raw, and grease was mighty thick. The rice was all rancid, and the beans were so hard. I was getting’ kinda dizzy eatin’ all the lard.” On and on the lyrics go, with the eventual punchline being the singer figures out the whole thing was a dream, and he was part of a rock ‘n’ roll video.

Weird Al Yankovic has some oddball songs, too: “Stuck In A Closet with Vanna White” (nothing R-rated happens), “My Bologna” and “Don’t Download This Song” come to mind.

Loretta Lynn is an old-school country singer known for telling it like it was,

and some of her songs are no exception: “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly” probably didn’t endear her to her husband.

“I Don’t Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling” is from Instant Witness’ album “Noise Gunk Murder Castle.” Probably that says enough.

Even Johnny Cash wasn’t immune from picking a weird song title or two: Have you ever listened to “I’ve Been Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart”? Yeah, it’s not high on my playlist, either.

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The Notorious Cherry Bombs reached number 47 on the Billboard Hot Country singles chart with “It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long.”

And since this month includes Valentine’s Day, I’m ending with a “love song” sung by a guy named Mike Snider. As far as I can tell, this song didn’t make Snider a legend in his own time: “If My Nose Were Running Money, I’d Blow It All on You.”

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Loretta Lynn is an oldschool country singer known for telling it like it was, and some of her songs are no exception: “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly” probably didn’t endear her to her husband.

DIGITAL DIGEST

Readers react to ... Apartments and live theater planned for former Bishop Arts medical building

“A high concentration of renters drags existing home values down. At the rate apartments are being built in Oak Cliff, our home values will soon start dropping. Ten years from now, our community will be full of run-down, cheaply constructed apartment ghettos. Some progress.”

LINDA BREWER

“OMG we don’t need anymore stinkin’ apartments!”

MAGGIE CASTILLO

“Because all the other new apartment complexes in Oak Cliff have soaring residency rates or something?”

TWIGGY KENSINGTON

“All these new apartments aren’t going to last long. Live theater? There’s the Kessler and Texas Theatre. So why do we need another one?”

LAQUILLA COLEMAN

“I was born there, and when I was a kid, had surgery there. At least it won’t be torn down like other buildings here in the neighborhood.”

JOE FLORES

“I wonder how haunted this old hospital could be. I’m down for it.”

OLIVIA VAN NESS

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FEB. 11

Mardi Gras

The annual Mardi Gras parade hosted by Go Oak Cliff turns Davis street into a sea of beads, masks and exciting floats. The festivities start at 4 p.m.

600-1400 block West Davis St., mardigrasoakcliff.com, free

Out & About

FEB. 3

WEDDING

WONDERLAND

Talk to vendors, get free swag and more at the Oak Cliff Wedding Market hosted by Celebrate Dallas. Admission is free and visitors can enter to win big prizes.

Oak Cliff Wedding Market, 610 N. Tyler St., celebratedallas. com, free

FEB. 6

ONE VOTE

Take in a free screening of the documentary “One Woman, One Vote,” which looks at the 70-year struggle of female suffrage. After the film, viewers can stick around to discuss the film and its lessons.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff, 3839 W. Kiest Blvd., oakcliffuu.org, 214.337.2429, free

FEB. 10

MASQUERADE BALL

Enjoy costumes, beads, live music and a creole buffet complete with King Cake at the OCarnivale Mardi Gras Ball. Proceeds help fund the Mardi Gras parade hosted by Go Oak Cliff.

The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis St., mardigrasoakcliff. com, 214.272.8346, $50-$350

FEB. 10

FUN RUN

Support Oak Cliff schoolchildren with the Dash for the Beads 10k and 5k run or 1 mile walk. Following the races there will be a festival complete with costume contest, food vendors, beer garden and live music. Kidd Springs Park, 700 W. Canty St., dashforthebeads. org, $25-$70

FEB. 24

MALCOLM X

As part of its Black Cinematheque Filmmaker Series, The Texas Theatre is showing the Spike Lee masterpiece “Malcolm X” in 35mm. Over 25 years after its debut, the film is still relevant today.

The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd., thetexastheatre.com, 214.948.1546, $1

FEB. 24

BOOK WORM

This event is the culmination of the Dallas Reads literary campaign. Bring the entire family for guest speakers, literary activities, free food and free books.

W. H. Adamson High School, 309 E. 9th St., dallasisd. org/adamson, 972.749.1400, free

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Michael Savoie II, also known as DJ Flying Ace, started learning the craft of turntables in 2015.

NO CHILD’S PLAY

Young DJ Flying Ace takes the turntables very seriously

By RACHEL STONE I Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

How many kids dress up like Slick Rick for Halloween?

Eight-year-old Michael Savoie II of Oak Cliff made “Rick the Ruler” his costume, complete with Kangol hat and eye patch, last October.

The Alcuin School student plays chess and competes in swimming, but deejaying is his life.

As DJ Flying Ace, Savoie has played birthday parties, the Dallas Festival of Ideas, Josey Records, a school dance and a fashion show.

He learned the art of the turntables at the Keep Spinning DJ Academy, founded by Dallas-based DJ Jay Clipp, where he began studying in 2015.

“The sky is the limit for him,” Clipp says of Michael. “I’m amazed at the things he’s picked up in such a short period of time. This guy is just special.”

The boy’s dad, visual artist Michael Savoie, says that he and his wife, Dawn, noticed their son’s aptitude for music when he was 2 or 3 years old. They raised him listening to R&B and soul classics

Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the like — and any time he received a new CD, he always wanted to be alone to listen intensely.

Michael and Dawn Savoie, who live in Beckley Club Estates, met in art school in San Francisco. He’s a fulltime artist and she’s a chef. They encourage their kids, Michael and 6-year-old Lola, to pursue their artistic interests with gusto.

“We appreciate the value of creativity, even as far as making it a career,” says the elder Savoie.

Where some kids dream of playing Major League Baseball or becoming a doctor, young Michael wants to have his own studio, to be a music producer and

score movies. He told his mom that he wants to win a Grammy.

His parents invested in equipment — a sound system, a laptop with Serato DJ software and an MPC Studio Black drum machine so that he can make his own beats.

DJ Flying Ace loves it. He can spend a full Saturday in his room, mixing records and experimenting with rhythms, his dad says.

“We have to stop him to eat,” he says. Even though he’s only 8, with a DJ name inspired by Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts,” the kid is no gimmick, says his teacher Clipp.

He knows music from current pop to ’60s R&B to ’80s hip-hop. And he’s soon to become the first kid DJ to make a mix for the online music database Discogs. Michael knows so much music that Clipp says his student keeps him on his toes.

“He’s not just a cute kid DJ. He’s a kid who knows how to mix and cut and scratch and rock a crowd,” Clipp says. “He takes it very seriously.”

DJ Flying Ace is ready to play out more, his dad says. His parents know he’ll be deejaying in kid-friendly and not-so-kid-friendly environments, but it doesn’t worry them. Michael isn’t interested in anything but the music.

“There’s tons of kids out there whose parents don’t allow them to explore their creativity,” his dad says. “I just want them to find what they want to do early on and then give them all the tools to pursue it.”

Now they’re figuring out the marketing side — a website, an Instagram page, getting the word out that DJ Flying Ace is available to rock your party.

The real Slick Rick, by the way, reposted the Instagram pic of DJ Flying Ace’s Halloween costume. So that’s a start.

“He’s not just a cute kid DJ. He’s a kid who knows how to mix and cut and scratch and rock a crowd.”

Lisa Taylor is a former public relations professional who became a teacher and is now providing extracurricular activities at Quintanilla Middle School.

MIDDLE SCHOOL MARKETING MACHINE

A former PR professional turned teacher, Lisa Taylor is determined to raise Quintanilla’s profile

By KERI MITCHELL

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It’s easy to live in north Oak Cliff and have no idea that Raul S. Quintanilla Sr. Middle School exists.

Kessler Heights resident Lisa Taylor didn’t, at least not until she became a teacher at the school five years ago.

“I feel like I’m in the Hill Country, right up on a limestone ledge, and we have a little forest right in front of our school — I mean, I never knew it,” Taylor says.

It may be a secret now, but if Taylor has anything to do with it, it won’t stay that way.

Teaching was a career change for Taylor, who spent decades in journalism and public relations. She built a business marketing arts venues and events. So when she arrived at Quintanilla and found few extracurricular clubs, none of them arts specific, she put her expertise and connections to work.

Now, book club meets on Mondays, poetry and writing meets on Wednesdays, culture and art clubs on Thursdays — and these just scratch the surface. Taylor recruited an instructor and found a storage closet as a place to offer piano lessons. She’s launching a literary journal this year, and she seeks out grants for field trips to broaden her students’ horizons.

“They don’t know that they can go to

the Dallas Museum of Art for free,” she says of her students.

Quintanilla students are fairly typical of Oak Cliff public schools — 95 percent Hispanic, 95 percent poor. Wealthier “Anglo” families, as Taylor calls them, tend to exit to Greiner Middle School (Quintanilla sent 54 transfers to Greiner last year) or opt for private school, she says.

“I chose this culture. I prefer it,” she says. The students and families are “very friendly, very eager to learn, very hard-working, very kind.” Quintanilla’s elective and extracurricular offerings rival any private school, she says.

And, Taylor points out, “It’s free.”

Hear Lisa Taylor’s pitch about why parents should check out Quintanilla and learn about other neighborhood middle schools in our new podcast.

MIDDLE SCHOOL by the numbers

1,050

Students attend Quintanilla

345

Seats remain open, according to its campus capacity of 1,395

94.5

Percent of students who live in poverty

20+

Free after-school clubs, with snacks and late buses provided for participating students

88.5

Percent of parents who feel good about Quintanilla’s academic direction, school communication and campus environment, according to its Dallas ISD climate survey

Sources: Texas Education Agency 2017 School Profile, Quintanilla Principal Salem Hussain and teacher Lisa Taylor

The Uninformed Parent, available at oakcliff.advocatemag.com/podcast.

So far, our series to help Oak Cliff parents take a better and deeper look at their neighborhood schools has profiled Hogg, Rosemont, Botello and Lida Hooe elementary schools. Do you have a story to share? Or a school you want to know more about? If so, reach out to editor Keri Mitchell at 214.292.0487 or kmitchell@ advocatemag.com

RAUL S. QUINTANILLA SR.

“I chose this culture. I prefer it.” The students and families are “very friendly, very eager to learn, very hardworking, very kind.”

DELICIOUS

Cocktails, beer and outlaws

The tiny Bishop Arts bar named for Bonnie and Clyde

by RACHEL STONE

Photos by RASY RAN

Citrus sorghum glazed salmon

egend has it that Bonnie and Clyde drank illegally during prohibition at Jefferson Drug Store No. 2 at 419 N. Bishop Ave., where Bishop Street Market is now.

Now it’s perfectly legal and nearly as old-timey to sip a cocktail or beer at the tavern a block away whose name is a nod to the West Dallas outlaws.

Parker Barrow’s opened at the corner of West Davis at Bishop in the summer of 2015, offering enormous sandwiches, 20 beers on tap and craft cocktails.

The interior of the tiny bar and restaurant looks like a 1920s drug store, with antique ceiling fans, dark wood and brass finishes. With windows that open to the streets, it’s a good place for people watching.

The hearty sandwiches include Texas-style pastrami with house-made spicy mustard on thick rye bread. The Eastham farms — a sandwich named for the prison where Bonnie and Clyde infamously staged a prison break that freed the outlaw Raymond Hamilton and four others in 1934 — is vegetarian. It contains roasted sweet peppers, red onion, zucchini, squash, asparagus, tomato and burrata. Their take on a BLT has fried-green tomatoes with thick-cut bacon and greens. There’s also a chopped salad and a salmon entree with kale and quinoa salad.

Parker Barrow’s makes its own potato chips and pickles and serves desserts from Cretia’s, which also bakes their bread.

PARKER BARROW’S

338 W. Davis St.

Ambiance: Upscale corner tavern

Price range: $8-$15

Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight MondayWednesday, 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

Thursday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-midnight Sunday

BY RACHEL STONE

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HOPPY DAYS

Local craft beer was nonexistent in Dallas 10 years ago

DDEMAND FOR LOCAL craft beer led to the first Brew Riot home-brew festival in Oak Cliff in 2009.

It was held in the parking lot behind Eno’s.

“Lots of people will tell you they were there, but I can tell you, they were not,” says Greg Leftwich of Four Corners Brewing Co.

At the time, McKinney-based Franconia Brewing Co. was virtually the only craft brewer in North Texas, and Eno’s was one of the few places that offered a variety of craft beers. But there were a lot of serious home brewers, and drinkers wanted better beer.

In other words, the market was wide open. That little home-brew festival in Bishop Arts led to several start-up breweries, including Four Corners and Noble Rey Brewing Co.

Now, fewer than 10 years on, the craftbeer scene in Dallas is robust. There are about 50 breweries in North Texas.

When Luck opened at Trinity Groves a few years ago, the restaurant offered nearly every craft beer available in North Texas. Since then, they’ve pared down their menu and given up filling growlers in favor of obtaining a license to sell hard liquor; they now offer cocktails.

But Luck co-owner Jeff Dietzman, who is originally from New Mexico, says he thinks there’s room for more.

“They have 27 breweries in Albuquerque. Albuquerque is the size of Arlington. There are two breweries in Arlington, and they’re both a year old,” he says. “As dense as the population is here, if the support was there the way it is in Portland or Albuquerque, there could be many more breweries.”

Oak Cliff Brewing Co. is betting on it. The brewery in Tyler Station is expected to start rolling out kegs this year. Here is their story, along with those of two other breweries that got their start in Oak Cliff.

“We knew coming in that it would be very challenging to put a brewery here.”

OAK CLIFF BREWING CO.

Brewing beer appeals to Joel Denton, a 46-year-old software engineer, on many levels.

It involves community, chemistry, creativity and engineering.

Speaking of which, Denton’s efforts to open Oak Cliff Brewing Co. at Tyler Station have involved feats of engineering.

He and his partners are building a 900-gallon capacity brewery on the second-story of a 100-year-old industrial building.

It took 13 tons of structural steel to shore up the cavernous room that will hold the brewhouse and its 10-ton tanks.

“We knew coming in that it would be very challenging to put a brewery here,” Denton says.

But there aren’t many industrial sites in Oak Cliff, and the ones here typically lack character. Denton knew he wanted to name his beer “Oak Cliff,” so he just had to brew it here.

When it’s finished sometime this year, the brewery’s taproom will open to the DART line. And they’ll be delivering kegs of approachable beer, such as their black lager, a helles exportbier and a grapefruit gose. Denton has hired a brewmaster, and they’re also working on a lager.

Like many brewers, Denton’s story starts in the garage.

In 2007, a guy at work gave him some homebrewing equipment. He started brewing, and after a few batches, he began entering competitions and winning them.

His job at a healthcare company provides for Denton, his wife and their family. But it doesn’t satisfy his soul, he says.

“When I think of what I want to do for the next 22 years, it’s not that,” he says. So he began making plans for a brewing company.

Denton is not from Oak Cliff, but his parents are. His grandfather was a pastor who had a church near Kiest Park. His wife, Mei, is from that area, as are his three cousins who are partners in the brewery. Hence their tagline, “Beer with roots.”

Denton started working on the brewery in 2015, and he initially thought he’d be open in a year. It’s been a longer journey than that, but they’re hoping for a spring opening, after which they’ll be hauling and delivering kegs to their vendors themselves.

“It’s such an accomplishment just to get it open, but then there’s so much more to do,” he says.

Oak Cliff Brewing Co. was still working out of owner Joel Denton’s garage this winter, but the brewery and taproom could open at Tyler Station as soon as this spring.

BISHOP CIDER CO.

Unlike craft beer brewers, Bishop Cider Co. has very little competition anywhere.

“We just realized that ciders on the store shelves were overly sweet, and they were all the same,” says co-owner Joel Malone, who lives in the Kidd Springs neighborhood. “There was nothing local.”

Malone, a digital marketing consultant at the time, raised a little bit of money through a crowd-funding campaign to help rent a 700-square-foot Bishop Arts storefront and brew a few kegs of cider.

It took Malone and his wife, Laura, 26 months from inception to opening, and 1,200 people showed up to their grand opening party in 2014, Malone says.

Now the cidery brews about 20,000 gallons a month from its brewery in the Design District. Their five varieties of cider are distributed in cans and kegs all over Texas through Ben E. Keith. They also operate Cidercade, which offers all-you-can-play video games for $10, plus 24 ciders on tap.

Besides having a unique product that’s well marketed, Bishop Cider puts a heavy emphasis on the personality of the business.

“We’ve grown because people have come and experienced our culture,” Malone says.

Bishop Cider Co. started with a 700-square-foot taproom in the Bishop Arts District and now brews about 20,000 gallons a month.

MANHATTAN PROJECT BEER CO.

Five years to the day after Deep Ellum Brewing Co. opened the first craft brewery in Dallas, Manhattan Project Beer Co. went into production.

“Competing in this market five years after it started is challenging,” says co-founder Karl Sanford.

The project currently brews out of Bitter Sisters Brewing Co. in Addison, but they are buying a 10,000-square-foot West Dallas warehouse with plans to turn it into a brewery and add on a 1,500-square-foot taproom, plus a beer garden.

Sanford and his wife, Misty, became serious about home brewing when they decided to brew a batch for their wedding in 2011. They asked their friend Jeremy Berodt to help. The beer took six months to perfect, but it was a success. They started entering competitions, including Brew Riot, and overall, they won 27 medals.

“It was a somewhat silly hobby that we took pretty seriously, and it naturally evolved into a commercial venture,” Sanford says.

It’s no wonder. Karl Sanford is a project manager. His wife owns a digital marketing company called North of Creative. And their partner, Berodt, is an embedded software engineer.

The Sanfords cashed out of the Winnetka Heights house where they lived for 10 years and moved to an apartment on West Commerce. They’ve been busy raising the capital, about $4 million, to start their brewery; they closed on the property in January, so construction could begin soon.

Sanford says he thinks the tastes of craft beer consumers in North Texas are becoming more sophisticated, and that drinkers are being converted from basic American lagers all the time.

“Everybody’s seeing that it’s becoming competitive,” he says. “We’re facing the same challenge that any business faces.”

“We’ve grown because people have come and experienced our culture,”

The Manhattan Project Brewing Co. expects to begin construction this year on its new brewery and taproom in West Dallas.

Skylines and streetcars

What a difference 81 years makes.

In 1937, the Houston Street Viaduct (left) was 27 years old, and a parallel trestle brought the streetcar across the Trinity River from Downtown to Oak Cliff.

Now the Houston bridge carries cars one way into our neighborhood, and the new streetcar line was added to it in 2015.

The Houston Street Viaduct was built following

the massively destructive flood of 1908, which swept away or flooded all Trinity crossings, leaving Oak Cliff and West Dallas stranded from the rest of the city.

The 7,000-foot Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct, on the right-hand side of the bottom photo, was built for $6 million and opened in February 1973, making it 45 years old this month. Around 6,000 cars pass over the two bridges every day.

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Bike ‘litter’ a sign of progress

Bringing Dallas into a new era of transportation, one ride at a time

As someone who truly believes that if the world were a just place, Frito pies and chocolate-filled doughnuts would be recognized as their own food group, it is remarkable to me that my youngest child loves fruits and vegetables as much as she does. I mean loves them. I’ll find half-eaten bags of baby carrots in the stuffed animal bin, desiccated orange peels on the window sill, an apple core on her bedside table.

Sure, I remind her to return uneaten food to the fridge. I encourage her to use this newfangled gadget we’ve got called a trash can. But still, I find broccoli stems in her backpack and leftover grapes in the carseat.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. It brings me joy to find the remnants of her unusually healthy appetite (although, to be honest, it does make me wonder about a baby switch at the hospital). No, her discarded edamame shells and peach pits are evidence that she’s forming healthy eating habits, hopefully for a lifetime. Picking up a few scraps here and there is a small price to pay, and fretting about it is missing the point entirely.

That’s what I think when I hear the frenzy over rental bikes strewn across our city. In the last two years, several private bike companies have come to Dallas in a big way, allowing people to find and rent bikes easily and cheaply from their smartphones. In response, Highland Park has all but banned them. The City of Dallas is poised to regulate them.

But this isn’t something we should be wringing our hands over, and it’s not something that we should try to “solve”

with heavy-handed and over-reactive government regulation that will very likely kill these new businesses.

No, this is a problem we should be celebrating. These bikes littering our city are the best evidence yet that Dallas is changing, and for the better.

The leftover bikes — the bike wrappers, if you will, are proof of a significant pent-up demand for bikes as a transpor-

By ANGELA HUNT

tation option. Conventional wisdom in Dallas has long held that Dallasites are attached to their cars with superglue and there is no real need for bike infrastructure because only hippies and children ride bikes (and who cares about hippies and children, amiright?). The success of bike share proves that many regularly-bathing adults will use bikes when it is cheap and convenient. We need to encourage this.

The success of bike share is also proof

that people will get out of their cars if we give them cheap and convenient transportation alternatives. So let’s focus on how we can make other public transportation options more attractive to riders. If people will get out of their cars to ride bikes, why aren’t they getting out of their cars to ride buses? Is it that buses aren’t convenient enough? Not going to the right places? Not efficient enough? Let’s identify ways to improve other non-car transportation options and get even more people out of their vehicles.

Lastly, Dallas has lagged in investing in on-street bicycle infrastructure because of an erroneous perception that there isn’t a demand and roads are for cars. (By the way, it’s hard to justify building a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river.) All the people pedaling around Dallas on bright green and yellow bikes are proof that Dallas needs to invest in safe on-street bicycle infrastructure. The City’s $20 million recent investment in the Loop Trail, which will connect central Dallas’ trail systems, is a critical start. We need more.

As Jim Schutze recently wrote in the Dallas Observer: “If we think piles of bikes look tacky and we want to figure out how to clean them up a bit, well, ok, maybe. But we ought to be cheering this potentially transformational change, not fixating over minor growing pains.”

Angela Hunt is a former Dallas city councilwoman. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her ahunt@advocatemag. com.

Conventional wisdom in Dallas has long held that Dallasites are attached to their cars with superglue and there is no real need for bike infrastructure because only hippies and children ride bikes (and who cares about hippies and children, amiright?).

ART

The city of Dallas is working out the final details of Spanish artist Casto Solano’s design for a tribute to the Vaughan brothers at Kiest Park. The artwork cost about $74,000. In fundraising led by former Buddy magazine editor Kirby Warnock, neighbors, friends and fans raised $68,000 in 2016 for a public monument to Oak Cliff’s famous rock-nroll sons Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Of that, $28,000 will go to the cost of the structure itself, and $40,000 will be put into a maintenance fund. The remaining cost will come from 2006 bond funds. The sculpture will consist of a steel screen with photos of the Vaughan brothers, song lyrics and information about their lives. The tribute will be visible from Hampton at its location near Cliff Teen Court, between Kiest and Perryton. That location was chosen because it was a gathering spot for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s friends the day he died in a helicopter crash in 1990 and has served as a memorial spot since.

A new project from Oak Cliff-based artist Giovanni Valderas features cute little piñata houses. Valderas intends for them to shine a light on the city’s lack of affordable housing and those being displaced by our neighborhood’s rapid redevelopment. Valderas is known for his guerrilla art projects that use traditional piñata techniques and are emblazoned with slogans such as “quien manda?” or “who rules?” This new project is called

“casita triste,” or “little sad house.” The project, which is focused on the Bishop Arts area, started on Dec. 24. Valderas asks that supporters send a postcard to Mayor Mike Rawlings or their city councilmember reading “All I want for Christmas is affordable housing.”

PRESERVATION

A Bishop Arts oak tree named Old Charles has died. The city paid $50,000 in May 2016 to move the old oak tree from Seventh and Zang rather than having it cut down. The tree was in the way of a planned streetcar stop that apartment developer Alamo Manhattan is planning there. City Councilman Scott Griggs said that the tree, which was more than 50 years old, was insured and that “replacement trees are being selected.”

Two Oak Cliff neighborhoods made Preservation Dallas ’ list of endangered historic places in Dallas. The list includes homes and apartments near Lake Cliff Park and the Miller-Stemmons National Register Historic District just north of Bishop Arts. The Dallas Landmark Commission realized last year that certain homes around Lake

Concept design for Spanish artist Casto Solano’s tribute to the Vaughan brothers.

Cliff were intentionally cut out of the historic district when it was formed in the 1990s, and one of those is now scheduled for demolition. In Miller-Stemmons, homes built from 1910-1930 are endangered due to encroachment from Bishop Arts and poor zoning.

SPORTS

Several Oak Cliff-raised athletes will be inducted into the inaugural class of Dallas ISD’s athletics hall of fame this year. They include 1960 Sunset High School football player Jerry Rhome, 1988 South Oak Cliff High School sprinter Chryste Gaines, 1984 SOC basketball player Fran Harris and longtime Carter High School football coach Freddie James.

Jerry Rhome, back, poses at Sunset High School with former Sunset quarterback Glenn Brooks, class of 1937, and players Michael Granado and Raymundo Garcia in 2010.

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MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ON A ROLL

A developer plans to reuse a medical building in the Bishop Arts area as part of a 135-unit residential complex. Houston-based Urban Genesis, whose two Bishop Highline apartment buildings are under construction on Melba, expects to begin apartment construction on the former Trinity Rehabilitation Center in late spring or early summer. The five-story former hospital is on the east side of Madison between Ninth and Tenth. It consists of two buildings, which are connected by a skybridge, and the developer plans to construct an additional building on the north side of the hospital. The main building has a 5,000-squarefoot basement, which they’re planning to turn into a theater to be leased to a theater company for live plays. The apartments could be ready for move-in as soon as spring 2019.

Three-story luxury townhomes starting at $324,000 are coming to West Commerce. Oaxaca Interests, the developer that built Sylvan Thirty and has plans for the Chase Bank building, broke ground on the project in January. Far + Dang architects designed the complex, located at 707 W. Commerce, and the builder is Crimson Builders. The one-bedroom homes comprise 1,380-1,510 square feet with “large windows, spacious garage, private yard and open kitchen that leads to a dining and living area and a full bedroom and bathroom on the top floor.” The half-acre project also will include a community pool and guest parking.

The Catholic Housing Initiative’s La Estrella townhomes opened in January near Lake Cliff Park. The 14 two-story homes, at 515 E. Seventh, start at around $149,000, and up to $14,000 in down payment assistance is available. The complex includes a mix of two- and three-bedroom homes with two-and-a-half bathrooms and finish outs that include granite countertops and brushed-nickel appliances. The Catholic Housing Initiative received a $490,000 construction loan from federal HOME funds via the city of Dallas. The homes cost about $2.5 million to build on lots that the city conveyed to the developer at no cost. The city foreclosed on the lots around 2007 after a failed development.

TACOS ON TV

A West Dallas taquería received national attention in January on an episode of Food Network’s “Diners, DriveIns and Dives.” Tacos Mariachi opened on Singleton in November 2015. Owner Jesús Carmona worked in the kitchens of high-end Dallas restaurants for years before opening his own spot, which features Tijuana-style street food. TV personality Guy Fieri, host of the aforementioned show, was in Dallas in October and filmed at three restaurants here, including Tacos Mariachi.

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Seeing what you want to see

Love and forgiveness go hand in hand

In 1998, Ralph and Sandra Fisher of LaGrange lost their beloved pet. Chance was, in their words, a “big bundle of loving.” He licked their faces and nuzzled up to them, unusual behavior for a full-grown, 1,000-pound Brahman bull. They took him to conventions, barbecues, even “The David Letterman Show.”

When Chance died at 19, the family was devastated. Three months later, Ralph heard about a new Texas A & M University animal-cloning program. With Chance’s DNA, 11 months later, the first cloned bull was born.

They named him Second Chance.

Bizarrely, when Ralph brought him home, Second Chance went straight to the spot where Chance used to lie in the yard. He walked with the same mannerisms as Chance. “We’ve got Chance back,” Ralph thought. But the doctor cautioned, “You need to be careful. He’s not the same animal. He’s not a pet.”

Nothing violent happened until his fourth birthday party. Second Chance slammed Ralph to the ground, horns digging in. “He was just going through a stage,” Ralph dismissively explained. “He’ll settle down. He’s still 95 percent Chance. That’s good enough for me.”

When you love, you see what you want to see.

Nearly two years later, Second Chance suddenly gored Ralph. Eighty stitches. Cracked his spine. Broke his nose. “Do you still think he’s 95 percent Chance?” they asked Ralph. “Maybe 80 percent or 75 percent now?” Ralph said, “Oh no, I still see him as gentle and good as Chance. I forgive him. I’m going to walk out tomorrow and give him another bucket of feed.”

There’s a picture of how God extravagantly loves us. God sees the best. We wound God; God loves us anyway. God forgives and keeps on forgiving. Why? Because when you love, you see what you want to see.

Inseparable, love and forgiveness perform a divine promenade. The one forgiven much loves much, while the one forgiven little loves little. Learning to love oneself is the beginning of forgiving oneself. Forgiving others often precedes learning to love them. But how would our hearts be unburdened and our relationships transformed if we could learn to forgive, again and again, ourselves and others?

Forgiveness involves seeing clearly: The immutable love of God, how much we have been forgiven, and how such grace requires that we forgive others.

In “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis said, “It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a

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single great injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life — to keep on forgiving the bossy motherin-law the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son — how can we do it? Only by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night ‘forgive our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us.’ We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves.”

It’s almost comical, the love Ralph had for Second Chance. Such is the foolishness of God towards us.

Brent McDougal is pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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Web of lies

Dallas’ ‘black widow’ served time for identity theft

By RACHEL STONE

Astriking socialite with a charming personality made her way to the upper echelons of Dallas society in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

Many adored Sandra Powers as a delightful hostess and super mom who gave lavishly to her friends and their causes.

But just a few years into her reign as a wealthy Dallas princess, Sandra gained a new nickname: The Black Widow of Dallas. She was suspected of killing her third husband and a close friend, although she was never charged with those crimes, before she was nabbed for felony identity theft in 2007.

Friends say Sandra often fabricated background stories for herself. But the

truth is that she was raised in Oak Cliff by her father and stepmother. Sandra was born in Sedalia, Mo. in 1944 and adopted as an infant to Arthur and Camille Powers. Camille Powers died in a car crash when Sandra was 3. When she was 6, Arthur Powers remarried and relocated for a job as a salesman at Laurel Land Funeral Home and Memorial Park.

Sandra graduated from Kimball High School in 1962, and friends reported that she had a bad relationship with her stepmother.

In a 1987 D Magazine story by Eric Miller and Skip Hollandsworth, high school friends described her as “a little aloof” and “sort of like an Eddie Haskell

type,” a reference to the sycophant with a naughty streak on the TV show “Leave it to Beaver.” She wasn’t involved in school activities, and she didn’t date.

A friend who knew Sandra in her early 20s, Paula Johnson, told the magazine:

“There was this time when we were driving through a very nice area of Oak Cliff, and Sandra pointed to this very beautiful home. It was landscaped, it was by a city park, it was so lovely. And Sandra looked at me and said, ‘That’s the house that I grew up in.’ A couple of months later we had to go to her real house — I think it was for the funeral of her father — and when we got there, it wasn’t at all the house she showed me. How did Sandra think she could get away with that lie?”

At different times she claimed to have attended SMU and TCU, but really she went to Tyler Junior College for a year before moving into an apartment on East University Boulevard in Dallas.

Her first husband, an ambitious dentist named David Stegall, shot himself to death in 1975 after the couple’s spending led to insurmountable debt.

Stegall’s death left Sandra debt free but with three children and no source of income. Friends at the time said she pursued romance with wealthy men like it was her job.

She dated Dallas restaurant magnate Norman Brinker and became embroiled in his divorce before meeting Bobby Bridewell, a wealthy hotel investor who conceived the Mansion on Turtle Creek. They married in June 1978, and Bridewell adopted Sandra’s children.

In 1980, Bridewell was diagnosed with terminal lymph cancer, and Sandra became close friends with Bridewell’s doctor John Bagwell and his wife, Betsy. After Bridewell’s death, that friendship soured.

On July 16, 1980, Betsy Bagwell was found in a Love Field parking lot with a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide, but friends and family couldn’t believe she would take her own life.

From the 1987 D Magazine article:

COURTESY OF THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, NORTH CAROLINA

Sandra Powers’ 2007 police mugshot.

“Betsy had told her children early that afternoon not to ‘pig out’ because she had dinner thawing in the sink. Moreover, the gun found with Betsy was a stolen Saturday Night Special, a cheap pistol registered to a deceased Oak Cliff man who had kept it in his glove compartment. The man’s wife said the gun had been stolen sometime in the ’70s, but the couple never reported it missing. Police and friends alike wondered how a woman unfamiliar with guns could come across a stolen handgun. Why didn’t Betsy Bagwell just go to a Highland Park sporting goods store and buy one?”

The medical examiner called it a “textbook case” of suicide, and Sandra was never investigated in the death. But Dallas society began to turn against her.

In December 1984, Sandra married Alan Rehrig, who had played basketball and football at Oklahoma State University. Rehrig had come to Dallas to take a job in commercial real estate, and he quickly fell in love with Sandra, who was 11 years older than him.

Their relationship was rocky, and they separated not long after the wedding.

A year after they were married, Rehrig’s body was found in the driver’s seat of his Ford Bronco in Oklahoma City. Investigators found that he had been shot by someone who was in the passenger’s seat.

Oklahoma police and the FBI investigated Sandra as a suspect in Rehrig’s death, but she was never charged.

Sandra Powers eventually did serve some prison time. She was charged in 2007 with stealing the identity of an elderly woman in Oklahoma who thought Sandra was a missionary. She pleaded guilty in 2008 and was sentenced to two years in jail and a $250,000 fine and was ordered to pay more than $1,600 in restitution.

No one has ever been charged in the death of Alan Rehrig.

Bridewell graduated from Kimball High School in 1962, and friends reported that she had a bad relationship with her stepmother.