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We’ve lived a good portion of our lives in our no-particular-style brick and wood house.

When we first saw it, after slogging through lots of others, my wife took one step past the front door, surveyed what little she could see from that vantage point and blurted: “This is the one we have to buy.”

She said that right in front of the Realtor. So much for negotiating.

My parents helped us move in one hot Memorial Day weekend. Everything we owned fit into a couple of cars and a minivan. Everything.

Once we had things organized, two of the house’s six rooms remained empty. The place seemed so large, I wondered why we would ever need to fill it up.

We brought our first son home from the hospital and set him in a bassinet next to our bed. We moved him to the crib we assembled in one of the empty rooms when his younger brother came home 18 months later.

Pretty soon, we didn’t have any empty rooms.

The white and wood-grained refrigerator that greeted us when we bought the house still chills yogurt, juice and frozen dinners, but it now holds court in our office after my wife decided 10 years ago the kitchen needed a redo and the house an add-on. Our new stainless steel appliances aren’t new anymore, but we still use that word to describe them.

The door to the water-heater closet beneath the stairway has an individualist streak. I can open it by firmly pushing down on the knob while leaning slightly against

the frame and quickly pulling outward. My wife can never get the door open, although I’ve never understood why — it almost always works for me the third or fourth time.

There is no cracked grout in the tile floor my dad and I installed one weekend in what was a pretty dicey laundry room at the time. Neither one of us knew how to do tile work. After squishing gray grout between the first couple of tiles, I thought the color looked too faint, so I put some additional grout in one spot and waited. I was wrong. I still see that two-inch double-dark-gray spot in the middle of the room every day when I walk to and from the garage.

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I can say with certainty you need to be slender to shimmy around the crawl space under the floorboards. You can’t even roll over under there. I spent several early weekends crawling through that dirt, waiting to face down a varmint as I rocked back and forth stringing speaker wire where it’s no longer needed. WiFi and Bluetooth probably were invented by someone else who didn’t want to get back into a crawl space.

A door on our kitchen cabinet sticks every morning when I pull it open to retrieve a juice glass. Every morning, I tell myself to pick up a new spacer pad at the hardware store. Every day I forget. And tomorrow morning, that cabinet door is going to stick again.

With the market for single-family homes hotter than a mouth full of Tabasco these days, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to pack up half our stuff, downsize, pocket some cash and see what else is out there.

There will be other options available in terms of houses. It’s hard to imagine any other place as “home,” though.

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everything we owned fit into a couple of cars and a minivan. everything.

comments and letters

El Padrino booted for naught

Amazing. This is the same type of attitude that in the 1980s destroyed downtown’s historic buildings and left us with a sea of parking lots [“Lombardi abandons former El Padrino space in Bishop Arts,” Advocate Daily News blog, May 10]. laKEWOOD h OBO

This crap is going to continue as the Park Cities/North Dallas crowd moves into North Oak Cliff and displaces our merchants. So, support our local North Oak Cliff businesses and shun the carpetbaggers.

—cR acKERD a DDY

Apartments could replace trailer court

The trailer park provides affordable housing in a very convenient location [“Upscale apartments could replace West Commerce trailer park,” Advocate Daily News blog, May 2]. These people will most likely be pushed out to less convenient locations with higher transportation costs. The parcel across the street would be better to develop as it has sat vacant for many years. As seen in Austin, the trailer parks on Barton Springs are very desirable and a key part of what keeps the area funky, vibrant, cool, desirable. I predict that this future development on Fort Worth Avenue will be bland and soul crushing, just like Sylvan Thirty, keeping Dallas Dallas. —D i SGRUNT l ED

Am I thrilled that the trailer park will be leaving? Not really. Am I so arrogant as to pretend I know what will happen to the people in the trailer park or what the new development will do to the area before either has even had a chance to play out? Not on your life. Fact is, not everyone on this side of the river wants the area to turn out exactly like Austin.

—STEVE BRONSON

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Q&A:Stephen Tobolowsky

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky’s book, “The Dangerous Animals Club,” begins in Oak Cliff, where he and his elementary school buddies prowled around Kiest Park and Five Mile Creek, searching for tarantulas and water moccasins. Tobolowsky’s name might not be familiar, but chances are, you’ve seen the Oak Cliff native’s work on TV and in film. He is legendary for his portrayal of Ned Ryerson, the insurance salesman whom Bill Murray punches in the face in “Groundhog Day.” And it’s like he’s been in every TV show since the ’80s, including “Californication,” “Community,” “Glee,” “Heroes,” “Deadwood” and “CSI: Miami.” Tobolowsky was in Dallas last month to host a block of short films at the USA Film Festival, and he took a moment to chat with us.

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How is it to be back in Dallas?

It’s always nice to come back to the USA Film Festival because I was at SMU when the whole thing started. Professor Bill Jones was head of the film department at SMU. I was not a film guy, and the film department and the theater department were completely different. But he wanted to start this USA Film Festival, and I remember the first one. I was a student, and I met Frank Capra and Jean Arthur and Sid Caesar. It was really amazing. Of course now, the world has gotten so much smaller that we’re used to having access to people. But back in those days, it was really remarkable to see Frank Capra in person and hear him speak and ask questions. Whenever the USA Film Festival calls, I try to answer because it means so much to me personally.

I know you’re from Oak Cliff, but where did you grow up exactly?

On Kiest Boulevard near Rugged. Watervaliet is the name of the street. We lived on Perryton and then moved the four blocks. I remember thinking, “Oh my goodness, [Watervaliet] uses so many letters of the alphabet.” I went to Jefferson Davis Elementary, which is now Barbara Jordan Elementary. I guess that’s way better on the appropriate scale than Jeff Davis. I went to Kimball High School, and then I branched out of Oak Cliff and went to SMU, and I found out people actually drink beer in the world. When I was in high school, it was 23 miles to where you could buy beer. So you had to consider if it was worth it to drive 50 miles for a six-pack. Is there still no beer in Oak Cliff?

No, you can buy beer here now, but that just changed about two years ago.

They invited all the student council presidents from the high schools to rush at SMU. The big thing at the party was that they had a keg of beer. One sip and I was almost on the floor.

So you were not the party animal?

I looked up to the kids who carried the slide rulers in their belts. I thought, “How cool is that look?” I was hoping that someday

I would be able to use a slide ruler. By the time I was old enough, they were selling this device called a calculator, for $300-$400.

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DALLAS CITY COUNCIL & ELECTION RELATED MATTERS

2013-2015 DALLAS CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY TAKES OFFICE

Runoff Election

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Place 5 Rick Callahan Jesse Diaz

Early Voting Schedule for Runoff Election

JUNE 24, 2013

Place 14 Philip T. Kingston Bobby Abtahi

EARLY VOTING AND ELECTION DAY VOTING LOCATIONS

June 3 – June 8 8 AM – 5 PM (Monday through Saturday)

June 9 1 PM – 6 PM (Sunday)

June 10 – June 11 7 AM – 7 PM (Monday and Tuesday)

Election Day Voting Schedule

June 15 7 AM – 7 PM (Saturday)

General and Special Elections

Councilmember-Elect

Place 2 - Adam Medrano

Councilmember-Elect

Place 3 - Vonciel Jones Hill

Councilmember-Elect

Place 4 - Dwaine Caraway

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 6 - Monica R. Alonzo

Councilmember-Elect

Place 7 - Carolyn R. Davis

Councilmember-Elect

Based upon the statement of returns for the City of Dallas Special Election also held May 11, 2013, Propositions 1 and 2 authorizing

The most current list of voting can be found by contacting the City Secretary’s Office at (214) 670-3738 or accessing the City Secretary’s Office website at http://www.ci.dallas. tx.us/cso/electUpcoming. html, as well as contacting the Dallas County Elections Department at (214)819-6300 or accessing their website at http://www.dallascountyvotes.org/.

May 11, 2013 - Duly Elected

Place 8 - Tennell Atkins

Councilmember-Elect

Place 9 - Sheffie Kadane

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 10 - Jerry Allen

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 11 - Lee Kleinman

Councilmember-Elect

Place 12 - Sandy Greyson

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 13 - Jennifer Staubach Gates

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the sale of Joey Georgusis Park and Elgin B. Robertson Park received sufficient votes to allow the sale of these park properties.

What was it like growing up in Oak Cliff in the ’60s?

As I look back on Oak Cliff, there was this kind of unspoken tension underneath everything. There was a racist underpinning to everything that was just commonplace. For example, Jeff Davis Elementary. Down the street was a bait shop called KKK, Katch ’em and Kill ’em on Kiest. We thought it was funny because it had no context for us. There were no black people in Oak Cliff at the time because it was a white-flight area. At the same time, you had this kind of undercurrent. There was this wild undercurrent of creativity. I take a look at Mozart. He had nothing but a violin and a keyboard at the beginning, and all of his brainpower and energy went into those things. The same thing in Oak Cliff. There was not a lot to do. It was beyond ultra-conservative. I think there were three Jewish families, and we were one of them. There were probably more members of the Nazi party in Oak Cliff than there were Jews; it was that radically right. Middle of the road was like Church of Christ.

And you think that oppressive culture led to creative minds?

So many people in Oak Cliff, their energy and their focus went into their particular field of expertise. It created a Jimmy Vaughan and a Stevie Vaughan … So on one hand, you have this very fundamental, even racist, component in the society, and on the other hand, you had this wildly creative energy for math, science, music, art, theater. There weren’t a lot of other diversions. There was church, there was sports and there were the arts.

You graduated from Kimball in ’68 and went to SMU. Then what happened?

I was invited to the University of Illinois. They offered to pay tuition for my girlfriend and I at the time, Beth [Henley]. It wasn’t really where we wanted to be going, but we looked at it as at least moving the peg down the road a little bit. It was a way to stay in theater and earn a living. We went from Dallas, which was kind of the boondocks, to Urbana-Champaign, which was the boondocks. There was only one student in the playwriting class, and that was Claudia Reilly. So Beth thought she would try writing. To me, being an ac-

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Sale of Joey Georgusis Park and Elgin B. Robertson Parks

tor was foolhardy, but being a writer was crazy. Beth became a writer. We left Illinois after one year and went out to California together in 1976. In 1981, she won the Pulitzer Prize [for drama for her play “Crimes of the Heart”]. The diversion that we took in life led us to the path we were meant to take. If I could say one thing to young people out there, it’s this: When you feel that life is taking you in the wrong direction, instead of feeling all that despair… (Unless you have a drug addiction; selfdestruction doesn’t count.) but if you’re thinking, “I’m lost, I’m lost, I’m lost,” just remember that it may be a way to be found, too. Illinois is where we made connections and friends that eventually led to my career and Beth’s career. Don’t despair. There may be clues around you that lead to a happy and prosperous life.

Tell me about your book.

It’s called “The Dangerous Animals Club,” and it’s a collection of short stories. They’re all true, and they all happened to me. It could fall into the category of a memoir, but the stories are not chronological. Most of the book is a good laugh. As you read the stories, as you get about halfway through, you see the pieces connecting, and it creates a narrative. One thing they all have in common is that they’re stories about the beginnings of things. The Dangerous Animals Club is the club I had as a kid in Oak Cliff. But the book is about all the dangerous animals I have encountered in life. The book is ultimately about finding triumph — finding the little bits of triumph in your life even though you feel lost.

What are you working on now?

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Now I’m working on a wonderful show called “Californication.” I have the Stu Beggs beard because I’m working on that for the next three months. Then I’m doing a film called “The Men’s Group.” It’s a wonderful script about men and their problems and coming together, but it’s very funny and very suspenseful. It’s a different kind of film. I’m also continuing doing stories for Dangerous Animals Club, readings from the book and telling stories that will be in the next book. It has spawned a second career in storytelling. The next book has plenty of Oak Cliff stories in it because, hey, you know, that’s where I’m from, and it’s what formed me.

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‘Keep writing’

Shawna Seed

Shawna Seed had the story for her debut novel, “Identity,” long before she had a name for the protagonist. Then one day it came to her, so she told her husband, “Her name is Sharla!” Her husband, Rick Holter, responded: “Yes, but with an ‘h’ on the end because her mom thought that made it more classy.” Sharlah Webb, the novel’s protagonist, is a strong, gritty Texas woman, Seed says. She is 19 and living on the Gulf Coast when the story begins. Sharlah gets caught up in drug dealing, her boyfriend goes to jail, and there is a hurricane coming. Seed was a college student in Houston in the ’80s, where she endured Hurricane Alicia, and she landed her first newspaper job in a beach town, St. Petersburg, Fla. Those experiences inspired the setting, she says. “It begins in the ’80s, so there’s lots of ’80s music and pop culture,” Seed says. The book doesn’t fit the publishing industry’s definition of “mystery,” so Seed calls it a suspense novel. Book publishers weren’t sure how to categorize it either. They told Seed’s agent the book straddled the line between literary and commercial fiction. Ultimately, publishers turned it down, but Seed’s agent encouraged her to self-publish. So

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she released it as an eBook through Amazon in March. Seed, who moved to Kessler Park last summer, wrote the book after her husband’s work for NPR took them to Washington, D.C. “I wrote it when in Maryland, but it’s a very Texan book,” she says. “Now the book is out, I’m back in Texas.” Seed served 17 years as an editor at the Dallas Morning News, and now she works for ESPN. She is revising ond novel, “Not in Time,” about art that was looted during World War II. And she has written the first draft of a third novel. She says the best advice she when she first started writing fiction was to “keep writing.” Resist the temptation to go back and revise earlier sections of the book, she says. Keep writing until you have a first draft, then go back and polish it. “Once you finish a first draft of something, it’s much harder to set it aside,” she says.

—Rachel Stone

Out & About

June 6-9

Oak c liff f ilm f estival

This second-annual film festival takes place entirely in the neighborhood at venues including the Texas Theatre, Kessler Theater, Bishop Arts Theater Center and the Belmont Hotel. The festival also includes parties, a music-video showcase and a closingnight screening of Bobcat Goldthwait’s new movie, “Willow Creek,” with the director in attendance. VIP festival badges cost $175 and student badges cost $95, oakclifffilmfestival.com

June 1

Nature appreciation day

Twelve Hills Nature Center celebrates wildflowers, butterflies and birds from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The nature center will introduce its garden sponsorship program and recognize its first sponsor, Brumley Gardens. Rosemont Elementary School fifth-grade nature leaders also will be honored. There will be refreshments and nature walks.

900 Mary Cliff, twelvehills.org

June 5

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

The DSO performs a free concert in Kidd Springs Park starting at 8 p.m. If it rains, the concert will move inside the rec center. The concert is family-friendly, and concertgoers are encouraged to bring a blanket and picnic.

711 W. Canty, dallassymphony.com

June 6 and 27

Barefoot at the Belmont

The Thursday-night poolside concerts continue with Kopecky Family Band and Peter Black on June 6 and Matt Pond and Doug Burr on June 27.

901 Fort Worth Avenue, kxt.org/barefoot

June 13

Learning from the past

W. Marvin Dulaney, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, speaks about the American Civil Rights Movement in “Learning from the past, embracing unity today.” Dulaney is an author of “Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement.”

Tickets cost $15. 215 S. Tyler, 214.948.0716, tecotheater.org

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Denton-based alternative country band Centro-Matic performs at The Foundry, starting at 9 p.m. Kingdom of Suicide Lovers opens this free show.

2303 Pittman, 214.749.1112, cs-tf.com

June 19

Japanese festival

The Hampton-Illinois Library celebrates the Japanese star festival, Tanabata, at 2 p.m. Lessons revolve around astronomy and Japanese vocabulary, and storytellers will offer tales of Japanese and Chinese mythology. The event ends with bites of Japanese food. This free event is presented by Big Thought.

2951 S. Hampton, 214.670.7646, dallaslibrary2.org

June 28

David Garza

Singer-songwriter and North Texas native David Garza, now based in Austin, hosts an album release party for “Human Tattoo.” Warren Hood opens. Tickets cost $20-$25, The Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis, 214.272.8346, thekessler.org

Delicious

Taquería

Our neighborhood is home to so many taquerías that food writers have created enterprises attempting to review all of them. But a few Oak Cliff taco joints stand out against the crowd, and Los Torres Taquería is one of them. This family-owned taquería opened about a year ago, serving Sinaloa-style cuisine. One thing that sets it apart is goat. Chivo tatemado is slow-cooked goat seasoned with two types of chilis and five seasonings, from a Torres family recipe. It can be ordered as tacos, on handmade corn tortillas or by the pound. Barbacoa roja estilo Sinaloa is different from other barbacoas in that it is a mix of beef and pork, served more like guisado. “We are the only ones around here who do this because it’s our style,” says co-owner Ramiro Torres, who runs the restaurant with his wife, Evangelina Torres, and his sister, Irene Torres. —Rachel Stone

Los Torres Taquería

1322 W. Clarendon at Edgefield 214.946.3770

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Excellent tacos al pastor and deshebrada fried tacos are enough to make this a regular stop. Also try the flautas plate and aguas frescas.

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Tacos de trompo, a.k.a. tacos al pastor, are the specialty here. Tender and flavorful red pork tucked into double corn tortillas.

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Very good chorizo and barbacoa tacos. And if you’re in the mood for a sno cone, there’s that, too.

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Think pink

Charles & Charles Rosé ($10) Washington

This month marks the 11th annual Advocate rosé column where we celebrate pink wine that costs $10, pairs with almost any kind of food you can think of, and — despite what the wine snobs say — isn’t sweet or unpleasant to drink.

In this, rosé is pretty much the perfect cheap wine. That it’s not more popular is a function of its color — it’s too often confused with white zinfandel (or white merlot or whatever), so wine drinkers shy away from it because they think it’s sweet. In fact, most rosés are bone-dry and combine the best qualities of red and white wines.

What should you drink? This will get you started:

• Rene Barbier Mediterranean Rosé ($6).

Maybe the best cheap rosé on the market, consistent and varietally correct. This version has a little more fruit (strawberry) than usual.

• Goats do Roam Rosé ($10). This South African wine is very nicely done and a fine value, with flavors of strawberry and cranberry. It’s more like a European rosé — crisper and less fruity — than its New World cousins.

• Charles & Charles Rosé ($10). The quintessential New World-style rosé, with lots of fruit (mostly strawberry), as well as style and structure. One of my favorite rosés every year.

Ask the wine guy

Why is rosé pink?

—Jeff Siegel

Rosés are made mostly with red grapes, and they get their color from the skins. The skins are left in the fermenting grape juice just long enough to color the wine and are then removed.

—Jeff Siegel

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With your wine

The ultimate chicken salad

Forget everything you know about chicken salad. This version doesn’t resemble the mayonnaise glop that most of us are familiar with; instead, it’s a summer dinner for four that doesn’t involve any cooking (save for boiling water). It’s also the ultimate rosé dinner.

Grocery List

1 whole roasted chicken, about 3 ½ to 4 lbs (a roasted grocery store chicken is perfect), cut into pieces

16 oz thin noodles, cooked (Asian soup or rice noodles are good, but any long thin noodle works)

4 c shredded lettuce

Assorted raw salad vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onions and radishes

Best-quality vinaigrette

Directions

1. Assemble the salad and vegetables in a large bowl and dress lightly with the vinaigrette.

2. Put a serving-size portion of the lettuce mixture on a plate. Top with a serving of noodles and drizzle the noodles with the vinaigrette.

3. Top the noodles and lettuce with a piece of chicken, and drizzle the chicken with the pan juices if you have them. Otherwise, drizzle with the vinaigrette. Serve.

Serves four, takes about 45 minutes

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Forget the latest culinary craze — loyal diners dish about the spots that keep them coming back, and back, and back

It’s a challenge to keep up with the trendy and innovative restaurant landscape in Dallas. Every day, it seems, brings the announcement of a new upscale taco joint or slow-food gastropub or microbrewery. Amid the blur of media clamoring to cover the city’s latest and greatest foodie hotspots, it’s easy to forget the neighborhood restaurants that have stuck with us over the long haul.

But the regulars don’t forget.

They patronize their favorites week in and week out, sometimes daily. Their allegiance isn’t just about the food. They tend to be loyalists and creatures of habit, in contrast to those of us who have restaurant attention deficit disorder.

The neighborhood eateries with established regulars aren’t typically the ones enjoying Twitter and blogger buzz. If we lost them, however, they would leave gaping holes in the fabric of our community.

While most of us play the restaurant field, we salute the regulars who make sure our neighborhood’s dining staples will be around when we crave them.

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El Corazon de Tejas is where Bill Warwick escapes from it all.

He discovered the place years ago when it was still Tejano restaurant, before the recent transformation. Warwick is an accountant for Hunt Oil in downtown Dallas, so the restaurant is both convenient to his office and unknown to his co-workers.

That’s important to him. Warwick dines at El Corazon just about every day for lunch as a respite from his stressful job “so I can go back to work and not hurt anybody,” he quips.

He sits in the bar area, always in the same booth, and his waitress immediately makes him a margarita when he arrives. The servers also know to bring out chips, salsa and queso. The chips dipped in a queso-salsa mix are usually the extent of his lunch.

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Delia and Juan Jasso moved into their Kidd Springs home 23 years ago. That’s when they first dined at the little house on 12th Street.

“Back then it was still such a transitional area, and La Calle Doce was one of the first Mexican restaurants on the mid-level price range,” Delia Jasso says. “We mostly had taquerias.”

At the time, the extent of the dining area was the two front rooms, “not even the porches, and the side area was an open space,” Jasso says. “It was small but very good. We were enamored with actually having a Mexican seafood place, because there wasn’t anything like that here at all.”

In the early days, owner Laura Sanchez would pepper Juan Jasso with questions that came up about City of Dallas processes. He was a newly elected justice of the peace so was more familiar with Dallas County, but the Jassos always tried to help Sanchez.

“We felt close to her and were there for her, and she knew that,” Delia Jasso says.

They knew both her husband, Oscar Sanchez Sr., who worked with her to open the restaurant in 1981, and her son, Oscar Sanchez Jr. Both men have since died, and their photos hang in the front of the restaurant, along with other family photos, awards and memorabilia from across the decades.

Warwick had a different regular seat before the restaurant was redesigned. It was a spot in the bar area against the wall. Sometimes when he came in, his seat was taken, but when that person left, “they would clean that table right away and move me right back to my seat,” he says.

It helps to tip well, Warwick says of this kind of service.

“I’d be scared of what I’m eating and what I’m drinking if I didn’t,” he jokes.

When the restaurant closed recently for renovations, Warwick started dining a few blocks away at El Fenix, where a waitress who served him at Tejano works now.

“I would go in and ask for Maria, and they started sending me to the same table every day,” he says.

When El Corazon reopened, he came right back.

“I like the redesign of it,” Warwick says. “I’ve heard some people say the food isn’t as good, and I can’t really say so because I don’t order it. Actually, the queso’s better and the salsa’s better.”

When Warwick first heard about the impending changes, he says, he wasn’t nervous.

“Business is business,” he says. “And I knew I’d be coming back. It’s really the margarita I come for.”

order like a regular Warwick rarely strays from his margarita, queso and salsa routine. But occasionally he splurges and orders the beef fajita nachos.

“I’m glad they’ve kept them there. It’s kind of the glue,” Jasso says. “It keeps you grounded and reminds us there are bigger things in our lives.”

Over time, the restaurant has expanded, and “the new back room and new patio are fabulous,” Jasso says. The former councilwoman liked to hold events and recognitions for community members in that room “because we know what we’re going to get, and there’s no one who will say no.”

Now that the Jassos are empty-nesters, they dine at La Calle Doce two or three times a week.

“It’s our home away from home,” Delia Jasso says. “We don’t really go grocery shopping anymore, and we love their food. You can always get something healthy there, so I don’t feel so bad.”

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Delia Jasso describes herself as a “plain Jane” when it comes to food. One of her favorites on the La Calle Doce menu is the chicken soup. “It has vegetables and all of the good stuff in it,” she says. She also loves the cheese and bean nachos. “If I could eat that all night, I probably would.” The fish are incredible, she says, but the servings are so large that she usually doesn’t attempt it. “And if I want to really step out, I’d order their shrimp enchiladas.” Juan Jasso is partial to the tacos al carbon and likes to take the avocado hot sauce and pickled carrots and “pour the stuff on there,” she says.

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Charles Carlisle usually eats breakfast at Norma’s Café on weekday mornings, but not on weekends.

“It’s too crowded on weekends,” the 86-year-old says. His son, Doug Carlisle, meets him at the restaurant a couple of mornings each week. This has been their tradition for almost five years.

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“It’s been about that long since my mother died,” Doug says. “He used to eat there off and on with her, but now he’s there more often — pretty much five days a week. And I was able to start taking time and meeting him there.”

Charles traveled when Doug was younger, so because of Norma’s, “I’ve probably spent more time with him over the last five years than I did the first 16,” Doug says. “That makes a difference if you do it on the back end.”

Doug, a Kimball ’66 graduate, grew up in Oak Cliff, but “I didn’t go to Norma’s until I worked at Goff’s Hamburgers in Wynnewood when I was 15,” he says. Still, even though the restaurant isn’t nostalgic for him personally, “when you’ve grown up in that area all your life, it’s always good to go back and do something,” he says. “I think as much as anything, what gets people to go is the atmosphere and the history going back to the ’50s.”

They are sometimes joined by Charles’ grandson

Byron, who is Doug’s nephew. He works overnight shifts at Zale Lipshy hospital, so he heads to Norma’s after work.

The table discussion usually revolves around “what we’re planning to do that day, or what happened the night before, or what’s going on with the Rangers or the Cowboys or the government or North Korea or whatever,” Doug says.

Their waitress may be “Pam or Sherry or Pat or Lovie or any of them” because they don’t have a regular table, Doug says. “You can’t really do that there” because it’s too busy, he says.

But as often as they dine at Norma’s, the Carlisle men know pretty much all of the staff, and vice versa. The waitresses know “Mr. Charles,” as they call him, especially well.

Charles says that since he’s retired, “I don’t have to do anything, but I have to do this — I wake up every morning starving.” And Norma’s hits the spot.

His son is happy to be along for the ride.

“At his age, every day is good,” Doug says, “so the fact that I can catch some time with him, that’s important.”

Order like a regular Charles Carlisle orders the No. 2 — two eggs over easy, bacon and tomatoes instead of potatoes, since he can’t eat potatoes. Doug orders similarly, usually some version of bacon, eggs and toast. “Their whole breakfast menu is really pretty good, so you can’t go wrong,” he says.

Celebrate Norma’s anniversary for $1.79

Norma’s Café celebrates its 57th anniversary on Tuesday, June 25, with throwback prices for three of its all-time most popular dishes — chicken-fried steak, meatloaf and chicken and dressing. Each dish will be served with green beans and mashed potatoes and can be ordered for $1.79 beginning at 10:30 a.m. (dine-in patrons only, one per person).

This anniversary special is such a hit that Norma’s stocks well above its usual amounts of food for the occasion. Here are last year’s anniversary sales by dish:

Chicken-fried steak: 2,071

Chicken and dressing: 593

Meatloaf: 473

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Tammie Kleinmann ate the first meal Hattie’s ever served more than a decade ago. Their soft opening was a fundraiser for the Kessler School, and people from all over Dallas packed into the new restaurant at the corner of Bishop and Seventh.

The Bishop Arts District back then was not the Bishop Arts of today. Many storefronts were boarded up. Kleinmann remembers an architectural salvage store across the street from Hattie’s, a hair salon “and a dog grooming place one week that was selling rugs the next.”

“I mean, it was rough. Retail didn’t exist down there, and Hattie’s just boldly went right on the corner,” she says. “Hal [Gantzler] and Tony [Alvarez] spent a ton of money creating this upscale restaurant that would make it anywhere in Dallas. They took a risk, and they were pioneers.”

Kleinmann lived in Kessler Park and was a neighbor of Alvarez and Gantzler, so she watched the planning phases up close. After the restaurant opened, it was such a hit that “people started proverbially coming across the

Order like a regular Tammie Kleinmann’s two favorite dishes are the salmon and the Caeser salad with oysters. Her daughter, Sydney, opts for the four-cheddar mac and cheese, and her husband, Brian Nadurak, chooses quail. During lunch, Kleinmann prefers the tomato soup. And for brunch, well, “brunch will give you anxiety. We have to get one of everything, and then we have to share because we can’t decide.” Usually she and her husband order the chicken and waffles, and an egg dish, and her daughter orders sourdough French toast.

Brian Lauten loves the New Zealand lambchop. Most lambchops are made with Colorado lamb, he says, but lamb from New Zealand is “bigger, juicier and more flavorful.” Another dish, the bacon-and-jalapeñowrapped quail, “is just absolutely di-vaine,” Lauten drawls. His wife, Amy, loves the shrimp and grits, and they both enjoy the same appetizer — a fried oyster wrapped in bacon topped with horseradish sauce.

For the Witherites, “ it’s always the chicken-fried chicken” for brunch, Barb Witherite says. They also like the crab cakes topped with poached eggs, and “everybody eats off stuff,” she says.

river,” she says. She believes that Hattie’s kickstarted the Bishop Arts revival.

A decade later, “I’m in such awe that everything they planned is executed every single day the doors are open,” Kleinmann says. “Everybody has bad days — everybody but Hattie’s. I know it sounds corny, but you can’t catch them on a bad day.”

Though she has moved to North Dallas, Kleinmann still dines at the restaurant three or four times a month, either with her husband and 14-year-old daughter or for girls’ night out.

“Of course, when you get six or seven girls together, we get very loud, and Tony is so sweet. He’ll even join us — pour a glass of wine, belly up to the table and chat,” Klein-

mann says. “Most people would be saying, ‘Ladies, you need to keep it down.’ ”

That’s the distinction of Hattie’s, says Brian Lauten: Alvarez and the staff develop relationships with their customers.

Lauten and his wife, Amy, live in Forest Hills, and dine at Hattie’s at least once a week, usually a Tuesday or Thursday night. On the way, they sometimes pick up their good friends Amy and Barb Witherite, former Cliffites who recently moved to Lakewood.

The valet never gives a ticket to the Lautens or the Witherites. Their cars are well known. And as soon as they pull up, the bartender starts making watermelon martinis for the Lautens and Texas cosmos for the Witherites.

“That’s pretty bad,” Barb Witherite says

Amy and Brian Lauten can’t get enough of Hattie’s. They dine at the Bishop Arts restaurant every week.

with a laugh.

Brian Lauten is from a small town in Alabama, and when he first dined at the restaurant years ago, he immediately recognized that “Hattie’s has a real small-town feel to it.” The Lautens have favorite servers, Vann and Ross, and almost always sit in their sections. The chefs often come out to say hello during the meal. Every Thanksgiving, they prepare a soufflé that the Lautens take home

and cook.

“I’m not just saying this — the people that work there are extremely genuine and sincere, and I think they really, really love their jobs,” Lauten says. “Vann has been our server for years. I won’t even look at the menu and just say, ‘What’s good tonight, man?’ Whatever he recommends is always good. I’ve never had a meal there that wasn’t outstanding.”

Recently, when Hattie’s celebrated its 10-year anniversary, Alvarez invited 250 longtime customers to the restaurant on a Monday night, when it’s normally closed.

“He personally called all of us, had all of the staff there, brought out food, had an open bar, wouldn’t let anyone pay for anything, and gave a speech to thank everyone for coming to Hattie’s,” Lauten says.

It was characteristic of the type of hospitality Alvarez has shown them over the years, he says.

“And we’re not an anomaly,” he says. “They have that kind of connection with a large following of people. I’m sure that’s a large part of why they’ve been successful.”

A friend in Oak Cliff called me and told me about a house for sale. Turned out that wasn’t the right house for me, but the very next one I looked at was. I literally said, ‘This is my next home and neighborhood’ within 30 seconds of walking in the door.”

“Everybody has bad days — everybody but Hattie’s. I know it sounds corny, but you can’t catch them on a bad day.”

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A ‘lost’ Terry Southern film and all the best movies the Texas Theatre could find for this year’s Oak Cliff Film Festival

When Steven Soderbergh “basically badgered” Warner Bros. into releasing Terry Southern’s lost film on DVD last year, the Texas Theatre guys geeked out.

“It’s awesome,” says Oak Cliff Film Festival co-founder Barak Epstein. “It’s basically unseen.”

The film will be introduced by Southern’s son, Nile, at the Oak Cliff Film Festival this month.

“Lost” is a relative term. The film, “End of the Road,” was released in 1970 but did poorly at the box office because of a lack of publicity and an X rating (it is now rated R). Southern, a Sunset High School graduate, died in 1995 at age 71. But his son, who is working on a documentary about his fa-

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ther called “Dad Strangelove,” has always been intrigued by the movie. Soderbergh, a fan of Southern’s work on “Dr. Strangelove,” “Easy Rider,” “Barbarella” and other films, heard of the younger Southern’s fascination with the film and convinced Warner Bros. to release it last year.

It is an early, low-budget independent film, financed by Villager clothing company owner Max Raab, who allowed Southern full creative license. The film is adapted from a 1958 John Barth novel, and the story is about a recent college graduate who seeks the help of Dr. D, played by James Earl Jones, who advises him to teach college English.

“I thought … it needed to be seen,”

The people who make the Oak Cliff Film Festival happen. Back row: Austin Night, Mary Katherine McElroy, Devin Pike and Barak Epstein. Middle row: Jason Reimer, Jennifer Dunn and Amber Montelongo. Front row: Eric Steele, Jessica Tomberlin, Chris Gardner and Daniel Laabs. Photo by Chris Arrant

Soderbergh told Indiewire magazine last September.

The inaugural Oak Cliff Film Festival last year was a huge success, but making it happen was an epic task. For starters, “we had to convince people we were actually a film festival,” Epstein says.

That hasn’t been a problem this year, says co-founder Eric Steele.

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When Steele approached one of the producers of “Computer Chess” at a film festival earlier this year, the producer agreed to bring the film to Oak Cliff on the spot.

The film festival team is composed of the theater’s management group, Aviation Cinemas, and volunteers. Over the past year, they collectively have attended dozens of film festivals and screened thousands of movies to arrive at the 70 or so films at this year’s festival.

Another film with a Texas connection is Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” Filmmaker and Fort Worth native David Lowery will present that film, along with another flick, which the festival cannot name because it is playing at another festival. Epstein will say that it has a 95-minute runtime and that “it’s a film that our audience desperately wants to see. It’s a fairly

high-profile film.”

One of the hits of last year’s festival was a screening of the silent film “Sunrise” with a live score by Austin-based band Montopolis. This year’s counterpart is a screening of silent short films called “Shadow of the BatMan,” which are thought to have inspired the Batman comic books. An eight-piece orchestra, Two Star Symphony, will perform the score along with the film Saturday night.

In smaller festivals like this one, it isn’t complicated to see most of the films offered. At Sundance and SXSW, for example, there are so many films that it is impossible to see them all, Steele says.

“We’re finding new things, but we’re also curating what’s been curated,” he says.

One example is “Medora,” a documentary about a small-town basketball team in Indiana on a quest to win a single game after a run of 44 straight losses. The film’s director, Davy Rothbart, describes it as “ ‘Gummo’ meets ‘Hoop Dreams.’ ” It screened at SXSW, but Steele says, “No one has seen it.”

“It’s going to be a sleeper hit,” he says.

A film making its Texas premiere is “Persistence of Vision,” a 2012 documentary about animator Richard Williams’ nearly 30-year quest to produce a masterpiece. Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” a job he took to finance his own film.

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Terry Southern’s son, Nile, at left, will present “End of the Road” at the Oak Cliff Film Festival.

“We’re finding new things, but we’re also curating what’s been curated.”

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short by Oak Cliff-based Cameron Nelson.

There also are two short films about Lyndon Johnson, a documentary about Dallasbased Carnival Barker’s ice cream, and a short from 15-year-old Atheena Frizzell, a student at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

The Oak Cliff Film Festival is a production of the Oak Cliff Foundation, and it is not for profit.

“We love film. We’re film-obsessed,” says Epstein on why they created the festival.

Or as festival coordinator Mary Katherine McElroy puts it: “Film can be kind of a lonely enterprise. You’re often on set for long hours with just a few people. Connections come through festivals like this.”

Terry Southern graduated from Sunset High School.

“We love film. We’re film obsessed.”

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In-N-Out on I-30

Marriott Residence Inn, Denny’s and In-N-Out Burger are the first retail tenants announced for The Canyon in Oak Cliff, a 200-acre development at Westmoreland and Interstate 30. Steve Sanders of developer Stratford Land says he expects at least 10 other restaurants to sign on in the next two years. Plans call for relocating the eastbound I-30 exit ramp at Westmoreland to create a three-lane frontage road for access to The Canyon. Also, West Colorado will be extended to Westmoreland. “Once you can access the site, the retailers will come,” Sanders says. The Canyon in Oak Cliff could have as many as 7,500 residential units, 1,000 hotel rooms, 1.2 million square feet of office space and 800,000 square feet of retail. A natural creek line, set in the “canyon,” between the property’s two hills, will be made into a water feature. City Council voted in 2011 to reimburse Stratford Land as much as $129 million to build roads, sewer and other infrastructure in the development.

No ramen for you?

The Oak Cliff restaurant business is a small world. Remember the ramen guy? Justin Holt was the Lucia cook who rocked Ten Bells Tavern with tender, tender pork and noodles with the weepy egg. Only $5, but you should really order two. Anyhow, those savory midnights could be over for now, Oak Cliff, because Holt has a new job. He left Lucia for Driftwood There he’ll be leading the kitchen while chef Omar Flores is busy over at budding Trinity Groves with a tapas concept. Casa Rubia is Flores’ project with Driftwood owner Jonn Baudoin. Another seafood restaurant, this one from 303 Bar & Grill owner Celia Lopez, is expected at 247 W. Davis. Texans Can Academies leased the former service station after the nonprofit’s effort to rezone the lot for parking was defeated. The new restaurant is expected this summer. Over at Bolsa, there’s a new menu and dinner-only hours except weekend brunch, but Bolsa Mercado

now has more tables and an expanded menu. Elsewhere in Bishop Arts, Advocate readers were disappointed that Sarah Lombardi abandoned the restaurant idea that ultimately gave taquería El Padrino the boot. Too expensive to retrofit and renovate the Oak Cliff Mercantile building, Lombardi says. No doubt. Don’t lose faith, though, because southern Dallas gal Casey Caldwell is launching the city’s first pop-up restaurant, Kitchen LTO The restaurant at Trinity Groves will change concepts every four months. Caldwell is the founder of Greenz Salads and the brains behind LTO, which stands for Limited Time Offer. The first one is expected around July 15. Please let it be ramen.

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Perhaps the sexiest real estate news in Oak Cliff comes from Beckley Avenue, where a former rooming house is for sale. It’s the one, of course, where Lee Harvey Oswald stayed, 1026 N. Beckley. He rented it for $8 a week. Valued at $65,830 on the tax rolls, it comprises 2,046 feet, including the room and bed where a presidential assassin had slept. Plus, it’s at the gateway to Oak Cliff and blocks from Lake Cliff Park. Speaking of sexy, a West Dallas trailer park could be the next site of an upscale apartment complex from Wood Partners, the company that built the Alta West Davis apartments near Winnetka Heights. The Atlanta-based company is “eyeing” the 8-acre property adjacent to Chicken Scratch and the Foundry at Commerce and Pittman, according to a Dallas Morning News report. Changes are expected to come soon to Jefferson Boulevard at Madison, where Bishop Arts developer Jim Lake Cos. has plans to make over half a city block. The developer bought Jefferson Tower last year and is renovating the street-level retail to include restaurants and entertainment venues, plus second-story residential lofts. Those projects could be completed by April 2014.

1 Rizzoli published the cookbook from Smoke chef Tim Byres, “Smoke: New Firewood Cooking,” last month. 2 A new Tex-Mex place, Victoria’s Mexican Grill, opened in Winnetka Heights in March.

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DART broke ground on the Oak Cliff streetcar last month. The streetcar will travel from Union Station and across the Houston Street Viaduct. The rails are going in this summer, and the line to Colorado and Beckley should be running by November 2014. An extension from Colorado to Seventh and Zang should be open by spring 2015.

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The North Texas Council of Governments is expected to grant $2 million for the creation of pedestrian and bike pathways across the planned Margaret McDermott bridge.

Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center math teacher Joshua Newton won DISD teacher of the year. Newton serves as a department cochair, and he regularly analyzes data looking for better ways to teach and implement innovative strategies for teachers and students. He often volunteers his Saturdays to take students to competitions. Sunset High School graduate Rose Davidson, who works at Dallas Environmental Science Academy, won teacher assistant of the year. Central Market awarded Newton $5,000 and Davison $1,500.

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Sometime that night a burglar had pried the inset lock on her garage and then somehow removed it — she never even found the lock. Luckily, not much was taken except a 100-foot extension cord, which she noticed was gone a week later when she got out her hedge clippers and needed that cord. The burglar left behind much more expensive equipment.

The Victim: Janis evans

The Crime: Criminal mischief/burglary

Date: Sunday, April 14

Time: Between 4 p.m. and 8:50 a.m.

Location: 400 block of Waverly

“It was very irritating,” she says of the incident. “I couldn’t go to work because I had my lawnmower and other things in there and I didn’t want them to get stolen. I’m so glad all they took was the extension cord.”

Dallas Police Maj. Edwin Ruiz-Diaz of the Southwest Patrol Division says a great number of burglaries and thefts are crimes of opportunity and that if a thief sees property in plain view inside a parked car or through an open window or garage door, he will seize the opportunity. In some cases it can take only a few minutes for someone to recognize the chance to steal something, act and get away with it.

“A good rule of thumb to use when dealing with theft and burglary offenses is ‘out of sight, out of mind,’ ” he says. “If a thief cannot see your property, then they will move on to another potential target. It is always best to keep property hidden from view to minimize the possibility of being the victim of an opportunistic thief.”

Ruiz-Diaz says to keep your home as secure as possible by ensuring all windows and doors are locked.

Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and author of “Raising the Stakes”, obtainable at raisingthestakesbook.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.

Xanax pills were stolen in the April 15 burglary of a pharmacy on South Hampton 118

Valium pills were stolen in the same crime, in which the burglars used a pry bar to open the pharmacy’s front door and a sledge hammer to smash an interior door 100

milliliters of Promethazine were taken in the same burglary, which caused about $3,000 in damage to the pharmacy

Source Dallas Police Department

More Cliffites in Hollywood

The stories of glitz and glamour continue in this month’s installment

Comment. Visit oakcliff.advocatemag.com/backstory to tell us what you think.

We’re opening the book “Cliffites in Hollywood” again. Here are a few more chapters.

Born Monetta Darnell, movie star Linda Darnell attended Sunset High School while she was also modeling, entering beauty contests, taking elocution and acting lessons, and performing in Dallas Little Theater

productions, among other endeavors. Darnell’s mother was constantly “grooming” her daughter for stardom, pushing her from one activity to another, relentlessly insistent on Darnell capturing a Hollywood film career. Darnell did sign a film contract and moved to Hollywood, by herself, when she was only 15, with Hollywood welcoming the gorgeous young Texan. Thanks to her stunning beauty, she eventually earned the label “The Girl with the Perfect Face.” From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, Darnell starred in 43 movies, among them “The Mark of Zorro,” “Forever Amber,” “Unfaithfully Yours” and “A Letter to Three Wives.”

Darnell’s mother was a consistent problem, with Oak Cliff neighbors telling endless stories of her eccentric and mean-spirited behavior. The studios, and then Darnell herself, understood the need for the star to separate from the unmanageable parent, which finally occurred. Darnell got married at age 19 to a significantly older husband — a man who deliberately led her into alcoholic entrapment. With no one encouraging her to change, the movie star’s life was unalterably redirected. But she did have an adopted daughter with whom she remained close.

Darnell appeared in numerous television programs after her film career waned and also returned to stage performance. In 1965, while preparing for a Chicago play, Darnell

was staying with a friend whose home caught fire; Darnell was fatally trapped in the blaze. Scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings and photographs found in the star’s home after her death reflected her continued interest in and communication with her old Sunset classmates.

The former Oak Cliff beauty is still showcased through her occasional performances seen on Turner Classic Movies and in what is normally an annual appearance on the Biography Channel, and also through the 1991 book “Linda Darnell: American Beauty and the Hollywood Dream.” Additionally, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Yvonne Craig is an alumna of both Adamson and Sunset high schools who developed her dance career during those teenage years. Continually rejecting anything but a future in ballet, Craig was eventually persuaded to take a screen test that landed her in the movie

business. She went on to star in 19 movies, two with Elvis Presley: “It Happened at the World’s Fair” and “Kissing Cousins.” Beginning in the mid-1960s, Craig’s career expanded into television, where she appeared on dozens of programs, among them “Death Valley Days,” “My Three Sons,” “Star Trek,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Wild Wild West,” “McHale’s Navy,” “The Big Valley,” “The Mod Squad” and the “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

Her most recognizable role was as television’s first Batgirl in the classic mid-’60s “Batman” series. Craig continues to work in the entertainment field today, providing the voice of Grandma in the children’s animated television program “Olivia” and publishing her 2000 autobiography: “From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond.”

Not all Hollywood Cliffites appeared on the silver screen or small screen. Some wrote the words and scenes. Probably the most well

Clockwise from top left: Linda Darnell, Yvonne Craig and terry Southern

Due to Linda Darnell’s stunning beauty, she eventually earned the label “The Girl with the Perfect Face.”

recognized in this group is Terry Southern, Sunset ’42.

After attending SMU for two years, Southern left college to serve as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned from service and later graduated from Northwestern University in 1948 with a degree in philosophy. Southern traveled to Paris and studied at the Faculté Des Lettres, a four-year period that molded his writing career and persona, putting him into the Paris post-war literary movement — also known as the American (expatiate) café society of the 1950s. The friendships and contacts he made were essential to his early career.

Southern moved back to the United States in 1953, lived and worked in Greenwich Village, became a prominent figure in the late 1950s “village” artistic scene and later wrote for Esquire magazine. Over his career, he published eight novels, among them “Flash and Filigree” (1958), “Candy” (1958), “The Magic Christian” (1959), “Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes” (1967), “Blue Movie” (1970) and “Texas Summer” (1992).

In the 1960s, he began writing film dialogue with the screenplays for “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Loved One,” “The Cincinnati Kid,” “Casino Royale,” “Barbarella” and “Easy Rider,” with “Rider” influencing the creation of the 1970s independent film movement and earning him an Academy Award nomination. Southern wrote for “Saturday Night Live” and, during his remaining years, continued various film project collaborations.

Southern gained pop-culture-icon status when he was included on the Beatles’ legendary “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover.

In October 1995, Southern collapsed on the Columbia University campus while working as a university lecturer; he died four days later.

The book club will meet again next month with some new Tinseltown personalities to study. See you then!

Gayla Brooks can date her neighborhood heritage back to 1918, when her father was born in what was then called Eagle Ford. She was born at Methodist hospital and graduated from Kimball High School. Brooks is one of three co-authors of the recently published book, “Images of America: Oak Cliff”, and writes a monthly history column for the Oak Cliff Advocate. Send her feedback and ideas to gbrooks@advocatemag.com.