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COMMUNIT Y NEWS
New cookbook introduced at Fair Katy Trail Weekly food and restaurant writer Dotty Griffith takes the stage in the Celebrity Chef Kitchen at The State Fair of Texas on Friday, Oct. 7 at 2:30 p.m. She’ll demonstrate recipes from her newest cookbook, The Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares with Dotty Griffith, as well as from Griffith’s classic, The Texas Holiday Cookbook, 2nd Edition. Griffith will autograph copies of both books following her free presentation and tasting. — Staff reports
Photo courtesy of Dotty Griffith
Big changes are being made at The Ivy Tavern, as a new menu, a Sunday dive brunch, and a couple of all-star chefs in the kitchen are being introduced. David Rodriguez (right) becomes the new executive chef. Prior to his role at The Ivy Tavern, Chef Rodriguez was at 904’s Kitchen and Cocktails in Denton and at Oak Cliff’s Urban Acres and Photo courtesy of Ivy Tavern Oddfellows. Chef Patrick Stark (left), formerly executive chef at Sundown at the Granada, was enlisted to completely rework the menu for Chef Rodriguez’s arrival. Ivy Tavern is located at 5334 Lemmon Ave. — Ariana Hajibashi
Annual Black Tie Dinner on Saturday Black Tie Dinner — the nation’s largest LGBT fundraising dinner — is gearing up for another evening of fundraising, top-tier entertainment and inspirational speakers and award recipients. The 35th annual dinner takes place this Saturday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. at the Sheraton hotel in Downtown Dallas. This year’s featured entertainer is multi-platinum recording artist and actress Deborah Photo courtesy of Cox. Actress Debra Messing will receive blacktie.org Black Tie Dinner’s annual Media Award and Olympic Gold medalist and LGBT activist Greg Louganis (above) will be the recipient of the Elizabeth Birch Award. For more information, go to blacktie.org. — Martha Tiller
National Night Out at Griggs Park Uptown Dallas Inc., the management company responsible for the district’s public improvement, is having a block party in celebration of National Night Out on Tuesday, Oct. 4 from 6 to 10 p.m. The free event will take place in Griggs Park and Photo courtesy of Uptown include special guest appearancDallas Inc. es, a check presentation from the Uptown Hospitality Association and a concert featuring the 80s cover band The Spazmatics (above). Visit uptowndallas.net for more information. — Anita Simmons
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DALLAS
Citizens group cares about Fair Park year-round By Shari Goldstein Stern shari@katytrailweekly.com
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Drenched in melted butter, with mustard on your nose, you strategize the closest route to Ms. Ruth’s Big Tex Choice winning Fried Jell-O. Earlier you accomplished the rituals of deciding how many layers to wear; umbrella or not; sneakers or flip-flops, and then you wondered what you forgot to bring to the State Fair of Texas. Later, in your powdered sugar covered T-shirt, you stop by Jack’s French (Frys) Fries to savor the deliciously greasy little guys, while waiting in line for your second Fletcher’s of the day. After all, it’s the once-a-year when everyone who’s anyone looks forward to the decadence — with enough sugar and fats to provide six months’ recommended daily allowance. But inside the cozy, iconic Magnolia Lounge, tucked away in the historic Magnolia building at Fair Park, is former
Photo courtesy of Craig Holcomb
Hector Garcia (left) and Craig Holcomb (right), ED of Friends of Fair Park, at Margaret McDermott Bridge.
City Councilman Craig Holcomb, who stays cool or warm and dry by choice in his quiet office, “Far from the madding crowd” (sic Thomas Hardy, 1874). To be fair about the Fair, Holcomb said that he does visit two or three times each year. Parking must be a dream! Holcomb is executive director of Friends of Fair Park (FOFP), a quiet but powerful volunteer organization branded as, “Citizens who care about the Park’s past, present and future.” Actually, Holcomb himself can be described the same way, “quiet but powerful.” The organization was formed in 1980 with high expectations. Holcomb took over the position in 1990. Throughout those 25 years, FOFP has raised almost $15 million, including $712,335 from the Meadows Foundation and Texas Instruments Foundation to provide all the museums with their wish CITIZENS cont'd on page 11
DOWNTOWN
Product line designed to heat up marketplace By David Mullen
david@katytrailweekly.com Some like spicy foods. Some like spicy humor. And sometimes it is possible to combine the two. “About a year and a half ago I finally came Photos courtesy of to the realizaCaliente Foods Cappy McGarr. tion that I like very spicy food,” Cappy McGarr, founder of Caliente Foods LLC, headquartered in a beautiful old building on N. Akard Street in downtown Dallas, said. “And young people today have been exposed to so many different cultures and food, whether it is Indian food or Chinese food or
Mexican food; they have been exposed to spicy foods. And if you are older and your stomach can take it, your taste buds go and say ‘you need some spice in your life.’ So I am trying to figure out how to create something done with humor and something that tastes good. And I think we have accomplished that.” Just recently introduced under the “Forgetful Ned’s” name, McGarr has created the “F.N. Hot” brand. So far, a medium and hot salsa, a Marinara sauce and a Habanero jelly are available. As far as the Habanero jelly goes “do not put it on your face,” McGarr said. He recommends a slice of cheese and a Ritz cracker. All labels have a thermometer that measures intensity from “so hot you’ll forget your … keys or ex or anniversary or pants or name.” There are also clever messages, including a reminder to “wash your hands before going to the
bathroom.” The product line is “Made in Texas … Probably” according to Forgetful Ned. (The product is made in HEAT cont'd on page 11
UNIVERSITY PARK
Decades of State Fair of Texas history at SMU
By Nancy George ngeorge@smu.edu
As Texans await the Friday, Sept. 30 opening of the 130th State Fair of Texas, fair fans can also satisfy their appetites for all things State Fair at a library exhibit on the SMU campus showcasing the history of the legendary event. “The State Fair of Texas, 1886-2016, Celebrating 130 Years of a Texas Institution,” a new DeGolyer Library exhibit at SMU's Fondren Library Center, features 60 historic State Fair of Texas photographs by Lynn Lennon. She documented the fair for 10 years, visiting nearly every day during its three-week sessions from 1984 to 1993. Her striking black and white photographs capture Fair
Photo courtesy of SMU Hamon Arts Library
Ticket from the 1936 Centennial honoring Fair Park's opening. icons such as Big Tex, the Art Deco architecture of the park and, of course, food unique to the Fair. The exhibit also includes vintage State Fair items such as a felt cowboy hat signed in 1936 by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s children Anna and James, as well as badges, buttons and brochures dating to the first State Fair of Texas in 1886. Many of these are from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection.
The free exhibit runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Dec. 16 at the new Hillcrest Foundation Exhibit Hall in SMU's Fondren Library, 6414 Robert S. Hyer Lane. Items in the exhibit are from SMU's DeGolyer Library. SMU libraries also are home to other unique Texana items, including those from the 1936 Texas Centennial, which replaced the State Fair of Texas that year with a six-month event at the newly built Fair Park in Dallas. Images from the 1936 scrapbook of Lucille Robinson, a young woman clearly enthralled with the Fair Park exhibit, is part of the Jerry Bywaters Special Collections at SMU's Hamon Arts Library.
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