Spark a New Career

Julie Mccullough

KIM, 34-year-old Tyler Davis Art District resident, describes herself as a “serial entrepreneur” (Make Shop & Studio, Urban Street Bazaar, 2enju, The Pin Show). She’s married with two dogs.

What’s a little-known fact about you? I sing karaoke in the ’hood under the name Cha-Cha.

What’s your most embarrassing moment?

Singing karaoke in the ‘hood under the name Cha-Cha.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to travel around in an RV doing craft shows with my cousins!

I’m living the dream, minus the RV. If you could only eat at one neighborhood restaurant for the rest of your life, which would it be? Spiral Diner.

How would you explain your neighborhood to someone living in, say, Newfoundland?

It’s like the Brooklyn of Dallas! Creative and progressive and often viewed by outsiders as sketchy — just how we like it!

Art Metals Program

Whole Foods, Central Market, Kroger, Tom Thumb or somewhere else — where do you grocery shop and why?

Urban Acres — our neighborhood organic co-op and urban farmers market. Enough said. What item in your closet is most humiliating?

My skinny jeans.

What do you miss about the you from 10 or 20 years ago? My boobs.

What do you love about the age you are now?

It’s not as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it’s a fantastic age. I will continue to tell myself this each year as I get older and older.

What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure website?

Regretsy.com.

Do you have a favorite quote?

“Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.” —author unknown (but posted on Facebook by a dear friend).

What are you afraid of,rationally or irrationally?

“Over”-developers without concern for the soul of a neighborhood. Do you have any benign confessions to make?

I love to watch [the TV show]

“Cheaters”, except when they are in the Bishop Arts District!

When did you realize you were no longer a child?

Last month, when my mom gave me my own Costco card and told me I could go in my own checkout lane.

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Who Think Libraries Are Important” had fewer than 100,000 fans. Do you use your neighborhood library? And if yes, which one and how so?

Libraries offer free education and entertainment to the masses. It doesn’t matter what your economic status is, you can come in and have free access to books that can inform and transform you. I hope libraries will always be around in some form or other.

—TERRY FLEISCHER CASNER

Both my husband and I have been faithful library patrons forever. But my husband has become a power user since he discovered the joy of interlibrary loans. He requests CDs, movies, books via the computer and picks up his requests at our local library branch. So if you look for something in the DPL system and can’t find it, ask about interlibrary loans.

You’ve seen our bylines, our blog posts, our tweets and our Facebook posts. But who are we, really?

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FAVORITE QUOTE// “Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.” —from the movie “Anchorman”

MOST PRIZED DESK OBJECT OR ORNAMENT//

“Surfing Obama bobblehead, which my parents begrudgingly brought me back from Hawaii.”

HOBBIES// Running

FAVORITE PART OF YOUR JOB// “Putting the finishing touches on a complex, meaningful or difficult story — in a way, it’s like finishing a marathon or giving birth.”

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“I tend to be a bit melodramatic.”

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CHURCHESCAN’T BREAK THE RULES EITHER

I enjoyed your article “Seeing the light” (May Advocate). However, I must take exception to one misstatement in the article. You stated: “but that doesn’t jibe with Winnetka Heights Homeowners Association rules, so that plan requires a variance.”

First, Winnetka Heights does not have a homeowners association. We have the Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association that is open to all residents, including renters and business owners, not just homeowners.

Second, the neighborhood association neither sets the rules nor enforces them. The City of Dallas designated the Winnetka Heights Historic District in 1981 and put in place an historic ordinance that governs the rules of what can and cannot be constructed in the historic district. The landmark commission, appointed by the city council, is the sole interpreter of these rules. Commission members alone would make the determination on any fencing issues on the property, not the neighborhood association. When the rules are broken, it is a code enforcement issue with the city, not the association.

Many HOAs get blamed for being unreasonable and overbearing on homeowners. I just want to set the record straight on this one. We like what is happening with this property. We feel it will be a great asset to the neighborhood.

However, every property in the historic district is governed by the ordinance and therefore must abide by it.

DAVIDHAEDGE, WINNETKA HEIGHTS

NEIGHBORHOODASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

WYNNEWOOD MEMORIES

That brings back great memories, Gayla (Back Story, May Advocate). As I recall there was also a sporting goods store at Wynnewood Village, where I got my first pair of baseball cleats. And the Wynnewood Theater was a great bargain — a serial, several cartoons and a double feature for 25 cents.