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CONTENTS DECEMBER 2019 VOL.13 NO.12
UP FRONT 6 Click Worthy Car hops, iced cacao and more 10 Interview William McKenzie 16 Food Get fired up for Salaryman
FEATURES 18 Holiday gift guide 22 Spotlight The Mayor’s House brings fresh perspective to old Oak Cliff
TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO
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The Kessler celebrates Austin-based artist and musician Daniel Johnston, who died in September at age 58, with Homage Nation: The Daniel Johnston Songbook. Friends, fans and disciples will perform Johnston’s lo-fi classics. The lineup: Kathy McCarty, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Tim DeLaughter of The Polyphonic Spree, John Dufilho of The Deathray Davies, The Sutcliffes, Paul Slavens and Jacob Metcalf. Where: The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis St. More info: Thekessler.org Tickets: $22
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The Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association’s annual home tour raises money for sidewalks, crime prevention, neighborhood beautification, events and local nonprofits. Enjoy the architecture and peep decorating ideas. The tour, from noon6 p.m., has six houses, plus a seventh with refreshments for VIP ticketholders only.
Everything is Terrible! That’s not just a generally true statement, it’s the name of a video and performance collective whose work is apocalyptic and surreal yet still hilarious. Expect videos, costumes, puppets, performances and an insane worldview.
senior art director: Jynnette Neal
Where: Turner House, 401 N. Rosemont Ave.
Jefferson Blvd.
More info: Winnetkaheights.org
More info: Thetexastheatre.org
Tickets: $18-$35
Tickets: $13
Dec. 21
Dec. 29
Celebrate a rotation of Earth and the return of longer days during this annual winter solstice celebration that includes music, storytelling, earth loom weaving, drumming and dancing. This free outdoor event is from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Appreciate the “Circle of Life” with Dallas-based trio The Grays, a band composed of siblings Kierra, KJ and Kwinton Gray, who perform a full set of of Disney hits from the ’90s. The show starts at 7 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of
Where: The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis St.
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Where: The Texas Theatre, 231 W.
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ABOUT THE COVER Photo by Danny Fulgencio. “Piece 24,” a mosaic sculpture near the Oak Clif f Cultural Center on Jef ferson Boulevard, is a work created in 2016 by local high school students under the guidance of ar tist Karen Blessen and funded in par t by real estate investor Craig Schenkel. FOLLOW US:
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COMING AND GOING
PIECE OF THE PAST SIVIL’S CARHOPS
That uniform, though. Before there were Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders or Hooter’s girls, there were Sivil’s carhops. J.D. and Louise Sivils opened their first restaurant in Dallas in 1940, a drive-in selling hamburgers, fried chicken, steaks, barbecue, beer and soda. It was open 24 hours a day. The restaurant, which was on Fort Worth Avenue near where it meets West Davis, employed as many as 150 “curb girls” at its restaurants through the ’40s and ’50s. They were even featured in Life magazine. Sivils closed in 1967, a decade after Oak Cliff went dry.
[+] CBD IN YOUR TEA
The tea company that supplies high tea at the Adolphus relocated its headquarters and tasting room to Tyler Station about a year ago. ZAKTI owners Pamela Miller and Janeil Engelstad import loose-leaf tea from small farms around the world. They recently began manufacturing bottled tea infused with CBD. The chilled tea is infused after it’s brewed with water-dispersible CBD from a supplier in Colorado. They come in six varieties, including three that are caffeine free, and they cost $8 and $12 each for 12-ounce and 16-ounce bottles.
[+] NOT COFFEE. NOT TEA. CACAO.
Could Oak Cliff startup KOKOMI Iced Cacao disrupt the beverage industry? Fritz Stoltzenbach created Kokomi, which is made like coffee but with roasted cacao beans. Stoltzenbach says the cold drink tastes good and makes people feel good because of the cacao, which is used to make chocolate. The company started selling pre-orders on Kickstarter in October.
[+] A NEW COFFEE SHOP LA REUNION, opened in the Bishop Arts District recently. Owner Mike Mettendorf calls it a “neighborhood parlor,” designed for people to gather and socialize as much as to sip a perfect espresso drink from its Modbar AV, which Eater calls “the holy grail of espresso machines.” They also have French toast flights and housemade bacon. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner and open 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday.
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BY THE NUMBERS
GO RIDE A BIKE
WHAT OAK CLIFF SPENDS ON TRAVEL EVERY YEAR
Dec. 1 - Monthly gravel ride
Dec. 28 - Shredding for Ray
Join Local Hub (whose owner lives in Oak Cliff) for the shop’s monthly spin on the Trinity River levees. This is a no-drop ride, but it’s not a social ride. Gravel, cross, or mountain bikes with big tires are necessary. The shop also has bikes for rent. The ride leaves at 9 a.m. from Local Hub, 2633 Main St.
Black Cat Bicycle Club leads a memorial ride for Ray Porter, the badass mountain biker from Oak Cliff who died of cancer in December 2013. The ride starts at Boulder Park, 2300 Red Bird Lane, at 9 a.m. After that, the group will do a lap at Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, 2875 Pierce St., followed by another lap at Boulder. Pro tip: You don’t have to do all three, although Ray could’ve done it one-handed with the flu.
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Have fun and stay fit through the holidays with one of these three group rides.
Dec. 21 - Christmas lights ride This one is for the lollygaggers. Deck your bike with lights and tinsel for Red Star Bicycle Shop’s holiday ride. The group will take a slow pace, starting and ending at the shop, just on the opposite bank of the Trinity River, at 155 Parkhouse St. The ride is family friendly and will cover about 10 miles. It starts at 6 p.m. and is followed by the shop’s fifthannual Christmas party.
$800,000 VEHICLE RENTAL
$789,000 LAUNDRY SERVICE AND DRY CLEANING
$271,000 LUGGAGE
Source: U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics based on ZIP codes 75208, 75211, and 75224. Numbers are derived from 2010 U.S. Census data with projections to be accurate as of Jan. 1, 2017.
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WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ROYAL BLUE GROCERY. City Council is expected to vote Dec. 11 on whether
to give Royal Blue Grocery $700,000 in subsidies to open a store at 634 W. Davis, the building that previously housed Bolsa Mercado. The boutique grocer, started in Austin in 2006, has 10 stores including three others in Dallas. The city’s investment — a $350,000 grant in the form of reimbursements for work on the building and a $350,000 loan at 3% over 60 months — would pay to re-equip a 1,300-square-foot kitchen, create an outdoor dining patio and purchase and install grocery refrigeration aisles. The kitchen would service the Oak Cliff store as well as make prepared foods for its other Dallas locations. The company promises about 30 employees with a minimum hourly wage of $13, plus shared tips predicted at $2-$4 an hour per employee.
THE WORD Check out what our Facebook readers had to say about Royal Blue Grocery subsidies.
TOP STORIES “We do need this, and I can’t wait for it to open!” —Annie Von Lanken “I don’t think anyone wanted Bolsa Mercado to leave. Can we get the City to give them the money instead and bring it back?” —Evan Palmer “If the city can figure out how to usher in a restaurant/food manufacturer-packer/restaurant, they can figure out how to give incentives to existing groceries to do better. The City could figure out how to draw new, reasonably priced stores that offer quality foods.”
— Nikki Benson “Visit the location in Highland Park Village and decide.”
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n Adamson High School apologizes after inviting Border Patrol to job fair n The F3 tornado that hit Oak Cliff in 1957 n Watch the goodbye video from Jed’s Grill, which closed after four years n The Last Stand now serving burgers, tacos and beers in Bishop Arts n This modest 1930s church won an architecture award
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UP FRONT
A W RI T E R’S L IF E Interview by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO
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he editorial director of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, William McKenzie has lived in Kessler Park for 20 years with his wife, Jennifer Nagorka, a freelance writer and volunteer at Bishop Dunne Catholic School. They have two children. McKenzie, who served on the Dallas Morning News editorial board for more than 20 years, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2010, along with his colleagues Tod Robberson and Colleen McCain Nelson. What was your first job out of college, and how did you become a writer? I was a banker, and I quit after two months. I hated it. I became a writer thanks to great professors in graduate school who helped me envision a writing career. I had written books to my grandparents as a child, mostly about sports. And, perversely, I loved writing term papers in college and seeing if I could fill out a blue book in three hours in exams. But I never associated those moments with a love of writing until my mid-twenties. After graduate school, I stumbled into editing a small political journal in Washington, and that allowed me the chance to practice, practice, practice.
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You worked at the Dallas Morning News for 22 years. What do you miss about it? The colleagues. We formed strong bonds. And being on the paper’s editorial page all that time was like being part of an ongoing tutorial focusing on issues that affect Dallas, Texas, the U.S., and the world. I loved that. What do you not miss? The constant deadlines! How did you wind up at the Bush Center? I was interested in a third – and I hope not final – chapter, so I came to the Bush Institute as editorial director. I also wanted to end up on a college campus, so this was perfect. I teach journalism as an adjunct lecturer at SMU and enjoy interacting with students.
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“Our democracy depends upon us forming bonds that strengthen our communities.” How do you describe The Catalyst, the journal of the Bush library? We are a journal of ideas whose mission is to apply the principles of compassionate conservatism to contemporary problems. What are some of your favorite stories or interviews? One was with President Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Little Rock’s famous Central High School shortly before a massive storm forced us all to evacuate into a basement. That was different, maybe my favorite – and most memorable – interview of all time. Interviewing Sir Bob Geldof, the rock star, on Africa’s potential was another highlight. He is smart as a whip and a great conversationalist. I also vividly recall the sadness in the voice of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks when I was interviewing him on the phone from London and had to tell him about yet another mass shooting that had occurred in the U.S. that morning. I love interviewing people, hearing how their minds work, so it is hard to choose among them. Why should we be reading this publication? We try to apply the values that George W. Bush articulated as both governor and president, so I hope people will be interested in hearing how they apply to contemporary challenges.
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The paintings “My Charge to Keep,” 2017, above, and “Homeland Security,” 2015, opposite page, by President George W. Bush that are in the Bush center.
What else do you want our readers to know about the Bush Center and its resources? Along with the above, we are a “dotank” that seeks to engage communities here and abroad by developing leaders, advancing policy and taking action. That is our mission. Do you ever feel like a token Republican in Oak Cliff? I have never thought about that. I don’t consider myself terribly partisan in a tribal sense. I am more guided by values than tribe.
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Do you have any advice for those who are spending time with Trump-supporting relatives this holiday season? Be tolerant of each other whether they are Trump supporters or Warren supporters or whatever supporters. We can’t just hang out with people who share our views of the world. Our democracy depends upon us forming bonds that strengthen our communities. That’s not just a talking point. I really believe that, so may we all listen to “the other” during the season. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. december 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com
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Attorney Lauren Cadilac won a contract with the City of Dallas to help untangle residential real estate ownership. BETTER KNOW A NEIGHBOR
REAL ESTATE AFTER DEATH THE ATTORNEY HELPING THE CITY CLEAR UP CLOUDY TITLES OAK CLIFF-BASED ATTORNEY LAUREN CADILAC earned her real estate license at 19, becoming one of the youngest agents in her home state, Arizona. She later earned a law degree as a single mom, and her small law firm, Cadilac Law LLC, recently won a contract with the City of Dallas to help residents clear up cloudy home ownership. Cadilac handles all kinds of real estate law, from contractor disputes to estate planning. Most problems with residential real estate occur when someone dies, she says. Much of her practice deals with families that need to clarify ownership of real estate, sometimes years, decades or generations after the original homeowner dies. Sometimes when one parent dies, everyone assumes that ownership of property automatically transfers to the other spouse. “It doesn’t automatically do anything,” Cadilac says. “That’s not how it works.” Cloudy titles have led to dilapidated houses being torn down in the Tenth
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Street Historic District because of code violations, and it affects the city’s stock of affordable housing. Tangled titles can cause families to lose their properties, or at the very least, cause a lot of stress and legal fees. It can be difficult to untangle even in cases when there is a will. The city realized, through a program that helps seniors with home repairs, that a lot of low-income seniors don’t own their informally inherited homes. So many that it’s epidemic, Cadilac says. In October, City Council approved a $200,000 pilot program where low-income residents of southern Dallas can apply for legal aid to clear up their home titles. Cadilac says she has no idea how many cloudy titles there are in Dallas, and neither does the city. A search for “estate of” in the Dallas Central Appraisal District database comes up with more than 30,000 hits. “A big piece of this is collecting the data so they can find out how big the problem is,” she says. “I’m excited about that because I’ve been wondering all along how big the problem is. A lot of large cities have this problem.” She estimates that she’s handled about 1,000 cases of unclear title. The vast majority of her clients are African American Baby Boomers in Oak Cliff who live in houses informally passed down from their parents or grandparents. Cadilac began building her law practice on property tax protests in 2014, after she protested the valuation of her own house in Ravinia Heights. A year out of law school, Cadilac went into the hearing with Law & Order swag. She’d bought the house for $180,000, and she was able to argue her valuation down to $156,000, about $4,000 less than the previous owner’s valuation. “I was really proud of myself. I was just brushing my shoulders off,” she says. “And, in fact, the board, the three guys, they were like, ‘you’re really good at this.’ ” She started telling people at networking mixers, “by the way, I also do property tax protests.” During the following protest period, she made several thousand dollars on the side of her full-time job all from that word-of-mouth. She’d hit on
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something she enjoys doing that also fills a gap in the market, and she went into solo practice, starting out of her house. Cadilac Law recently moved from an office in Elmwood to a high-rise building on Hampton Road at U.S. 67. “Before I was doing real estate law on this side of the bridge in 2016, there was no one else,” she says. “I’m the only one. So I saw that need.” Even for those with assets as few as one house and one car, dying without a will can leave a huge mess for those left behind, she says. “I’d rather do your estate plan now while you’re alive then have to do it on the back end,” she says. “It’s going to cost your family a lot more.” The pilot program Cadilac Law is taking on, with help from city staff, serves Oak Cliff, East Dallas, Pleasant Grove and West Dallas. Besides clearing up titles, they’ll offer some estate planning as well as free public seminars to help families secure their estates. The seminars are expected to start in January, and Cadilac says they plan to do them at least one a month at churches and community centers in their target neighborhoods.
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FOOD
YAKITORI STORY ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AT SALARYMAN
Chicken skin yakitori cooking over the charcoal grill at Salaryman.
CHEF JUSTIN HOLT gained a following in Oak Cliff and elsewhere with his ramen pop-ups around town, starting in about 2012. Holt already was working at five-star restaurant Lucia by then, making charcuterie and handmade pastas by night and serving up scrumptious ramen by later night. Holt quietly opened his own restaurant in Bishop Arts, Salaryman, in September, with partners Jennifer and David Uygur, who own Luica and Macellaio. Salaryman is a tiny Japanese pub that offers ramen, yakitori and Japanese whisky in varying flavor profiles and price points. It’s also one of
Salaryman 287 N. Bishop Ave. Hours: 6-10:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 6 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday salarymanoakcliff.com
the few places in Dallas that serves shochu, a distilled beverage with lower alcohol content than other liquors. Salaryman uses it to make cocktails that won’t get you hammered. Order yakitori by the cut of chicken — tender, breast, skin, etc. — for $3-$5 per plate. Holt says heart ventricle and knee cartilage have been harder sells, but they’re crunchy and delicious. When they try it, “people really like it,” he says. Don’t forget to order some pickles to cut the fat and spice of the chicken. There are several varieties on the menu.
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A bowl of ramen at Salaryman, where plates and bowls were handmade by Oak Cliff-based artisans.
Salaryman typically offers two ramen choices every night, with chicken or pork broth. There’s also the $36 “steak Hamburg,” an American take on a Japanese version of American food. It’s Salisbury steak made with wagyu beef, chanterelle mushrooms and truffles. The restaurant doesn’t take reservations. It’s first-come, firstserved, and Holt says they’ve found that diners are patient. The wait gives them an excuse to wander around Bishop Arts, he says. It’s artful food, and there’s even art in the serving dishes at Salaryman. Oak Cliff-based ceramicist Your House or Mine made the plates and stick holders. Oak Cliff artist James Olney made all the ramen bowls and shochu cups. Holt and friends made all the wooden plates. “The textures and colors really bring everything together,” he says.
DID YOU KNOW? Salaryman wants more late-night business. The owners plan to stay open later on weeknights as business demands.
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Have yourself a local little holiday WE SCOURED THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO FIND MEANINGFUL GIFTS FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO
People who live in Oak Cliff love to complain about the Bishop Arts District. It causes traffic. There’s not enough parking. And everyone’s favorite: Where is the art in the Bishop Arts District? Just like Christmas, in the most hate-able movie of the season, “Love, Actually,” it’s “all around.” Here are a few picks for locally made gifts from independent merchants in our neighborhood.
All handmade all the time Longtime Bishop Arts merchant Julie McCullough opened her Harkensback boutique in part to showcase her own fashion line, McCullough. But many other things in the store are also made in the store. McCullough employs craftsmen and women who make leather goods such as this small cowhide hip bag ($168) and these card holder wallets ($28). They use fabric scraps from the fashion line to make scrunchies ($6). Harkensback 401 N. Bishop Ave., harkensback.com
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For the coffee lovers Two Marine Corps captains, one of whom is a firefighter, and two Air Force captains joined forces to roast coffee beans, and Fire Grounds Coffee Co. was born. The company roasts and sells its beans at Tyler Station and online. For every five bags of coffee they sell, one is donated to a first responder. Fire Grounds Coffee Co. 1300 S. Polk St. firegroundscoffeecompany.com
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Pick up a last-minute gift Davis Street Mercantile opened about two years ago, and the detour from road construction on West Davis actually did them some favors, catching the attention of rerouted drivers. This enormous store, the venture of longtime building owners Kristin and Daniel McDonald, features everything from area rugs to bottles of hard-tofind soda. It’s full of North Texas-made products including T-Rex Pickles, Suckle Busters rubs and sauces and brittles from Tillie’s Old Fashioned Candies. The mercantile also offers gift-wrapping. Davis Street Mercantile 710 W. Davis St., davisstreetmercantile.com
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Neighborhood store carries unique cards and limited-edition posters and artwork from local artists, along with furniture, home goods, leather wallets and jewelry. Deep Ellum-based BREDA Studio designs these chic but affordable watches, $100-$150. The shop also carries affordable jewelry from Valerie Morgan Designs. A necklace with turquoise beads costs $50. Gold and silver banner necklaces with Southwestern themes cost $100-$200. Neighborhood 411 N. Bishop Ave. neighborhood-store.com
Stocking stuffers The triangular intersection of Tyler at Seventh recently added fine jeweler Mod + Jo and coffee shop Hola Café, plus a party planner and an aesthetician. Beatnik Fine Goods, with its large blackand-white mural, opened there two years ago, carrying a mix of less expensive clothing and accessories and luxurious items, such as original art and handmade goods. Owner Lindsey Munchrath has an Oak Cliff retail legacy as part of the family that owns Ann’s Health Food Center & Market. These geode-style bath bombs ($12) are made in Austin, by the family-owned Latika Body Essentials. To find lush bath goodies made right here in Oak Cliff, head to Pink Pedi, where the salon is chemical free, and the signature products include handmade sugar scrubs, bath bombs and body butters. Beatnik Fine Goods 837 W. Seventh St. beatnikfinegoods.com Pink Pedi Salon 1888 Sylvan Ave. pinkpedisalon.com
How to make friends at the holidays You’ll be the star of the party with a 40-cookie tree-shaped tower of macarons ($95), or a festive box of six ($13.50) from Joy Macarons. Oak Cliffer Liz Lanier started selling her cookies at farmers markets in 2014 and opened her shop on West Davis at Tyler about a year later. The company since has added locations on Lower Greenville and in Fort Worth. Joy Macarons, 839 W. Davis St., joymacarons.com
Perfect for party hosts What does Bishop Arts smell like? Burn this soy candle ($30) from White Rock Soap Gallery to find out. A father/ son duo started the company out of their house in 2014, with a book about soap making and supplies from their neighborhood hardware store. They opened a brick-and-mortar shop in Lake Highlands in November 2015 and expanded to Bishop Arts a couple of years ago. Any Oak Cliff candle story would be incomplete without Society, the high-end candle shop in Bishop Arts. Their White Rock Soap Gallery Texas collection 410 N. Bishop Ave. features candles whiterocksoapgallery.com named after Oak Society Cliff, Dallas and 403 N. Bishop Ave. other Texas cities. shopatsociety.com
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SPOTLIGHT STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
H I S TO R I CA L D R A M A The historic Mayor’s House begins its next act
Story by RACHEL STONE | Photograpy by DANNY FULGENCIO
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Husband-and-wife business partners A.J. Gilbert and Martha Madison plan to open their restaurant, The Mayor’s House, as soon as the end of the year.
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he two-story white house on Zang Boulevard is dripping with Dallas history. Built in 1910, the house was the residence of Dallas Mayor George Sergeant, who was known as the “Centennial Mayor” because he served in 1935 and 1936, the year Dallas was in the national spotlight as celebration central for the 100th anniversary of Texas statehood. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt are said to have sipped lemonade on the front porch when they visited the centennial as Sergeant’s guests. Sergeant lived in the house until he died in 1971, and it was vacant for years before Bishop Arts developer Jim Lake Cos. bought it in 2011. december 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com
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Madison and Gilbert say their 6-year-old daughter, Charley, is a chip off the old block. Her mom is a soap star who has portrayed Belle Black on “Days of Our Lives” for 15 years.
The house was a big ol’ mansion in its day, and now it’s in the shadow of hulking adjacent apartment buildings, a shining piece of old Oak Cliff, smack dab in the heart of the new. Jim Lake Jr., whose family company began redeveloping Bishop Arts in the 1980s, calls it “the crown jewel of Bishop Arts.” Now the house is getting a dramatic new act as a restaurant and bar, The Mayor’s House. Experienced restaurateurs, husband-and-wife partners A.J. Gilbert and Martha Madison, are expected to
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open The Mayor’s House as soon as this month. “Finding something with this kind of historical value is really rare and really special,” Madison says. Sitting near the second-story windows, there is a view of the Downtown skyline. The Oak Cliff streetcar whirrs by and dings as it pulls into Bishop Arts Station. “I fell in love with this site,” Gilbert says. Gilbert and Madison met while working in the restaurant business to-
gether in Los Angeles. They owned and operated six Luna Park restaurants in San Francisco, L.A. and New York. They’re front-of-the-house stock: Gilbert started in the business as a busboy, and Madison started as a cocktail waitress. Madison, an actress who is originally from Houston, started in the restaurant business while trying to make it on Broadway. After several years of trying, she realized she just didn’t have the singing chops, and she headed to the opposite coast, where she was cast as a
series regular on “Days of Our Lives.” That’s right, Martha Madison is Belle Black, the daughter of Marlena (Deidre Hall) and John Black. Her character was one half of a soap super couple with Shawn Brady, the son of ’80s soap power couple Bo and Hope. She wound up marrying Victor Kiriakis’ son, Phillip, because of so many misunderstandings. Then she had a baby that she assumed was Phillip’s but was really Shawn’s, conceived while they both were in a hypothermic coma. Anyway, Madison took over the role in 2004 and is the reigning Belle Black. Unfortunately, the show was put on indefinite hiatus in November and might be headed for cancellation. Madison loves working on the show, and especially, with Hall. “She really is like a second mother to me,” Madison says. Soap operas only shoot about 20
months out of the year, and the cost of living in California is so high that many soap actors have their residence elsewhere. Madison and Gilbert came to North Texas because her sister lives in Frisco, and they wanted to find better schools for their daughter, 6-year-old Charley. Compared to operating restaurants in California, they say, everything seems so much easier here. “It’s an incredibly difficult business,” Gilbert says. “This has been an easy project for us because the landlord is doing a lot of the work, and we don’t have the financial pressure that a lot of restaurants get into early on, when construction is delayed and things like that.” Lake added an outdoor dining patio to the northern side of the building. But all the historical details, including a grand staircase and built-in bookcases, are still there. The décor is what you
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might expect in any tastefully renovated historic house. Patterned wallpaper and bold paint colors that make the original refinished molding pop, a mix of wood tables and modern chairs. The restaurant’s chef hadn’t been announced as of The Advocate’s press deadline. “We just want it to be fun, easy but delicious and really extraordinary food and make some kind of statement about what Dallas is now,” Gilbert says. One of their Los Angeles restaurants was near the Museum District, and there could be a guy in a tux for a charity event sitting next to a guy who rode his skateboard there, Gilbert says. They’re aiming for that same level of approachability for the Mayor’s House. “That’s the trick is to make it feel accessible but also feel special,” Gilbert says.
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“We hold them accountable for their grades as well as making it to practice and games,” Edwards states. Relieving them of responsibility for team laundry takes some of the pressure off. ARTURO SALAZAR ELEMENTARY teacher Marie Sepulveda started the school year off with a new drone club, where students in third through fifth grades can learn to safely use, fly and care for drones. “This experience will give the students a step up in the global competitiveness that is coming with the
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worldwide use of drones,” Sepulveda states. She says it gives them a skill used for jobs in delivery, the film industry, disaster management and the military. They want five mini drones and a couple of chairs. “Flying to the Future: Drones” has about $300 to go. MUSIC STUDENTS AT CLINTON P. RUSSELL ELEMENTARY need headphones so they can more effectively learn the piano and other instruments. Music teacher Francis Zalace still needs $244 to purchase 25 sets of Behringer HPM 1000 headphones.
WORSHIP
By SCOTT SHIRLEY
No priority seating Christians come to the table at the same level
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ifty-three percent of people use the word “foodie” to describe themselves. If I didn’t hate the term so much, I would probably cop to that myself. I like to eat, and I like to cook, but we have somehow turned food into a competition. Even if not for the jillion literal cooking competitions, there is a competition for that Instagrammable life, of which food is so often the sign. What if we remembered that food is good? We seem to know that food tastes good, but most prayers before meals include some version of “bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies and our spirits.” There is more to food than just the eating. Community and family are built around the table. Food is where we share our lives in stories. In the Christian tradition, communion is a meal that tells a particular story, a story that remembers the death of a particular person: Jesus. Unfortunately, we have lost touch with so much of that story. Even the ritual itself is a specter of what it once was. The original Christian worship was based on the Roman banquet, which was held at least once a week and on special occasions. The meals of wealthy Romans were more elaborate, but everyone had them. The banquet consisted of a supper followed by a symposium, basically dessert and entertainment that could be anything from a lecture to an orgy. Between the supper and symposium was a libation, a toast to the gods, the host and the entertainment. They blessed the wine and passed it around. Christians did this, not because they were unique, but because it was what everyone did. The innovation that Christians made was in the guest list and the seating assignments. A Roman banquet reproduced all the power structures of the Empire. You wanted A-list guests and when they arrived, they were seated in order of importance. At the Christian meal, there were no A-listers and no priority of seating. Christians were suspect, in part, because in the simple reformulation of a meal they undermined everything the Empire stood for. Because of the way it is related in Scrip-
ture, we seem to imagine that the “Last Supper” was the only supper, like it just happened once that they gathered in this way to share a meal and be taught by Jesus. But it happened all the time. The teaching illuminated the meal practice. Taken as a whole, it was sacred. Sacred time is a time of transformation. It is a space in which everyone is vulnerable to one another, to hearing one another’s stories and allowing ourselves to be changed. When Jesus asks us to “do this in remembrance of me,” he doesn’t just mean the bread and wine or the death it represents. He means for us to create a space in which all are equal and all are equally changed so that we can go out into the world and do the same.
“Community and family are built around the table. Food is where we share our lives in stories.”
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Since the election that revealed and exacerbated our divide, it has been difficult to find sacred space at the table. Holiday meals are now places of avoidance and, failing that, bitter dispute. We size up who can be trusted with our stories. Our ability to create new stories, shared stories, is truncated. That only widens the divide. Perhaps this holiday season we can try to recover the sacredness of the table. Jesus would eat with anyone but never relinquished his commitment to justice. He never failed to model and teach equity and vulnerability. He listened to people’s stories so that he could transform them, so that they could write a new story together, a story of love and justice. That would be a meal to celebrate.
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BACK STORY
By RACHEL STONE
My Maria The golden voice that gave us a country classic
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t’s the summer of 1976, and Eliot turns up the car radio. “This is a great song,” he tells Vivian, who’s skeptical, in the passenger seat. The song plays, and even though it’s an old worn out one, you listen. And you realize. This is a great song. That’s a scene in the 1998 movie “The Slums of Beverly Hills,” and the song is Three Dog Night’s recording of “Shambala.” The Los Angeles-based rock band released “Shambala” in May 1973, and it was on the top 40 for that entire summer. For Oak Cliff native B.W. Stevenson, that was a problem. He’d released a recording of “Shambala,” written by his friend Daniel Moore, a week before Three Dog Night hit the charts with it. Stevenson, a folk/country artist who graduated from Adamson High School, moved to California in pursuit of a career in music, after a stint in the Air Force and years of performing in the Dallas scene. His “Shambala” was a minute shorter than the better-known version, and it did make the Billboard 100, reaching No. 66 on the chart. Because of the two versions, Stevenson often was mistakenly credited for writing “Shambala.” Daniel Moore told radio DJ Robynn James in 2014 that he met up with Stevenson in 1987. “I busted him for taking credit for writing ‘Shambala.’ He had this big grin on his face and said, ‘I never said that I wrote it,’” Moore told James. “Then his grin got bigger, and he said, ‘But I also never said that I didn’t write it.’” Stevenson does get co-writing credit
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with Moore for “My Maria,” by far the singer’s biggest hit. It wound up being the lead track and title of the album that also has “Shambala.” Moore already had “My Maria” partly written when Stevenson picked it up. “I probably would never have finished
‘My Maria’ without B.W.’s assistance,” Moore said in the 2014 interview. “I had been working on the song for two years at the point I showed it to him. Of course he wrote the rest of the lyrics in about 15 minutes. Bless his heart.” The drawn-out refrain of “My Ma-
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ria” is similar to one in the chorus of “Shambala” and showcases Stevenson’s vocal greatness. Larry Carlton, a prolific session musician best known for his work with Steely Dan, plays guitar on the track. “My Maria” became a No. 1 hit for country duo Brooks & Dunn in 1996. Stevenson never became a huge star, not for lack of trying. He released five studio albums between 1972 and 1975. His folk/country/rock sound didn’t fit easily into a music industry category at the time, and record companies found him hard to market. But he was a very accomplished musician. In addition to his prolific songwriting and recording career, he did a ton of session work. Stevenson sings background vocals on Willie Nelson’s album “The Troublemaker.” He contributed guitar and
vocals to Steve Fromholz’s 1976 album, “A Rumor in My Own Time.” And he’s credited on the 1974 Brownsville Station album “School Punks” as a composer on the song “Hey Little Girl.” Stevenson performed frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin during its heyday. And he opened for Waylon Jennings at Memorial Auditorium in Dallas in 1976. In 1980, he released a Christian contemporary album, “Lifeline.” Stevenson died at age 38 in April 1988, after complications from heart valve surgery. “He was a terrific fella,” music writer Angus Wynne told The Advocate in 2016. “He wasn’t one of these Texas progressive music characters that was bombastic in any way. He was a gentle guy, and he had a great sense of humor. He was somebody that you liked being around.”
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