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6 PAWNSHOP PRINCESS A legacy of old Deep Ellum 10 PROFILE: STEVE BROOKS He made a living off of Willie Nelson and the Gas Pipe 14 ABE’S COLONY CLUB Larry Weinstein on his epic entertainmentadjacent career 22 WHEN WORK IS PLAYING Three Oak Cliff musicians you should know 28 TRUTH TO POWER The nonprofit with music as a mission

James Little of Aluminati Guitar Co. in North Carolina built this guitar for Gregg Prickett. Read more on page 22. Photo by Kathy Tran.

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uppor ters, fans and fundraisers will dedicate public artwork to Oak Cliff ’s famous blues brothers on what would’ve been Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 67th birthday. The City of Dallas commissioned Spanish artist Casto Solano to design and build the Kiest Park memorial piece, which was installed last year and honors Vaughan, who died in 1990, and his brother, Jimmie. The Vaughan brothers grew up nearby and attended Kimball High School. Neighbors and fans raised about

$75,000 for the piece. The city put in about $74,000, which came from 2006 bond funds. The memorial is at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3. One of the first people to advocate for a public memorial to Stevie Ray Vaughan in Dallas was Oak Cliff native Jeff Castro, who now owns Castro Tree Service. Castro started a motorcycle rally and scholarship fundraiser in memory of Vaughan, starting in the mid1990s. The rallies, which were held at

#1 IN OAK CLIFF the Bronco Bowl for several years, often featured local blues bands and musicians who played with Stevie back in the day. The memorial rides continued for more than a decade, and the musicians’ mother, Martha Vaughan, always attended and matched whatever scholarship funds were raised, Castro says. “I always thought it would be great to have a memorial near where they grew up,” Castro says. “I had a grand idea of a water fountain with their music playing, because I kne w people would come from all over the world to see it.” C a s t r o a l s o s u g ge s t e d changing the name of the stretch of Hampton Road near their childhood home to Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard. He admits he’s a little disappointed with the Solano piece, which looks kind of like fencing and is made from weathering steel, which is meant to rust. “I was hoping there would be more to it than what it is,” he says, but he plans to attend the dedication of a long-awaited memorial. Wa r n o c k s a y s K E R A will air his documentary, When Dallas Rocked, which also inspired efforts for a Vaughan memorial in Dallas, in October. Here is the schedule: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 1, 4 p.m. Oct. 3, 1 a.m. Oct. 4 and 1 a.m. Oct. 10.

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the pawnbroker’s daughter EVELYN GOLDSTEIN GREW UP AT THE END OF AN ERA Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

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Honest Joe’s Pawnshop as it appeared in the 1970s. Photos courtesy of Evelyn Goldstein.

velyn Goldstein stayed up drinking wine and listening to Miles Davis to write her dad’s eloquent obituary for the Jewish Post earlier this year.

She called David Goldstein the last of the Deep

Ellum Jewish pawnbrokers.

“I’m not a writer,” she says. “People have tried to write a book on my family so many times, that I’m like, ‘You know what, I’m going to write this’ ... because dad was everything to me and to a lot of people.” Her great-uncle was Honest Joe, aka Rubin Goldstein, whose pawnshop, with its glorious jumble of hand-painted signs, was a fixture of Deep Ellum for generations. Honest Joe grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and dreamed of owning a pawnshop like the ones lining Delancey Street in the early 20th century. In 1931, he moved to Dallas, where he had relatives in the pawn business, and at age 23 opened Honest Joe’s at 2524 Elm St. Once he was established, his kin started moving here, including brother Rocky Goldstein. That was Evelyn’s grandfather. Rocky’s Pawnshop was at 2018 Elm St. Evelyn’s dad worked there starting in childhood and later co-owned it with his dad. The place was crammed with stuff, an organizer’s nightmare. One of Rocky’s signs read, “Stop dropping cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.” They did business with wise guys and petty criminals, but also musicians, housewives and working stiffs. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be at my dad’s shop,” Evelyn says. She grew up in Garland and graduated from Dallas Academy in Lake Highlands. David Goldstein worked all the time. He never took days off or went on vacation, so Evelyn and her brother, Jordan, have tons of childhood memories from the shop. “There were gangsters in there all the time,” she says. Guys she knew as East Dallas Louie and Johnny Tomato used to pick her up from school. Rocky put her into business around age 10 with gumball and candy machines. She had several in East Dallas, like at laundromats and Garland Road Thrift Store, and those drivers would take her around to collect her profits and refill them. The Goldsteins received national attention for a couple of presidential incidents. Honest Abe helped the FBI with tracing the rifle Lee Har vey Oswald used to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963. The pawnbroker reportedly had ridden in JFK’s motorcade, and he is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report. In 1981, Rocky Goldstein sold a

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.22-caliber handgun to Highland Park’s own John Hinckley Jr., who used it in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Every media outlet in the country wanted to interview him about that. The notoriety he received over it was so intense that they moved Rocky’s from Deep Ellum to East Grand about a year later, Evelyn says. She remembers vividly the time, when she was 7 years old, that the shop on East Grand was held up. “I was put into a back room,” she says. “That kind of stuff was very common then.” David Goldstein, who was a staunch Republican his whole life, moved the shop to Garland Road at Peavy around 1990. He turned it into a police supply store, selling uniforms, holsters and vests to cops, while his dad also ran a small pawnshop inside the store. “Have you ever heard of a pawn shop inside of a police store?” Evelyn says. “You had the police rubbing elbows with the criminals.” The Garland Road store was safer than the two previous locations, she says. Evelyn started working there when she was about 15, mostly helping with inventory. In high school, her friends always wanted to hang out there, even when they could’ve been at the mall or Wet and Wild. The magnetism was in her dad’s stories of old Dallas, and he also gave them candy. David Goldstein, who grew up in Preston Hollow and graduated from Hillcrest High School, practiced painting and music and loved to romance beautiful women. He was married four times, and his final marriage, to Laura Levy, lasted 17 years.

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He was known as a Jewish matchmaker and even introduced one of his ex-wives to the man she would marry and have kids with. In 1986, he started a club with his three best friends, Bernie Schuster, Larry Strauss and Howie Miles, called the Weiss Guys. “Every Thursday night, they would go out — women weren’t invited — and they’d have a dinner,” Evelyn says. The Weiss Guys grew to include about 200 men, and 40 or 50 would often show up to the dinners. “My little brother was working in a restaurant, and he didn’t want to wait on them,” she says. “Separate checks, Diet Cokes, coffees with cream ...” About once a year, they’d have a big party at the Stoneleigh and invite the wives, she says. After her dad died in May, they held the last Weiss Guys dinner. “They invited me and my brother and had us sit at the head of the table,” she says. “Almost all of them came. It was very touching.” Evelyn still has two cousins who worked at Rocky’s back in the day. But so many of David Goldstein’s close friends and family members have died, she says. It’s a shame nobody wrote that book. Life behind the bar

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didn’t set out to be a bartender my whole life,” Evelyn says. She’s lived all over Dallas, completed college courses and worked in several industries. But she always comes back to slinging drinks. She recently started at Al Biernat’s, a restaurant her dad loved. Her first job was OCTOBER 2021

Top: Evelyn Goldstein, near the site of her grandfather’s former pawnshop in Deep Ellum. Above: A 1981 Associated Press photo from Rocky’s, which received death threats after selling a gun to John Hinckley Jr.

working as a bar back for the owners of Desperado’s Mexican Restaurant, who were friends of her dad. But her favorite job of all time was at the Granada Theater. “I was the first bartender they hired,” she says. “I have so much love from that family, it’s unbelievable.” She worked there until 2013, when she had to quit because she was near death before receiving a kidney transplant. “I was working a shift there one night, and it was real busy, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” she says. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.” She went home and then drove herself to an urgent clinic, which rushed her to the hospital because she was minutes from stroking out. At age 28, she was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease. First, she took nine months of chemotherapy, followed by six-and-ahalf years of “grueling” dialysis. By the end, she weighed 70 pounds, and the dialysis, “felt like it was sucking the insides of me out.” She received a kidney transplant Sept. 23, 2014, on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. After that, she returned to work at the Majestic Theater, an easier job with fewer dates, and over the years has worked her way back into the restaurant business. Eater interviewed her last year for their national publication after she contracted COVID-19 at work in a Dallas restaurant. The virus attacked her kidney and put her in intensive care. Working in restaurants during the pandemic has been among the most stressful times of her life, she says. At a previous job, a customer threw a glass at her (and missed) because she told him to put on a mask. Around that time, “things were going on in Israel,” and she received antisemitic harassment from a customer who noticed her Star of David charm. “Everyone was in a bad mood. No one wanted to be there,” she says. “It was a horrible time.” And then her father died. A few days before, he told her he thought she should be working at Al Biernat’s. “He knew,” she says. “He was just a character.”

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iconic figures Steve Brooks was Willie Nelson’s graphic designer

he Lee Park Massacre launched Steve Brooks’ career. Brooks, who grew up in Oak Cliff and now lives in Kessler Park, was still a student at what is now the University of North Texas in April 1970 when he made a poster to commemorate the clash between “hippies” and police at an afternoon concert that resulted in dozens of arrests. His poster caught the attention of Jerry Schultz, the owner

of the Gas Pipe, who hired him to make art and advertising for his business. Not long after, a Dallas ad firm hired him as an art director. “I decided I didn’t need to be a student anymore since they made me an art director,” he says. “But that was shortlived because they went out of business a few months later.” He eventually finished his degree, but not before landing a job as an artist for Concerts West and launching his own

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If that’s the home you’re looking for, you need a real estate agent to match. company, S. Brooks Graphics, in the summer of 1971. Brooks produced hundreds of posters and handbills for concerts at a time when every major rock ’n’ roll outfit had to play Dallas because it was a hub of the vinyl record industry for the whole Southwest. Concerts West, which still exists as part of AEG, closed its Dallas offices a few years later, but by that time, Willie Nelson was requesting Brooks. He’d seen the Lee Park Massacre poster too. Beginning in 1974, Willie Nelson and The Family became Brooks’ biggest client. One of the first jobs he did for Willie’s company Me and Paul Productions was a minimalist poster for the Fourth of July picnic in Dripping Springs, depicting a pair of sneakers with spurs. Brooks designed Willie’s logos, personal stationery, tour passes, IDs, ads, posters and basically anything that said Willie Nelson on it besides an album cover for years. He spent several months in Austin for the filming of Honeysuckle Rose, and he made all the props with Buck Bonham’s name on it for that 1980 movie, including the bus, T-shirts and posters. “Those were some of the best times of my life, working on that movie,” he says. He traveled to Colorado with The Family band around the same time and painted a teepee for Willie. “Willie Nelson was awesome,” Brooks says. “He always paid with cash out of his pocket.” His boss at Me and Paul Productions was Paul English, Willie’s drummer and protector who handled most of the business for some 50 years. English, who lived in Dallas

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for about 40 years when not on the road, died in February 2020. “He was a true gentleman,” Brooks says. “I miss him terribly.” Besides his work for Texas’ quintessential singer, Brooks also made a place for himself in Dallas history with his work in Buddy Magazine and The Iconoclast, two publications founded by Brent Lasalle Stein, aka Stoney Burns. For the early ’70s alternative newspaper The Iconoclast, Brooks drew, “hippie stuff,” he says. “Black and white cartoons. Sometimes advertisements for clients.” Buddy started in 1973, and Burns wound up catching hell from the justice system for his jour-

nalism, but that is another story. He died in 2011. Brooks says Buddy, a publication that’s still around, was a great place to work because it was like working for The Rolling Stone of Texas in the ’70s. “He was a real character,” Brooks says of Burns. “Kind of like a Hunter Thompson, but a lot more tame.” Musicians and music-industry people came through all the time, “and we threw some really great parties,” he says. “It was good times.” Brooks is retired now, but he still does some work for the Gas Pipe, which he says has been one of his best clients over the years. He created the logo and signage and all the advertising you’ve ever seen for it. He has donated some of his work to the UNT libraries, which has a collection under his name. And he supplements his retirement by selling some of his personal stash to serious Willie Nelson collectors. Brooks graduated from Sunset High School in 1967. He and wife Deborah have an adult son, Bryan. Brooks’ dad, LaVere Brooks, was an architect who designed several homes and commercial buildings in our neighborhood. He says he owes his career to the Gas Pipe and Willie Nelson, and he’s grateful to them both. “The two major players in my life as an artist,” he says.

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Dallas Morning News archives offer regular reprting on the Coloy Club’s performance line up.

Abe’s Colony Club in Downtown Dallas. Photo courtesy of the Dallas Public Library.

a r r y We i n s t e i n r e m e m b e r s Ja c k R u b y c o m i n g over to his parents’ house for brunch. “He would teach my brother and I as kids to stand on o u r h e a d s ,” We i n s t e i n s a y s . “ I have memories of being joyful and playful and jolly with Ja c k R u b y. " We i n s t e i n ' s d a d , A b e , w a s friendly with Ruby then, he says, but the relationship later soured. The two nightclub owners were neighbors in Downt o w n D a l l a s . R u b y, w h o i n 1963 would murder JFK assassin Lee Har vey Oswald, ran a strip joint, the Carousel Lounge. And on the other side of a parking lot, across the street from the Adolphus H o t e l , w a s A b e ’s C o l o n y C l u b , which also had strippers but w a s c l a s s i e r.

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“Because it was tableclothed, and there was dancing, an orchestra, an emcee, a vocalist. And then later on, t h e r e w o u l d b e b u r l e s q u e ,” We i n s t e i n s a y s . His dad ran the Colony Club continuously for 35 y e a r s , f r o m 1 9 3 7-1 9 7 2 , w h i c h Abe believed was a Dallas record, and it probably still is. By comparison, the Lizard Lounge, the Deep Ellum club that closed in 2020, made it 28 years. Abe's previous venture was a “ d i m e a d a n c e p l a c e ,” t h e Tr i a n g l e C l u b , w h e r e m e n could pay to dance with ladies who wore evening gowns. But the city shut it down with an ordinance against “vulgar” entertainment. Abe then went i n t o b u s i n e s s w i t h Pa p p y D o l s e n , w h o o n c e o w n e d Pa p p y ’s S h o w l a n d o n We s t C o m m e r c e

but bought him out after six years. His early success with the Colony Club came from booking what he called “Harl e m a c t s ,” p e r f o r m e r s s u c h as Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Lio n e l H a m p t o n . D u r i n g Wo r l d Wa r I I , “ b u s i n e s s w a s s o f a n t a s t i c ,” h e t o l d t h e D a l l a s Morning News when his club w a s c l o s i n g i n 1 9 7 2 . “ We h a d to hire policemen to keep people out, we were so crowde d .” The place became legendary everywhere for its strippers, including Juanita Dale S l u s h e r, w h o A b e i s s a i d t o h a v e n a m e d C a n d y B a r r. T h a t ’s w h e n s h e w a s w o r k i n g f o r h i s b r o t h e r B a r n e y ’s c l u b , Theater Lounge. A b e We i n s t e i n a l s o h a d three sisters. He was born in

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h e r s e l f Je w i s h a f t e r m a r rying Abe and was a memb e r o f Te m p l e E m a n u - E l . She was also a member of the international service organization B’nai B’rith, which named a chapter for h e r.

THE MIGHTY 1190 “Al l I e ver wanted to b e was a disc jocke y,” L ar r y Weins tein say s. S o he went to what is now the Univer sity of Nor th Te xas, wher e he wor ked at the campus radio s tation and got a degr ee in radio, tel e vision and fil m. His dad was fr iends with the owner of radio s tation KLIF, which was the onl y 50,000- watt radio s tation in the United States. KLIF hir ed 19- year - ol d Weins tein to wor k night shif ts on weekends. “I was the y ounges t, idiot disc jocke y, wor k ing midnight to 6 two nights a week ,” he says. When the r egul ar over night DJ was fir ed, Weins tein moved into his sl ot. “I wor ked se ven nights a week , I b e t, for six months,” he says. “ T hat ’s how much I l oved it. I woul dn’ t e ven take a night off b ecause I l oved it, KLIF, the mighty 1190.” T his was ar ound 1974, and owner G or don Mc C l endon got cal l s fr om l is tener s who said the y “didn’ t l ike hear ing a Je w on the radio”, so he asked Weins tein to change his name. Ab e didn’ t l ike that idea and had a tal k with Mc C l endon ab out it, b ut in the end, he did change it to L ar r y Wins ton. KFLIF once had a b il l b oar d that was a sendup of

an ol d Wins ton cigar e tt es ad, “ Wins ton sounds go o d, l ike radio shoul d,” depic t ing a speaker with s m o ke coming out. Af ter a fe w year s i n radio in Dal l as and El Paso , Weins tein went to wo r k at the b ygone Dal l as offic e o f the 20th Centur y Fox Film Cor p. as an assis tant t o t he r egional dir ec tor of pub licity. Back then, Dal l as had fil m pr emier es with b ig s tar s in attendance. He once picked up R ic har d C hamb er l ain at L o ve Fiel d Air por t, and C ham b er l ain, who was s til l in t he cl ose t at the time, tr ied t o pick him up. He al so dr ove Bur t Re y n ol ds for a movie cal l ed W.W. and the Dixie Danc e Ki n gs . But “ the wor s t ” was C y b il Shepher d, he says. He r ememb er s that she h ad 1 3 pieces of l ug gage and tw o l imos — one for her an d o n e for her l ug gage. She w as pr omoting the Pe ter Bo g donavich musical At L o n g Last Love, which tur ne d o ut to b e an epic fl op. Weins tein says he fo r go t some of Cyb il ’s l ug gage. S he compl ained to 20th C en t ur y Fox, and he was fir ed. He got b ack into radio for a whil e, and his tw o o lder b r other s opened a club in Aus tin cal l ed Mother E ar t h, wher e he wor ked a l ittle. Fr om ther e he was hir ed to manage a comedy c lub in Hous ton, the L aff S t o p, wher e he b ooked El l e n Degener es, Bob Sage t, Jen ny Jones and Mar sha War field. “I then got the b e s t j o b e ver in my l ife,” he says. G eneral manager of Mag ic Isl and, a pr ivate m ag ic supper cl ub , which s t ar t ed in Cal ifor nia b ut had a lo -

c at i o n i n Hou s t on for two ye a rs . It ha d s e ve ra l d in in g ro o m s of va r y i n g s iz e s an d ro o m s f or c l os e - u p magic a n d l ar ger t he at e r s . A l ot of b i g s tars h ave b e e n ob s e s s ed w i th magic. We i n s t e i n h os t e d Mu h amm a d A l i , John ny C ars on an d t h e g u y s f r om Z Z Top , in c l udi n g D a lla s ’ own D u s ty Hi l l , w h o b ec a me a frie n d of We i n s t e i n . “ T h e y a l w ay s c a m e in coat a n d t i e ,” h e s ay s of th e rock b a n d. “ T he y wer e s o s we e t.” We i n s t ei n lat er man age d t h e 600 - s eat Imp r ov th e ate r i n C h ic a go, a n d h e move d to Sa nt a Mon i c a t o o p e n an o t h e r Imp r ov. A f t e r s i x mon t hs th e re , We i n s t e i n w a s f ed u p with e go s an d d r u n k s i n th e come dy bu s i n e s s . “ I n e ve r d ra n k , my wh ole l i f e ,” h e s ay s . A f r i e n d w ho w a s a tale n t sc o ut at S t a r S e a r c h got h im a n i n t e r v i e w w i t h a prod u ce r a n d h os t Ed Mc Mah on , an d h e wa s h i r e d t o w a rm u p th e t a p e d s h ow ’s l i ve a ud ie n ce . Fo r t he n e xt fi ve ye ars , h e g i g ge d a s t h e w a r m -u p gu y f o r c la s s i c ' 8 0 s s it-coms : Fu ll Ho u s e , Go l d en G irls , Who’ s th e B os s , an d more t h a n h e c a n n a me. It w a s d ay -t o- d ay work wi t h n o c on t ra c t s, bu t it p a i d we l l . “ I kep t ge tt i n g t h os e jobs n o t b ec a u s e I w a s s o fu n ny b ut b ec a u s e I a l ways le f t wh e n t he s how w a s ove r, an d I ne ve r b ot he r e d any of th e c e l e br i t i es ,” h e s ay s. “I n e v e r b o th e r e d a ny of th e p roduc e rs , b ec a u s e I did n’ t care a b o ut b e i n g on c a me ra. A ll I wa n t e d w a s my $1, 8 00 a n i g h t a n d t h e j oy of d oin g i t .” We i n s t ei n , w ho n ow live s

Opposite page: Larry Weinstein with Ray Charles, who he interviewed for KLIF, and with Muhammad Ali and Carol Channing, in his comedy club days. Above: a portrait of Weinstein in Downtown Dallas.

in Oak C liff, re tur ned to Dal l as in th e e arly ’90s, and he was hir ed as d ire c tor of mar ke ting for Har rah’s Cas in os . T h e n Caesar s Pal ace r ecru ite d h im, and he enter tained h igh -rolle rs on tr ips to L as Vegas for 23 ye ars . Cae s ars laid him off af ter the pan d e mic, and ins tead of r e tir ing, h e we n t to wor k for Wynn Resor ts abou t a ye ar ago, and he is the nation al d ire c to r of casino mar ke tin g. A be We in s tein kept say ing he wan te d to live to the year 2000, an d h e d ie d at age 92 on Jan. 3, 2000. He ’d re tir ed at 62 and trave le d th e world on cr uises with his

gir l fr iend, who he’d me t in elementar y school and r econnec t ed with at 70. Weins tein say s Rub y thr eat ened his dad with a gun the day John F. Kennedy died b ecause Ab e had opened the Col ony C l ub t hat night, and Rub y was offende d. A 7-foot bouncer named Big Tex threw Ruby out, and Weinstein says his dad later regretted opening that night, but he’d thought acting normal was the right thing to do at the time. “He ran such an ethical business,” Weinstein says. “He was always so dedicated to his family and giving us the best education and all that.” OCTOBER 2021

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S M A L L BU T M I G H T Y Micro coffee shop Hola Café goes big on creativity Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

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Opposite page: Everything at Hola Café, including the avocado toast, is made in house or sourced as locally as possible. Above: The coffee shop takes up only 400 square feet.

IN A NEIGHBORHOOD FULL of independent coffee shops, Hola Café stands out because of its beautiful and creative drinks. That plus a moderate price point makes pulling up and dipping in to this 400-square-foot shop appealing. Fitness and lifestyle influencer Jeniffer Ávila opened Hola Café two years ago with her husband, Danny Hinojosa, a contemporary Christian session musician who is the lead guitarist at Shoreline City Church. He also plays for three-time Latin Grammy Award nominee Marco Barrientos, an alumnus of Christ for the Nations Institute in Oak Cliff. Ávila grew up in Honduras and was obsessed with coffee from an early age. She used to pick coffee beans with her grandmother as a child.

Hola Café makes the most of a tiny space. Painted white and full of greenery, there is one table with two chairs, plus a couple of benches, some shelves and a wee milk and sugar station. Decals on the wall bear changing messages of positivity like, “Hola, you look great today!” The shop has great lighting from high ceilings and tall windows, plus friendly but chill baristas. A house coffee costs $2.50. A cappuccino is $4.25, and specialty drinks will run you more like $5.50. The shop serves horchata lattes from rice milk made fresh just across West Davis at Encanto Pops. Their two-year anniversary flavors include horchata, pistachio and café de olla lattes and cold brew limeade.

The strawberry matcha is made with strawberry puree, ice, milk and matcha tea, a heavenly combination of flavors and textures that’s also photogenic as heck. The lavender latte, made with lavender syrup, milk, ice and espresso could put you in a good mood. If coffee’s not in the plan, try a flavored Topo Chico in mojito, passionfruit or strawberry. Everything is made in house or sourced as locally as possible. There are also snacks like avocado toast and almond butter banana toast. Hola Café Hours: 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday 416 N. Tyler St. 972.863.8592 holacafedallas.com

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LAY FOR PAY MEET THESE THREE WORKING MUSICIANS FROM OAK CLIFF Story by RACHEL STONE

Photography by KATHY TRAN

vant-garde jazz came to Gregg Prickett later in life. An Oak Cliff resident since 1998, he grew up in Garland where a gradeschool friend who was from England introduced him to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. By middle school he was playing rock ’n’ roll and classical guitar styles. Prickett, 55, joined the Dallas surf band The Buena Vistas in 1984 and stayed with them for many years. “Back then, you were in one band,” he says. “It was like a marriage or a family.” He started playing upright bass and getting into Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. He played in a band called Mr. Pink, which although it didn’t represent his personal artistic point of view, the band gigged a lot. They often performed at places like Sambuca and Terilli’s, which allowed him to book his own music at those venues. In the Dallas/Denton music scene, he started playing with drummer Earl Harvin, who is from Dallas and now lives in Berlin, and Dallas-based guitar genius Bill Longhorse. In Oak Cliff, he met experimental musicians Aaron and Stefan González and their dad, Dennis, an acclaimed free jazz musician. Prickett used to see these goth or metal kids walking around all the time. The brothers noticed Prickett’s dark lawn ornaments. And one day they struck up a conversation. Prickett started playing with their family band, Yells at Eels. Uncon-

scious Collective is a trio consisting of Prickett and the González brothers. Over the last two decades, he’s always played in multiple bands at a time, but now “one or two is all I can get my head around.” The Monks of Saturnalia is his main project now, although it’s a constant struggle to get band members to rehearsal, especially since there are fewer opportunities for shows nowadays. When musicians play together for many years, “there’s a magic that can happen,” he says. “If you think about Coltrane’s Classic Quartet, they played together every night for years,” he says. “You can’t go down to the 5 Spot or the Vanguard and play every night.” He’s also currently working on jazz standards with vocalist Lily Taylor. That’s a world away from his work in free jazz, an improvisational form that can go any direction but is sewn together by underlying threads of melody or rhythm. “I’m learning all the time,” he says. “If you put a good band together, you’re learning from those people.” Taylor says Prickett’s work in free jazz “is really special.” “It’s designed to be a creative vehicle to take people places,” Prickett says. “My idea is for everyone to go someplace together that can only come from melody having some kind of agreement and then having a discussion phonically.” He performed with free-jazz drummer

Ronald Shannon Jackson about a year before Jackson’s death in 2013. Jackson gave him these words to live by: “If you’re doing your job right, it makes people’s lives better.” Prickett was laid off from his job as an art fabricator recently, when the company he was working for closed, and is looking for work. A song that reminds him of Oak Cliff Albert Ayler’s“Ghosts”(both variations). An unforgettable moment in his music career Playing in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society at The Kessler in 2012. Sadly, this turned out to be his last performance. How his life in music changed since 2019 I have been obliged to pare down or tighten my focus on how many and which projects are possible realistically to develop and pursue. An accomplishment he’s proud of I’d rather say I’m grateful to have made a lot of music with more than my fair share of amazing musicians. How you can support his work Come see our performances! We are doing our best to play shows that are as safe as possible. I have plans to release Monks of Saturnalia’s work within the coming year. I also have vinyl copies of Pleistocene Moon by Unconscious Collective available.

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udie split from Oak Cliff in September and is now staying in a short-term rental in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City. She and her “best friend/life partner/music collaborator” Teddy Georgia Waggy are finishing Sudie’s first full-length album there. They plan to be there for at least two months, but there’s a chance they could stay much longer. The pop R&B singer/songwriter says she has moved around a lot — “I’m a creative nomad now” — but she considers Oak Cliff home. If it’s surprising that this will be Sudie’s first album, that’s because she’s prolific, having released several EPs and many videos in recent years. She’s released seven singles since 2019. Her most recent EP, Better Off Alone, has eight tracks and has already received more than 50,000 plays on Spotify. She says she has written most of the album, which she expects will have 12-15 songs, and recorded a few demos.

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“I’ve got a strategy and a plan for finishing it and when I’d like to release singles next year,” she says. Sudie had planned to go to Mexico before the pandemic hit. Instead she went to stay with her parents in Georgia for a while to work, save money and plan out her album. She has a day-by-day plan for working on the album in Mexico. “I want it to be more of a concept album,” she says. “I’m getting artwork together and getting on a good timeline for finishing it.” Born Sudie Abernathy into a musical family, she started playing music as a child and composed her “first silly song” at age 4. Voice lessons started at age 12, and she’s studied jazz, musicals and opera. As a teenager, her family lived in Dubai, which introduced her to cultures and styles of music she hadn’t known before. “I feel very lucky that I was able to experience that,” she says. Musicians now can’t just play music. They also have to be entertaining on

social media, which is something Sudie is very good at. “I love making little videos,” she says. “I’m obsessed with infomercials and that kind of vibe, so I love putting together silly things like that.” She completed an online course in music production recently, and she wants to do it all — singing, songwriting, production, mixing. But that’s where her relationship with Waggy comes in. “She and I cover each other’s blind spots very well,” she says. “It’s nice because we fit together like puzzle pieces.” On recording at Elmwood Studios I love (producer) Alex Bhore so much. He is so magnificent. He’s one of the few men in music that I would seriously trust my life with him. He’s so supportive, and he knows what he’s talking about. A song that reminds her of Oak Cliff I mean, as blatant as this is, it has to be “Oak Cliff” by Quint Black and Nino. Anytime I go to a party in Dallas, even outside of Oak Cliff, and that song plays, it pops OFF. An unforgettable moment in her music career When I came to Atlanta, and I was out at a party here, someone I didn’t know came up to me and recognized me and told me they loved my music. It was the last place I expected to be recognized for what I do. It was a really cool feeling. How you can support her work Stream my new EP on any and all streaming platforms! Follow me on the socials, and keep an eye out for new music and merch.

Photography by DonJuan Staples.

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y parents made me do it,” Donovan Jones says. Raised in Waxahachie by two Christian music ministers, he was required to play piano starting at age 7. When he was about 15, they let him switch instruments. He joined the high school jazz band as a bass guitar player and found pathways to secular music. “My parents had MTV blocked, but they didn’t have BET blocked, so I would listen to whatever was on there in the ’90s,” he says. The Nickelodeon show All That had musical guests like TLC, Monica and Aaliyah. “I would record those to VHS so I could watch them,” he says. Dallas had a Christian hardcore scene at the time, and he could convince his parents to let him go to those shows, “because they were technically Christians, but it was this really aggressive, heavy music.” Certain elements of religious music remain embedded in his artistry. “The repetitiveness and the strong chord changes, that’s all very much a part of me,” he says. Jones, who lives in Oak Cliff, performs and has recorded two albums as Black Taffy. He’s signed with Los Angeles-based Leaving Records. Heavy Blog Is Heavy described his 2020 album Opal Wand as blending “lo-fi hiphop, classical music, the occult and vaporwave.” “It has a sense of nostalgia,” Jones says. “I’m sampling stuff that’s really old usually, mostly classical music, which was made for like, really rich jaunty people. And then I just kind of take the things I hear hooks in and turn it into hip-hop or bangers.”

Ironically, he’s never worked with a rapper. He does a lot of collaborations with female vocalists such as Dallas’ own Mattie. Before he was Black Taffy, Jones toured and recorded for eight years, from 2008-2016, with the Austin-based band This Will Destroy You. That band played all over the world and at big festivals. They toured in Europe and Iceland many times, and they went to China and Australia twice. He went from working at Urban Outfitters to seeing the world, but Jones says touring can be a grind and is not always fun. “You’re just kind of like a furniture mover,” he says. “You load in, sound check … then play music for an hour, and then you pack up again. It’s a lot of sitting in a van, or driving a van, and dealing with people that you may not want to deal with on a day-to-day basis.” Before This Will Destroy You, Jones was in a Dallas band called My Spacecoaster for two years, which he loved. They played all over Deep Ellum and had a weekly in Fort Worth. He also took music composition and performance classes at Cedar Valley College but dropped out when he found out that a degree would require four semesters of recital classes. Even at the height of This Will Destroy You, Jones says he had to have side hustles and a retail job back home. He receives royalty checks, and when they come, it’s nice, he says. “I can pay some bills, but I’m not sustaining myself on those,” he says. Paying rent requires him to hustle in retail and vintage resale, but that’s not the job. Black Taffy is working night

and day on sounds. An unforgettable moment in his music career The day I got signed to Leaving Records. They were a subsidiary of Stones Throw Records (J Dilla, Madlib, MF Doom) at the time. I was floored. It was a momentous day for my solo artistic endeavors. I was in disbelief. I remember the top of my head was tingling all day, and I would experience waves of nausea. I think that intense feeling lasted about a week. How his life has changed in the past year and a half I’ve played fewer than 10 live shows since April 2020. The two previous years, I was doing full U.S. tours and regional shows, making plans to tour Japan. But to be honest, I’m happy for a little down time. Music is still my primary focus, composition more than anything. An accomplishment he’s proud of I’m proud that I can sustain myself by creating art and having a couple of side hustles. I’m also consistently humbled that such a diverse group of artists and listeners appreciate my sonic palette and want to work with me. What he’s excited about right now I’m currently scoring music for Danielle Georgiou’s new dance/play theater piece “Stronger than Arms.” I’m excited to be working with her again. I think this is our 11th collaboration to date. I’m also pretty excited about this next album I’m in the middle of finishing. How you can support his work Come to shows when they happen, buy music online or in real life.

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W H AT D O E S T H E GROWTH OF A CITY SOUND LIKE? For Dallas,

truth to power MUSIC AS A MEDIUM FOR CHANGE

Story by MARY MARTIN Showcases original album artwork by Dallas artist JEREMY BIGGERS Published originally for Dallas Doing Good.

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it sounds like a triple LP, spinning in Mavs blue, filled to the brim with songs that speak to justice, unity and a new light. Artists who know Dallas-Fort Worth as home, whether rooted or adopted, have joined voices, not only to create music, but to create a wave of change that begins with neighborhood nonprofits. The Truth To Power Project launched a self-titled digital release July 30, and every dollar the project makes — from vinyl, streaming or the Badu World Market branded gear — is being donated to four community organizations in North Texas. Music Forward Foundation, For Oak Cliff, Joppy Momma’s Farm and Young Leaders, Strong City were chosen as the beneficiaries because of their commitment to Black leadership and direct community service. “This album is meant to be a soundtrack for empowerment,” says Jeff “Skin” Wade. Skin is best known for The Ben and Skin Show, now on 97.1 in Dallas, as well as his years as a commentator for the Dallas Mavericks. The Truth To Power Project comes from Eastwood Music Group, a label he started with Luke Sardello, the co-owner of Josey Records. Every artist came to the project as a way to give back and create change. “I don’t see it as a compilation record, I see it as a soundtrack that is automatically unified by artists who care about the same things,” says Skin. “Sometimes there’s a protest song and sometimes there’s a love song and sometimes there’s a philosophical song, and then there are fun

instrumentals and different kinds of sounds, but they’re all rooted in that spirit of wanting to do something creative that makes a difference.” The Truth To Power Project album includes “Like a Ship,” an opening track from two soul singers hailing from Fort Worth: Leon Bridges and Keite Young. The Black Pumas, Sarah Jaffe, Flowerchild and even the Dallas String Quartet contributed music to the project. Local favorite Abraham Alexander rounds out the third LP with a fresh cover of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Maleke O’Ney not only sang background vocals on “Like a Ship,” she also introduced the group to Joppy Momma’s Farm, where she has dedicated time as a volunteer. Originally from Panama City, Florida, she moved to Atlanta as a musician, fell in love with Dallas during a visit several years ago and decided to make North Texas her new home. “Once I moved out here to Dallas I started working on some urban farm projects, and I ended up getting introduced to Kimberly High, who is the farm director out at Paul Quinn College,” says O’Ney. “She told me her vision of what she wanted to do in Joppa, one of the last recognized freedman towns in South Dallas. Joppa is in the middle of a federally declared food desert, and visiting that neighborhood, you can see where the inequities lie.” High shared her vision for a community garden and O’Ney jumped at the opportunity to help with Joppy Mama’s Farm. “I’ve always been a community advocate, and I’m a health and wellness nut,” O’Ney says. “It’s just amazing how things have aligned. To allow Joppy Mama’s farm to be one of the recipients of the funds that the Truth To Power Project brings in is an amazing blessing. I’m just grateful to have played a small part in it and able to give back to the community in a very meaningful way.” Another nonprofit organization benefiting from the Truth To Power Project is For Oak Cliff. Led by Taylor Toynes and Xavier Henderson, For Oak Cliff is focused on four pillars of generational social change: education, advocacy, community building and the arts. The

work is centered in the 75216 ZIP code that For Oak Cliff calls a “superblock,” with programs like GED prep courses, neighborhood park development and the annual back-to-school festival. As For Oak Cliff builds out a new 10acre campus and a building that previously housed the Moorland YMCA, there are plans for a new recording studio to strengthen the voices of young artists in the Oak Cliff neighborhood. “Oak Cliff is the capital of Dallas,” Henderson says, giving credit to a long tradition of arts and innovation. “We love the model of this project because it sets a strong precedent for philanthropy in the city.” Not only have local musicians and producers come together to raise funds for Black-led causes, but quick support from the Dallas Mavericks gave the Truth To Power Project the capital needed to get off the ground. Ivy Awino, also known as DJ Poison Ivy, is known for setting the perfect musical stage at Mavs games and events, but is also now serving as senior manager of corporate social responsibility. When Skin first came to Awino and Gail O’Bannon, who serves as the Dallas Mavericks vice president of diversity and inclusion, with the idea of a creative endeavor combining local musicians and local causes, they immediately saw how the Mavs could step in to help. “We’re a year into our Mavs Take Action Initiative, which is deeply rooted in the pledge to listen, learn, and unite our DFW communities specifically to address racial inequities and disparities, promote social justice and to drive sustainable change,” Awino explains. “Our initial pledge was a minimum $5 million investment over three years, and we’re happy to say we have surpassed that in year one.” The initiative also pledged 10,000 employee volunteer hours, digging deep into a culture of generosity led by Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall. “Over at the Mavs, ACTION is an acronym that stands for advocacy, communication, training, investment, outreach and noise,” Awino says. “The noise category is the bucket where we boldly promote change and encourage others to do the same through leadership and

Oak Cliff is the capital of Dallas. the arts. So, naturally, the Truth To Power Project fits in this bucket by checking all of those boxes.” With an initial donation of $25,000, the Mavs gave the Truth to Power Project a jumpstart on studio and production fees. “I think we are in a very unique space as an organization and the NBA as a league, and anything is possible,” Awino says. “The model for activism and social responsibility isn’t cut and dry anymore. I think it opens up the conversation for anyone with an idea.” That question rings in each song on the Truth To Power album, poetically calling out the systems that have caused division and calling in the community that is bringing change and unity. “This album speaks to the nature of the true diversity of this city,” Awino says. “It tells a story of Dallas in a way that hasn’t been done in the recent past. For the Mavs, the front of our jerseys say Dallas, but how can we really represent all that Dallas is and all the people that live here?” To listen to the Truth To Power Project album, pick up the set of vinyl LPs at Josey Records or stream the release on platforms like Spotifty and Apple Music. Support the project by purchasing merch or making a donation at truthtopowerproject.com.

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By ERIC FOLKERTH

Open wide Re l a t i o n s h i p c h e c k- u ps m a n d a to r y i n pa n d e m i c t i m es

gave a good friend a call the other day, just to check in with him. I expected it to be a relatively pro-forma call. You know … “How are you doing?” “Fine …” Instead, I was surprised at the depth of emotion he shared with me, the breadth of challenges he was struggling to overcome, which I hadn’t seen from the outside. I immediately recalled an internet meme I trust you’ve seen the past few years: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Or as St. Paul says it in 1 Corinthians: “Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them?” Externally, what we see of others’ lives is often just a tough exterior that they “front” for the world. The tip of the iceberg, as it were. Meanwhile, for almost all human beings, the challenges we face are hidden from view. We look at the perfectly curated Instagram feeds, the happy Facebook posts of our neighbors and friends, and we think, “My life is not that perfect.” And that is absolutely true. But — and this is the part we often miss, over and over again — their lives aren’t that perfect either The separation forced upon us by the pandemic is making all of this worse, of course. Instead of social gatherings, many folks I know are still limited to their family interactions. For parents, it’s enough to just get their kids in school every day. My mind keeps going back to all those who are working overtime to make our world a better place. I’m praying for teachers in classrooms. I’m praying for healthcare workers in hospitals. We throw out the term “hero” to describe them, often without realizing the real trau-

mas they are enduring during this time. A doctor in our congregation recently told me about the hospital where he works in East Texas. The hospital is so full with ICU patients that they’ve set up a tent on the roof to help serve other patients. But what floored him was how little attention the situation received in local media there. His colleagues were working extended shifts and overtime hours, while just down the street at the mall, the school, the neighborhood, life was going on like absolutely nothing at all was happening. That’s why many of us in Oak Cliff continue to support the hospital in our neighborhood, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, in this time. As you may have heard, our church has been collecting handwritten cards of support for doctors, nurses and all the support staff there. We continue to hear that our local health care workers are truly moved and uplifted by these cards. Anyone is welcome to bring letters by the church to add to our weekly number of cards or deliver them yourself. Or consider writing to a local teacher to check up on them. And, of course, call your own friends, too. No one knows the depths of another person’s spirit, but their own spirit and the Spirit of God. And right now, everyone is fighting battles that are hard to see. So, please, be kind to everyone. Be sure and check in with folks around you. You may be surprised just how grateful they are that you did.

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he Dallas music scene lost a rising star when Chadwick Murray died on Sept. 1. Murray, 45, was the front man of Bastards of Soul, which released its first album, Spinnin’, in February 2020. Murray had been around the Dallas music scene for decades, playing in bands like Mur, Sister and Whiskey Jar, but he was just beginning to receive his flowers as a soul vocalist. Bastards of Soul played to sold-out crowds at the Ridglea Theater in February and July. Some of

their first big shows were in Oak Cliff. “The Kessler was really a home for them,” the theater’s artistic director, Jeff Liles, says. Murray died of a rare respiratory illness and had a 1-week-old infant at the time of his death. Bandmate Chad Stockslager told the Dallas Morning News that Murray had recorded all the vocals for a second album, which the band plans to finish and release. “It’s some of the best singing he ever did,” Stocklager said. —RACHEL STONE OCTOBER 2021

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