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8 CHRYSTA CASTAÑEDA On what went wrong with the grid 12 GET CRAFTY Artsey gives parents a break 18 BRISKET & RIBS Second-generation smoke 20 FUZZY BUDDIES Oak Cliff pets we love 26 LIBRARIAN BY DAY ... Head rockstar in charge Nello Moa

Embroidered pillows in the home of Pamela Robison Mullins, whose pet chihuahua is featured on page 22. Photo by Jessica Turner.

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c l i c k- w o r t hy coming & going [+] Mermaid, a “kitschy new raw bar and champagne room,” opened in the Bishop Arts District recently. The restaurant at 308 N. Bishop Ave., is open 3-10 p.m. Monday-Sunday, according to its website, mermaiddallas.com.

Preservation drive-by A prominent historic landmark in our neighborhood has new owners. The Oak Cliff United Methodist Church, on East Jefferson at Marsalis, was built in 1914 and has been vacant since 2015. A YouTube channel, Abandoned Dallas, recently featured footage from inside the church showing a water leak and vandalism. A real estate company, The Nayeb Group, purchased the property in January. The group’s investment portfolio includes other historic properties, including The Principal apartments, which was the historic Davy Crockett School in East Dallas. Watch the video at oakcliff.advocatemag.com.

Education news MORE THAN A DOZEN DALLAS ISD SCHOOLS in Oak Cliff will be refurbished through Project R.E.A.D., a partnership between Apple and Dallas ISD. Adamson High School, Greiner Middle School and Rosemont Elementary’s upper campus are among the recipients. THE MAVS FOUNDATION updated the OAK CLIFF YMCA’S reading and learning center this summer with tablets, books, boardgames and S.T.E.A.M. toys as well as furniture, paint and murals. TEN OAK CLIFF KIDS attended a four-week camp this summer to learn about the business of esports thanks to scholarships that FOR OAK CLIFF received from Esposure. That company, which focuses on “developing the next generation of esports professionals and competitive gamers,” provided the STEM.org-accredited virtual course in which students built an esports brand, developed content strategies and simulated running the business side of an esports league.

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[+] A late-night cocktail bar, Atlas Bishop Arts, opened recently at 408 N. Bishop Ave., offering “multicultural small plates” and cocktails inspired by places around the globe. It’s open 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday and noon-2 a.m. Saturday-Sunday. Find more at atlasbishoparts. com. [+] The new taquería from the owner of the bygone Tacos Mariachi is now open at 440 Singleton Blvd. in West Dallas. Milagro Tacos opened recently with a menu of street tacos, offering many of the same items from Mariachi, plus a few new options. It’s open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. [+] Berkley’s Market, the small grocery from Dallas-based owners who broke off from Royal Blue, was expected to open as soon as this summer at 634 W. Davis St. [+] Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers expected to open its location at 1605 N. Beckley Ave. in September. [+] Tiff’s Treats is now open at 2242 Fort Worth Ave. [+] White Rhino Coffee has a former industrial warehouse under renovation at 1607 Fort Worth Ave. for a roastery and coffee shop.

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magine a car with 100,000 miles on it. You know it’s going to need something expensive soon: a timing belt, suspension maybe. It’s worth getting some of those things checked out and replaced before she breaks down and leaves you stranded on Woodall Rogers. “We’ve been running this grid like it’s a Toyota Camr y with 250,000 miles on it, except no one has bothered to do that maintenance,” says Chrysta Castañeda, an oil-and-gas lawyer who lives in Kessler Park. Castañeda has been advocating for a systematic overhaul of the Texas power grid and how it’s regulated. She ran as a Democrat for Texas Railroad Commission in 2020. Her campaign raised $3.7 million, most of it from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and environmental groups. But her Republican opponent, Jim Wright, whose major donors are oil-andgas companies, won the election with far less cash. The “railroad commission” has nothing to do with trains; it ’s charged with regulating the oil and gas industr y in Texas and consists of three at-large commissioners. Castañeda’s campaign called for a crackdown on “flaring,” burning off natural gas that energy producers can’t use, which is illegal but widely tolerated in Texas. We should be investing in systems to reuse that resource to sustain the power grid instead of allowing it to go to waste, she says. A study from the University of Texas published in July concluded that the February blackout affected more customers and caused more damage than any other natural disaster in Texas history and offers key findings to what caused the grid to fail. Find the full report at oakcliff.advocatemag.com.

WHAT THE LEGISLATURE DID TO FIX THE GRID Very little. It’s been a lot of window dressing on the real problem. And it would require big legislation to really fix these problems. We’ ll see if they get away with it, but I think by and large, because we do not have highly contested elections, more purple areas of the state, there’s no real incentive for those legislators who feel like they’re protected in their jobs to actually reach a compromise and try to solve these problems.

ON HER 2020 CAMPAIGN From all things by which you measure a campaign, short of actually winning the general election, it was a very successful campaign. We attracted a lot of attention, a lot of followers, a lot of donations. But the Democrats obviously didn’t win election to any statewide offices, which has been true for the last 30 years. I had hoped that we were closer than we were. But every year, we seem to get closer.

A M A R K E T- BAS E D SYST E M The market is supposed to be providing the necessary inputs to make it all work, but frequently the hands of the regulators are forced to come in and fix things even under the current system, so it’s not completely a free-market system. And the hands of the regulators don’t extend to what they really need to be able to do to ensure reliability of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

A P L A N FO R T H E E N E RGY G R I D We need something called the Texas Energy Commission, which has oversight of the grid and energy production and delivery in the state of Texas. It takes the view of not only where we are and what to fix now but planning for energy delivery in 2030 and 2040 so that we really start to think about everything from energy extraction on one end to delivery to our houses at the other end, and where our energy is going to come from. One thing I don’t think gets talked about enough is the explosive growth in our population centers and the increased demand that comes from that. And we should talk about geolocating distribution and supply closer to where the demand is.

We were 4 minutes and 37 seconds away from failing without the ability to restart it for months or longer.

A L AC K O F R EGU L AT I O N The ERCOT system is not really a regulated system. There is a regulation component to it, but by and large, they’ve tried to get the free market to supply the incentives to generate, streamline and distribute power, and drive consumer choice to a price-point that’s lower than average in the United States. But we are an “energy-only” market, which means that we only pay for the energy that’s delivered. There’s no component in what we pay for electricity that incentivizes people to build new plants or backup generation, so we’re constantly operating on that edge of being undersupplied just as a result of the way the entire system is set up.

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I N F E B RUA RY, T H E STAT E ’S P OW E R G R I D WAS M I N U T ES F RO M LO N G -T E R M FA I LU R E We were 4 minutes and 37 seconds away from failing without the ability to restart it for months or longer. Without delving too much into the technical details: supply and demand on the electricity system basically always have to equal each other. And if they don’t equal each other, then the grid gets out of frequency. And when it gets out of frequency, the equipment at these plants that generate our electricity flip offline. It’s like a fuse blowing in your house ... like plugging in one too many appliances and shorting out your system. We were four minutes away from that happening in February, and if it happens, you’re having to do in months what I’m talking about needing to do programmatically over a course of years.

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THE UT REPORT FOUND THAT KEY SITES WENT OFFLINE BECAUSE NATURAL GAS AND ELECTRICITY FACILITIES RELY ON ONE ANOTHER FOR GENERATION, TO PUT IT S I M P LY, C R E AT I N G A C H A I N O F FA I LU R ES The solution for that would be to have micro generation facilities based on the flared gas. We just light on fire enough natural gas to power all of the homes in Texas all the time. So if you turned that gas into electricity at the well sites where it’s being produced, then they would have enough electricity to drive all of that equipment themselves. There are a few more things they need to do, like winterize, but they at least would be self-sufficient on their power needs if we would just require the railroad commission to make them stop flaring and incentivize them to make their own power generation units out of that flared gas.

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PLANNING IS EXPENSIVE There’s a lot of poor planning and refusing to enforce laws that are already on the books both at the railroad commission and at ERCOT, because people seem to have the ability to complain to somebody in government and get excepted from following the law. There is a lot of money involved, yes. All of these issues come with an economic cost, and in Texas, that economic cost seems to get elevated over other priorities.

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W H AT S H E W I S H ES M O R E P EO P L E K N EW A BOU T T H E T E X AS RA I L ROA D CO M M I SS I O N Its No. 1 job is to protect against the waste of our natural resources. All Texans have an interest that oil and gas are produced in an environmentally sound way and not wasted, and that’s what the railroad commission is supposed to be shepherding. That’s its job. Its job is not to make oil-and-gas operators happy; it’s to protect the integrity of our natural environment.

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WHAT SHE WISHES MORE PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT ERCOT The way it’s set up, we are not paying for reliability the way that you and I would think, “Let’s make sure the air conditioner is running and has been serviced,” because we don’t want it to go out on a 100-degree day and be out for a week in the middle of

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summer. We make those decisions for ourselves that way, but no one is making decisions for our electric grid that way because no one has the power to require it. P E RSO N A L SUSTA I N A B I L I T Y Think about how you can reduce your demand, including if you are able to get an 18 or 20 SEER air-conditioning unit that runs so much more e fficiently. If you are able to put solar on your roof and a battery pack in your garage to where you can generate your own electricity some days and store it in case there’s another outage, do that. I challenge c i ty c o u n c i l p e o p l e w h o have some control ... for example, the conservation district that exists (in Kessler Park), you cannot put solar on the roof if it’s visible from the stree t. I’m not sure that’s a good idea. W H AT S H E F O U N D DIFFICULT ABOUT P O L I T I CS The incredible divide, the schism between people I was capable of reaching and the rest of Texas who was listening to a completely different message. We really do live in two different Texas-es, and I don’t know how we solve that. Read Chrysta Castañeda’s opeds at castaneda-firm.com.

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ost teachers can’t attend their own children’s meetthe-teacher night because they’re busy meeting their own students’ parents. They aren’t available for school d r o p - o ff a n d p i c k - u p b e c a u s e they’re coordinating those daily phenomena at their own schools. Joi Holmes loves teaching, but as a single parent, she wanted a career that would allow flexibility in raising her two children. A teacher for 16 years in four states, including teaching language arts and reading in Dallas ISD, she transitioned to entrepreneurism and opened Artsey Art Studio in the Bishop Arts District in August 2020. It’s been a slow start, but the concept is beginning to take steam, Holmes says. Artsey offers creative art lessons to adults and children, plus “dropin” free-play and art instruction three days a week — Monday, Wednesday and Saturday — when parents can drop their kids off for one hour. “ They can take off and do whatever they want to do or run errands and know their child is having a fun, educational experience,” Holmes says. T h e s t u d i o a l s o o ff e r s m o r e structured classes for pre-school kids up to 16-year-olds Monday-Friday. Topics include continuous line drawing, abstract painting and clay molding. For adults, the classes often involve wine or yoga. The “Wednesday wine down paint pour” costs $45 and includes a guided painting project and three wines to taste.

“Painted yoga,” in partnership with Black Swan Yoga, starts with a sound bath, and students choose their paint colors based on the sounds they hear. Artsey also offers discounts to Black Swan members. “ My d r e a m i s t o u s e m y teaching background to bring families toge ther and build community,” Holmes says. Besides running a fledgling business, Holmes is also pursuing a doc torate in ar t histor y at the University of Texas at Dallas. She also stays busy bringing A r t s e y ’s p r o g r a m m i n g i n t o schools, including Springhill Montessori in Oak Cliff. Artsey offers birthday parties on the weekends, and Holmes plans to begin offering more mobile and customized classes. Ultimately, she would like to grow the concept and have multiple locations. “I envision being a destination space where moms and families can come and have a playdate,” Holmes says. “We are a family oriented space of creative play, and we hope to grow with the families in our community.”

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The list prices of the most expensive houses sold in Oak Cliff in the past year as of August. $1.1 million (454 W. Greenbriar Lane) $950,000 (1223 N. Tyler St.) $949,000 (1910 Kessler Parkway) $825,000 (731 Kessler Lake Drive) $824,000 (614 Kessler Reserve Court)

The median home price for ZIP code75224 has increased to $285,000 this year, up from $189,750 in 2016, an increase of more than 50%. THE MEDIAN HOME PRICE IN 75211 JUMPED FROM $199,900 TO $265,000 BETWEEN JULY 31, 2020 AND JULY 30, 2021.

IF YOU BOUGHT A HOME IN 2021, you likely dropped some serious cash. Conversely, if you sold your home, you likely made some serious cash. In January 2019, the median home sale price in Dallas was $328,827. As of May 2021, it’s $388,209. But sales appear to be slowing — there’s only so many houses to sell. Here’s a snapshot of residential real estate in our neighborhood.

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% CHANGE 75203 10.6% 75208 2.52% 75224 25.2% 75211 37.3% MAY 2021 VS. MAY 2020

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Home prices surged in 2020 with the limited inventory. After a flurry of home sales, the housing market has slowed down.

75203 28 75208 152 75224 69 7 5 2 1 1 95 AS OF JUNE 30, 2021

FIVE YEARS AGO THE MEDIAN HOME PRICE IN 75211 WAS $166,455. THE MEDIAN HOME PRICE IN 75203 WAS $234,500 IN JULY 2021. THE PERCENT CHANGE FROM MAY 2020 TO MAY 2021 WAS OVER 113%. FIVE YEARS AGO, THE MEDIAN HOME PRICE IN 75208 WAS $351,250. AS OF JUNE 2021, IT WAS $449,500. IN 75233, THE MEDIAN HOME PRICE JUMPED FROM $250,000 TO $315,000 IN THE SIX MONTHS ENDING IN JULY.

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C H EC K T H E T EC H N I QU E Smokey Joe’s BBQ in the 21st century Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

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Opposite page: A tray of barbecue with ribs brisket, sausage and sides. Above: The “mac n meat,” mac and cheese topped with chopped brisket, pico de gallo and avocado salsa.

CHRIS MANNING PRAYS the City of Dallas will allow him to construct a new building on property adjacent to Smokey Joe’s BBQ on South R.L. Thornton Freeway one day. The 31-year-old owner of Smokey Joe’s ultimately wants to tear it down for parking and build a much larger restaurant next door, on land the restaurant already owns. The barbecue joint opened in 1984, before Manning was born, but he took it over from his father in 2014 and has transformed the business and the building, which started out as a converted gas station where orders were placed through a walk-up window. Manning has replaced the outdated and fire-prone smokers and added a new pit room, wood storage, walk-in refrigerator, a dining room and lobby. “Even more important, central air and heat,” he says. The old Smokey Joe’s had window units, and the pit was in the middle of the kitchen. “So it was brutally hot,” Manning says. “That made it hard to hire, and sometimes customers would be like, ‘Whoo! That smoke is hitting my face.’” That’s part of the reason Manning was reluctant to take over the business

after graduating from Sam Houston State University with degrees in criminal justice and kinesiology. But he couldn’t find his corporate dream job and had been working at the restaurant to make ends meet for six months. The third time his father asked, he went for it. One thing that hasn’t changed is the pork ribs: “Our ribs have always been amazing,” Manning says. He credits longtime pit master Earl Harris for teaching him everything he knows about smoking meat. But after trying Terry Black’s Barbecue in Austin, Manning was inspired to change the brisket recipe. The new Smokey Joe’s also serves chicken, housemade sausage and specials like brisket tacos with chile con queso. Sides like mac and cheese, fried okra and collard greens are inspired by Manning’s own family reunions and recipes by cooks in his family. “I was very blessed to be around a lot of people who can really cook,” he says. The restaurant keeps it very Dallas with over-the-top loaded baked potatoes and a full menu of “sloppy fries,” which can also be ordered as nachos. And then there are the desserts: buttermilk or sweet-potato pie made

in house. Manning started out “rolling bread,” wrapping up three slices of white bread per order at Smokey Joe’s, when he was 5 or 6 years old. His father had given him and his brother a computer, and one Saturday when their aunt took them shopping, he gave them money to buy educational games, but they blew the cash on toys instead. After that, they worked at the restaurant on Saturdays. “It did teach me to work,” he says. Besides smoking great barbecue and planning the future of his business, Manning focuses on giving back to the surrounding neighborhood. At a back-to-school block party in July, Smokey Joe’s gave away 500 pulled pork sandwiches, hundreds of snow cones, free haircuts and school supplies. “ W i t h o u t t h i s c o m m u n i ty w e wouldn’t be here,” he says. “I always tell my employees, ‘I don’t pay you; the customers do.’” Smokey Joe’s BBQ Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.9:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday 6403 South R.L. Thornton Freeway smokeyjoesbbqdallas.com SEPTEMBER 2021

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Paw patrol PRINT-WORTHY PETS THAT BRING PILES OF SMILES

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

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Company mascot: Hampton

andsome Hampton weighs about 130 pounds, but he’s a big baby. “It’s funny because people think he’s like a police dog, but he just runs up to them” and wants to be friends, says Alexandra Mendez. She wasn’t looking for a dog because she likes to travel, and she has a busy career in architecture. But she found him on her commute one day at DART’s Hampton Station. “I thought he was the cutest dog

ever, and it had been storming,” she says. “I was like, ‘This dog has to have an owner.’” But no microchip was found, and no one claimed him after she posted about him on social media. Mendez was pleased because Hampton had quickly found a place in her home — she’d bought a house in Elmwood about two months previously — and heart. “I love him, and he loves his new house,” she says.

That was about two years ago. Mendez has since started her own architecture and interior design firm, Create Atelier, which is based at Tyler Station. Now Hampton comes to work with her, and he has a way of keeping everyone grounded. “Hampton is our mood manager,” she says. “He’s the softest and sweetest.” The next time Mendez took Hampton to the vet, after they’d been together for months, a microchip was found. “I was so sad,” she says. But it turned out that the previous owners weren’t interested in getting him back. Mendez is originally from Nicaragua, and she moved to Oak Cliff after finishing college in Georgia. She and Hampton enjoy walking the trail in Elmwood, and he loves people, but the hulking floofer is afraid of large dogs. “He thinks he’s a lap dog,” she says. “He loves playing with dogs that are smaller than him.”

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hen Pamela Robison Mullins lays out one of her 3-pound chihuahua’s 30 outfits, this female dog knows it’s time

to work. Robison Mullins is a real estate agent, Airbnb host and tour guide, a photographer, painter, decorator and longtime world traveler, and she’s also a dealer at Lula B’s Antique Mall on Fort Worth Avenue. Sophia Loren accompanies her renaissance mom to Lula B’s every Saturday, sitting comfortably all day in the crook of Robison Mullins’ arm or in a

baby sling that she wears. “She’s so small that sometimes people don’t notice her right away, and they’ll go, ‘Oh my gosh, look at her dog!’” Robison Mullins says. The tiny pup likes children and will let anyone pick her up. Robison Mullins has owned many chihuahuas over the years, but Sophia Loren is the only one that is so tolerant and so chill. She’ll sit in Robison Mullins’ lap for an eight-hour car trip to Marfa with no complaints. Sophia Loren came into Robison Mullins’ life several years ago when she was volunteering for Dallas Animal Services. “My husband said, ‘Oh my gosh, look at this dog. She looks like a kangaroo,’” because she weighed about 1 pound, but she’s always had long legs for her breed,

Robison Mullins says. They had four other chihuahuas at the time, and her husband, retired attorney and Oak Cliff native Kayo Mullins, had doubts. But the little dog’s personality won everyone over. Sophia Loren, now 7 years old, has her own business cards and an Instagram account (@sophiascurations). Admirers occasionally bring gifts of outfits and accessories to her job at Lula B’s, and she’s the first one some kids look for when they come through the door. She once jumped out of a cake while dressed as Marylin Monroe, complete with a blonde wig and red lipstick, for a friend’s birthday party. And she goes everywhere with Robison Mullins, including church at Kessler Park United Methodist. The household also includes Kayo’s 4-year-old papillon, Bandit, a 50-pound terrier mix named Sugar, and Remy, a 12-year-old chihuahua. “He’s Mr. Grumpy,” Robison Mullins says. Dogs can be high maintenance, Robison Mullins says. But she and Kayo have a dog sitter they trust, and they plan to resume their world travels soon with a trip to Morocco. In the meantime, catch Sophia Loren anywhere her mom is. “I can’t imagine my life without her,” she says. SEPTEMBER 2021

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Aerodynamics expert: Pollywog

helsea Wells and Bryan Lindey’s kitten came flinging into their lives this past March. They were just leaving the Wynnewood Kroger, and on noticing the feral cat colonies there, brought up the idea of adopting a cat. At that moment, “I thought I saw a squirrel get clipped by a truck and fly into the air,” Chelsea says. It landed at the curb of the median on Zang Boulevard and clung to the side. “First of all, I pulled over, and people were honking at us,” Chelsea says. The kitten was stunned and easy to grab by the scruff. It was mouth breathing and had a little bit of blood in its mouth. Chelsea and Bryan drove home to the Wolf Creek area and put away their

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perishable groceries before running the wee thing up to the vet. “Miraculously, absolutely nothing was wrong with her,” Bryan says. “It was an incredibly close shave.” They think the wake of the wheel just blew her back and that she was stunned when she hit the curb, maybe biting her tongue. It turns out the introduction was appropriately sensational. Now this kitty, Pollywog, is a total hellraiser. She’ll play hockey with an empty tin can on the tile floor at 5 a.m. and zoom from room to room. She gets into cabinets, fiddles with reachable artwork and scrunches up the bathroom rug. “She never stops playing,” Bryan says. Before becoming a teacher,

Chelsea worked at a nonprofit cat shelter in Chicago for seven years. She says she felt bad adopting a “normal” feline because she’s called to take in special-needs cats. But soon after Pollywog, they adopted Meelo, a shy cat the house-sitter will never see, for example, and who hid for two days after the family returned from a trip this summer. Pollywog and Meelo are now a bonded pair who cuddle and sleep together. Chelsea and Bryan are both teachers at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. She developed a three-year creative writing program that she teaches along with freshman English. He teaches senior English. Their blended family also has four kids and two dogs, Dover and Snow Pea.

ranger track star: ranger

his guy was a runner. Laurie Baker lived in a condo backing up to Stevens Park Golf Course, and there was a little black dog around that no one could catch. Golfers and neighbors would give him bits of hotdogs and whatnot. But

he was fast, boy. “Everybody at the golf course knew him, and one day somebody said, ‘We caught that dog,’” Baker says. “It turns out Angie got him.” That’s 80-year-old Angie Manriquez of Angie’s Friends fame. The breaker

of chains and coaxer of wary street dogs has been rescuing and comforting animals in West Dallas and Oak Cliff for decades. Three of her friends started the namesake nonprofit around her advocacy, and she still spends most of her time serving cat colonies and befriending neglected pets. “So I went and got him from Angie,” Baker says. The next morning, Baker was having coffee in her courtyard on the golf course. She looked down, and the dog was on the other side of the fence. “He looked at me ... and then he took off,” she says. Baker and Manriquez spent another week chasing him all over 18 holes of the golf course. All the golfers and neighbors knew Ranger was missing, and one day while Baker was walking the course, a neighbor said, “I’m going catch your dog today.” “How do you know?” Baker asked. “I just gave him two tranquilizers.” By the time Baker had walked home for a drink of water — it was the middle of summer — the neighbor called and said he got him. That was six years ago. “I had another dog that got hit by a car in 1996, and I wouldn’t get another dog,” Baker says. “Until this one.” He may have been a golf-course rover, but Ranger is a faithful companion now. When Baker sees him outside in the yard and claps for him to come in, he’ll run and leap into her arms. He’s still afraid of strangers but will warm up eventually, she says. Ranger gets only homemade sourdough dog treats since Baker is a home bread-maker, and he’s always making her laugh. “He’s not the smartest dog, but he’s so funny,” she says. “I always say he gets by on his looks.”

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HIT THE BO O K S Rock ’n ’ roller Nello Moa lives the librarian life by day › Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

THE STORY READS LIKE A COMIC BOOK. Two musicians, “El Mero RockStar” and “El Roy” met while they were both paying tickets at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center They found a guitar player, a drummer and a vocalist in “el barrio” and became the Mad Mexicans, a rock ’n’ roll band that’s been a fixture in Deep Ellum for almost 20 years. The Mad Mexicans have played with many big acts over the years, including Ozomatli, Ice T and Body Count, Vanilla Ice, House of Pain and Molotov. “El Mero RockStar” is the alter ego of Nello Moa, a librarian who became branch manager of the North Oak Cliff Library in March. Moa was born and raised in Oak Cliff, around Clarendon and Edgefield, and he still lives here, now in the Bishop Arts area. He started playing bass guitar as a kid and had his first Deep Ellum gigs back in high school. He was playing in bands and attending El Centro College when he landed a job as a page and clerk at the Dallas Public Library in 1995. Eventually, he earned an associate’s degree, then a bachelor’s from the University of Texas at Arlington. All the while, he continued moving up the ranks at the library. “With the band, my goal was to get signed and go on tour and be the next Nirvana,” Moa says. “But that didn’t happen, so through all those years, I’ve held on to this little library job.” By the time he turned 30, he realized that the rockstar thing wasn’t going to happen beyond the local scene. So he enrolled in the University of North Texas and received a master’s degree in library science in 2011. His most recent assignment was manager of the Dallas West Library.

For the North Oak Cliff Library, he has big plans, although the pandemic has put a damper on them. It’s no surprise that he’d like to incorporate music into the library’s program, along with other performing arts, such as dance and poetry. The library and the Oak Cliff Cultural Center are considering some collaborations, he says. He also wants to start putting on community fairs in the library’s parking lot. The City of Dallas has plans to renovate or replace the North Oak Cliff Library, but Moa says he doesn’t know much about that, and he says there haven’t been any meetings about it recently. The city’s libraries were closed, offering curbside service only, for more than a year before reopening for limited service in May. Moa says he wants more people to be aware of the full range of services that the library offers online. For example, he often touts Hoopla, the app where you can stream movies with your library card. The North Oak Cliff Library is open to check out books and materials like DVDs, use the WiFi or log on to a computer. The branch will offer in-person GED classes beginning Sept. 15. The North Oak Cliff Book Club meets online at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14, and the Friends of the North Oak Cliff Library meet at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 21. The Mad Mexicans have a gig at the Will Call Bar in Deep Ellum at 8 p.m. Sept. 24. Besides his library and rock ’n’ roll careers, Noa is also a runner who likes to compete in Tough Mudder events. He says the best part of the Dallas Public Library has always been his coworkers. “They’re very creative. They’re very artistic,” he says. “They love the community, and the community loves them. That’s what makes it rewarding.” SEPTEMBER 2021

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By ERIC FOLKERTH

Wav i n g to t h e ye l l ow b u s N o se co n d c h a n ces fo r t h ese s p e c i a l m o m e n ts

ve r y ye a r, d u r i n g t h e s e early weeks of fall, I love t o s e e t h e “ fi r s t d a y o f s c h o o l p i c t u r e s .” A s I wri t e t h i s t od ay, my s ocial me di a f e ed fi l l s w i t h c h ild re n an d their backpacks. Some are in un i f o r ms , a n d a l mo s t all are in new clothes. Some are smiling a n d e ager. O t h e r s look like th e wh o l e p i c t u r e r i t u al was obligat o r y a n d g r u d g i n g. Alongside these younger kids, I ’m s e e i n g p i c t u r e s o f p a r e n t s moving older students into their college dorm rooms for the ver y f i r s t t i m e . G e n e r a l l y, i n t h o s e p i c t ur e s , e ve r y b od y h as a bit of a “de e r i n t h e h e a d l igh ts ” look. Our daughter is in graduate school, so we are past this ritual i n o ur ow n f a mi ly. Bu t all th e s e pictures cause memories to flood ba c k, a n d i t g i ve s m e joy. T he ritual of the first-day picture is a little yearly signpost in life. This year I saw a picture of an Oak Cliff kindergartner s tepping into her school for the fi r s t t i m e , a n d i t b r o u g h t b a c k o ur da u g ht er ma k i n g th at s ame m o ve . One moment, she was toddling into that school with her very fi r s t b a c k p a c k , a n d t h e n a b o u t five minutes later, we were moving her into the freshman dorm a nd ma k i n g t h e lon g, te ar y p are nt a l d r i ve home . Ever y time your child walks through a school door for a ne w ye a r, y ou ’r e p ra c t i c in g a ritu al. Yo u ’r e p r a c t i c i n g t h e “ l e av i n g ”

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Th ey go o ut the door. Th ey c o m e bac k. Th ey go o ut farther. They come back for shorter times. They go out … they come back … t h ey … The circles of their leaving grow larger and larger, the time a n d d i s t a n c e l o n ge r, a n d e ve r y ye ar we prac tice this r itual . T his is how we grow to be able to s tan d it. We prac tice it, year o n y e a r, u n t i l w e w a t c h t h e m take their bigger steps into ad u lth ood . T he time flies, friends. I know y o u d o n’ t n e e d m e t o t e l l y o u th is , bu t I ’m going to. Soak it all in. It goes by so fast, and there are no second chances for th e s e pr ecious moments. W h e n St. Paul was in pr ison, h e wrote the peopl e in Phil ippi and told them, “I keep you in my h e a r t .” He w a s s e p a r a t e d f r o m t h e m , a n d ye t h e ke p t t h e m i n h is con s tant prayer. T h is is w hat we do for al l our school-aged families during early fall. Join me in pray ing for them.

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BACK STORY

By RACHEL STONE

Fall in Oak Cliff A n i m p ress i o n of t h e pa st

Photo courtesy of the Dallas Public Library.

his painting, “Fall in Oak Cliff ” by Edward G. Eisenlohr, was painted en plein air near Cedar Creek before 1922. Eisenlohr was born in Ohio in 1872, and his family moved to Dallas two years later, settling in Oak Cliff. His German parents owned a drug store and sent him to study in Europe as a young man. When he returned to Dallas, he took a job as a bookkeeper in a bank, which funded his art career. Texas impressionist Frank Reaugh, who lived and worked in Oak Cliff, was one of Eisenlohr’s teachers and biggest influences.

Eisenlohr produced more than 1,000 drawings, watercolors, pastels, oil paintings and lithographs of the Dallas landscape. Later in life, he split time between Dallas and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and his work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of New Mexico, to name a few. He died in 1961 and is buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery. This painting was given to the North Oak Cliff Library in 1922.

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