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Katy Trail Weekly
Vol. 3, No. 2
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Neighborhood News
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Community Calendar and Live Music Guide
COMMUNIT Y NEWS
Trinity of fun events
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Arts and Entertainment
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DALLAS’ BEST LIVE MUSIC GUIDE — page 9
Fruit of the bloom
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UPTOWN
Catching up with ambassador of Katy Trail
By David Mullen
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Site of the 12th Annual Trinity River Levee Run and All Out Trinity. The area by the Continental Bridge, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and the Trinity River will be going all out for the 12th Annual Trinity River Levee Run and All Out Trinity on Saturday, March 5. The event brings thousands of runners, sports enthusiasts and entire families to the Trinity River to enjoy the diverse activities. An inline skate begins at 7 a.m. followed by the Trinity River Levee Run (5K and 10K) at 8 a.m. All Out Trinity begins at 10:30 a.m. Registration and detailed information is available at allouttrinity.com. — Dustin Thibodeaux
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Editor’s note: As Katy Trail Weekly begins its third year serving Dallas, we revisited Bill Williams, 73, trail director for Friends of the Katy Trail. He was the subject of our first-ever story and is affectionately known as “the man in the golf cart.” As trail director, Bill Williams is also the unofficial Katy Trail historian. From running the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad tracks (which became the Katy Trail) in his younger days to riding up and down Katy Trail daily in his golf cart, Williams has seen and lived it all on the trail. From issuing a friendly wave and smile to walkers to helping a hobbled runner to just sharing his wealth of knowledge, Williams is a trail mainstay. “I wish you could have seen the bulldog that rode a skateboard here the other day,” Williams said. Bacon the pig is still seen strutting up and down the trail on occasion, and Jody “Skippy” Duke still jumps rope near the Knox Street entrance of the trail, but not as frequently. Despite the sightings that make Katy Trail so distinctive, things are everchanging on the 3.5-mile Dallas jewel.
Photo by David Mullen
Development on Katy Trail is at all-time high.
New development is a staggering part of the today’s Katy Trail. “They block out the sun,” Williams said of some of the high-rise buildings under construction. “It affects our plants. All these developers coming in … everyone wants a view of the trail and use of the trail for obvious reasons. And coming onto the trail property, some developers
wanted to remove trees and replant them. Then we just found out that now they want to grate around them. We’ve been told by experts in the field of tree care that once you do that, the tree may live for a while, but it still damages the root system. I just want to hold them off. “We don’t want the trail to become a canyon,” Williams said. “We don’t want buildings on the left of the trail and buildings on the right. We need to do a good job working with these developers to have a plan in place to still keep this looking good.” A rash of armed robberies haunted the Katy Trail a few months ago. Suspects from a nearby low income housing development were arrested and are awaiting trial. “Those guys weren’t very smart,” Williams said. “The police were all over it. They put undercover officers that looked just like trail users. They took it very seriously. “Safety is more important now than ever and has always has been a priority of ours. With the number of people on the trail and the usage that we are getting today, safety is our number one concern.” No incidents have been reported since the arrests. A series of 911 markers are on see KATY on page 11
CINEMA
‘The Big Short’ script supervisor plans happy ending By David Mullen
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Holland? Hardly! Tiptoe through the tulips in East Dallas. Dallas Blooms returns to The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden with “The Artistry in Nature” on Feb. 27 through April 10. This year’s festival will showcase an explosion of color with 500,000 blooms. Additionally, international sculptor Gary Lee Price’s historic “Great Contributors” exhibit of life-size bronze statues will be set throughout one of America’s best floral festivals. For more information on Dallas Blooms or other events, call 214-515-6500 or visit dallasarboretum.org. — Ariel Herr
Denver mayor talks downtown Downtown Dallas, Inc. is holding their annual meeting and luncheon on Monday, March 7 at 11:30 a.m. in the Dallas Ballroom at the Omni Dallas Hotel at 555 S. Lamar St. Mayor Michael B. Hancock of Denver (right) will share his perspective on the importance of urban centers, the role of public policy in building great cities and some of “what’s worked” and “what hasn’t” in Denver. For more information, call 214-7441270. — Shalissa Perry
On the table in the patio sat the script for the 2016 Academy Award Best Picture nominee “The Big Short.” It is as big as the Manhattan phone book. And to script supervisor Cate Hardman, it is her bible, at least for the length it takes to complete the film. Hardman, who lives at the border of Dallas and Highland Park, has been a script supervisor in Hollywood since 1981. Prior to that, she spent two years as an assistant editor. In the crazy, mixed-up world that is Hollywood, Hardman deals with the pressure and
the egos and the studios and the pay inequities, and then retires to her duplex where she can tend to the plants in her greenhouse. “The film business was a pyramid,” Hardman said. “You had so many at the top and then it drizzled down, and the crew and everybody got about the same. Now it is an inverted pyramid. So it is really top heavy with producers and studios and their profit. Now there are such huge corporations rather than 30 years ago.” Even though she does not work for scale, “I haven’t had a raise in see SCRIPT on page 11
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Ryan Gosling, Adam McKay and Cate Hardman on the set of Academy Award Best Picture nominee “The Big Short.”
THEATER
Slick ensemble wears hearts on their sleeves By Shari Goldstein Stern Photo courtesy of Downtown Dallas Inc.
In This Issue Of K aty Tr ail Weekly Along the Green Trail........................................................ 4 Classifieds......................................................................... 11 Community Calendar ....................................................... 6 Dotty Griffith .................................................................... 9 Fitness .............................................................................. 5 Hammer and Nails ............................................................ 8 Life on the Trail ................................................................. 4 Movie Trailer ................................................................... 10 Mull It Over ....................................................................... 5 Notes from the Editor ....................................................... 4 Restaurant Directory ...................................................... 11 Scene Around Town......................................................... 12 Trail to Good Health ......................................................... 7 Travel .............................................................................. 8 William "Bubba" Flint....................................................... 4 Find us at facebook.com/KTWeekly
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When “Love, Loss and What I Wore” played in Dallas a couple of years ago, the version was far different — much simpler, not as much fun as its imaginative treatment in its current production at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (CTD), where it continues through March 6. Five women rotate off and onstage, delivering a series of anecdotal monologues reflecting instances, sometimes milestones in their lives. Some are amusing, while others are laugh aloud funny. Others are poignant, and some tell stories of loss. All illustrate the nostalgic power of women’s clothing.
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The cast of "Love, Loss and What I Wore" camp for the camera through March 6 at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. Actors describe what they and others in their stories wore, while artists’ sketches are seen on a screen. CTD’s drawings are author Eileen Beckerman’s originals from her book, which sisters Nora and Delia Ephron crafted into the play.
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Section topics are also announced on the screen, like “The Dressing Room,” “Boots” and “Purses.” Some memorable quips are, “Never wear velvet before Rosh Hashanah,” and “She looked like a waitress in a
Hungarian restaurant.” One story relates the self-deprecating words; “Falling in love with me was like eating lettuce. He had colitis as a kid.” One of the best is, “Anyone who says she never dressed like Madonna is either lying or Amish.” There’s a rant about loathing the need to carry a purse. On divorce: “Everyone who gets married in a Vera Wang gets divorced.” Of course there are those pesky, but true remarks about fat; “But you have such a pretty face:” Again with selfdeprecation, “If I start wearing Eileen Fisher, I’m saying, ‘I give up.’” But the best is; “This was a particularly bad time to be fat because of Audrey Hepburn.” see SLICK on page 11
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