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Author Lebron wins Hiett Prize
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Exotic dinosaur exhibit opens at Perot Museum
The Dallas Institute has awarded a $50,000 prize to Dr. Christopher J. Lebron, an associate professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His work currently focuses on political philosophy, social theory and the philosophy of race and democratic ethics. He has written Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time and The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea. — Rachel Savant
KidBiz and The Biz moving business
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
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KidBiz and TheBiz, currently located in The Plaza at Preston Center, announced that they will be moving their 30-year-old business to a larger space at Inwood Village. The popular KidBiz brand, commonly known in the community as “Everybody’s favorite kid store,” will move after more than 25 years in early September followed by a grand opening soiree shortly after. — Meghan McPartland-Krakauer
Children from area shelters shine
The Perot’s new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit will be on display now through Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019.
By Leah J. Frazier
lfrazier@diamondiconconsultants.com Adrenaline is roaring high this summer as the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Mayor Mike Rawlings, the Dallas City Council and many others are coining 2018 as “The Summer of the Dinosaur.” From the newly released
blockbuster hit “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” to Perot’s new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit, the resurgence of dino fever takes a colossal chomp at both children and adults alike. From now until Sunday, Jan. 6, dino fans can feverishly roam the Perot, visiting its new traveling exhibition, Ultimate Dinosaurs, which features 17 rarely seen,
exotic dinosaurs, all of which come from the Southern Hemisphere and unfamiliar to most North Americans. Many new species are introduced through the exhibit, from the tiny Eoraptor to the massive Giganotosaurus (T. Rex’s bigger, badder cousin), along with more than a dozen Museum cont'd on page 9
JUST FOUND
Writer willing to reveal his secrets about Dallas
By David Mullen
david@katytrailweekly.com
CAMP BRAVO
Rainbow Days’ Camp Bravo hosts nearly 300 children residing in local homeless and domestic violence shelters in a performing arts camp at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church at 9200 Inwood Road. The next session is Tuesday, July 24 through Friday, July 27 with a special show held on Friday, July 27 at 1:30 p.m. in Asbury Hall. Camp Bravo is sponsored by the Community Artists Program, part of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. — Sharon Adams
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JUST FOUND is part of an occasional series in Katy Trail Weekly on businesses and people making a difference in the local community. Writer Mark Stuertz has a secret. And Stuertz, a longtime journalist that included stints at trade publications like the Food and Beverage Journal, magazines like Texas Monthly and American Way and as a food, wine and features writer for the Dallas Observer, is ready to tell everyone about it. In April, Stuertz’ book Secret Dallas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure was released. The paperback is full of unique places and wonderful trivia about Mark Stuertz has written a book about Dallas secrets. Big D. As his press release states, “think of it as a scavenwhen his wife Janene, working in high ger hunt travelogue, providing insights tech, was transferred. He has been in the into hidden rhinestones and diamonds area more than 25 years and currently in the caliche. Secret Dallas is a riveting lives in Rockwall. excursion into the city’s odds and ends, Out of college, he didn’t begin where ends and means express the big, writing but was involved in the pubthe bold and the brash in everyone.” lishing business. “I went to work for Raised in Chicago, Stuertz, 58, grad- Random House as a book rep,” Stuertz uated from Roosevelt University, locatsaid. “I sold books in Missouri, Kansas, ed on Michigan Avenue, with a degree Nebraska and a little bit of Oklahoma. in English. After he spent time in San Went I broke into writing, I worked at Francisco’s East Bay, he moved to Dallas Brookside Hospital [a facility located in
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San Pablo, Calif.].” Reedy Press approached Stuertz with the idea of doing a book about the underpinnings of Dallas. “This is part of a series,” Stuertz said. “They did one on St. Louis. They did one on Philadelphia. They even did one on Omaha, which surprisingly was really big.” The publisher came to Stuertz and asked him to start uncovering the city’s hidden Secrets cont'd on page 9
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