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COMMUNITY NEWS Time to kick the tires

MUSIC PREVIEW

Klyde Warren Park hosts free mindful experience

By David Mullen david@katytrailweekly.com On Monday, March 16 from 6 to 8 p.m., Klyde Warren Park at 2012 Woodall Rogers Freeway will be the next stop of a 70-city free musical journey into mindfulness called “MindTravel SilentWalk,” the brainchild of composer and musician Murray Hidary.

Featuring improvisational piano music designed to heal and inspire, one would think Hidary must have had musical parents, grown up in a cult or studied with the Dalai Lama.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

“I grew up in Brooklyn,” said the affable Hidary, 48. “Not far from Coney Island.” Jay-Z was born near the family residence. As a teen, Hidary listened to mainstream artists like Cat Stevens, Billy Joel and Phil Collins, who ironically were masters of

The 2020 Dallas Auto Show is Wednesday, March 18 through Sunday, March 22 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center at 650 S Griffin St. This long-running, annual automobile and truck experience showcases hundreds of the latest vehicles, plus a special section devoted to vintage cars. Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m., Friday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets are $15, with children, military and senior discounts available. – David Mullen

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LIGHT YEARS AHEAD

Composer Murray Hidary will appear at Klyde Warren Park on Monday, March 16. the guitar, piano and drums respectively.

Hidary began playing the cello at age five and took up the piano as

a six-year-old. Hidary, the second of five children, took lessons and practiced on his home piano, which was a wedding gift from his uncle

to his parents.

Although his parents were not particularly MINDFUL cont'd on page 4

RESTAURANT SPECIALS

Save some green dining out around St. Patrick's Day

GREENVILLE AVENUE PIZZA COMPANY

Festive pizza boxes at Greenville Avenue Pizza Company.

By David Mullen david@katytrailweekly.com While emails from the Popcorn Board (popcorn.org) popped up with St. Patrick's Day recipes for treats like Minty Green Popcorn Clusters, Rosemary Thyme Popcorn, Dilly Lemon Munch and Kale Lime Popcorn (really?), there are many local food and events

over the extended St. Patrick's celebration period that are downright salty.

Foxtrot Market at 2822 N McKinney Ave. in Uptown is hosting "Kegs & Eggs" on Saturday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to noon. Foxtrot will feature free breakfast tacos and $2 Guinness pints.

Also, on Saturday, March 14, the Sheraton Dallas at 400 Main St.

offers a staycation. The St. Patrick's package includes a voucher for your choice of two Bushmills Irish Cocktails or a bucket of four local beers in Draft Sports Bar & Lounge, house-made treats from the hotel’s bake shop, St. Patrick’s Day beads, breakfast in Open Palette restaurant for up to two registered adults and a late 4 p.m. checkout.

Elm Street Cask & Kitchen at 1525 Elm St. has two drink specials.

The "Shamrock Shooter" is made with Midori, Jameson and Baileys Irish Cream and the "Pot of Gold" with bourbon, honey simple syrup and lemon.

How about shaking things up?

Liberty Burger at 1904 Abrams Parkway and 5211 Forest Lane offers an adult-spiked milkshake with Baileys, Oreos and vanilla custard. The Biscuit Bar at 2550 Pacific Ave., Suite 150, and 6501 Hillcrest Ave. offers an "Irish Mule" featuring Jameson Irish Whiskey, ginger beer and lime all month long.

On Saturday, March 14, Truck Yard Dallas at 5624 Sears St. will have frozen Irish Coffees, green Jell-O shots and multiple musical acts including the Dallas Fire Department Pipes & Drums band. At nearby Greenville Avenue Pizza Company at 1923 Greenville Ave., pizza boxes open up to cut-outs where you can stick your face for a festive photo.

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Macaron Day Dallas, led by Andrea Meyer of Bisous Bisous at 3700 McKinney Ave. in West Village, is Friday, March 20 and features seven of the best macaron-makers celebrating with free macarons. Haute Sweets Patisserie, JOY BESOS BESOS Macarons, Kate Weiser Chocolates, Savor Pâtisserie, Tart Bakery and We The Birds Macarons (online only) are offering one free macaron per guest and 20 percent of sales for the day will benefit the North Texas Food Bank. – Susan Friedman

Swing for the Katy Trail The Katy Trail Ice House Invitational charity golf tournament will return to Gleneagles Country Club at 5401 W. Park Blvd. in Plano for its sixth annual fundraiser on Monday, March 23 at noon. The tournament beneficiary is Friends of Katy Trail Ice House Invitational 2020 the Katy Trail, the nonprofit organization responsible for raising close to $1 million annually for lighting, trees, plants, safety patrols and more. Troy Aikman (above) is the honorary chair. For information, go to ktihinvitational.com. – Amy Pyrz

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NOTES FROM THE EDITOR

'Going up! Floor 11, 12, 14 … '

By David Mullen david@katytrailweekly.com Round Table Pizza is coming to Dallas at 5600 SMU Blvd. across the street from Milo Butterfingers.

Now branded "Pizza Royalty," we grew up on Round Table Pizza in high school and college in Northern California, where the company began in 1959.

It serves good, hearty pies and is slated to open in late summer. The students at SMU will be hard-pressed to resist a night at Round Table … We have kept an eye on the Ross at Peak Thrift Store, at the corner of Ross Avenue and N. Peak Street, since it has been going out of business for the 35 years that I have lived in Dallas.

A sign now states, "Moving to 4114 Live Oak." I should probably go there before it moves, but I think I have plenty of time … Ever notice

a button missing? I am not suggesting on calling out to a tailor or seamstress. I mean the button labeled "13" on an elevator panel. In honor of Friday, March 13, we revisit triskaidekaphobia and the superstition surrounding the number 13. This practice and some of the beliefs surrounding it have been around since architects have been capable of adding many floors to a building. I can give you 12 to 14 reasons why there is distain for the number 13. Most common theories are based on the stock market crash chronicled in the Thomas Lawson novel Friday, the Thirteenth, that Loki, bad boy of the Norse, was the 13th Norse God and that Judas was the 13th to take a seat at The Last Supper. I wonder if the busboy had to get him a chair? In downtown Dallas, Republic Center and The Adolphus Hotel each have a 13th floor. Mary

David Mullen Kay kept her office on the 13th floor of the company headquarters. According to Otis "My Man!" Elevators, 85 percent of elevator panels nationwide omit the number 13. Apparently, triskaidekaphobia can cause nausea, rapid heartbeat, sweating and anxiety, or the same symptoms you feel before an IRS audit … The coronavirus has affected so many businesses and public gatherings like sporting events, conventions and trade shows. But with the Travel & Adventure Show coming to Dallas on Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 at Dallas Market Hall, the captain of Travel & Adventure Shows is showing little

concern. “While we are fielding questions regarding COVID-19 from both consumers and exhibitors, we are seeing overwhelming evidence of confidence from the tens of thousands of informed travelers that have attended, and will be attending, our events,” said company CEO John Golicz … Rudolph Foods, with a large Dallas operation, is testing a new gluten-free pork rind called Southern Recipe Small Batch Pasilla Chili Cheese … When it comes to pets, I like tropical fish. I know I am in the minority, and fully understand why people have pets because they seek loyal companionship, have children or could care less about their furniture and floors. In a recent survey by ZipRecruiter, pets in the workplace has become a listed benefit to attract new employees.

While only 12 percent of offices allow pets, employees are willing to give up other

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benefits to have their dachshund by their desk, their collie by the copier or their wolamute by the water cooler.

Forty-five percent of job seekers said that it was important to have pets in the workplace, so much so that many are willing to give up free snacks, catered meals and employee discounts. Even some are willing to forgo one paid vacation day, one percent of their gross salary and even their performance bonus.

With less income, how are they going to pay for replacing their sofa and chairs? For some reason, Houston is the most progressive city when it comes to allowing pets during office hours. I guess hounds don't warm up to humidity, either. Companies like Cinemark, Esurance, Panasonic and Universal Music Group have gone as far as offering pet insurance. No word if the companies also cover triskaidekaphobia.

RACIAL EQUALITY

DALLAS ISD TRUSTEE MIGUEL SOLIS, DISTRICT 8

Dallas ISD wants to create social safety net

District 8 kudos. Congratulations to questionnaire.

Lucia Sol Montemayor, a fifth-grade stuTo learn more, visit dent at Solar Preparatory School for Girls, the Census Bureau FAQs who won first place in the second-annual page at 2020census.gov/ Dallas ISD Poetry Slam. Lucia competen/help. Families are urged ed against 150 students from 77 Dallas to be on the lookout for ISD elementary schools and even won the census questionnaire, a $5,000 college scholarship funded by and to respond honestly Roland Parrish, owner and CEO of Parrish Miguel Solis and quickly to ensure our Restaurants Ltd. Lucia’s poem higharea is accurately counted. lighted her identity, from the meaning of her Remember: I count! You count! We all count! name and the culture of her ancestors, to the Coronavirus precautions. I want to asschool that she attends and the person that sure you that Dallas ISD Health Services she is today. and other departments are closely monitorYou Count! This month, homes across ing the progress of the Novel Coronavirus, north Texas will receive invitations in the also known as COVID-19, and following the mail from the U.S. Census Bureau to particadvice of the CDC and the Dallas County ipate in the 2020 Census, a count of all the Public Health Department to prepare for any individuals living in the U.S. The questioneventuality. naire will ask the head of household to subWith spring break this month, the district mit answers to a few basic questions about has gathered information to help keep staff, everyone living in the home, including young students and their families safe during and children. The questionnaire does not ask after spring break. General precautions while about citizenship status, and by law, all centraveling or at home like: sus information is kept private.

• Continue good hygiene practices.

Residents can respond to the census • Wash hands with soap and water regonline, by phone or by mail. The census is ularly for at least 20 seconds. Always after important because the data is used to alcoughing, sneezing or blowing your nose, locate federal dollars for schools, housing after using the restroom, and before you assistance, transportation, health programs, consume any food and beverages. services to the homeless, food assistance, • If washing your hands is not practical, and more. use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer conTo help families respond to the census, taining at least 60% alcohol. all Dallas ISD schools will make a computer • Wipe down surfaces at home and available to parents to submit their census while traveling such as hand rests, metal information. And during the week of March seatbelt buckles and tray tables with sanitiz23-27, more than 100 Dallas ISD schools are ing wipes. hosting Census Nights to make computers For more information, visit dallasisd.org/ available and to share census information. healthupdates.

Schools will reach out to parents with an Social and emotional learning. Dallas invitation to attend Census Night and parISD will be celebrating International SEL Day ents are encouraged to contact their schools on Friday, March 24! To learn more about for the exact date and time.

SEL Day and the social and emotional learnIn May, census takers will begin visiting resources available to your family visit ing homes that have not responded to the dallasisd.org/sel.

From Dallas ISD Racial Equity Office dallasisd.org/racialequity

grocery stores, and other services. Action Lab executive Ashley Flores has mapped 25 data points around the five target schools and found a relationship between the lack of services and the level of poverty in the communities.

Presenting this data to residents, community leaders and elected officials, Williams is working to enlist support for earmarking $40 million in the proposed November bond package to create the community hubs. His plan calls for Dallas ISD to make the space available. He’s appealing to city, county, and social service agencies to provide the services identified by residents as most vital. These might include health services offered by Parkland Hospital, Section 8 voucher assistance from the Dallas Housing Authority, and job training programs and counseling services offered by other partners.

“This can be a game changer for a lot of people who are struggling,” Williams said.

Parents and stakeholders are invited to the following meetings to review the CRI data for their communities and provide input on the services they want to see housed in the school hubs: Tuesday, March 24 at 6 p.m. at Lincoln High School at 2826 Elsie Faye Heggins St, Saturday, March 28 at 10 a.m. at H. Grady Spruce High School at 9733 Old Seagoville Road, Wednesday, April 1 at 6 p.m. at L.G. Pinkston High School at 200 Dennison St., Thursday, April 16 at 6 p.m. at Franklin Roosevelt High School at 525 Bonnie View Road and a Joint Communities Meeting on Saturday, April 28 at 10 a.m. at 5151 Samuell Blvd.

Leslie Williams, the head of Dallas ISD’s Racial Equity Office, is intent on taking action to reverse the pervasive poverty in Dallas’ poorest communities. “We want to address past inequities that are still having an impact on redlined neighborhoods,” Williams said.

Williams is spearheading an effort to assign a portion of the proposed 2020 bond package to correct past inequities that have created a legacy of poverty in communities around Lincoln, James Madison, Franklin Roosevelt and H. Grady Spruce high schools. He is meeting with parents, residents and elected officials, presenting evidence that the poverty surrounding these schools has its roots in the practice of redlining. He’s proposing to have neighborhood schools serve as community hubs to help improve economic opportunity through a focus on family services, education, economics and health.

It’s no secret that redlining was a common practice of financial institutions in the 1930s and ’40s. Banks and mortgage companies literally drew a line around certain communities where they refused to make or guarantee home loans that would enable black, brown and poor whites to move into those communities. Williams says redlining locked a generation out of homeownership, the major means of building wealth. He says the inequity created the intergenerational poverty that still impacts neighborhoods today. The practice also served as a disincentive to investment, stripping those neighborhoods of needed services.

To prove his point, Williams is working with the Child Poverty Action Lab, a nonprofit that has developed the Community Resource Index. The CRI is a mapping tool that measures the economic health of a community based on available resources such as libraries, wi-fi bandwidth, childLeslie Williams meets with the community. care, health facilities, K AT Y TR AIL WEEKLY'S

CRIME WATCH March 5 – 7:49 p.m.

3900 Block, Cedar Springs Rd. (75219) Theft of Property: An unknown suspect stole the complainant’s bicycle.

March 5 – 8:23 p.m.

4800 Block, Swiss Ave. (75204) Burglary of a Habitation: An unknown suspect used the complainant’s key to enter the apartment and stole property.

March 6 – 3:05 p.m.

2300 Block, Boll St. (75204) Assault: An unknown suspect grabbed the complainant’s butt.

March 6 – 4:01 p.m.

2200 Block, Victory Ave. (75202) Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle: An unknown suspect

stole the complainant’s vehicle.

March 6 – 7:08 p.m.

5300 Block, Maple Ave. (75235) Burglary of a Building: An unknown suspect entered the building and stole property.

March 7 – 11:22 a.m.

3400 Block, Oak Lawn Ave. (75219) Robbery of a Business: Two unknown suspect stole property from the complainant.

March 7 – 1:20 p.m.

5400 Block, Skillman St. (75206) Theft of Property: An unknown suspect stole the complainant’s bicycle.

March 7 – 1:27 p.m.

5000 Block, Amesbury Dr. (75206) Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle: An unknown suspect stole the complainant’s vehicle.

OUR MISSION Katy Trail Weekly is a community-friendly newspaper designed to inform and entertain the people in many diverse demographics who live and/or work in these neighborhoods. Much like the Katy Trail itself, Katy Trail Weekly is designed to help bring together the neighborhoods of Downtown, Uptown, Cedar Springs/Oak Lawn, the Design District, the Medical District and the Park Cities, as well as others. The newspaper is placed in local businesses, and other locations, for free pick-up by their patrons. We support this publication by providing ad space to local businesses who want an effective and affordable way to reach the Katy Trail area readers we attract and serve. We welcome participation in the paper through story and picture submissions, and we hope that you will join us in making this paper the best it can be.

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March 8 – 1:30 a.m.

3400 Block, McKinney Ave. (75204) Criminal Mischief: The suspect damaged complainant’s vehicle.

March 8 – 10:16 a.m.

5800 Block, Oram St. (75206) Burglary of a Motor Vehicle: An unknown suspect entered the complainant’s vehicle and stole property.

March 9 – 2:37 p.m.

2800 Block, Elm St. (75226) Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle: An unknown suspect stole the complainant’s vehicle.

March 9 – 7:10 p.m.

2900 Block, McKinney Ave. (75204) Theft from Person: An unknown suspect reached into the complainant’s purse and stole property.

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ENVIRONMENT

Biochar: improving soil and impacting climate change

By Karen Fleig Carbon sequestration is a major topic in combatting climate change. The science community is currently studying the long-term viability of the soil amendment, biochar and its impact on climate change and ability for crops to increase carbon sequestration. Cornell University agricultural science professor Johannes Lehmann, a top biochar expert, calculated that adding 10 percent biochar to cropland across the planet would sequester 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is roughly equal to the annual greenhouse emissions created by people.

Biochar is form of charcoal created by a process called pyrolysis where organic material is heated in an oxygen-deprived environment. The result of pyrolysis is the biomass is broken down into simpler components into a highly absorbent version of charcoal and can be used as a soil amendment. It is believed biochar use dates back thousands of years to the Amazon Basins.

Scientists have found regions of dark, extremely fertile soil including high concentrations of biochar and organic matter known as terra preta in the Amazon Basins.

The pyrolysis process captures the carbon in the organic matter in a solid form that can then be used as a soil amendment with benefits including boosting fertility, scrubbing the soil of pollutants such as heavy metals, increasing resistance to drought and flooding and sequestering that carbon

EARTHX

Biochar is a highly absorbent soil amendment, the use of which dates back thousands of years. underground.

The question remains how long biochar’s carbon remains sequestered and how much of it is needed to make a meaningful dent in global warming. What is clear, both Lehmann and noted NASA climate scientist James Hansen agree, biochar should be sourced from waste material from ongoing agricultural and forestry production rather than clear-cutting forests for plantation trees destined for biochar production.

Commercial biochar production. Given the potential value of biochar both as an effective soil amendment and a global warming change agent,

it’s not surprising companies are specializing in the material.

Biochar Now, a biochar industry company with a bold mission statement – “To restore the Earth for Humanity” – is bringing engineering, manufacturing, sales and administrative personnel to the goal of creating and selling quality biochar at scale.

Biochar Now was founded in 2011 with three goals: understand biochar’s beneficial properties and potential markets, understand how to consistently make high-quality biochar at very large scale and meet the EPA’s emissions standards.

Since that time, it has tapped existing research, consultants,

The Good Word

Out into the real world

By the Rev. Dr. Christopher D. Girata Rector, Saint Michael and All Angels Last week, I had a great time on Ash Wednesday. “A great time” is not exactly what most people think when they think about Ash Wednesday, but it was true for me.

My church is near Preston Center, so this year, I carried ashes straight out the front doors and walked through Preston Center. I was looking for people who may have missed church, hadn’t planned to go or perhaps didn’t even know what Ash Wednesday is. I wore all the big, fancy clothes (we call them vestments) and went charging into Preston Center during the lunch rush, shouting to people with an invitation for ashes.

I wasn’t entirely sure how this was going to be received. Yes, quite a few churches in Dallas do something similar to this, but they tend to post up somewhere and invite people to come to them. This was a bit different, and I wondered if this might be viewed as a bit too aggressive. As I walked down the sidewalk, I waved, smiled and shouted to people on their way to and from lunch or shopping or dropping off their kids.

First, let me say that I only experienced polite people. That’s not a small thing. I was a random guy, dressed in pretty unusual clothes, shouting to them about ashes. This could have easily elicited some rudeness. But no, to a person, they were polite — whether they accepted ashes or not. Quickly, we started to gather a crowd, and then, in front of SusieCakes, a line began to form.

Person after person waited to receive ashes. People drove up to the sidewalk and waved out their window, asking me to offer ashes in the car. And it was amazing.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the practice of having ashes on one’s forehead, let me briefly explain. Each year, Christians around the world place ashes on their foreheads to remind us that we are all mortal, that we will all die and return to the dust (ash) of the ground.

This might seem a bit morbid to an outside observer, but I can assure you that there is no morbidity at all. In fact, Ash Wednesday — done correctly — is a beautiful way to

remember and honor what makes us truly human.

I often write and speak about very hard issues. Too Rev. Dr. Girata often, we are reminded that our world can be scary and unpredictable, and we often seek lives of stability, predictability and security.

There is nothing inherently wrong with seeking security, but too often we allow the pursuit of security to cloud the reality of our humanity.

Readers, we are human. We live and we will die. If that seems too heavy or scary, then I have a solution.

Fear of death is natural, but fear of death should not be our highest motivator. Great thinkers, philosophers and theologians throughout human history have sought meaning and purpose, and we do too. If I may be so bold, I’d like to suggest that our meaning and our purpose can never be focused on ourselves or our self-interest alone. We are made to be connected to one another, to invest in one another and to love one another. When our lives shift focus toward generosity, toward serving the great good, then death will no longer be a moment we fear. When we embrace our humanity, in all our broken beauty, we will be free.

This week, I invite you to go out into the real world. I invite you to go just a little bit outside your comfort zone and try connecting with strangers in ways that stretch your sensibilities. You may not choose to shout at strangers on the street during the lunch rush, but if you take one small step toward another, you might just discover a bit of beauty you didn’t expect.

Dr. Chris Girata was called to be the eighth Rector of Saint Michael and All Angels in Dallas and started his ministry at Saint Michael on Aug. 15, 2016. Chris is a native of Florida, a classically trained musician and an amateur cook. He and his wife, Nicole, have three children.

science and engineering and undertook its own research and development around biochar. The result is 11 patents on its technology and biochar applications.

A key difference between biochar and regular charcoal is charcoal is produced primarily for cooking while biochar is produced specifically as a soil amendment with other commercial uses being uncovered by research by universities and industry. It is created by two processes – fast and slow pyrolysis. Fast pyrolysis rapidly heats feed stock, such as wood chips, at moderate to high temperatures while slow pyrolysis uses gradual heating over a wide temperature

range to create biochar. Biochar Now uses slow pyrolysis which allows for different wood sizes, moisture levels and natural anomalies to be processed into a consistent, high-quality biochar.

Getting back to the science around biochar, a Rodale Institute article from 2019 cited studies that found it stores around half of the carbon in the biomass converted by pyrolysis and while the science isn’t finalized, that carbon could possibly be sequestered as a stable carbon source in the soil for up to thousands of years. A 2014 study found charcoal reduced carbon mineralization and off-gassing – stabilized in other words – by around 66 percent through a phenomenon called the negative priming effect. This effect was confirmed by a meta-study including 395 research papers on charcoal and carbon off-gassing.

Biochar is an intriguing material with a number of benefits from improving soil to having a meaningful impact on climate change. It’s not a magic bullet for global warming, but ongoing research and commercial applications such as those offered by Biochar Now are promising. As the Rodale article concluded, “Today biochar may hold more significance than ever before. As we search for ways to be keeping carbon in our soil and out of the atmosphere, biochar may not be the answer but it may be a part of helping all the other answers.”

Learn more at Earthx2020 in partnership with the National Geographic Society on Friday, April 24 to Sunday, March 26 at Fair Park. "EarthX – Change Happens Here." Earthx.org.

UPTOWN GIRL

Local photographer hosts open houses

By Ryann Gordon

ryannbgordon@yahoo.com One thing we love about our city is the presence of artists who oftentimes work sideby-side in collaboration with one another. Where a nature of competition could exist, many of Dallas’ local artists ring true in their confidence and utilize their individuality to benefit other artists in their craft.

This is what local photographer Christa Egusquiza was channeling when she first started hosting photographer events over the past year. After several runs of success, her events have become a creative hotspot for photographers that will return to Irving five times a year. The most recent event she held, "Cameras, Concepts and Content," took place at Space F2 Studios on March 8 with a turnout that screamed success. But don’t worry, it’ll be back soon in August and September. She’s hosting another event in May as well, which you can follow updates on at her Instagram (@christawh).

The event Egusquiza, "How to be Social," Timothy Hoang and Missy Monoxide, brought together photographers, stylists, models, makeup artists, bloggers and lots of frilly fun. This is where each of the show’s hosts built individual photobooth setups, all completely unique in theme, for photographers to take their whack at shooting some new, diverse concepts.

“I wanted each of the booths to be represented by different creative groups,” said Egusquiza, diving into the photobooth themes that her cohosts designed. Her booth featured a whimsical forest, while the others included a teenage bedroom from the ’90s, a “Campy Tea Party,” which was a bubble extravaganza. It was an edgy, white light room with a swing and a beach theme.

The best part about the event was that they provided not only the finely crafted props and backgrounds, but all the trappings needed for a real

RYANN GORDON

Christa Egusquiza's photography events feature booth setups for photographers to shoot their version of diverse and unique themes.

life, professional photoshoot.

The group hired four models, a makeup artist for those who brought their own models, a clothing rack with all the styling necessities for each shoot and even some food for attendees to snack on.

For just $5, each of the photographers who attended were

given the opportunity to gather around one another and shoot as if they were a professional photographer in a studio photoshoot. Working both individually and together as one, the event turned out to be a huge success that’ll hopefully return so that the city’s artists can get even bigger and better in the future.

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Meat-stock jelly 6. Painter’s garb 11. Medieval holdings 16. Tribal adviser 21. Footrest 22. Skiing mecca 23. Spouse’s sibling (hyph.)

24. Twilled fabric 25. Deal with (2 wds.)

26. Awestruck 27. Diver’s gear 28. Hoopster’s venue 29. School (2 wds.)

31. Of sound mind 33. Slime 35. Mal de — 36. Thumbs-up vote 37. Wrinkled fruit 38. Chess victory 39. On the double 41. Got acquainted 42. Wire 44. Clever 46. No big thing 51. Lower in esteem 53. Ordered 54. Thus 58. Goes over again 60. Pinocchio, quite often 61. Hitched, as oxen 62. Sun Devils inst.

63. Blooms 64. Tweet 66. Labyrinths 67. “The Stranger” author 69. Tall vase 70. Pipe unclogger

71. Georgia city 72. Hare cousin 73. Familiar digits 75. “— No Sunshine” 76. Daydream 77. Scallion relatives 79. Storage bin 81. Fanatics 84. Pinnacle 85. Carnival ride 89. Diagram 90. “Ready or not, here I —!”

92. Teeming 96. Sincere 97. Sci-fi thriller 99. Liverpool lockups 100. Ewe’s plaint 101. Ram, in astrology 102. Glasses, slangily 103. Arizona city 104. Jury members 106. Eliminate 107. Coral formations 108. Pat an infant 109. Cookout place 111. Term terminator 113. Bring to a stop 114. Send, as payment 116. Dosed the dog 117. Mideast VIPs 119. Kiddie-lit author 121. Kind of deer 123. “Imagine” singer 126. Brick baker 127. Carry to and fro 129. PC key 132. Previously 133. Led to the altar 135. “Nifty!”

137. In an unhurried

manner 139. Code inventor 141. Police bulletin 143. Sharp, as hearing 145. Mention 146. More weird 147. Name in tractors 148. Play stoolie (2 wds.)

149. Juicy steak (hyph.)

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57. Kicks out 59. Book copier of old 61. Millionaire’s toy 65. “Star Wars” rogue 66. Brick worker 67. Tranquil 68. More up to it 70. Fresh as a — 71. City in Italy 72. Hotfoots it 74. Sports page datum 76. Tom Jones’ country 78. Ophelia’s love 80. Grooves 82. DeMille movies 83. Shrimp entree 85. Map for a navigator 86. Condor’s abode 87. Forays 88. Jacket features 91. V.T. Hamlin’s Alley — 93. Steel girder (hyph.)

94. Travesty

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104. Golf instructor 105. Goof it up 107. Dry white wine

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musically inclined, his mother did encourage the family to participate in music. “We all played stringed instruments [including the cello, harp and violin], but I was the only one to take it all the way,” Hidary said.

“When I was younger, I was really shy. Music was something I could get lost in and find my voice. I knew in high school that I wanted to be a composer. I felt that I had my own thing to say with music.” Upon entering New York University, Hidary went on to formally study to become a classical composer. He played in a band but gravitated toward a more sophisticated style while studying the work of noted minimalist musician Philip Glass.

After graduating from NYU, Hidary moved to Los Angeles. “I didn't want to go into jingle writing, which is what so many with my type of degree do,” he said. “I decided to find another way of making money. I tried teaching for a year. It was nice but wasn't giving me the type of lifestyle that I wanted for the future.” He joined his brother in starting a computer company, EarthWeb, which helped him understand networking and platform building. He kept a piano in his office to “rest and re-center,” Hidary said. “It helped me evolve my music.”

A personal tragedy – the loss of his 23-year-old sister to an accident

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– was life changing. “I saw the power that music can really provide,” Hidary said. “Finally, I decided to share it with the world. I phased out of the tech stuff to really create a fresh start and play hours a day to hone my craft.”

Hidary wrote and recorded his first symphony in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 30.

“Along the way, I very much got into Eastern ideas, mediation and philosophies,” Hidary said. “Those two worlds really came together for me. Western classical music and Eastern philosophy.” Hidary has studied theoretical physics, Aikido, the Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and the ancient music tradition of the Zen monks. He has climbed Mont Blanc, the Grand Teton and Mount Cook, scuba-dived in the Great Barrier Reef and has explored the U.S. national parks.

“I really wanted to take people out to nature,” Hidary said. “It has always been a great inspiration for me. It is healing, inspiring and creative. But as a Steinway artist, they weren't going to let me bring the piano to the beach or the outdoors. Plus, you wouldn't be able to hear the piano because the sound, even with speakers, would be so terrible.”

For maximum acoustics, Hidary now plays on an electric piano and provides headsets so fans can appreciate the full experience. There are no

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light shows or visual effects.

“I had the idea to put the whole audience in wireless headphones,” Hidary said. “I tried it out and it worked wonderfully. What ends up happening is that the whole audience has an intimate, individual experience. You hear the music directly into your head, as if I am playing just for you. And you look around and see hundreds of other people also having that personal experience. It creates this sense of unity and community.”

After starting in small venues and theaters, today, he shares his music through “MindTravel” to thousands of fans in arenas and parks. His music is original and improvisational (“real time composition,” as he calls it) and his audiences range from kids to seniors and is proud of “great ethnic diversity” found in the crowd. “The music brings everyone together,” Hidary said.

“Many people call it ‘Soundtrack for the Soul,’” Hidary said. “Which I kind of like.” Hidary continues to compose new work, hiking and meditating in some of the world's beautiful places.

He credits his parents sending him to a camp in Upstate New York as a teen as an inspiration for the outdoors. “I think today we live in such urbanization. It disconnects us from nature.

But it is all around us, if we want to look for it.” Like above a downtown Dallas freeway.

Your Stars this Week

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by Stella Wilder

The coming week is likely to present a number of issues in which parity, equality and overall fairness will figure prominently — and it is just as likely that a few key individuals will rise to the top, take the reins and guide all others toward consensus on these and other central issues. At both work and play, adjustments can be made this week to promote well-being and positivity.

For those who encounter resistance this week when working toward equality, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, the answer is patience. It is quite likely that those who have to will get with the program this week.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) You’re likely to figure out a way to make things much easier for yourself and others this week. If it catches on, you may enjoy unexpected rewards. (March 6-March 20) – You can address one or two deep-seated concerns this week — and the timing is right for working to overcome one or two major fears as well. Get cracking!

ARIES (March 21-April 4) Mistakes made this week can be unmade very quickly — though there may be some vestigial reminder that you’ll have to deal with from now on. (April 5-April 19) – You’ll enjoy an increased level of trust between yourself, friends and your family members this week. A single concession results in a major step forward for all.

TAURUS (April 2-May 5) Emotional currents may be much easier to navigate this week than you had feared. It’s likely that everyone will know what you’re trying to accomplish. (May 6-May 20) – You’re likely to go through something you’ll remember for quite some time — but that can be advantageous as you work to extend its overall effects and learn by doing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 6) You’ll receive many reminders all week long, but those that you leave for yourself — in notes around the house or workplace — will be the most important.

(June 7-June 20) – Your interest in what someone is doing may be a sign that you are not as invested in your own affairs this week as you might be. Is this cause for real concern?

CANCER (June 21-July 7) You may not be able to support an ally’s decisions this week — until he or she is willing to include you in a few episodes to which you can add great value. (July 8-July 22) – You must take care this week that in helping another with a major issue you don’t make it about you. You have enough to deal with without being the center of that world!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) You must not miss any appointments or meetings this week.

If you must address a certain formidable problem, do so only after concocting a possible solution. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) – You’ve made solid plans, but they’re not likely to pan out as anticipated this week. Surprises come in lumps, two or three at a time, and demand immediate, focused attention.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) What you don’t like you don’t have to do this week — but you may have to make one or two small concessions as you answer a certain professional challenge.

(Sept. 8-Sept. 22) – Adjustments to your schedule should prove relatively painless this week — but if you find yourself with extra time on your hands, you’ll want to fill it very quickly!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) Your ability to see both sides of a key issue will serve you well once again this week. Not everyone will agree with your final assessment, however. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) – You must be willing to take in more information than usual this week as you address certain challenges and chart a course down an unfamiliar path. Friends fill in the blanks.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) You can provide an alibi of sorts for someone who is eager to extricate himself or herself from an uncomfortable situation. Is this going to cost you? (Nov. 8-Nov.

21) – You’ll want to consider all possible outcomes as you make a new plan. There are some variables you will not be able to control, so be prepared to improvise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) You’re likely to face at least one difficult situation this week; if it is in the professional arena, you’re surely equipped to handle it.

(Dec. 8-Dec. 21) – Your mindset isn’t really all that suitable for the situation you are likely to face this week. You can surely make necessary adjustments — but perhaps only just in time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) You will want to avoid making any decision you cannot unmake until you are sure that everyone is on board and agrees with your overall strategy. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) – You’re likely to do everything according to plan this week, and yet you may still encounter a few surprises that require you to make adjustments on the fly. Be flexible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) Your memory of a past event may not match that of someone who was there. You mustn’t be stubborn! It’s likely that he or she is right, and you are wrong.

(Feb. 4-Feb. 18) – Your week will be affected in part by a decision made early on that you aren’t even aware you’re making. Later on, you’ll understand just how important it really was.

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March 13

3030 McKinney Ave. Dallas, 75204 214-871-2221

La Tour Building – Fort Worth-native artist Christopher Elam displays a solo show, "Christopher Elam: Sequential Works 2019 2020" at the McKinney Avenue high-rise. Hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine will be served. Ten percent of the proceeds from the evening will benefit the American Cancer Society. 5:30 p.m. FREE!

March 13

1230 W. Davis St. Dallas, 75208 214-272-8346

The Kessler – Lead of the Grammy Award-winning band The Mavericks and writer of many of their songs, Raul Malo comes to town as part of his annual winter solo tour featuring modern country, rock ’n roll and Latin styles. 7 p.m. $34.

March 13-14

4980 Belt Line Road, #250 Addison, 75254 972-404-8501

Improv Addison – Best know for his role as Ari Gold in the popular HBO series "Entourage" and a more than 30year acting career, Jeremy Piven is ready to take the stage in a new stand-up comedy show. Friday at 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Saturday at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. $30 to $60.

March 14

3505 Maple Ave. Dallas, 75219 214-670-7720

Reverchon Park – The Figment Dallas interactive art festival features interactive and participatory art installations from more than 31 emerging and established artists working in a variety of different disciplines. Attendees will enjoy music, face painting, sculpture, art cars, immersive outdoor environments, balloon artists, light displays after sunset and more. 10 a.m. FREE!

March 15

10909 Hillcrest Road Dallas, 75230 214-691-3611

Tiferet Israel – Partnered with The Texas Jewish Artists Association, the Kosher Chili Cook-off features chili tasting, music, rides and more. The event will showcase an art show and sale during the cook-off. Live music includes the Mazik Experience, Side Gig and Windy City. Proceeds benefit Jewish-family Services Mental Health programs. 11 a.m. $6 to $12. FREE! for children 3 and under.

March 15

2520 Flora St. Dallas, 75201 214-671-1450

Moody Performance Hall – The Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents "ENCHANTMENT!," the story of the music and the lives of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar and violin wizard Vidwan Lalgudi Jayaraman. Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan created the play-performance with incidents and anecdotes from the lives of the two musicians.

5 p.m. $5 to $50.

March 20-28

2403 Flora St., Suite 500, Dallas, 75201 214-443-1000

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House – For the first time since 1988, The Dallas Opera presents Verdi’s masterpiece "Don Carlo," about power, persecution and political intrigue. Conducted by music director Emmanuel Villaume, "Don Carlo" is directed by Edward Berkeley. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday matinee begins at 2 p.m. Tickets begin at $19.

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Charity

Sp

tlight

AWARE

President Jolie Humphrey, of a women’s group supporting Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, tells about the 30-year-old nonprofit. day-to-day challenges of living with this disease.

By Sally Blanton sallyblanton455@gmail.com Each week, Katy Trail Weekly will feature a charity that is doing remarkable work in Dallas, a city known for philanthropy and generosity.

Q What is your mission or highest

A

purpose?

AWARE is dedicated to fighting Alzheimer’s disease by providing funding and support to programs, projects and research provided by nonprofit organizations that actively help individuals affected by Alzheimer’s’ disease in the greater North Texas area. AWARE was founded by Evelyn Ponder and five other women: Ruth Sharp Altshuler, Cyndy Hudgins, Nancy Nelson, Billie Leigh Rippey and Anita Samples.

Q What is difficult about your job?

A Having to realistically accept that a cure is

far off in the future, while looking a patient and caregiver in the eye and trying to bring them hope and comfort.

Q What is rewarding about your job?

A The AWARE membership is totally volunteer driven. It is an honor to be able to say that every dollar raised by these volunteer hours stays in the greater North Texas community.

Q About how many people are served

A

Q How did you take on the position as

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president?

I have been president of a few nonprofits in the past such as Kidney Texas, Woman’s Board Dallas Opera and my daughter’s National Charity League chapter. I am very fortunate to have a supporting husband and time to allow me to dedicate hours of service to the nonprofits I care about.

Q Why are you passionate about help-

A

ing this charity?

I saw my grandmother suffer from Alzheimer’s and witnessed my aunts and uncles daunting tasks as her caregivers. As a co-chair of the 2018 gala, I saw a purpose and a passion in the members for service to the Alzheimer’s community.

Q What is the most important

A

thing your nonprofit does for our community?

The most overlooked and underserved people are the caregivers. AWARE continues to focus on care giving and service. These are the ones who deal with the ongoing

each year?

AWARE funded or partially funded 17 grant recipients in the areas of outreach, education, arts & culture, service and research in the 2019 grant cycle these facilities will impact the lives of more than 260,000 individuals. In addition to these grants, AWARE also contributed to four geriatric nursing scholarships through the Myrna D. Schlegel AWARE Scholarship Fund.

Q What are your critical needs now,

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besides money donations?

We need to better harness the ability to broadcast the message of our 30-year mission for the support of caregivers, families and loved ones in conjunction with those research efforts seeking a cure.

Jolie D. Humphrey, AWARE president 2019/2020, answered these questions.

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Yardbird Southern Table & Bar at 2121 N. Pearl St. opened with a VIP party on March 7, featuring cast members from Bravo TV's "The Real Housewives of Dallas" Brandi Redmond, Stephanie Hollman and Kary Brittingham.

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COMPASS

Amy Detwiler of Compass has this French transitional at 3311 Beverly Drive listed for $5.99 million.

By Candy Evans candace@candysdirt.com We have a couple of mantras here at CandysDirt.com. One is if you can purchase the home of a builder, do it. This French transitional is a perfect example of why that is solid advice.

Mike Wilderman owns Double Door Custom Homes. He built this 7,560-squarefoot stunner fully intending to move in with his wife and young daughter. He pulled out all the stops with this five-bedroom,

six-bathroom, two-powder-bath home with a game room, a home theater and the most perfect screened porch off the family area. The house is both elevator- and generator-ready.

Yep, it has everything!

Once it was finished, Wilderman looked around asked himself, “Do we really need a 7,650-square-foot home?” After all, they were one and done with kiddos so that’s a lot of space for a family of three.

I can’t tell you how many builder’s wives I’ve interviewed that know they will be in a house a year or never move into the finished product. They call it a "builder-wife life." And when your finished product is flawless, why not sell and do it all over again? It’s a passion.

So, lucky readers, this gorgeous French transitional is on the market.

Wilderman has been building since 2008. He began his career as a mechanical engineer. “I liked to take things apart and put them back together, and that was the degree

path,” Wilderman said.

Early on, he acquired his real estate license so he knows the ins and outs of marketing and selling. He doesn’t just know how to build a great house but he also knows how to build a great team.

“I believe the more brains that go into a project the better off you are,” Wilderman said. “I like for everyone to have input.”

Interior designer Robyn Menter was involved from the beginning. She did the materials selections and finish-out. “I bounce all my ideas off her,” Wilderman said. "I’ve known her for a long time and trust her.

I’m really hands-on helping with design in general.”

One thing that sets this French transitional apart is the natural flow of light throughout the home.

“Most homes have nine- or 10-foot-high ceilings,” Wilderman said. “You just don’t see a lot of houses with windows going up two

ROOM TO GROW

Hammer and Nails

Make your closet beautiful

Look for the pros

By Stephan Sardone stephan@sardoneconstruction.com With market volatility afoot, now is a great time to consider investing in your home.

Thirty-year mortgage rates are at lows not seen in nearly 50 years. You may want to consider refinancing and use the extra money to initiate the challenges you have wanted to undertake but may not have been able to afford.

If you are selling a home, it is a good time to sell. If you are buying a home, it is a good time to buy. But only the best homes with the latest improvements will sell at the top-ofthe-market especially in Dallas, where supply of great, affordable housing still remains at a premium.

Consider these remodeling projects if you are looking to add value and improve the environment of your home.

Do an attic conversion. That added space can be very valuable for an added bedroom, home office, den or media room.

Replace the garage door. Often overlooked, this is a focal point of the home, particularly if the garage is in the front of the house.

Remodel the kitchen. This is as big or small a project as you want it to be. Maybe you just need paint and new appliances, or really want that island space.

Trade out windows. It will enhance the look of the exterior and save energy.

Spruce up bathrooms. They are the most used rooms in your home and guest bathrooms leave a lasting impression.

In almost all cases, these are not do-ityourself projects.

As always, we recommend employing the services of an insured, licensed professional contractor and to stay local for your remodeling needs. It increases response time and trust.

Conscientious, local contractors want a positive reputation where their bread is buttered, or better put, where their dry wall is spackled.

The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), with a Dallas chapter, is national trade association dedicated to remodeling and is an excellent resource for finding top contractors. Sardone Design-Build-

stories to allow light to enter the home. It was very important for us to have that double volume space in the living and entry areas.”

Wilderman put as much thought into the exterior as he did the interior. I always like to ask builders what they’ve done in a home that they will include in future designs. An enclosed back porch with the fireplace and wet-bar is a must-have in any future home of his. The backyard design, pool and three-car garage are also high on his list. Wilderman teamed up with Bill Bauer of Garden Design Studio for the landscaping.

Because the Wilderman’s never moved in, staging the house was essential. Compass listing agent Amy Detwiler brought in George Bass of George Bass Stage and Design to add the finishing touch.

“A house is like a large canvas,” Bass said.

“It needs furniture to scale and define spaces. and texture and artwork create an impact.

The builder wanted to convey the easy flow of the floor plan, so we staged to be respectful of that and to evoke the right ambiance.”

“This whole block is so special,” Detwiler said. "It really feels like old Highland Park.

With a 200-foot-deep lot, Mike had room for a downstairs guest room with an outdoor courtyard. The whole feel of the home is light and fresh. He did a beautiful job.”

Detwiler has this French transitional at 3311 Beverly Drive listed for $5.99 million.

Trust me, it’s worth it.

CandysDirt.com is the only blog in Dallas for the truly real estate obsessed!

Named by National Association of Real Estate Editors as the BEST Real Estate Blog in the country.

By Margaret Chambers

Remodel is a proud member.

A medium for business development, a platform for advocacy and the principal source for Stephan Sardone industry intelligence, NARI connects homeowners with its professional members and provides tips and tricks so that consumers have a positive remodeling experience with a professional, qualified remodeler. NARI is an organization of high-quality remodeling professionals. Its members are committed to integrity, high standards, professional education, ethics and market recognition.

Historically, NARI's roots go back to 1935, when President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act established the beginnings of NERSICA (The North East Roofing, Siding and Insulation Contractors Association). In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower established Operation Home Improvement, a nationwide effort emphasizing the rehabilitation of existing housing rather than new construction. The National Home Improvement Council emerged from this effort.

By the mid-1960s, NERSICA no longer reflected the membership of the growing industry and its name was changed to the National Remodelers Association (NRA).

In 1982, the National Remodelers Association and the National Home Improvement Council joined to establish the NARI. Today, NARI has 52 chapters nationwide and members in 49 states. NARI is the "Voice of the Remodeling Industry."

Their core purpose is to advance and promote the remodeling industry’s professionalism, product and vital public purpose. You can find a wide variety of companies including manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, education providers, lumber and building experts and service vendors through NARI. Use this important resource when selecting your next contracting partner. Now looks like as good a time as any.

Sardone Design-Build-Remodel is locally owned and operated. Sardone, his wife and two daughters are Lake Highlands residents.

ASID, RID Closets may be the smallest room in a house, but they can also be the most intimidating to organize and design. Whether your closet is large or small, however, there’s no reason it can’t be as attractive as the rest of your home. If you’ve been feeling the urge to give your closet a makeover, here are some designer tips for organizing and beautifying closets of all sizes.

Decluttering. Any closet makeover should begin with a ‘purge.’ Start by removing everything from the closet. Once everything’s out, you can sort your clothing, shoes and accessories into piles: items to keep, items that need to be cleaned or repaired, items to throw away and items to donate.

The rule of thumb is that if you haven’t worn it in two years, you probably won’t miss it when it’s gone. When in doubt, try the item on. Does it still fit? Is it out of style?

Is it uncomfortable?

While your closet is empty, this is the perfect time to do any cleaning, repair or decorative projects (such as replacing lightbulbs, wiping shelves, painting or putting up wallpaper) that you’ve been putting off.

Decorating tips for all closets.

After you’ve narrowed down your wardrobe, try putting everything back in coordinated groups. Some people group clothing by height by putting short-hanging items on one end and long dresses on the other end.

Another option is to coordinate by season or function. For example, consider hanging all of your workday clothes in one group, your evening attire in another group and your gym clothes in another.

To go the extra mile, hang like-colored items together within each category. All of this organizational work makes your closet look just a little more sophisticated, as if it were an upscale boutique. The better-lit your closet is, the more you’ll enjoy it, too.

Matching hangers are a must for any closet. Pick your favorite kind of hanger and stick to it. Wooden, padded or colored plastic hangers are much more aesthetically

pleasing than wire hangers. Velvet hangers are a personal favorite of mine because they keep clothes from slipping off onto the floor.

If you like to store your shoes in boxes, take a photo of each pair, then tape the photos on the boxes. This will help you easily find the pair you want. Whether the shoes are in or out-of-sight, arranging them by color is also wise. For any other items you don’t want to display, store them in attractive hat boxes or baskets.

Small closet tips. Use stacking bins to take full advantage of vertical space. For your folded clothes, you may want to store them in bins with clear windows. If you have folded clothes on open shelving, try not to stack them more than five items high.

An unusual paint color or wallpaper adds an element of surprise to a small closet. Wallpaper is especially popular for children’s closets, because it can have so much personality and whimsy.

Small closets tend to look busy if they’re packed from floor to ceiling. If you plan on maximizing every inch of space, choose storage solutions and shelving in neutral colors to help bring a sense of order and calm.

Big closet tips. Some accessories make gorgeous decorations by themselves.

If you have open shelf space, create a gallery for your favorite purses or shoes. Jewelry or artwork can also be hung together on a wall to create a beautiful display. For a long, narrow closet, consider using a patterned runner to help liven up the space.

While small closets can benefit from bold paint colors, those same colors are overwhelming in large closets. Is your wardrobe already on the colorful side? If so, white walls, flooring and cabinetry will make your clothing and accessories really pop.

Even just organizing goes a long way to making your closet more enjoyable.

However, when you go beyond the decluttering stage and plan for beauty too, you’ll create a closet that guests will truly envy.

For more design advice from Margaret, check out the Chambers Interiors blog, online at chambersinteriors. com/blog.

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AUTOMOBILITY

MULL IT OVER

Domestic trucks rule, but Nissan reaches new Frontier

By David Boldt

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NISSAN Dodge rejoined the ranks of the Over at Ram, Fiat Chrysler’s living with its dramatic redeThe 2020 Nissan Frontier. truck division continues with a sign of the Ram 1500. And that new 1500 which, in 2019, was sold In short, they’ve combined what I move propelled both Ford and alongside the "Classic" 1500. In regard as the simple, upright goodness GM, until that point relatively complathis model year, the big news is the addiof the existing Frontier with the vastly cent in their truck strategies, to turn up tion of a Ram 1500 EcoDiesel which, in improved drivetrain of the next, all-new 4X2 form, achieves 32 miles per gallon the wick and turbocharge their lineups.

Frontier. Out goes the tractor-like vibe Although the latest truck news deals in the EPA’s highway test cycle. And, of the existing 4.0-liter V6, and in comes get this, the EcoDiesel Ram can exceed with electrification, the reality at this a more powerful 3.8-liter V6 coupled year’s Dallas Auto Show at the Dallas 1,000 miles of range per fill-up, while with an all-new 9-speed automatic.

Convention Center is more prosaic, but offering 12,560 pounds of towing capacHorsepower is up by 49, efficiency is also more readily available. ity. In short, this constitutes one of the improved, and the whole driving experi- most capable half-ton packages in the Truck showrooms have never ofence should be transformed. Thankfully, marketplace. fered the breadth of selection from fulluntouched will be the Frontier’s alsize, midsize, half-ton and heavy duty Of course, the EcoDiesel is just most-vintage persona, which I’ve likto the consumer as they do today. With one chapter of Ram’s pickup narrative. ened to buying a first-generation Land that, I’m giving a shout-out to Nissan’s Ram continues to offer a mild hybrid Rover. If, like me, you buy a vehicle hop- (eTorque) with its V6, which can do 25 revamped 2020 Frontier, perhaps the ing to pay it off in five years and enjoy last analog truck still available in these miles per gallon on the highway, along it for another five, the 2020 Frontier U.S. with the iconic 5.7- liter HEMI V8 with should be a leading candidate. The upThe Frontier was last redesigned or without the eTorque feature. The only dated Frontier goes on sale this spring. some 15 years ago, and what Nissan caveat I see is the $5K hit you’ll take With a new F-150 expected to hit has done for 2020 is to build a bridge when opting for the EcoDiesel, which the road within the next year, Ford’s between the existing model and an allwould buy one heckuva lot of Shell current focus is to continue the rollout of regular. new Frontier scheduled to debut next its all-new Super Duty. Under the Super year. Nissan executive Tiago Castro Finally, Chevrolet’s new Silverado Duty hood, Ford is offering a new 7.3explained, "From its roots tracing back receives kudos for its enhanced capabilliter V8 on top of the standard 6.2-liter more than 60 years, to the current ity, while its own 3.0-liter diesel arrives V8, while those continuing to have faith model, Frontier has had a lasting imas an ultra-smooth inline six. And did I in ignition by compression can check pact on the compact and mid-size truck mention it’s Truck Month? the 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel box. If segments in North America. As Nissan David Boldt brings years of experiopting for either the bigger gas or dietransitions to the next chapter, we celeence in automotive retail sales and pubsel engines, both hook up to an all-new brate both a proud past and a bright fulic relations to his automotive reporting. ture with the heart of the next Frontier." 10-speed automatic. And as you might More can be found at txGarage.com.

Despite LA lock, rest of NL still open

By David Mullen david@katytrailweekly.com Last year's outcome in the World Series shocked baseball experts. Most had anointed the Los Angeles Dodgers as the favorite to become National League champions in 2019. But it was the wild-card Washington Nationals, 11 games under .500 on May 23 and 74-38 the rest of the way, that buried the rest of the league in the playoffs, much like a bill gets buried on Mitch McConnell's desk in Washington D.C. In golf, the adage is "drive for show, putt for dough."

Adapted for baseball, it is "hit for show, pitch for dough." And the Nationals pitching is no joke in Washington D.C. Slugger Bruce Harper, who signed with the Philadelphia Phillies in free agency, left in 2019. No problem. This year, the team faces another setback when third baseman Anthony Rendon signed a long-term contract with the Los Angeles Angels.

In Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin, the best starting three in baseball, the Nats don't need to score a lot of runs.

The Atlanta Braves will score plenty, adding Marcell Ozuna to a lineup that already had Ronald Acuna (a future MVP), Ozzie Albies and Freddie Freeman. But they will face the Nationals and New York Mets MLB starting pitching staffs 38 times in the Clayton Kershaw. regular season. The Mets, when healthy, can still march out Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Marcus Stroman and Steven Matz for a series, but have few hitting options other than Rookie of the Year Pete Alonso.

The Phillies are the most interesting team in the NL this year. They hired the no-nonsense manager Joe Girardi MULL cont'd on page 10

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'Bloodshot' a painful return to bad action movies of the past

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Vin Diesel and Sam Heughan face off in “Bloodshot.”

By Chic DiCiccio @chiccywood If you cobbled together all of Michael Bay’s directorial hang-ups, you’d have nearly every single second of “Bloodshot.” The camera never stops whooshing all over the place, no matter if it’s a shot of explosions or nerds in a computer lab. Entire action sequences are virtually unwatchable and with little to no regard to geography. It even steals Bay’s worst habit with every female (all two of them) squeezed into skintight outfits.

It’s as if director David Wilson studied every aspect of 1980s action B-movies and chucked them all into “Bloodshot.” It’s as ridiculous as stuff like “Commando” or “Rambo III,” but without a lead with the charisma to carry them over an insane finish line. Whether it’s his insistence of being perpetually clad in shirts sans sleeves or the same icy glare meant to convey every emotion, Vin Diesel just doesn’t have it.

Bloodshot as a character does have some good bones to it, which speaks well of the Valiant Entertainment comic series that it is based on. After a successful raid in Sudan, U.S. Marine Ray Garrison (Diesel) and his wife, Gina (Talulah Riley), are kidnapped and killed by vengeful bad guys. Ray wakes up in a lab where he’s been turned into Bloodshot, a super soldier whose blood is now loaded with nanotech that heals him up as quickly as he’s injured.

As Ray slowly comes out of his mostly dead fog, memories rush back and he bolts from the fancy lab where he was created. Naturally, Dr. Emil Harting (Guy Pearce) isn’t too happy about his expensive toy running off and he sends his team of super soldiers after him, which includes KT (Eiza Gonzalez).

This is when “Bloodshot” reaches a key moment and some twists and turns become interesting. There’s hope that we are seeing something with promise. Thanks to several brutally shot and edited action sequences, spliced with clichéd dialogue and characters, it never lives up to that fleeting

midsection.

That section really falls apart during a tunnel action sequences that takes place in the dark, complete with a jackknifed flour truck. All it does is allow the filmmakers to show flour spraying everywhere as bodies fall to the ground in a slow-motion haze. Actually, if every slow-motion moment in “Bloodshot” was shown at regular speed, the movie might have been 20 minutes shorter.

Lamorne Morris shows up as computer nerd and does some decent comedic relief work, even throwing in a funny English accent to boot. Another plus is the fact that Pearce doesn’t get too over the top in a role that could really, really have gone there. He’s either purposefully restrained or sleep walking through it, but either way, it works out in a decent fashion.

Gonzalez does get to slow motion walk away from stuff blowing up, which is normally reserved only for Diesel in movies like this one. She also has to plow through some really bad dialogue and does nothing to elevate it.

At the end of the day, “Bloodshot” falls on the shoulders of Vin Diesel and it can be added to his list of subpar action movies that may or may not become a franchise, depending on box office returns. If handled differently, it’s a character that could have something, but in the hands of Diesel and company, it’s nothing more than a blip that you’ll see on Netflix in three months.

Uncle barky's bites

HBO presents 'The Plot Against America' based on Philip Roth novel

By Ed Bark unclebarky@verizon.net Stark, sobering and slow to unfold, HBO’s “The Plot Against America” joins Amazon Prime’s new “Hunters” in returning to an alternate yesteryear in which Jewish Americans are targeted for extermination by a Nazi-fueled Fourth Reich.

They are otherwise notably dissimilar in tone, pace and overall realism.

Set in the 1970s and reviewed in these pages two weeks ago, “Hunters” regularly takes an out-ofbody and sometimes even cartoonish superhero approach to a band of Nazi exterminators led by Al Pacino.

It also ends outlandishly, although principal executive producer Jordan Peele is known for reverse spins.

“Plot Against America,” adapted from the 2004 novel by the late and esteemed Philip Roth, begins in June 1940 and ends with a specially called 1942 election. It’s a limited, close-ended series, and HBO made all six hours available. Compared to “Hunters,” the storytelling is slow to the point of being glacial at times.

But with David Simon (“The Wire,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Corner”) at the throttle, there’s also a realism that escapes “Hunters.”

Premiering on Monday, impressionable.

March 16, “Plot Against Herman also has a powAmerica” envisions the rise to der keg cousin named Alvin power of isolationist Charles (Anthony Boyle), who hangs Lindbergh (Ben Cole), a heout with the quintessential roic aviator whose non-stop wrong crowd until joining the flight from New York to Paris Canadian Army in defiance made him an international of official U.S. neutrality in mega-celebrity. What if he the war against Germany. had defeated Franklin D. Meanwhile, Bess’ sister, Roosevelt (FDR) in the 1940 Evelyn (Winona Ryder), is presidential campaign, by probeing romanced by Southernclaiming he’s running against fried rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf war, not FDR? The public (John Turturro). As direcbuys it, and the parallels to tor of New Jersey’s Office HBO of American Absorption, the rise of Donald Trump are obvious even though Roth’s Azhy Robertson, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector Bengelsdorf champions a novel was published long beand Winona Ryder star in the HBO miniseries “Just Folks” program in which fore his stunningly successful “The Plot Against America.”

Jewish youth spend summers presidential campaign. with “real” American families America’s Jewish people.

Executive producer from the heartland to acceler“Win or lose, there’s a lot of Simon is a notably outspoken and ate their assimilation. hate out there,” Herman also said of oft-profane critic of Trump, particThis seems like a lot, although Lindbergh. “And he knows how to ularly on his Twitter account. So, “Plot Against America” also can be tap into it.” there’s no mistaking his messaging a very slow build. But Episode 6 Herman vows to stand and when a victorious Lindbergh said at is super-taut at times, particularly fight while his wife, Bess (Zoe the end of Episode 2, “Tonight, we when Bess is on the telephone tryKazan), advocates joining the grow- ing to ease the fears of a transplanthave taken back America.” ing Jewish emigration to Canada Otherwise the focal point is a ed kid and former neighbor while before it’s too late. Their 15-year-old gunshots can be heard just outside divided Newark, N.J. Jewish family son Sandy (Caleb Malis) is a budheaded by outspoken Lindbergh her window. ding artist who admires Lindbergh critic and insurance salesman Simon also makes a hero of and secretly draws pictures of him.

Herman Levin (Morgan Spector). influential gossip columnist Walter His 10-year-old brother, Philip He views Lindbergh as a “fascist Winchell, who in fact was a strong (Azhy Robertson as a stand-in sonofabitch” whose public praise critic of Lindbergh, but in real life for Roth), is still wide-eyed and of Hitler could spell doom for also sided with demagogue Joe

McCarthy and his smear-smirched Communist purge. The ending of HBO’s adaptation departs from Roth’s book by involving the disaffected Alvin Levin in a secret plot to ... well, you’ll see if you make it that far.

As with “Hunters,” the open-ended and suddenly somewhat rushed denouement of “Plot Against America” might well be less than satisfying to some. But unlike “Hunters,” this is it, with no plans for a Season 2. Any investment should be made with this in mind.

GRADE: B ••• A comparatively minimal investment is required for “ZZ Top – That Little Ol’ Band From Texas,” a 90-minute documentary that’s newly available on Netflix.

It’s well worth your time, with the band’s origins in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston of particular interest. You’ll also get to see what Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill looked like before their trademark beards and shades took over. Gibbons, Hill and drummer Frank Beard all contribute new interviews, with Billy Thornton also chipping in.

Ed Bark, who runs the TV website unclebarky.com, is a past member of the national Peabody awards board.

Travel

Summer vacationing in 'Winter Wonderland' of Whistler

By Michael Wald

wanting simply to take in the mountain air and you have wald.world@yahoo.com outdoors-obsessed Whistler, British Columbia, Canada in With all the scare about the summer. traveling where there is As a winter wonderland, coronavirus, many people Whistler, home of the 2010 are looking for places close Winter Olympics, has some of to home to visit. Here’s an the best skiing in the world. It idea for a trip in the next few is less well known as a summonths. mer destination.

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Built around a main, central traffic-free area surrounded by shops, restaurants and hotels, other “villages” surround the main area and are connected by bus. During the winter, you can ski-in/ski-out to many of the hotels in the main area as this is where the ski lifts all converge. During the summer, these same ski lifts connect to a marvelous set of mountaintop attractions, including the “Peak to Peak” gondola connecting Whistler and Blackcomb Mountaintops with the longest free-span cable in the world at 1.75 miles. It takes 11

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minutes from one peak to another. Unfortunately, Whistler weather during the summer is frequently cloudy and drizzly so visibility is uncertain.

Once on top of either of the two peaks, other interesting sights are available as well as restaurants. Among the possibilities are a skybridge and a snow tunnel, even in summer, as the snow caps the mountains yearlong.

You can ski through mid-July at the mountaintop where a glacial base keeps the snow from melting late into the year. But mountain bicycling and hiking seem to be the biggest draw in summer. The mountain base ski lift area is converted into an extreme bicycle track. You can watch daredevils descend at frightening speeds. All around Whistler, you can rent a bicycle to pedal around town from some of the finest bicycle brands available, all vying for your business in what may be the highest concentration of bicycle retail locations anywhere.

A new and exciting Whistler summer attraction, launched in 2018, is called “Vallea Lumina” and is proving to be very popular. It’s difficult to describe. There’s nothing quite like it. A light show in the forest, art installation, a cross between a hike and a haunted house, with the

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Central Whistler's extreme bike paths. spooks replaced by exotic light effects against the backdrop of the thick canopy. Entry is about $30 per person. This attraction should not be attempted if you have trouble climbing stairs. Except when there is lightening, the show goes on in all weather. Rain does not cancel a show. I went in a drizzle, which made the trails muddy, slippery and somewhat dangerous. I am told the event continues during the winter. Trudging through the light show in the snow would probably be more treacherous and it would be spookier.

A shuttle transports each visitor from the attraction’s in-town starting point to its forest location about five miles away. Once there you follow a circular path through the

show. Once you start, it’s hard to turn back. The hike through the exhibit takes about one and one-half hours.

While in Whistler, more common activities include the marvelous Squamish Cultural Center, which tells about the life of the local indigenous tribes. Also, bear safaris in season, ziplining, ATV treks, whitewater rafting and just about any summer sports you can imagine are available, including a Jack Nicklaus golf course and racquet club.

Michael Wald is a travel specialist with special expertise in Panama adventure travel. He blogs about travel and other musings at www.UntraveledPlaces. com. Follow him @ UntraveledPlace and see where he is off to next.

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DOTTY’S TRUE TEXAS CUISINE

RECIPE OF THE WEEK

Sipping north of the border

French toast from Mexico?

MESA MEZCAL

Mesa Mezcal's Skirt Steak with Jalepeño Butter (left) and a Mezcal Tasting (right).

By Dotty Griffith dotty.griffith@yahoo.com Mezcal used to be thought of as tequila’s drunk uncle. Mezcal was the one with the worm in the bottle. Mezcal was rotgut.

No longer. Mezcal is now tequila’s smokier, spicier cousin, welcome at respectable bars and restaurants everywhere.

Without a worm in the bottle.

Mezcal has become so

proper there’s a restaurant with the word in its name: Mesa Mezcal, part of the Westin Irving Convention Center in Las Colinas.

Good news for skeptics. There’s plenty to eat and drink in addition to mezcal. But if you go for a flight of mezcal, you’ll be glad you did. Especially if bartender and mezcal autodidact Maria Huntley is around to take you through it. She can tell you how to drink it and describe the mezcals, so

you anticipate the spirit’s huskier characteristics.

What you need to know about tasting mezcals. A sipping portion is served in a small, shallow clay cup called a jicarita. Yes, you get some salt.

And as the worm turns, so does the salt. The salt for tasting with mezcal is known as “worm salt.”

Worms that love the agave plants used to make mezcal are pulverized and added to this dark, smoky salt. No worries. There’s no sign of worms and I didn’t detect a taste that I can describe as “wormy.”

Go ahead. Sprinkle some of the salt on a thin slice of orange. Take a sip from a jicarita and let that settle into your mouth. Then a bite from the orange to cleanse your palate. And keep sipping.

That’s the mezcal tasting experience.

At a media dinner, we were led by Huntley who said she gained her expertise with mezcal on the job. She’s become a huge fan of and ambassador for the spirit. Huntley talked us through a tasting of three kinds of Bozal brand. The range and differences were striking, from spicy hot and smokey to laid back and citrusy. If you’re not ready to taste mezcal straight up, there are plenty of cocktails with mezcal and a touch of tequila to soften the bite.

And, yes, there was food from the “modern Mexican” menu. Several dishes reflected a chef’s touch along with awareness of contemporary diners’ requirements.

An example is Keto Crab Stuffed Avocados, an avocado on the half shell full

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Rompope French Toast. of crab with hints of red onion, cilantro and lime.

No carbs. All protein and “good fat.” Sprinkled with chicharron (fried pork rind) crumbs for crunch, this dish bespeaks the moment. So does the loaded sweet potato with charred corn, black beans, tomato, jalapeño and a spicy agave sauce.

One show-stopping dish, Street Corn Ravioli, had all of us at first bite.

Cheese-stuffed squares of pasta got sauced with a pureed corn, white cream sauce. It was a satiny dish with soft, subtle tastes that made us swoon.

Mains such as skirt steak and seared salmon came off well. Eyeballing the menu makes me want to return to try the mezcal-brined half chicken and mole sauces. It’s a mix-and-match option.

Select verde (green), amarillo (yellow) or negro (black) mole with bitter chocolate to go with pork, chicken or beef.

On the dessert side, tradition reigned. Churros came with a chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream. Nothing can go wrong with fried dough, chocolate and ice cream.

Sopapillas, another fried dough option, got a sauce of mezcal-laced syrup.

“Modern Mexican” carries through the cuisine to the décor. Spare with dark, polished woods and eye-catching tiles, the spirit of Mexico runs throughout Mesa Mezcal.

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By Dotty Griffith dotty.griffith@yahoo.com Rompope comes off as Mexican eggnog.

First created by 17th century nuns in the Santa Clara convent in Puebla, Mexico, the creamy rum-laced elixir is delicious cold or hot. It may be found in liquor stores.

At Mesa Mezcal, Rompope is the base for French toast batter.

MESA MEZCAL ROMPOPE FRENCH TOAST Rompope Batter: 3/4 cup Rompope 2 eggs 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon salt Sauces: 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup each blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cup berry compote (see recipe), warm French toast: 6 (1-inch thick) slices of French bread (baguette) Butter as needed Grated rind of 1/2 lime In a medium bowl, combine the Rompope, eggs, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Whisk until smooth and well mixed.

In a small bowl, combine sour cream and powdered sugar, stirring until smooth and sugar is absorbed.

In a medium bowl, gently stir together berries and sugar and add to 1 cup warm Berry Compote. Keep warm.

In a large skillet over medium low heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Dip 3 slices of bread into Rompope batter for 20 seconds on each side or until bread is well soaked. When butter sizzles, cook soaked bread slices in butter 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Keep warm. Repeat with remaining slices using additional butter as needed.

To serve, garnish each serving with berry sauce and a dollop of sweetened sour cream. Top with a sprinkle of grated lime.

Berry Compote: In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine 1/4 cup each blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries with 1/2 cup agave syrup. Bring to a simmer and reduce heat. Simmer for 3 minutes. When berries soften and change color, use a hand mixer or immersion blender to puree the mixture until smooth.

Makes 2 (or dos or deux) servings.

at Reunion Tower at 300 Reunion Blvd. is having a number of events Reuben Day is Sunday, March 15. around the unofficial holiday. On At Overeasy in The Statler at 1914 Monday, March 16 at 11 a.m., the house Commerce St., a Reuben sandwich band from the Dallas location of the will be paired with a Lone Star IPA worldwide music program, School of for $15, all day long.

Rock!, performs. On Tuesday, March All day on Tuesday, March 17, 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the National Shell Shack at 2326 Henderson Soccer Hall of Fame brings the 2019 Ave. will have $5 green Miller Lite Women’s World Cup and other memobeers and $1 green Jell-O shots. rabilia to the GeO-Deck.

Ebb & Flow at 2651 Commerce And on Wednesday, March 18, the St., Suite 100, in Deep Ellum will Dallas Stars mascot Victor E. Green offer $3 Green Beer and $5 Irish and the Dallas Stars Ice Girls appear Whiskey. And from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All events are and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., chef James free and first come, first served with Rose of The Hall Bar & Grill at the purchase of a general admission 3011 Gulden Lane, #109, in Trinity GeO-Deck ticket.

Groves is cooking up a traditional In case you're at DFW Airport plate of corned beef and cabbage. on St. Patrick's Day, check in with LIBERTY BURGER this flight of drink specials at the On Tuesday, March 17, The Rustic at 3656 Howell St. features An adult Oreo milkshake spiked with Bailey's. Westin DFW Airport Hotel’s BYRN country music star and three-time Western Grill and Lounge. They Grammy nominee Pat Green. Fans are invited to don their are offering the "Luck of the Irish Mule" made with Absolut green. Tickets are all available at therustic.com.

Apple Juice Vodka, agave syrup, a splash of lime juice topped Snuffer's at 3526 Greenville Ave. has a St. Paddy’s Day off with Ginger Beer and garnished with sliced green apple and Sliders all month, consisting of two corned beef sliders on mini mint leaf or a Winter Warmer with Jameson Irish Whiskey, toasted poppy seed buns with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, pickCampari, lemon juice, bitters and orange juice. les, 1000 island dressing and fries for $7.49.

And St. Patrick's Day falls in the middle of Lent, and Want to experience a different kind of green? Can ye hit Morton's The Steakhouse at 2222 McKinney Ave., Suite da golf bar "faa" or at least yell "Faar" after ye hit it? Tenison 200 is offering twin lobster tails for $39 every Friday through Highlands at 3501 Samuell Blvd. has a two-person Shamble Friday, April 3, from 5-10 p.m. Reservations are required. (modified scramble) on Saturday, March 14 at noon. An $80 Most other area bars will have a St. Patrick's Day special, fee includes green fee, cart fee, range balls, burgers after play proving that there are many options other than green popcorn. and prize purse awarded in golf shop merchandise credit. And Tanner Culbertson, Lauren DePasquale, Ariana please use white golf balls for Pete's (and for Patrick's) Sake.

Hajibashi, Lindsey Miller, Allison Rhodes and Cami Although not specific to St. Patrick's Day, the GeO-Deck Studebaker contributed to this report.

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2717 Howell St. 214-871-9207 Sal’s Pizza Rest.

2525 Wycliff 214-522-1828 Taverna Pizzeria 3312 Knox St. 214-520-9933 Tomato Pie 11661 Preston Rd. 214-750-8743 Villa-O Rest.

4514 Travis, #132 214-707-3848

Latin American Gloria’s 3223 Lemmon Ave. 214-303-1166 Zaguan Latin Cafe 2604 Oak Lawn Ave. 214-219-8393

Meals To Go – Catering The Festive Kitchen – Snider Plaza 3404 Rosedale Ave. 214-520-6888 Short Stop – Food To Go 6025 Royal Ln., #101 214-265-8828 6918 Snider Plaza 214-360-0311 Mediterranean

Baboush 3636 McKinney, #160 214-559-0707 Fadi’s Mediterranean Grill 3001 Knox St., #110 214-528-1800 Zoe’s Kitchen 6025 Royal Ln., #104 469-341-0123 Mexican & Tex-Mex Bandito’s Tex-Mex Cantina 6615 Snider Plaza 214-750-6100 Campuzano Mexican Food 2618 Oak Lawn 214-526-0100 Chipotle Mexican Grill 2705 McKinney Ave. 214-871-3100 4502 McKinney Ave. 214-302-2500 Digg’s Taco Shop 6309 Hillcrest Ave. 214-520-0155 E Bar Tex Mex

1901 N. Haskell, #120.

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Natural–Gluten-Free –Organic Company Cafe 3136 Routh St. 214-468-8721

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Kozy 4483 McKinney Ave.

214-219-5044 Southpaw’s Organic Cafe 3227 McKinney Ave. 214-754-0100 6009 Berkshire Ln. 214-987-0351 New American City Café 5757 W. Lovers Ln. 214-351-3367 Luck 3011 Gulden Ln, #112 469-250-0679 Natalie’s Restaurant 5940 Royal Ln. 214-739-0362 NHS Bar & Grill 10720 Preston Rd. 214-368-1101 Seafood Amberjax Fish Market Grille 3011 Gulden Ln., #107 469-513-9088 Dive-Dallas Coastal Cuisine 3404 Rankin St. 214-891-1700 Half Shells Oyster Bar & Grill 6617 Snider Plaza 214-691-8164 Hook, Line & Sinker 3103 Lemmon Ave. 214-965-0707 Lovers Seafood and Market 5200 W. Lovers Ln. 214-351-6363 Rockfish Seafood Grill 5331 E. Mockingbird 214-823-8444 11661 Preston Rd, #153 214-363-7722 Shell Shack Uptown 2916 McKinney Ave. 877-434-1411 St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin 2730 Commerce St. 214-698-1511 Spanish Café Madrid 4501 Travis St. 214-528-1731

This is half of Our Favorite Restaurants.

See the full list at our website: KatyTrailWeekly.com Sports Bar & Restaurant Christie’s Sports Bar & Grill 2811 McKinney, #22 214-954-1511 Liquid Zoo Sports Bar & Grille 3851 Cedar Springs 214-221-3004 Milo Butterfingers 5645 SMU Blvd.

214-368-9212 Steaks Dee Lincoln Steak & Burger Bar 2626 Howell St. 214-754-4949 Dunston’s Steak House 5423 W. Lovers Ln. 214-352-8320 Thai Best Thai 5959 Royal Ln., #540

214-373-8113 CrushCraft Thai Street Eats 2800 Routh St., #150 972-677-7038 Malai Kitchen – Thai & Vietnamese 3699 McKinney, #319 972-591-3387 Naga Thai Kitchen & Bar 665 High Market St. 214-953-0023 Sabaidee Lao & Thai Street Food 5200 Lemmon, #100.

214-520-6868 Saucy’s Thai Pho 5944 Royal Ln. 214-378-8424 Turkish Café Istanbul 5450 W. Lovers, #222 214-902-0919 Vertskebap 7949 Walnut Hill Ln. 469-726-2855 Vegetarian Cosmic Cafe 2912 Oak Lawn 214-521-6157 Miss Chi

Vietnamese

6030 Luther Ln, #130 214-692-1000 Pho Crimson 3000 Blackburn, #140c 469-547-5443 Pho Envy Vietnamese Bistro 8611 Hillcrest, #190 214-987-1468 Wine Bar Dream Cafe 2800 Routh St., #170.

214-954-0486 Two Corks & a Bottle – Quadrangle 2800 Routh St., #140 214-871-9463 Yogurt, Smoothies & Juices The Gem 5915 Forest Ln, #360 214-792-9928 I Heart Yogurt 5450 W. Lovers, #143 6305 Hillcrest Ave. Nekter Juice Bar 6712 Snider Plaza 469-418-4029 Smoothie Factory 2817 Howell, #210 214-954-0900 Smoothie King 6061 Forest Ln. 972-404-1852 Tropical Smoothie Cafe 4560 W. Mockingbird 214-351-7037

HIGHLAND PARK

HPHS wins state academic challenge

The HPHS (Highland Park High School) Academic Decathlon team won its fourth state title in five years at the 2020 Medium Division State Championship Meet on March 8 in San Antonio. The team scored a total of 52,264.8 points and earned $22,250 in scholarships.

HPHS will advance to the national meet Wednesday, April 29 through Saturday, May 2 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Overall winners included: Honors Division: Jean Ye - Second place overall with a score of 9,382.4 points and a $2,750 scholarship Daniel Carrillo - Third place overall with a score of 9,354.7 points and a $2,250 scholarship Ryan Carmack - Fifth place overall with a score of 9,117.0 points and a $1,750 scholarship

Varsity Division: Mackenna Bierschenk – First place overall with a score of 8,099.6 points and a $3,250 scholarship

Scholastic Division:

McKenna Jordan - Second place overall with a score of 8,043.7 points and a $2,750 scholarship

Alvin Zou - First place overall with a score of 8,898.0 points and a $3,250 scholarship

Marcus Christian - Fourth place overall with a score of 7,615.3 points and a $2,000 scholarship

Matthew Winters - Third place overall with a score of 8,486.4 points and a $2,250 scholarship

This is the first time in HPHS AcDec history that all nine team members placed in the top five of their respective divisions.

Pike Dzurny - Fourth place overall with a score of 8,466.4 points and a $2,000 scholarship MULL cont'd from page 7

26-man payroll of the Marlins and Pirates respectively. in October. They have catcher J.T. If there is a Cinderella tale Realmuto, first baseman Rhys of 2020, it might be a mile high.

Hoskins and ex-Yankee shortstop Coming off of a down year, the Didi Gregorius to flank Harper in Colorado Rockies look to Irvingthe lineup. But they need starting native Trevor Story to continue pitchers Aaron Nola, Zack Wheeler his unappreciated play and Nolan and Jake Arrieta to challenge the Arenado and Charlie Blackmon to rest of the division on the mound. continue being mainstays. They are The Miami Marlins have only one sure to improve from 71 wins last starting pitcher returning with a season. winning record last season, and that The Arizona Diamondbacks was just one game over .500 (the 8-7 quietly won 85 games last year, but Pablo Lopez). The Marlins are still still finished 21 games behind the fishing for an identity.

Dodgers. They picked up Madison While many prognosticators Bumgardner in the offseason to are looking to the Chicago Cubs or anchor a maturing pitching staff.

Milwaukee Brewers to win the NL The San Diego Padres will be betCentral this year, I think they will ter with young shortstop Fernando all be seeing red. The Cincinnati Tatis, Jr. and the 27-year-old Manny Reds have plenty of pop, with Machado (33 home runs in 2019), Joey Votto, Eugenio Suarez, Mike but have the Jurickson Profar jinx Moustakas and free agent signee to try to overcome. Sound familiar, Nick Castellanos. They don't run or Rangers fans? field particularly well, but neither do Grab a bat and ball and you may the Chicago Cubs, who finished 29th be able to play for the San Francisco in total errors in all of baseball last Giants this year. They have a young season. You could hear the fans at Mike Yastrzemski, but won't give Wrigley Field groaning in their Old him a vote of confidence. They have Styles. an old Buster Posey, an even older The Cubbies have handed over Evan Longoria and are saddled with managerial duties to 42-year-old forfirst baseman Brandon Belt's big mer big-league catcher David Ross, contract. Johnny Cueto is the ace. who will be learning on the job.

They have brought in Drew Smyly to They should hit with Kris Bryant, compete for a starting spot. Sound really familiar, Ranger fans?

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who I don't like in the leadoff spot, Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez and Kyle Schwarber, but starting pitching will be at a premium. The Brewers just inked Christian Yelich, the face of the franchise, to a nine-year contract extension, but still rely on journeymen to fill some key spots. They do have one of the best closers in the league with Josh Hader.

The St. Louis Cardinals made the NL championship series, only to be swept by Washington. They did little in the offseason, except to lose Ozuna to a one-year, $18 million contract that the Cards could have easily paid. They will rely on ace pitcher Jack Flaherty to be as dominant as he was in 2019. The Pittsburgh Pirates have given up the ship this season, thrown their best players overboard and may steal the worst record in the NL in 2020.

Once again, the Dodgers are the prohibitive favorites to run away with the NL this year. But they were favored last year as well and were blindsided by the surprising Nationals. They added 2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts in the offseason as the rich got richer. Outfielder Cody Bellinger was the 2019 NL MVP. Add pitching ace and Dallas-native Clayton Kershaw, and together the three contacts are $22 million and $18 million more than the entire

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