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Easter weekend, 2006, Preston Hollow-resident Brian Cuban woke up in his apartment, surrounded by cocaine, alcohol and his girlfriend, who was beginning to see a side of Brian that he’d worked very hard to hide.
His girlfriend had no prior knowledge of his addiction, so when she went out of town to visit family, Cuban decided to go out and “party,” then come home to shower and sober up before his girlfriend returned home. Instead, he blacked out.
“Next thing (I knew), it was two days later and I’m laying in bed and there’s cocaine everywhere, there’s alcohol and she’s staring down at me,” Cuban says. “She didn’t know I had been (at a psychiatric facility before) … She was crying and I’m thinking she’s going to leave me.”
But 18 years later, they’re still together.
After spending time at the facility and with the support of his brothers, Mark (yes, that Mark Cuban) and Jeff, Cuban was able to get sober. And over a decade later, he’s turned his story into inspiration for this novel series. The latest novel, The Body Brokers , came out last month.
Cuban’s story started in 1986, when he moved to Dallas to live with Mark after obtaining his law degree.
“I went to Pitt Law and took the PA bar and then took a Greyhound bus with about $200 to my name,” Cuban says.
It wasn’t a smooth ride into the corporate world, however. Cuban was an alcoholic, and going out with his single, socially active brothers didn’t help.
“In the summer of 1987, I discovered cocaine in a bar in the Crescent Hotel in Downtown Dallas, and did my first line of cocaine there,” Cuban says. “And cocaine and alcohol took over my life, and it eventually destroyed my career as a lawyer. In between that and three failed marriages as a result of drug use.”
Plus a near suicide attempt in 2005. A DWI arrest. A stay at Green Oaks Hospital.
“Decades later, 1,200 miles from Pittsburgh, where we grew up, I can walk to Mark. I can walk to Jeff. My father, until he passed away in 2018, lived across the street from me,” Cuban says. “That was kind of the jumping off point for my recovery.”
Once he joined a 12-step program and became sober, Cuban was hit with another reality — he didn’t actually want to be a lawyer.
Cuban had originally wanted to be a police officer, he says, but while sitting in an office at Pennsylvania State he overheard some students talking about the LSATs and the upcoming three years of law school. For Cuban, this meant the potential for three more years before having to deal with his addiction.
As Cuban began booking speaking events and working with organizations that assisted those in active addiction and mental health advocacy, he ventured into a new career as an author.
“It’s a rippedfrom-theheadlines crime thriller that I’m hoping will entertain and challenge traditional notions about illicit fentanyl and fentanyl in the fatal overdose epidemic.”
“This is where privilege comes in. I had no clients left, and Mark was really keeping me above ground, keeping me from living on the streets, and that is a privilege obviously,” Cuban says. “I acknowledge that not many people have a billionaire brother who loves them dearly and doesn’t want to see them go down the tubes.”
Cuban credits his relationship and his brothers with surviving. Growing up the middle of three brothers, just like his dad, he recalled his father’s words.
“He’d say, ‘Guys, no matter where you go in life, no matter what happens, pick up the phone and call your brother. Tell your brother you love him and make sure your brother is OK,’” Cuban says. “I thought about that, and I didn’t want to lose my family. My father was passing down a gift that is a privilege, right? The gift of family is a privilege.”
He published his first book in 2017, The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of the Bar, Booze, Blow, and Redemption. The book discusses his career and coming to grips with his addiction alongside interviews with experts and others in the law profession who are recovering from addiction.
Then, Cuban forayed into fiction. His first book, The Ambulance Chaser , features a Pittsburg personal injury lawyer and part-time drug dealer, Jason Feldman, as he deals with the discovery of remains of a high school classmate who had gone missing 30 years prior.
“The first one definitely had a lot of me in it, and when I look back at that, the main character … there were a lot of similar struggles, and that’s not really a good thing,” Cuban says. “When it comes to writing fiction, the goal is to create characters that are not the writer. That was a learning process, but Jason went through a lot of things that I did, but it also allowed me to make Jason very realistic.”
Last month, Cuban published the second book in the trilogy, The Body Brokers , which follows main character Jason as he deals with the aftermath of his girlfriend dying of a fentanyl overdose that may not be an accident.
“It’s a ripped-from-the-headlines crime thriller that I’m hoping will entertain and challenge traditional notions about illicit fentanyl and fentanyl in the fatal overdose epidemic,” Cuban says. “Like in The Ambulance Chaser , I used real life issues going on today with fentanyl.”
How fentanyl gets sold. How fentanyl comes in the United States. The impossibility of fentanyl poisoning through contact. Through work with organizations focused on fentanyl awareness, Cuban discovered several misconceptions about the drug that he has incorporated into his book.
“We’re losing hundreds of thousands of young people to this problem,” Cuban says. “But these are some of the things I worked into The Body Brokers to challenge these things so people might even walk away from it saying, ‘Maybe I need to look at that a little more.’”
FORESHADOWING FICTION
How Brian Cuban’s addiction story led to a fictional series
Story by ALYSSA HIGH | Photography by VICTORIA GOMEZ
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Story by ALYSSA HIGH
MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
Students from W.T. White and Thomas Jefferson High School represented the district at the 98th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City in November.
Fourteen W.T. students and six T.J. Liberty Belles performed in the show, with W.T. Rangerettes participating in the Spirit of America float, cheer/ pom performing shortly after a commercial break and the dance team participating about halfway through the broadcast.
This year was T.J.’s first to send students to the parade.
WALMART & OMAR GONZALEZ GIVE TO FRANKLIN
Walmart gifted a $25,000 check toward Ben Franklin International Exploratory Academy and other Dallas ISD middle school athletics programs. Skyline High School graduate and FC Dallas center-back Omar Gonzales attended the donation ceremony, taking pictures and signing balls for the students.
“Thank you for showing our students what’s possible with dedication, hard work and goals to the Dallas Education Foundation,” a spokesperson said at the ceremony. “We appreciate your work in making this partnership a reality and supporting our students.”
CAREER INSTITUTE NORTH RE COGNIZED FOR DESIGN
The recently-opened Career Institute North was recognized in Learning by Design as a 2024 Outstanding Project in the New Construction category.
The school was designed by WRA Architects, a Preston Hollow-based architecture firm.
“The design team successfully incorporated the original architectural design into the new facility, respecting the community’s desire to preserve the historic 1920s Mediterranean-style building,” the publication said. “This approach saved costs and resources, diverting approximately 5,200 tons of materials from landfills.”
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DANCE THE NIGHTS AWAY
The Pierce family’s clogging tradition
Story by SIMON PRUITT
Family traditions are special. Perhaps you know a secret recipe passed down generations. Maybe you play a front yard football game for Thanksgiving, or pack for an annual camping trip. The Pierces took things to a different level.
For nearly 60 years, the family’s name has been synonymous with clogging, a traditional Southern folk dance defined by breakneck rhythms from a special kind of shoe with metal toes and heels. Ralph Pierce started the Tennessee Mountain Cloggers in the early ‘70s, incorporating multiple teams of cloggers separated by age and skill level. The troupe grew to relative fame in the Tennessee mountains, leading to performances on Jerry Lewis’ annual telethon, the White House’s 1976 bicentennial celebration and festivals around the world. At one point, Ralph had his own dance studio in Knoxville and a Saturday morning TV show on PBS.
Ralph Pierce made a career out of clogging, bringing his family along every step of the way. Photography courtesy of Pierce Family.
“I’m in good shape for the shape I’m in, but not well enough for that,” Ralph says. “I have a balance problem, it’s hard for me to dance by myself if I don’t have anybody to hold on to. But if I’m dancing with a lady, then I more or less use her as my walker.”
“He is still very popular on the dance floor,” John adds. “His dance card is always full.”
The family frequents some local dance halls, including You Can Dance Dallas in Addison and Ballroom Dance Dallas on Lower Greenville.
It wasn’t long before the clogging bug bit his son, John.
“My father asked, ‘Boys, do you want to learn how to clog and dance with these girls?’ We liked country music and we liked girls. The rest was dance history,” recalls John Pierce.
John was merely a child when his father, Richard, proposed this to him along with his older brother Michael. They took to it immediately, going on to teach clogging classes to help pay their way through college. John taught at the University of Boulder in Colorado, and Michael taught a private practice in Maryville, Tennessee and recieved a contract to teach at Dollywood theme park. In 1995, Ralph was inducted into the Clogging Hall of Fame in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.
The family was built on a lifetime of dance, and that doesn’t stop with old age. Sadly, the speed and intensity of clogging aren’t sustainable for the now 86-year-old Ralph and 64-yearold John, but they still make time to trot out onto the dance floor each week.
“When they play ‘grass or country music, we’ll jump out there and do a few minutes,” John says. “We used to do two hour, three hour shows, now I’d be lucky to get three minutes before I get tired.”
“Dad’s 86, most men don’t even live to 86,” John says. “But he’s out there dancing.”
‘But he’s out there dancing’ could be said of Ralph Pierce at every stage of his life. From swelling to great heights as a performer to aging into the craft becoming a comfortable passion, Ralph and the Pierce family have danced as many nights away as they could, and they think you should do the same.
“Invest, but in vest in yourself,” Ralph says. “Don’t put all your money in the stock market, spend some of it on dance lessons.”
HELLO, DUMPLING
The key to the perfect dumpling? Keep it simple.
Story by VARSHA JHANAK | Photography by AUSTIN MARC GRAF
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THE INDIAN SAMOSA. THE JAPANESE GYOZA. THE SPANISH EMPANADA. THE POLISH PIEROGI.
Although it is mainly known for its Chinese variant, many other cultures have their own dumplings.
“There’s no romantic notion that I wanted, but it evolved into something like that,” Hello Dumpling Founder and Owner June Chow says. “The business idea was (to make dumplings), but I drew from a passion, from a food that came from my childhood … I’ve said this numerous times that there’s dumplings in every single culture. It may not look like the Chinese dumpling, but it’s anything that’s encased in some sort of dough or something. People refer to children that are little dumplings or something that’s cute and warm and fuzzy. I think, in essence, it just makes people feel really comfortable and not intimidated. It’s not a foreign food because there are so many iterations of it globally.”
Chow was familiar with the restaurant business and the dumpling; her mother owned a Chinese restaurant when she was growing up. When discussing with her husband how they were going to put her two kids through college, she used her familiarity with running restaurants and her heritage to bring together Hello Dumpling.
Chow saw the need for good, authentic Chinese dumplings in East Dallas, she says. She opened her first location in 2017. Seven years later, her business is only growing.
Hello Dumpling’s menu is similar to a traditional Chinese dumpling house menu, where the options are few, but perfected. Chow makes her menu different by adding noodles, but the menu stays simple, with the dumplings and noodles being the menu’s backbone.
“If you look at my menu, it’s a very tight menu,” Chow says. “What differentiates my dumpling place from other places around here is that they do dumplings, but they do a variety of things. They’ve got all sorts of stir-fried stuff, all sorts of other things, which I don’t. My idea is to show people that when you go and have dumplings, it’s not an appetizer, it is not something that you start with. You go and you actually have dumplings, that’s how I ate it.”
Chow always wanted to have multiple locations for her restaurant. In 2022, Chow brought Hello Dumpling to Lake Highlands, opening the Walnut Hill location. But she says her expansion is about more than just expanding her business: it’s about expanding the dish itself.
“It’s a very basic type of food and it could be consumed everywhere,” Chow says. “I would like to show people how broad the appeal is, how everybody just eats dumplings. I guess the goal is to really normalize it and make dumplings just another food. That’s what happened to pizza. Pizza was weird in the beginning and now nobody thinks of it like, ‘Oh my God, that is so strange and foreign.’ You go and eat a taco, I think it doesn’t matter who you are, you know what a taco is. Having those kinds of foods become a part of someone’s everyday preference. It just becomes like a routine that I’m gonna go with dumplings. It’s not something weird and foreign.”
When Chow was employing her original location, she wanted to reach out to the community. Through a friend, she learned of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and their employment placement program. Chow worked with the IRC and supported people from Myanmar, Guatemala, Mexico, Afghanistan and Indonesia.
“Being an immigrant, I see no specific difference between hiring someone who was born here or born there,” Chow says. “I just want to give an opportunity to someone who actually wants to work. Not everybody’s an asylum seeker or refugee, but many of (the employees) were. Everyone comes with an incredible drive to be productive in this country, but they don’t take it for granted.”
Chow aims to make Hello Dumpling not only a restaurant, but a safe space.
“I think the most rewarding part is to see joy on the faces of people,” Chow says. “It’s hard work. But, there are so many experiences that are so incredibly heartwarming. I’ve had so many experiences with people who have come in and they eat something and they go home feeling like they were fortified. We’re just not talking about nourishment (through the food), it’s really talking about something that they felt was given to them just in the space, the kind of food, something comforting and made them feel really good about eating. Whether it’s chatting with somebody at the restaurant or meeting other people. It brings me great joy when people say, ‘Oh my God, I feel so much better now.’ That is intensely rewarding to me. It’s a safe zone.”
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Tofu Chaun’r skewers ($7) are a spicy, gluten-free option on the ‘Hot Bites’ portion of the menu.
OF THE Lights
The Preston Hollow native behind the scenes of one of America’s most popular competition shows
Story by SIMON
PRUITT
Hannah Kerman entered Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with the same dream as many: she wanted to be an actor. As a young teenager in 2013, nothing seemed impossible. But quickly, and humbly, she changed course.
“It was kind of a wake up call when I wasn’t getting cast in stuff,” she says. “Maybe I’m not good at this.”
Kerman switched her schedule to start taking classes on production instead, falling in love with programming and designing the lights for stage performances.
“I really like the combination that lighting offers with technology along with creativity,” she says. “What could I do with lights in a way that an actor can change up a role, but still stick to the script? Everyone is still following the storyline, but there’s different ways of being creative around it.”
She went to college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. There, she began interning for a Los Angeles-based company that produces lighting for network television. After graduating in 2021, she moved there to work for the company full time.
“It was a really great opportunity, and it all happened because I sent an email,” she says. Her background was in theatre, but the onset of TV cameras birthed an entirely new obstacle.
“It’s wildly different in so many ways that you wouldn’t even think of,” she says. “There’s just so many more people that work on a TV production,
and so many more people that you have to tell if you’re doing something.”
Despite the stipulations, she grew to fall in love with the accelerated nature of the work.
“The reason I love TV so much is that I’m able to create this work that immediately shows up in people’s houses, as opposed to a theater production that’s a limited quantity,” she says.
Now 25, Kerman has worked on a growing laundry list of high-profile productions, including the Democratic National Convention; the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys; and a couple of the most popular network shows, America’s Got Talent and Dancing With The Stars.
“The first time I called Dancing , I don’t think I ate that entire day,” she says. “I was so nervous that something was going to go wrong and that it was going to be my fault.”
These days, she’s gotten comfortable. But the workload hasn’t slowed down. Sometimes there’s 15-20 separate lighting cues in a short 90 second routine.
“Every hit, every ding, every tempo beat,” she says. “There is a light doing something that matches that.”
This year, Kerman was surprised with two separate Emmy Award nominations for her work on Dancing With The Stars and America’s Got Talent . She took her mother as her date to the ceremony, where she worked behind the scenes just a year earlier.
Hannah Kerman shares her lighting cue script on the set of Dancing with the Stars. Photography courtesy of Hannah Kerman.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
By JACK DRAKE
THE TOWN OF PRESTON HOLLOW
Part 2: Challenges in Township
The tide of the formerly quiet and laid back “Preston Road District” area began to change thanks to a momentous election in favor of incorporation on Nov. 18, 1939. The new city needed a name, so DeLoache and crew suggested “Preston Hollow,” combining the names of the artery road serving the community and the wooded areas that ran through it. Incorporation was the first time the name “Preston Hollow” was used, and it has stuck with the immediate community and broader area ever since.
The city government was initially set up to run without any additional taxes to residents. This worked smoothly at first. The first major problem in the town was the sale of alcohol. Preston Hollow held an election on Feb. 25, 1940, where a small majority of about 66% voted to make Preston Hollow “dry.”
City officials drew a map of the town and submitted it as a “dry zone,” but failed to include a 30-foot strip. A clever entrepreneur purchased that land, near today’s Preston Center, and opened a liquor store. Legend has it that this store was the only place to legally buy liquor from Downtown Dallas to Missouri.
Joe Lawther was, in many cases, the reason the township of Preston Hollow was established. He campaigned to
the citizens and assisted with the legal proceedings regarding the town’s setup. Once he took office as mayor, however, he realized the challenges of their lofty visions to run a town tax-free. Because of this, Lawther saw no solutions to keep the town in its current setup and resigned from his post as mayor in April of 1940. An emergency election was held on April 3, 1940, electing Mart W. Reeves as the second mayor of Preston Hollow. Albert Hammerstein also resigned from his post as alderman around the same time and was replaced by Alvin Charles Raines. Raines would later serve as marshal and secretary.
The next major issue to tackle was that of policing. Both the funding and the operation of the police department would be the biggest hurdle for the town. Herbert C. Otis sent a letter in October of 1940 persuading residents to voluntarily pay for a subscription-based contract police service provided by Leroy Trice of the Greenway Patrol. Subscriptions were $2.50 monthly, $12.50 for six months, or $20 yearly ($55.77, $278.87, and $446.19 in 2024). Trice was active during his initial period, stopping and warning many reckless drivers, with 15 arrests and convictions made for speeding. He also made an arrest for a double burglary,
decreased loud music at night, and sorted out a “public nuisance” problem regarding a septic tank.
Unfortunately, only half the citizens voluntarily subscribed to the service, barely keeping Trice on night-only duty. However, due to the effectiveness of Trice’s contractual patrol, Otis wished to establish an official police force.
“A recent poll of the citizens of Preston Hollow was overwhelmingly in favor of the establishment of a municipal police department to operate in place of the private agency which had been policing our town,” Otis said in 1941.
The police headquarters were in the Freeman real estate office at the northwest corner of Inwood and Northwest Highway, which the town leased for $50 per month ($1,115.47 in 2024). Alvin Raines registered as the police chief, even though this duty was presumably symbolic. Trice now served the neighborhood in an official capacity. It is reported that he made his salary from traffic tickets. Alvin Raines sent an update to the neighborhood in August of 1941, almost a year after police presence in the town. The force had responded to 19 burglaries, 15 prowlers, 39 miscellaneous complaints, two car thefts, 19 thefts, four fire calls, six grass fires put out by police
department, nine wrecks, three fights, two missing persons, five loose livestock, two vagrancy, six dog and cat complaints, 12 other calls, and 252 traffic cases handled in PH Corporation Court, where the mayor presided as the judge. He also pushed for additional subscriptions for police.
In January of 1942, the nation was still processing the attack on Pearl Harbor a month earlier. While Texas was and did remain outside of the war zone, the city officials adopted protective wartime measures for its citizens. They passed a “Blackout and Air Raid Protection” act instructing residents to comply with the Army and Navy’s recommendations. The act stated, “in modern warfare no city, however distant from the enemy, is free from attack.”
In 1942, the tide of the nation changed, as we mobilized and entered war. The tide of Preston Hollow also changed in 1942. The tax-free operation had functioned for three years, even though we lost a bright mind (Joe Lawther) in the process, a mind that seemed to see the challenges before everyone else. A major update regarding the status of the town went out to residents in October of 1942, called “A Message to the Citizens of the Town of Preston Hollow.” The message started off with the positives, informing that they collected $2,021 in permit fees ($28,725.34 in 2024) and collected a total of $6,307.77 ($120,866.16) in various fees and fines. The total expenditures, mostly consisting of operating costs for the police force and establishing ordinances, were $5,542.90 ($106,210.13,) resulting in a cash surplus of $764.87 ($14,656.04.) At least the town was not in debt, but the memo made it seem they were trending in that direction.
had their own calls to tend to, and the service was temporarily discontinued during a dispute and Highland Park took over. To solve this problem, they announced they were working on low rates for fire protection by purchasing both a 50-foot lot in Anthony Plaza, near present day Douglas and Northwest Highway, for both a police and fire building (ending the lease of the Freeman office) and a firetruck. However, the climax came when they announced how they would pay for this service. The council believed that “it is exceedingly unfair for one out of each four of the households in the Town of Preston Hollow to pay the bill for police and fire protection which benefits all of the residents alike” adding that “this condition is intolerable and so unfair that the Council cannot longer urge payment upon those who have been carrying this load” (Council of Preston Hollow 1942). In comparison, crime watch services from off-duty Dallas Police Department officers in present-day Preston Hollow provided via the various homeowners associations representing the entire neighborhood are only available to subscribers.
Not only was it a problem that they wouldn’t have enough money for fire protection under the current system, but, with the influx of new residents, the council announced that “unless steps are taken immediately to obtain necessary revenue, the Town will be without funds to even support a watchman service.”
“During the period after the incorporation of the Town and before the United States entered the war, the number of dwellings in the Town of Preston Hollow more than doubled,” the memo said.
However, the negatives then began. The council announced they received very few subscriptions for the police department from the new residents, so, at this point, only one quarter of all residents were subscribing.
Fires were another large problem in Preston Hollow. Being in the country, grass fires were common. Fire insurance was high, and many homes had “prairie walls” built around them. Fire calls were taken care of by the police service or responded to by The City of Dallas for a fee. This proved unreliable as they
Therefore, a major shift in philosophy took place. The council levied and “ad valorem” tax of $0.25 per $100 evaluation ($4.79 per $1,916.15 valuation in 2024), believing their “study of the situation developed that there was no other available fair and adequate method of obtaining the necessary value,” and stated that the tax would only go to fund police and fire services. While it was a forced tax, which went against the opinions of many, the tax was cheaper per person than the amount the few subscribers paid. The tax restored 24-hour police protection and established a volunteer fire department with a firetruck, mostly staffed by 16 to 17-year-old boys.
Of the many problems the council faced, police and fire had a simple yet controversial fix. In the future, they wouldn’t be this lucky.
JACK DRAKE is a sophomore at The Ohio State University studying aviation management. The Preston Hollow resident is known for publishing Preston Hollow: A Brief History. Drake is a member of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, a volunteer at Vickery Meadow Food Pantry and creator of Facebook group Preston Hollow History.
Photography courtesy of Jack Drake.
THE BREAD DESTINATION
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Texas Toast, the glorious thickcut white bread smothered with butter, has plenty of origin stories, most of them from DFW.
In the days of bread delivery service, Dallas was a prominent dispatcher of gluten-carrying bread men. While East Dallas had the infamous Mrs. Baird’s factory, on the south side was Golman-Oak Cliff Baking Co., founded by Jake Golman in 1930.
And Golman’s, the bread provider of Dunston’s Steakhouse in Preston Hollow, was the first to break ground on a 15,000 square foot factory. It still stands today on the corner of Eighth and Marsalis.
Golman’s delivery routes kept the bread in-house, but the factory’s impact on bread reached national heights.
Gene Dunston, the latest claimant to the origin stories of Texas Toast, ordered Golman’s bread in mass – unsliced. When Golman discovered Dunston was slicing and grilling the bread himself, Golman created a new machine that created the thicker slices required for the savory treat.
“I actually invented the Texas Toast,” says Gene Dunston in a video posted to social media. “I ordered unsliced bread, I sliced the bread thick. The guy from Golman Baking
Co. in Oak Cliff came over and said ‘I’ve been in the bakery business for 30 years, and you’re the only person to order toast unsliced. I just wonder what you’re doing with it. We showed him … and finally he put a machine in that’d cut the toast. But I started it.’”
The factory closed sometime after the sale of Golman’s and baked goods petered in and out of Oak Cliff. Lone Star Donuts is one of the enduring characters, while Schindler’s Bakery on Davis is a relic of the past.
BAKERIES IN PRESTON HOLLOW TODAY PUT DALLAS BACK ON THE MAP AS A DELECTABLE DESTINATION FOR CARB CRAVERS:
Village Baking Co. is a bake shop that specializes and sells yeastrisen products; specifically breads, croissants, and rolls baked fresh daily.
Eataly in Northpark is an Italian grocery and eatery featuring a marketplace, restaurants and a cooking school.
Empire Baking Co . has offered traditional craft baking since 1992. Meaders and Robert Ozarow appreciate real food, and when they couldn’t find craft bread in Dallas, they decided to follow their shared passion.
Every bite of your favorite bread from Dallas is a bite of history.
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Tubs, Tiles or
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• Kitchen Countertops
LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES
REAL ESTATE
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LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES
#1 WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists serving Dallas 15 years.Trim, Removals. Tree Health Care services. Insured. Arborwizard.com. Free Est. (972) 803-6313.
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PAT TORRES 214-388-1850 Lawn Service & Tree Care. 28 Yrs. Complete Landscape Renovation. New Fence Install & Brick Repair. Concrete Removal and Gutter Cleaning.
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WALTON’S GARDEN CENTER
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FEBRUARY
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REAL ESTATE
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ROOFING
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WATER DAMAGE
cleanup & restoration: A small amount of water can lead to major damage and mold growth in your home. Our trusted professionals do complete repairs to protect your family and your home's value! Call 24/7: 1-888-872-2809
TUTOR/LESSONS
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