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I’m going to tell you a secret, but you need to promise you won’t tell my wife and sons: I ate something in my car.
OK, I wasn’t actually “eating,” unless you call drinking a milkshake “eating,” but I still broke one of my self-imposed family rules: You shalt not eat in the car.
My wife says I have a lot of arbitrary, unwritten rules. I don’t agree, but she says she’s better at keeping track of stuff like that. And stuff like that tends to accumulate over the years, doesn’t it?
It’s not like I set out to break the rule. There was just something about the hot summer day that made it happen.
I went to Sonic to get a gallon of unsweetened iced tea for the office refrigerator, and when I pulled into the shady, breezy parking spot and crackled my order through the intercom, I decided I deserved a strawberry cheesecake shake to drink at home, too.
When the shake arrived at the precise moment a song from the rock group Boston’s only decent album began playing on the car radio, I decided instead to sit there and slurp on the shake and listen to the song.
And then the next good song came on, and the next one, and the next one.
As the breeze blew through the open car windows, the procession of songs took me back to when I was young and seemingly without responsibility and could sit in my car and listen to the radio for as long as I wanted, and no one would notice or miss me.
There were no dependents at home. There was no mortgage. My old AMC Javelin two-door was paid for, and the money I
earned working part-time at a grocery store sacking groceries and stocking shelves in a red apron and white shirt and clip-on bowtie paid for everything else. Golf. Bowling. Cinnamon rolls. Pizza. Mountain Dew.
Back then, I wouldn’t have said I had it made. Looking back now, I could certainly make that case.
The poet John Donne wrote that “no man is an island, entire of itself; each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
This was one of those days when I wished I wasn’t connected to everyone, or anyone. This was one of those days I wished I could just be the island.
That day won’t be today, though.
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My shake is gone, except for some whipped cream that has more cholesterol than I’m supposed to eat. It’s time to head back to real life.
“Where were you?” my wife asked a few seconds after I walked back in the door at home. She wasn’t scolding or worried, just making conversation.
She knew where I had gone. She didn’t know where I had been, though, or why.
No matter. I’m back now. And I won’t be eating in the car again anytime soon.
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As the breeze blew through the open car windows, the procession of songs took me back to when i was young and seemingly without responsibility.
Is our neighborhood bikeable? Only “somewhat.” Check out oakcliff.advocatemag.com for more.
Walk Score, a website that rates how walkable a city is based on how far residents must go to reach grocery stores, entertainment, parks and other amenities, rated Dallas “somewhat” walkable last year. We scored 47 out of 100 — that’s a big fat F — classifying our city as “car dependent.” The Seattle-based company recently expanded the site to include Bike Score, which uses a similar algorithm to rate a city’s bikeability, based on factors like terrain, bike lanes and destinations. Dallas is rated, you guessed it, “somewhat bikeable,” with a score of 41. A look at the heat map of the Oak Cliff area reveals a score of 47, still an F.
You wouldn’t know it judging by our neighborhood’s bike culture and the number of folks out there on two wheels every day. We just reached a milestone recently when the city finally installed a cycle track on the formerly perilous Jefferson bridge. The ambitious Dallas Bike Plan is still trucking along in its 10-year plan with tweaks from council members (and, of course, there’s always the issue of cost). At a recent city council meeting, departing Councilwoman Angela Hunt reminded everyone that we still have a long way to go. In the meantime, search “bikeable” at oakcliff.advocatemag.com to take a look back at our video from last year, interviewing several neighborhood bike enthusiasts about how they’re co-existing with motorists.
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Liz Goulding moved to the lake Cliff Park neighborhood about a year ago, but she’s been a presence in Oak Cliff for longer, as manager of urban Acres. Goulding, who now teaches environmental science at El Centro College, recently took over as leader of Slow Food Dallas. The group is putting on more events, starting with “Why local beer matters” this past May. Goulding and Slow Food Dallas also organize community farm workdays, and they’re planning cooking classes for the fall.
This year we’re working on name recognition so that people know what slow food is about, which can be hard because slow food is about a lot of different things. There are a lot of ideas, and it’s a big umbrella. That’s why we’re trying to have events that are fun but also more than that. They’re social events where we’re learning something or we’re teaching others or we’re doing work. One of the things about slow food is enjoying your food. It can be sad to think about food sometimes because of all the horrible things we’ve created with our food system and all that, so if you’re not having fun it’s too serious.
The second event was “Why nonGMO and heirloom seeds matter.”
I want to put a positive spin on things. Even though there are some bad things happening, I want people to be able to look at the positive, and that’s why we focused it on heirloom seeds. I don’t want to do the exact same thing that everybody else is doing. There’s so much going on with our food system. Somebody already did the march on Monsanto [see page 21], and that’s great, but we don’t need to redo that.
And when you see how good heirloom vegetables taste, you understand why you would pay more for them.
Exactly. When you learn the difference between local artisanal cheese and Kraft cheese, you start to realize how much better it is, and you find it’s worth paying a little more.
are the farm workdays important?
There are several reasons. The obvious one is to help with the farm. We did one at Paul Quinn College, and we weren’t even there
that long, like two hours, but if you have 20 people, you can really crank out some tomatoes. Until you see what it takes to grow a tomato and how you can spend all this time on your tomatoes and they don’t grow, or birds eat them all then you have to pack them and transport them, and all that. Until you see what it takes, you won’t understand why food from a small farm costs more. We can talk about it all day, but until I started going out to the farms and working, I didn’t get it. I went out and picked purple hull peas in June.
Now when I see fresh peas, I don’t think “Gosh, that’s expensive,” I think, “Gosh, that’s a lot of work.”
How did you get involved with slow food?
I studied ecology and got a master’s in environmental science, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I worked at Pearl Cup and then Urban Acres, and I realized I could talk about food all day. I could read cookbooks all day. Food involves science, politics, sociology, philosophy. It’s all these disciplines wrapped up into one, so it never has to be boring.
Where do you shop for groceries?
The Tom Thumb [on Hampton] is not convenient for me. If I need something during the week, I wind up going to Whole Foods. I try to go to the farmers market, usually White Rock Local Market, whenever I can. I shop at Urban Acres as much as I can.
My mom lives in Rockwall, and she has a Costco card. That’s probably my guiltiest food thing is Costco. I eat out probably more than I should. We walk across the park to Jonathon’s or Spiral a lot. Those are our go-to places. I know I don’t cook as much as I should. So I’ve been reading Michael Pollan, and I’ve been inspired to spend more time in the kitchen.
Why are you so passionate about slow food?
It is too easy to make a poor choice. It’s too cheap and too convenient. Cost and convenience are killing us. If you look at what’s happened to our health as a nation in the past 50 years, I mean, there are a lot of factors in that, but food is a big part of it. It’s hard to tell a single mom that works 50 hours a week, “I’m sorry, but you have
to cook from scratch.” I totally get why she makes that choice. But it’s up to us, to people who do have the means and the knowledge now, to make the better choices, and maybe a less convenient choice, otherwise the market is never going to change.
What are you excited about?
I’m really excited about okra. I look forward to okra all year, and we’re almost there.
What do you do with it?
Oil, salt and pepper on a cookie sheet in the oven at about 425 degrees until it’s brown and crispy. If the slimy stuff freaks you out, roasting sucks all that out and makes it crispy. I figure if someone doesn’t like a vegetable, they haven’t roasted it yet, because that makes everything delicious. That’s the thing about eating in season. You eat food when it tastes good. You don’t have to be a good cook. Even though I’m sad when it’s not apple season — but then it’s berry season, and then it’s melons and then we’re back around to corn again. There’s always something to be excited about.
What tips can you give someone who knows next to nothing about slow food?
A farmers market is your best bet. I say it all the time, but I do think White Rock Local Market is the best farmers market in Dallas. When you go, ask if they are local growers only. Can they bring food from anywhere? If they have figs that are from Marfa, they should say that. If you see a pineapple, you know it wasn’t grown here. But I would rather see people eating real food. That’s more important. I’d rather see people eating a conventional pineapple that’s real rather than an organic strawberry popsicle.
What else can we do to eat more sustainably?
Work on getting local meat, so work on finding local producers. There are people here that are doing local, sustainable, grass-fed meat. It’s more expensive, so that means you should probably make [meat] a component of your meal and not the center point of your meal.
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Buy local music … and support the Greiner arts academy. Tree Fall Sounds is an Oak Cliff-based nonprofit “dedicated to supporting, fostering and inspiring sustainable creativity.” The 2-year-old venture, founded by neighborhood resident Barry Binder, has teamed up with local musicians to raise money for the W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy. “There’s No Local Scene Finer” is a 24-track compilation of songs from local artists, including Oak Cliff-based The Fox and the Bird and Yells at Eels. Pay $6 to download the mix from bandcamp.com, and all of the money goes to the music department at Greiner. This is the first in a series of fundraisers that Tree Fall is doing with Greiner. treefallsounds.com
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Oak Cliff sunsets are usually awesome and no two are alike. This one was captured at Twelve Hills Nature Center last month. As Walt Whitman wrote: “A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,/ Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”: Danny Fulgencio
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July 14
The fourth-annual Oak Cliff Bastille Day in the Bishop Arts District celebrates all things French. As the website states, “star chefs, outdoor markets, wine tastings, music and more.” Seventh and Bishop, bastilleonbishop.com
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July 5-6
“Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death.” This documentary focuses on three brothers from Detroit who started playing punk-rock music before anyone else, as early as 1971. The group cut a demo in 1974 but disbanded in ’77 having never completed a full album. Record collectors coveted pressings of Death singles, and Drag City Records released Death’s seven original songs in 2009. But these punk pioneers remained obscure until this movie started hitting film festivals last year. Call for show times and ticket prices.
The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson, 214.948.1546, thetexastheatre.com
July 6-27
The Dallas Zoo’s Safari Nights series runs every Saturday in July, from 5-9 p.m., and it’s free with zoo admission. Sara Hickman performs July 27. 650 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, 469.554.7500, dallaszoo.com
July 10
The Dallas Children’s Theater presents scenes from “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” playing at the theater this summer. This free performance starts at 11 a.m. at the Hampton-Illinois Library. 2951 S. Hampton, 214.670.7646, dallaslibrary2.org
July 27
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Living Colour will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, “Vivid,” by performing the album in its entirety. The band won a Grammy in 1989 for the single “Cult of Personality.” They broke up in 1995 and reunited in 2000. Tickets cost $25-$50. Show time is 7:30 p.m. The Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis, 214.272.8346, thekessler.org
July 6-Aug. 3
Teatro Flor Candela teaches a theater workshop that culminates in an Aug. 3 performance. The Dallas-based theater company offers this weekly workshop at noon on Saturdays. Students learn about production, lighting, costumes, sound and acting while rehearsing their own performance. This free workshop is presented by Big Thought and Target. North Oak Cliff Library, 302 W. Tenth 214.670.7555, dallaslibrary2.org
July 25
These monthly poolside shows sell out quickly. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. July 10 for Air Review and Chambers on July 25.
The Belmont Hotel, 901 Fort Worth Ave., kxt.org/barefoot
July 27
This Dallas-based band brings its booze, boxcars and bar-fights Americana to the Foundry in a free show at 9 p.m. The Foundry, 2303 Pittman, 214.749.1112, cs-tf.com
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The Foundry sandwich has fried chicken, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheese, pickles, mustard and honey: Elliot Muñoz
Chicken Scratch made headlines this spring for a billboard on Interstate 30 poking fun at its location with the deadpan tagline, “Between some trailers and a condemned motel.” The real selling point is that big biscuit sandwich, though. Chicken Scratch roasts whole hens and cures and smokes its own bacon. The kitchen pickles its veggies, makes sauces from scratch and even formulates the fountain sodas (when you can’t decide, try half strawberry soda, half lemonade). Call it slow food fast. The combination of value and commitment to quality keeps customers coming back. “I had a guy come in one day, and he came back three days in a row,” says sous chef Frankie Torres. A guy from Seattle took a cab straight from the airport after a previous visit, Torres says. The restaurant changed its menu in February with a focus on “knife-and-fork biscuit sandwiches,” which live up to their name with almost unruly fixin’s. The Foundry sandwich ($8; it’s the one on the billboard) has fried chicken, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheese, pickles, mustard and honey, for example. But you don’t have to blow your weekly calorie budget to splurge at this familyfriendly joint. The spicy quinoa salad ($6) is one of two vegan dishes on the menu. It comes with spicy pickled vegetables, olives and a carrot-ginger dressing on a bed of mixed greens.
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Jonathon’s is known for its brunch, where chicken and waffles rule. A big, crispy Belgian topped with pan-fried chicken and optional pan gravy. Plus, build-your-own Bloody Mary bar.
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The green sauce is available by the bottle now. But how does one use it except to drip it into a corn tortilla filled with juicy, char-skinned chicken and some of those oily onions?
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Probably the best fried chicken in Dallas outside a grandma’s kitchen. Rudy’s is so important to the economy of lancaster Boulevard that the city is giving its owner an $890,000 economic development grant to improve the property. If it will make the drive-though line shorter on a Friday night, we might be OK with that.
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Availability makes even the crankiest wine writer cringe. That’s because the laws that govern how wine is sold, called the three-tier system, vary from state to state, and sometimes even within states. Just because a wine is for sale in Dallas doesn’t mean it will be for sale in Houston or Austin (or somewhere else in Dallas, for that matter). In addition, wine is not like ketchup, where there is an almost infinite amount. When a producer runs out of that year’s wine, that’s it, and there is no more until next year.
So what’s a wine drinker to do?
• Ask the retailer to check distributor books. More wines exist than any retailer can possibly carry. A distributor book lists every wine often thousands for the biggest distributors — that can be sold at retail in that market. If the wine is in one of the books, a good retailer will get it for you.
That’s how I found the Bonny Doon wines, including the rosé ($15), which are quite limited in Dallas.
• Check with the winery. Obviously, if you can buy it from them, all the better. But if you can’t (thank you, three-tier system), send an email. Some producers have database apps on their site that let you search for retailers in your area.
That’s how I found Yellow + Blue, including the chardonnay ($10 for a 1 liter box).
There may be a trillion recipes for tabbouleh, the Mediterranean bulgur and parsley salad; everyone who makes it does it differently. Some have mostly parsley and almost no bulgur; some are the exact opposite. This recipe is mostly bulgur, but with more parsley. And the proportions and ingredients are truly just guidelines. Chopped tomatoes work for the cherry, green onions are fine substitutes for the red onions, and olives and chickpeas work well, too. And Boony Doon’s rosé is a great match.
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1 c uncooked bulgur
1 c chopped fresh Italian parsley
½ c chopped fresh mint
½ c cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
½ red onion, peeled and chopped
Best quality olive oil to taste
Lemon juice to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
1. Soak the bulgur for about 10 minutes, or until it softens, in boiling water to cover. Drain.
2. Mix the remaining ingredients and serve. Serves four, takes about 15 minutes
What are diet wines?
—Jeff siegel• The importer should know. If the wine is not made in the United States, there’s a line on the back label that says “Imported by such and such.” Look for the importer’s website; sometimes, they’ll have a database app. More likely, you’ll have to send an email.
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Diet wines, like light beer, are made to contain fewer calories. That’s the primary concern — not what the wine tastes like. Usually, fewer calories translates to less alcohol in the wine, which is where most of wine’s calories come from. You can accomplish the same thing with regular wine by drinking less.
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Chicken Scratch (see page 14) might have to change its infamous billboard tagline for accuracy. Matt Bull of Kessler Park is the artist behind the ad on Interstate 30 that proclaims the restaurant as being “between some trailers and a condemned motel.” But the restaurant soon could be surrounded by high-end apartments. Developer Wood Partners has the Dallas West Trailer Park under contract with plans for apartments on the 8-acre property. And the Mission Motel is boarded up but not really condemned. The Dallas Morning News reports that Dallas-based Performance Properties has that property as well as the adjacent Neighborhood Credit Union property under contract. Initial plans call for closing Eastus Drive between the two tracts to create a 5-acre apartment complex.
More residences are coming to our neighborhood in the form of brand-new homes. Austin-based PSW Real Estate is building 32 houses in the Kings Highway Conservation District, near the Twelve Hills Nature Center. The land had been the site of apartments, where the now-defunct developer Incap Fund had planned townhomes. The homes would be two stories on 2,500-square-foot lots with detached garages. The developer has agreed that none of the garages will face the street, and the company negotiated with neighbors to find suitable setbacks and traffic patterns. The homes must be built in the approved architectural styles for the neighborhood — craftsman, prairie or Tudor revival.
Sylvan Thirty developer Brent Jackson is keeping the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts sign on Fort Worth Avenue. It’s just not going to be all in one piece. Jackson asked the community in March for help in deciding how to reuse the massive sign. That annoyed preservationists who insisted the sign should remain intact and in the same spot on the roadway. And it launched a grassroots effort to “save the Alamo sign.” The developer announced that the sign will be reused as three sculptural pieces throughout the development. The star from the top of the sign
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will be placed at the intersection of Sylvan and Interstate 30, where Pearl Cup is planning to open a shop. The Alamo silhouette and yellow arrow will be a combined element in the development’s central plaza. And the largest piece, with the words “Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts” will be placed near Fort Worth Avenue, close to Burguesa Burger. The sculptures will be designed by architecture firm Lake Flato and Jackson himself. It turns out he has a BFA in sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin.
Work is expected to begin soon to convert the Continental bridge to a linear park and pedestrian thoroughfare. Construction was supposed to begin on the project as soon as the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge opened last year, but there have been some delays. The $10 million park is being funded by an anonymous donation to the Trinity Trust Foundation. And the city awarded an $8.3 million construction contract in May. The park will include pedestrian and bike pathways, trees, seating and plazas.
Roy’s Transmission & Autocare owner Roy Smith has agreed to sell his shop at 138 W. Davis to the city for $375,368. The Bishop Arts District shop is exactly where the city wants to bring a streetcar stop as early as 2015. Before the streetcar extension was funded, the city had planned to improve the wonky intersection at Zang and Seventh by turning it into plaza. The shop has been appraised at $485,000, but demolition and clean-up of the site were deducted from the sale price. —rachel stone
1 Kitchen LTO, the city’s first permanent pop-up restaurant, is expected to open in September.
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Kitchen LTO 3011 Gulden lane kitchenlto.com
Off-Site Kitchen 2226 irvinG blvd. offsitekitchen.net
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2 Neighborhood resident Nick Badovinus announced plans to open a second Off-Site Kitchen at Trinity Groves.
3 Norma’s is expanding with a third outpost in Frisco.
Brandon and Susan Pollard, explores the honeybee world — at a neighborhood level — its dwindling population and how it all impacts our lives.
sweet greet At a recent protest, Brandon Pollard embraces a man in the crowd. The beekeeper and environmentalist is known around the neighborhood for his hugs. He gives big burly hugs, generously, often with his eyes closed.
hive check The Pollards inspect a frame of bees at the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center just outside Dallas. The wetlands filter water from Dallas, which is then pumped back to the city. Honeybee colonies at the wetlands were not hit with neurotoxins during last year’s mosquito spraying, however, the apiculturists say, bees dodrink water — and lots of it, and when the water is toxic, they die.
biting issues Culex mosquitos, also called southern house mosquitoes, are known carriers of the West Nile Virus, which last year sickened hundreds and killed dozens in the Dallas area. Attempts to eradicate them with pesticide, some say, are threatening the lives of bees. The Pollards preach alternatives.
change imagined (Opposite) At an Earth Day celebration in Oak Cliff, Susan Pollard is reflected in a glass honeybee-display case, one of the teaching tools she uses when advocating on behalf of the bees. Attendees seem struck with a mix of awe and nervous curiosity. Pollard educates them on the crucial importance of bees and how their benefits outweigh their danger. Some observers believe her, and some don’t.
randon and Susan Pollard herd honeybees. “Urban bee-wrangling,” they call it. Beyond being honey purveyors, the Pollards, via their Texas Honeybee Guild, save residential colonies from extermination, offer public education on the importance of bees and rally on their little charges’ behalf as environmental activists. As the Pollards often attest, bees are responsible for about 30 percent of our food. They pollinate more than 100 species of fruits and vegetables. Without them, we are in trouble. And that’s where we are headed, they say. In recent years, bee populations have been crushed by insecticides, disease, parasites and the enigmatic colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that has caused the mysterious and widespread disappearance of worker bees. Last year proved especially brutal for the Pollards and their bees: The couple estimates they lost 60 percent of their hives, often after city-backed trucks and planes sprayed swaths of Dallas with neurotoxin to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes, which incidentally also threatens the humble bee. With mosquito season upon us, the Pollards attempt to rebuild their colonies while bracing for another possible round of chemical warfare.
natural treat Oak Cliff resident Lydia Miller tastes raw honey from a hive in her backyard. “Oh wow,” she says licking her fingertips. “That’s our foliage!” “That’s your song,” Pollard says. “That’s your neighborhood.” Lydia and her partner, Aline McKenzie, recently moved from one Oak Cliff home to another. They kept bees at their previous home, and when they moved, the bees came with.
soothing smoke Brandon Pollard prepares a smoker, which he will use to calm the bees in a nearby pair of hives. Smoke sedates the insects, the beekeeper says, because they are hardwired to conserve energy for flight when they anticipate a hive fire. Bee smoking is an ancient practice — 15,000-year-old cave paintings show people sedating bees with smoke.
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Family Tours Hourly from 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Yoga in the Garden 11:30 am
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Storytime with Dallas Public Library 12:30 pm
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A weary Susan Pollard wipes sweat off her brow as her partner and husband logs the condition of hives at a local garden. When it comes to saving the invaluable insects, the couple strives tirelessly to educate the public and seek out creative approaches to conservation. The hot Texas summers present exceptional challenges such as enduring long outdoor hours in thick bee suits. Brandon Pollard says it is worth the effort. “It’s all part of the bee-zness.”
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The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce awarded eight scholarships in May. The winners were Juan Armijo and Carina Esparza of Adamson High School, Irene Escobedo of Molina High School, Zainab Fatima and Neftali Gomez of Townview Magnet Center, Jacob Hammonds of Bishop Dunne Catholic School and Ebeny Rangel of Pinkston High School.
The chamber also recognized five outstanding educators. They are: Mike Williams Sr. of Dallas Baptist University, James Martin of Bishop Dunne, Bobby Diggs of Atwell Middle School, Christopher Kemp of Fellowship Christian Academy, Alison Beazley of the Kessler School and Priscilla Cano of Mi Escuelita.
The city held a grand opening celebration for the new pavilion and amphitheater at Moore Park, near Eighth and Corinth, last month. The amenities and a connection from Moore Park to the Santa Fe Trestle Trail were funded by a $2 million grant from the Hoblitzelle Foundation.
In other pavilion news, the city has hired a construction company to build the new $118,000 pavilion at Kidd Springs Park. Construction is expected to begin this month, and the pavilion should be open in January. The city also agreed to pay $150,000 to rebuild the historic pergola at Kiest Park.
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On a typical day in a woman’s life, whether she is feeling upbeat or not, she can walk into a salon or boutique and be greeted by a sales person who understands that, whether the woman is looking for new underwear or a new hairdo, the experience in the shop is at least as important as the product.
But what about a non-typical day? Perhaps a day when a woman is recovering from surgery, or looking for a solution to hair loss after chemo? There are many products to address every delicate health issue on the spectrum, from pregnancy to nursing to custom-fitted prostheses. But where can a woman go and be assured that she’ll be greeted by someone who understands her unique needs?
When their mother was living with breast cancer and treatment in the 1980s, Vicki Jones and her sister Seleta Lovell had difficulty finding access to the products that would help their mother, much less the knowledgeable service that could direct their choices. Eventually, after they lost their mother to cancer, they were inspired to improve the situation for other women.
That was the birth of Women’s Health Boutique. Vicki’s daughter Crystal Tipton has joined her mother to help run a total of four shops – one of them in Oak Cliff.
“My mom and I opened our first Women’s Health Boutique
together in 2009,” Crystal Tipton says. Considering the timing of their startup, which was in the middle of a severe economic downturn, it’s remarkable the business has thrived, but that shows the important of their unique service.
“Our customers come back to us because we genuinely care about each one of them,” Tipton says. “Not only do we accept assignment from their insurance, but we make it our mission to help restore the dignity that can be lost when a woman loses a breast or her hair, or experiences incontinence or lymphedema. Each one of our customers is unique. The harder they are to fit into a bra, or the perfect wig, the harder we work. There is always a solution. We just have to find it.”
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Spring was in bloom and lawns turning green. Recent rains had caused Diana Foster’s grass to grow, and it needed to be cut. As she does every spring, Foster walked to her rear shed ready to crank up her Toro walk-behind lawn mower. After opening the shed in the rear of her Elmwood Historical Neighborhood home, she quickly realized the mower was gone. Foster inherited the home and has lived there for 11 years without experiencing any crime previous-
The Victim: Diana Foster
The Crime: Burglary of a storage shed
Date: Thursday, May 9
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 2100 block of Elmwood
ly. As she spoke with the Advocate, Foster was in the process of looking for the serial number of the mower for police.
“I didn’t have the shed fully locked,
Sean
but I didn’t expect them to go through my gate,” she says. “Too bad they didn’t take the other one in the shed instead — it didn’t work.”
The mower was worth about $300, and the loss is quite annoying and costly for Foster. She recommends keeping gates locked — even using chains to make things more difficult for burglars. Her thoughts? If burglars have to work harder on a lock or chain, they might just move on to somewhere else.
Dallas Police Lt. Gil Garza of the Southwest Patrol Division agrees that secure chains and locks can act as a deterrent to criminals. He says anti-bolt-cutter locks or anti-theft locks are round and more difficult to manipulate and have less area exposed to cut. There are also chains to deter bolt cutters, and sensor lighting is always a good deterrent.
“I would also encourage folks to put away their things and make it less inviting for criminals to take,” he says.
Additionally, Garza recommends that equipment even inside a shed can also be secured with chains or locks to make things even more difficult for a burglar.
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Cash, a can of Monster energy drink and a pack of cigarettes were stolen in the first robbery
Cash and more cigarettes were stolen in the second and third robberies
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Sunset 1968 graduate Edward Edwards also attended Greiner Junior High. At Sunset, he was — not surprisingly — drama club president and a member of the concert choir, where his talents shone as a cast member of all the school musicals and plays. Also a member of the Latin club, Edwards attended competitions, performing monologues in Latin! A member of the Bison tennis team and the student council, he lived with his family near Edgefield and West Davis, where the Oak Cliff student also worked 30 to 40 hours a week for Ralph Cannon of Cannon’s Dime Store and frequently at the bakery next door, Schindler’s, which Cannon also owned and operated.
Edwards’ first professional acting job was in Dallas, as Gorky the trained bear in Theatre Three’s production of “The Cave Dwellers.” He attended the University of Texas for a year, but moved to New York after his acceptance to The Juilliard School. Edwards became a founding member of an
Actor Edward Edwards worked 30 to 40 hours a week for Ralph Cannon of Cannon’s Dime Store and frequently at the bakery next door, Schindler’s, which Cannon also owned and operated.
off-Broadway theater company, The Colonnades Theatre Lab, and then performed in two Broadway shows: “Streamers,” directed by Mike Nichols, and “The Nerd,” directed by Charles Nelson Reilly, in which Edwards played the title character.
Now a longtime California resident, Edwards holds a directing resume full of accolades from the LA press and four decades of acting experience. Edwards has been
seen in commercials, and his film appearances include “Robo Cop” (1987) and “Last Vegas” (2013). His extensive television work includes roles in “CSI,” “CSI Miami,” “Boston Legal,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” The Wonder Years,” “JAG,” “Chicago Hope” and “Family Ties.” He played the role of Oliver North in the 2000 TV movie “Noriega: God’s Favorite.” Edwards received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1981.
Belita Moreno’s most recognized role Benny, the cynical grandmother on the now-syndicated sitcom “George Lopez” (2002-2007) — places her face numerous times daily on channels all over the world. First becoming familiar to television audiences as Lydia Markham, the newspaper advice columnist in the ’80s sitcom “Perfect
Strangers” (1986-1992), Moreno also has a hefty list of silver screen performances that include “Clear and Present Danger,” “Mommie Dearest” (1981), “Swing Shift” (1984), “Men Don’t Leave” (1990) and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (2010). She appeared in the miniseries “Tales of the City” and in a string of sitcoms and dramatic programs such as “The Golden Girls,” “Family Ties,” “Valerie” and “Melrose Place.” The SMU graduate also has appeared on stage, including performances both on and off Broadway.
Moreno has served as an acting coach and advisor on such films as “Jerry Maguire,” “Rush Hour 2,” “Almost Famous,” “Parent Trap” and “The Family Man,” and she has also appeared on Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place.”
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days, this Oak Cliff gal attended T. W. Browne Junior High and Kimball High School (class of ’68) and was a member of both school’s drill teams. At Kimball, Moreno was a member of the drama department, where she says she was “greatly influenced by [her] teacher, Mary Curtis.”
“In fact, she was the one who set up my scholarship audition at SMU,” Moreno adds. “She was an artist and a great motivator as well as a positive role model. I am forever thankful to her.”
Another actor from the Cliff, Tim Choate, graduated from Kimball in ’73, a few years after Moreno. A University of Texas graduate as well, Choate next attended Cornell University before beginning his career on and off Broadway and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., often performing Shakespeare.
Moving to the world of film, Choate was seen in “The Europeans” (1979), “Times Square” (1980), “Jane Austen in Manhattan” (1980), “Ghost Story” (1981), “Def-Con 4” (1984), “Girl in the Cadillac” (1995), “Jefferson in Paris” (1995), “Pearl Harbor” (2001) and the Oscar-winning short “Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall” (1987).
On the small screen, Choate played Zathras on “Babylon 5 and had a recurring role on “Newhart.” He also appeared in several TV movies, a miniseries, and guest-starred on programs including “The Practice,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Frasier,” “Tales from the Dark Side,” “Highway to Heaven,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “Coach.”
“Tim was a huge Errol Flynn fan,” relates Choate’s high school friend Steve Coulter. “This was unusual since Flynn died when Tim was only 4 years old and all Flynn’s movies were oldies to the rest of us. Nevertheless, Tim was infatuated with him. When Tim later became a father, he named his son Flynn.”
In 2004, while riding his motorcycle to a play practice, Choate was struck by a car and killed. His memorial service was at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and he is interred with many other Hollywood celebrities at Forest Lawn, also the resting place of Errol Flynn.
Next month’s installment will be the final leg of the Cliffites in Hollywood tour. See you then.
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Last month, Brooks sparked conversation with her article on Cliffite actors George Robert Phillips “Spanky” McFarland, Wimberley Calvin Goodman and Louise Latham.
Wimberly Goodman was my uncle. In addition to his Zorro role he was in several other Disney movies (‘Toby Tyler’ and ‘Babes In Toyland’) and actually supplied copies of these films, which were shown in the auditorium at Daniel Webster Elementary when I went to school there.
—Jay FreemanWimberley was my dad’s, Jack Jenkins’, best friend. They lived near each other growing up and he hung around with my dad and my uncles, Bill and LeRoy. My sisters and I met him a couple of times, and my parents gave him a reunion party when he came home to have surgery. He was a very nice man. I have a picture of him and my dad and uncles and other kids from their neighborhood when they were kids.
—Jacquie HattonOak Cliff was home to a plethora of celebrities and performers. Feelin’ pretty proud. Thanks again for another great article!
—Mary Newton Maxwell
