THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN HISTORY

Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with Cliff Temple Baptist Church at the corner of 10th and Zang

April 12

6:00 p.m. Community Easter Egg Hunt & Cook Out

April 13

7:00 p.m. Temple Choir Presentation Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) by Morten Lauridsen

April 15

12:00 p.m. Service Day with Our Calling ministry to the homeless

April 16 Easter Sunday

6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service at Lake Cliff Park

9:00 a.m. Contemporary Easter Celebration

11:00 a.m. Traditional Easter Celebration from the state. One example of their dedication: They hired a craftsman to rebuild many of the church’s dozens of windows onsite.

Besides all new plumbing, electrical and air conditioning, they also had to figure out how to make the building compliant with the Americans with Dis-

They are painstakingly renovating the church to qualify for historic tax credits from the state.

abilities Act. Oak Cliff-based architect Alicia Quintans designed a space for a lift in a former electrical closet for that purpose.

The Lotts are spending around $600,000 to get the building up and running. At every turn, there are obstacles. It’s a project that would’ve been impossible to undertake as a moneymaking venture or with grants from nonprofits, Munoz says.

“Todd and Lola are patron saints,” Munoz says. “They’re independent investors who stayed the course. They’re truly rooted and invested in this.”

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Old Favorites

If you’re mourning the loss of Brew Riot, which is taking a hiatus for 2017, you may find comfort in knowing that Go Oak Cliff is organizing a new beer festival this spring called Brewhaha. The details are still being finalized, but it’s slated May 22 at 1311 S. Ervay St. in the Cedars.

Aunt Stelle ’s has been an Oak Cliff mainstay for 55 years, but there’s no guarantee the beloved sno-cone stand will last forever. Lee Albert, the daughter of Aunt Stelle, is retired, lives in the suburbs and will close up shop when the business becomes too much to handle, she says. The stand reopens for the season on April 29, so stop by to savor the self-induced brain freeze in case it’s the last you’ll ever have.

In The Works

A new bar could be coming to West Davis at Tyler. Tiny Victories is planned for a 1,000-square-foot space in the same shopping center as Spinster Records Because most drinking establishments are mandated to earn 51 percent of their revenues from food, landlord David Spence and bar owner Brandon Hayes requested a specific-use permit to solely sell alcohol.

“No one wants Davis to become bar central,” City Plan Commission member Mike Anglin said. “But today we really don’t have this kind of amenity. I think it’s safe, and I think it’s going to be a good amenity.”