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NEW LISTING

4331 POTOMAC | $2,199,000 5 bed / 6.1 bath / 3 liv / 4,778 sf Karey Lewis - 214-692-0000 NEW PRICE

7625 KILMICHAEL | $695,000 4 bed/ 3 bath / 3 liv / 2 car / 3,286 sf Jini Rosenbaum - 214-692-0000

240 LILAC | $1,650,000 5 bed / 5 bath / 4 liv / 3 car / 5,400 sf Shaun Haynes - 214-692-0000

5530 PURDUE | $1,250,000

3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,853 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

NEW LISTING

2225 CANTON ST #123 | $659,400

3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,917 SF Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

570 HAMBRICK | SOLD 4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,247 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

PENDING

6210 SAINT ALBANS | SOLD 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Liv | 2,036 SF Russ Brown - 214-263-4377

2117 ASH GROVE | $525,000

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,152 SF Denise Larmeu - 214-336-6687 NEW LISTING

5609 SMU BLVD #407 | $317,000 2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1 Car | 1,025 SF Denise Larmeu - 214-336-6687

LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

10515 CHANNEL | $315,000

4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car / 1,710 sf Irma Henry - 214-692-0000

PRESTON CENTER | 214-692-0000

1553 MAPLETON | $475,000

4 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 3,046 SF Chris Hickman Group - 469-569-1106 NEW LISTING

132 NEWSOM | $309,999

4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car / 2,040 sf Shaun Haynes - 214-692-0000

EBBY’S LITTLE WHITE HOUSE | 214-210-1500

11628 LOCHWOOD | $995,000 4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 4 Liv |2 Car | 3,675 SF Schiele | Stephens Team 214-395-4579

6828 CASA LOMA | SOLD 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2,615 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

Ready for a new season in life? Graduation, promotion, marriage, children, empty nest, retirement - seems we’re always moving in and out of life stages. And with those changes we find ourselves needing more - or less - of something: land, square footage, amenities,

115 RANDY | $649,900

4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car / 2,524 sf Lisa Schmidt - 214-692-0000

3633 ASBURY | $645,000

2 bed / 2.1 bath / 2 car / 1,942 sf Lori Lamb - 214-692-0000

convenience, etc. Your local Ebby experts can relate and would love the opportunity to walk beside you through any or all of those seasons. Fall is a great time to get started.

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8707 EUSTIS | SOLD 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 1,665 SF Alison O’Halloran - 214-228-9013 NEW LISTING

2650 ANDREA | $279,000 4 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 1,454 SF Patty Collins - 214-862-5524

8646 WESTFIELD | SOLD

3 bed/2 bath/ 1,433 sf Brown-Qualls & Schrickel Group 214-801-1795 NEW PRICE

5925 E. UNIVERSITY #132

$250,000 2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,153 SF Chris Hickman Group - 469-569-1106

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6938 Westlake Boulevard SOLD - Represented Buyer

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7302 Coronado Avenue | $595,000

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1440 El Campo Drive | $575,000 PENDING

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5527 Worth Street PENDING - Represented Buyer

6824 Coronado Avenue | $549,900 SOLD - Represented Buyer

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ALLEN | $875,000 Sue Ann Roush 214.532.9992 sueann.roush@cbdfw.com

DALLAS | $850,000 Liliana Ornelas 214.808.0242 lili.ornelas@cbdfw.com

SUNNYVALE | $769,500 Jason Castro 214.232.2750 Michael Castro 214.957.2001 jason.castro@cbdfw.com

ARLINGTON | $575,000 Matt Keeton 972.822.3413 matthew.keeton@cbdfw.com

GREENVILLE | $549,900 Laura Suarez 214.869.8808 laura.suarez@cbrealty.com

CARROLLTON | $549,900 Karen Cuskey 214.454.4917 karen.cuskey@cbdfw.com

FRISCO | $475,000 Matt Keeton 972.822.3413 matthew.keeton@cbdfw.com

DALLAS | $445,000 April Cope 214.755.2063 April.Cope@cbdfw.com

IRVING | $379,900 Patti Allen 214.587.1955 patti.allen@cbdfw.com

DALLAS | $346,490 Alessandro Cola 214.929.5312 alessandro.cola@cbdfw.com

MESQUITE | $274,990 Lorene Viquez 972.343.8380 lorene.viquez@cbrealty.com

DESOTO | $268,000 Dale Varnon 469.264.4000 dale.varnon@cbdfw.com

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contents OCTOBER 2021 VOL.28 NO.10

14 CLICKWORTHY All the web news 16 PROFILE Clay Pendergrass 18 FAMILY LEGACY Evelyn Goldstein 26 HISTORY How Deep Ellum came to be 30 DINING Oak’d Handcrafted BBQ 34 THE VILLAGE A meeting place for East Dallasites 42 THE ARCADIA From silent movies to rock concerts

This mural of the Arcadia is painted on the Old Fashioned Donuts building near Greenville and Vanderbilt avenues. Photography by Jessica Turner.

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1234 Street Address-$000,000 NameGriffin Here 000.000.0000 617 Brookside Dr. $1,500,000 David 214.458.7663

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Here 000.000.0000 8910 Greenville Ave. $669,000 Name David Collier 214.536.8517

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1234 Name Here 000.000.0000 2222Street Moser Address-$000,000 #107 $499,000 Bart Thrasher 469.583.4819

1234 Name Here 000.000.0000 6707 Street GastonAddress-$000,000 Ave. PENDING Bart Thrasher 469.583.4819

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12346506 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here214.536.8517 000.000.0000 Willow Ln. SOLD David Collier

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1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 11761 Neering Dr. SOLD Bart Thrasher 469.583.4819

1234 Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 1011Street Grandview Ave. SOLD David Collier 214.536.8517

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c l i c k- w o r t hy

did you know? n When Woodrow Wilson alumnus Steve Miller was a teenager, he was given some guitar tips by Texas blues musician T-Bone Walker. n East Dallas neighbor Erykah Badu helped former President Barack Obama celebrate his 60th birthday

WOODROW FEST Woodrow alumni BRIAN BESSNER and CLAY DRURY are holding the Woodrow Fest fundraiser Oct. 22. It will include a golf tournament and an

party this year. n Dusty Hill and his brother, Rocky, started a band called Lady Wilde and the Warlocks in 1964. Their lead singer, Lady Wilde, was from England.

after party. Search "fundraiser" at lakewood.advocatemag.com.

50 YEARS LATER Dallas native Bob Phillips marked the 50th anniversary of Texas Country Reporter by releasing a new book, A Good Long Drive: Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter.

BACK STORY: TEXAS STATE FAIR East Dallas neighbors Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell are rereleasing A Fair To Remember to give people some joy and hope. The film, originally released in 2000, includes information from interviews, news sources and institutions such as the Dallas Public Library. It’s playing on Oct. 3 on KERA. Search "State Fair" at lakewood.advocatemag.com for more.

PAWS & CLAWS

A place for Peaches When their neighbors couldn’t give Peaches the attention and time she needed, Little Forest Hills neighbors Debbie and John Brown offered to help. They took in the then 8-year-old maltipoo two years ago. It took about two weeks for Peaches to transition to her new home and family, but she’s all settled in now. She even knows how to get back to the house from any place in the neighborhood. When the library held “feel-good Fridays” during the pandemic, Peaches gave new meaning to downward dog and laid on the yoga mat while Debbie followed along with the class. Peaches is a bit of a creature of habit. She prefers grilled chicken for dinner and usually gets ready for bed underneath the desk around 8:30 p.m. And she’s smart, too. When the Browns’ granddaughter texts to tell them she’s there, Peaches recognizes the sound. “She’s always happy to see family and friends,” Debbie says. — RENEE UMSTED GOT A PET YOU WANT US TO FEATURE? Email your photo to rumsted@advocatemag.com.

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6908 Lakeshore • $2,095,000

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How opening at Club Dada kick started Clay Pendergrass’ career › Interview by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Art by CLAY PENDERGRASS

f Clay Pendergrass and his brother opened the windows of the converted attic bedroom in their Anita Street childhood home, from one direction they could hear the music pouring out of the Granada and Arcadia. In the other direction, once the old Dr. Pepper Plant shut down, they could hear the music from the Dyer Street clubs. It was a different time, when you could still smell the fresh bread from the Mrs. Baird’s plant at Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane all the way down Lower Greenville. Pendergrass would slip out of his window and stand outside the bars he was too young to get into, just listening to the music. “It’s not as crazy as it sounds,” Pendergrass says. “I don’t think we could do things like that now.”

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Pendergrass, a guitarist, bassist and percussionist who also dabbles in visual art, has been a mainstay in the Dallas music scene for over two decades. He’s recorded and toured with the likes of David Garza, Jackopierce, American Horse, Jack Ingram and more. Longyear, released by his label Clay Sounds summer 2020, is “psychedelic, funk, pop, noise, ambient, electronic, Tex-Mex and flute rock.” It’s a combination of original songs, a New Bohemians cover, a church hymn and the national anthem. Created with New Orleans-based producer Danny Kadar, the album was made over the course of several years with tracks being sent back and forth virtually. It features a lot of guests, mostly friends. It encapsulates Pendergrass’ career — a collage of genres and collaboration.

HOW’D YOU GET YOUR START IN MUSIC? Some of my first memories are singing in church with my family. I played trumpet throughout elementary school and high school. And I probably didn’t get my actual start until probably about my senior year of high school and then (until) David Garza. We started a little band in high school called The Happy Farmers. We got really serious about playing and writing songs. I had taken some bass lessons with Brad Houser, who’s a musician and bassist who plays with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He was really instrumental in helping me get started. And then that was probably the first big break, being able to open for them at Club Dada as high schoolers. It’s just kind of crazy to think about.

or cut up music, concrete tape loops. And then, you know, also applying organic sounds to them, like live performance or field recording.

WHAT WAS THAT EXPERIENCE LIKE, OPENING FOR THEM AT CLUB DADA? It was pretty amazing because we were huge fans. They were really encouraging of the musical community and helped out a lot of young players — I mean, loaned instruments, allowed people to open up for them. It was thrilling. Club Dada was a profound influence on me. When they started, they were really a dada club. It was a surreal place, and the calendar and the acts reflected that. So you’d have New Bohemians, you’d have Tiny Tim, you’d have Cafe Noir, you know, playing this brilliant gypsy jazz. That’s the Dallas I came up in. We were really lucky to be fostered by our musical older brothers and sisters.

That’s a tough one. I mean, it’s definitely noticeable from the stage. I don’t even carry a phone personally so it’s kind of difficult for me to even relate to. But, you know, I don’t want to put on any limitations of what it might mean to other people. I have a 16-year-old daughter and to her that’s part of the experience. And, and that’s OK.

HOW HAS YOUR MUSICAL STYLE CHANGED? I think if you talk to the high school self, he might have been content to be a session player or a sideman only playing bass. I think that’s how it evolved, you know, constantly trying to learn, put yourself in new situations, being fearless about picking up new instruments, making sound and allowing it to be fun. I guess also moved over into production, and mixing, and all that sort of thing, too. I’m constantly trying, striving to be maybe a fuller musician that can understand more perspective with each day that passes. WHY DO YOU THINK VINYL IS SUCH A BIG PART OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN DALLAS? I think people fall in love with it. It’s a great sound. I think so many people these days experience music through tiny headphones or Bluetooth connected speakers. Usually if you’ve gone through the trouble of getting vinyl, you’ve gone also gone through the trouble of getting a somewhat decent system. It’s going to represent the full EQ and the full spectrum of what was put into that music on playback. I’m in love with the way that at a certain volume, when you send that sound through the air, it’s gonna move you and make you feel a different way than if it’s not there. There’s magic in the music that you’re going to get no matter what medium you take. But I do think vinyl delivers a really impressive and sustaining dose of that magic. WHAT TYPES OF VISUAL ART HAVE YOU BEEN DABBLING IN? Mainly collage, that’s my favorite. And it kind of correlates to the music, because I do a lot of instrumental music as well, in a style that I call sonic collage. So a lot of the same concepts like interspersing samples,

WHAT DO YOU LISTEN TO WHEN YOU GO ON A ROAD TRIP? Well, it would depend greatly on who’s on the road trip with me. But if I get to choose, I love the New Avalanches album We will Always Love You. My main artists I returned to would undoubtedly be Miles Davis. Joni Mitchell. Daniel Lanois is another big one for me. NOWADAYS, YOU GO TO A CONCERT, AND EVERYBODY HAS THEIR PHONE. HOW HAS THAT INTERACTION WITH THE AUDIENCE CHANGED?

WHAT HAS BEEN THE WILDEST EXPERIENCE AT A CONCERT OR A RECORDING? I was pulled off the stage and arrested one time in Houston at a Baptist high school dance, which kind of tells you everything you need to know. That’s probably the craziest live music experience. A few years ago, basically I did a 24-hour, all-day, all-night session with Andre 3000. Because he was in town. This is something he’ll do from time to time, which is book a studio wherever he is, and bring in local musicians and just try to get creative. Luckily, the owner of the studio invited me in on this. And we needed a drummer and wound up with Michael Hale, who also plays with David [Garza]. The touring life is amazing, just all the random moments that you have there. You know, like driving through, you know, the outskirts of Yellowstone on an overnight, you know, from El Paso to LA or something like that. The recording of the Jackopierce’s Finest Hour. That was another amazing studio experience because we got to work a producer, mixer and musician named Don Smith, who’s done records with Rolling Stones, Eurythmics, Aretha Franklin. That was a really special experience because he was really kind to us. When we were at his house in Agoura Hills, California, working on the record, he had just gotten back from the Stones. We’re sitting in this room full of gear with the preamps, marked Mick or Keith. WHAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT THE DALLAS MUSIC SCENE? How diverse it is and how eclectic it is. And it does seem to be an ability to reach across age and genre here. Lately, I’ve been feeling there’s another good era of musical community coming up. There’s such a rich history and timeline here — that is something worth celebrating, and being tapped into and aware of, musically. To be aware of Blind Lemon Jefferson, all the way up to MC 900 Ft. Jesus and beyond. That’s pretty exciting. That’s a good musical history to be seated in.

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the pawnbroker’s daughter EVELYN GOLDSTEIN GREW UP AT THE END OF AN ERA Evelyn Goldstein stayed up drinking wine and listening to Miles Davis to write her dad’s eloquent obituary for the Jewish Post earlier this year. She called David Goldstein the last of the Deep Ellum Jewish pawnbrokers. Story by RACHEL STONE | Portrait by JESSICA TURNER

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Honest Joe’s Pawnshop as it appeared in the 1970s. Photos courtesy of Evelyn Goldstein.

“I’m not a writer,” she says. “People have tried to write a book on my family so many times, that I’m like, ‘You know what, I’m going to write this’ ... because dad was everything to me and to a lot of people.” Her great-uncle was Honest Joe, aka Rubin Goldstein, whose pawnshop, with its glorious jumble of hand-painted signs, was a fixture of Deep Ellum for generations. Honest Joe grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and dreamed of owning a pawnshop like the ones lining Delancey Street in the early 20th century. In 1931, he moved to Dallas, where he had relatives in the pawn business, and at age 23 opened Honest Joe’s at 2524 Elm St.

Once he was established, his kin started moving here, including brother Rocky Goldstein. That was Evelyn’s grandfather. Rocky’s Pawnshop was at 2018 Elm St. Evelyn’s dad worked there starting in childhood and later co-owned it with his dad. The place was crammed with stuff, an organizer’s nightmare. One of Rocky’s signs read, “Stop dropping cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.” They did business with wise guys and petty criminals, but also musicians, housewives and working stiffs. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be at my dad’s shop,” Evelyn says. She grew up in Garland and

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graduated from Dallas Academy in Lake Highlands. David Goldstein worked all the time. He never took days off or went on vacation, so Evelyn and her brother, Jordan, have tons of childhood memories from the shop. “There were gangsters in there all the time,” she says. Guys she knew as East Dallas Louie and Johnny Tomato used to pick her up from school. Rocky put her into business around age 10 with gumball and candy machines. She had several in East Dallas, like at laundromats and Garland Road Thrift Store, and those drivers would take her around to collect her profits and refill them. The Goldsteins received national attention for a couple of presidential incidents. Honest Abe helped the FBI with tracing the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963. The pawnbroker reportedly had ridden in JFK’s motorcade, and he is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report. In 1981, Rocky Goldstein sold a .22-caliber handgun to Highland Park’s own John Hinckley Jr., who used it in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Every media outlet in the country wanted to interview him about that. The notoriety he received over it was so intense that they moved Rocky’s from Deep Ellum to East Grand about a year later, Evelyn says. She remembers vividly the time, when she was 7 years old, that the shop on East Grand was held up. “I was put into a back room,” she says. “That kind of stuff was very common then.” David Goldstein, who was a staunch Republican his whole life, moved the shop to Garland Road at Peavy around 1990. He turned it into a police supply store, selling uniforms, holsters and vests to cops, while his dad also ran a small pawnshop inside the store. “Have you ever heard of a pawn shop inside of a police store?” Evelyn says. “You had the police rubbing elbows with the criminals.” The Garland Road store was safer than the two previous locations, she says. Evelyn started working there when she was about 15, mostly helping with inventory. In high school, her friends always wanted to hang out there, even when they could’ve been at the mall or Wet and Wild.

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The magnetism was in her dad’s stories of old Dallas, and he also gave them candy. David Goldstein, who grew up in Preston Hollow and graduated from Hillcrest High School, practiced painting and music and loved to romance beautiful women. He was married four times, and his final marriage, to Laura Levy, lasted 17 years. He was known as a Jewish matchmaker and even introduced one of his exwives to the man she would marry and have kids with. In 1986, he started a club with his three best friends, Bernie Schuster, Larry Strauss and Howie Miles, called the Weiss Guys. “Every Thursday night, they would go out — women weren’t invited — and they’d have a dinner,” Evelyn says. The Weiss Guys grew to include about 200 men, and 40 or 50 would often show up to the dinners. “My little brother was working in a restaurant, and he didn’t want to wait on them,” she says. “Separate checks, Diet Cokes, coffees with cream ...” About once a year, they’d have a big party at the Stoneleigh and invite the wives, she says. After her dad died in May, they held the last Weiss Guys dinner. “They invited me and my brother and had us sit at the head of the table,” she says. “Almost all of them came. It was very touching.” Evelyn still has two cousins who worked at Rocky’s back in the day. But so many of David Goldstein’s close friends and family members have died, she says. It’s a shame nobody wrote that book.

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didn’t set out to be a bartender my whole life,” Evelyn says. She’s lived all over Dallas, completed college courses and worked in several industries. But she always comes back to slinging drinks. She recently started at Al Biernat’s, a restaurant her dad loved. Her first job was working as a bar back for the owners of Desperado’s Mexican Restaurant, who were friends of her dad. But her favorite job of all time was at the Granada Theater. “I was the first bartender they hired,” she says. “I have so much love from that family, it’s unbelievable.” She worked there until 2013, when she had to quit because she was near death before receiving a kidney transplant. “I was working a shift there one night, and it was real busy, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” she says. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.” She went home and then drove herself to an urgent clinic, which rushed her to the hospital because she was minutes from stroking out. At age 28, she was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease. First, she took nine months of chemotherapy, followed by six-and-a-half years of “grueling” dialysis. By the end, she weighed 70 pounds, and the dialysis, “felt like it was sucking the insides of me out.” She received a kidney transplant Sept. 23, 2014, on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.

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Evelyn Goldstein, near the site of her grandpa’s former pawnshop in Deep Ellum.

After that, she returned to work at the Majestic Theater, an easier job with fewer dates, and over the years has worked her way back into the restaurant business. Eater interviewed her last year for their national publication after she contracted COVID-19 at work in a Dallas restaurant. The virus attacked her kidney and put her in intensive care. Working in restaurants during the pandemic has been among the most stressful times of her life, she says. At a previous job, a customer threw a glass at her (and missed) because she told him to put on a mask. Around that time, “things were going on in Israel,” and she received antisemitic harassment from a customer who noticed her Star of David charm. “Everyone was in a bad mood. No one wanted to be there,” she says. “It was a horrible time.” And then her father died. A few days before, he told her he thought she should be working at Al Biernat’s. “He knew,” she says. “He was just a character.”

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QU I E T R I OT Deep Ellum neighbors want loud venues to pipe down Story by RENEE UMSTED | Illustration by JESSICA TURNER

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A QUIET EVENING stroll in Deep Ellum. To some people, that’s a problem. Earlier this year, the Dallas Police Department said “see ya” to its noise ordinance enforcement responsibilities. Dallas’ Department of Code Compliance Services took over in April. Since then, code compliance has been strictly enforcing the rules. Right now, people and businesses violate the ordinance if a noise “is offensive to the ordinary sensibilities of the inhabitants of the city,” according to the code. Businesses were quiet for a while because of the pandemic, but when they started to reopen, complaints and code enforcement ramped up. Some neighbors want venues to make like Simon & Garfunkel and play the sound of silence. Deep Ellum’s business owners say the code language is too subjective, and they started a Change.org petition, “Don’t Silence Deep Ellum, TX,” to clarify it. “Without measurability and specificity, local concert halls, bars and music venues aren’t able to meet clearly defined rules and enforcement is left to subjective judgment as opposed to objective, quantifiable and clear decision,” the petition states. As of publishing, more than 6,000 people had signed it. District 2 City Councilman Jesse Moreno formed a

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task force in July with the Deep Ellum Foundation, Deep Ellum Community Association, district entertainment and live music venue owners to find a solution. “We must find solutions that both allow businesses to thrive and maintain quality of life for their neighbors and nearby residents who have been drawn to the Deep Ellum district to enjoy these rich amenities,” Moreno said in a news release. A similar situation has occurred In Lower Greenville, where some neighbors have complained about parking issues, crowds and loud noises coming from certain latenight businesses, says District 14 City Councilman Paul Ridley. “We’re dealing with them on a case-by-case basis,” Ridley says. Two places on Greenville Avenue, Bar 3606 and OT Tavern, have been the subject of Board of Adjustment proceedings. The OT Tavern case was settled in August, providing some relief to neighbors. But the board sided with Bar 3606 and denied the City Council’s request to set a compliance date for the nonconforming establishment. “We’re exploring other alternatives for turning that establishment back into a restaurant or otherwise dealing with the disruption that they’re causing in the neighborhood,” Ridley says.

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LO N G T RA I N RU N N I N ’ How t h e ra ilr o a d s ha p ed D e e p Ellu m IT WAS DALLAS IN THE LATE 1800S. Post-Civil War rebuilding had begun, and the city’s leaders had a plan to grow the economy. They knew the railroad was the key. With the help of former Confederate army officer and landowner William Henry Gaston, they convinced the Houston & Texas Central Railroad to build its northward expansion closer to the city than originally proposed. Preparation began. Trees were cleared, and the major east-west streets — Elm, Main and Commerce — were expanded. The first trains roared through the city in 1872. People and businesses followed. Within a year of the railroad’s arrival, 750-900 buildings were constructed. The

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population increased to more than 10,000 in 1880 from 775 in 1860. Without the railroad, Deep Ellum wouldn’t be the loud, lively place it currently is. But a look at the neighborhood today won’t reveal everything about its past. Shortly after the railroad arrived, the area that became Deep Ellum included agricultural fields, restaurants, lodging houses, variety theaters and saloons. Freed slaves formed a community north of downtown, near the intersection of Thomas Avenue and Hall Street, called Freedmantown. They settled and set up businesses along the railroad in an area known as Central Track, which divided

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Deep Ellum from downtown. By the early 1900s, Central Track was populated mainly by Black communities, while Elm Street was populated mainly by white people. Deep Ellum’s reputation as an epicenter for music and entertainment dates to the 1890s. Businesses such as the Blackowned Black Elephant vaudeville theater were popular by that time, but the city’s tightening regulations forced it and others like it to close. However, Black-owned theaters rebounded during the first few decades of the 20th century. Those theaters in Deep Ellum catered mostly to Black audiences, though they also welcomed white visitors. The Tip Top dance hall, located on the second

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CONCERTS & VENUES Here are a few acts that have played in our neighborhood: Bomb Factory Fugazi: April 1993; 1995 INXS: May 1993 Radiohead: September 1993 The Ramones: March 1994 Tool: April 1994 Nine Inch Nails: May 1994 PHISH: May 1994 Dave Matthews Band: April 1995 Sonic Youth: November 1995 Arcadia Theater The Cure: November 1984 The Judys: December 1985 Siouxsie and the Banshees: June 1986 Dwight Yoakam: May 1987 The Trees: February 1988 Motorhead: February 1988 Iggy Pop: October 1988 Jane’s Addiction: October 1988 Above: one of two known photographs of bluesman Robert Johnson, who recorded 13 of his 41 songs in Dallas. Top: rock ’n’ roll originator T-Bone Walker, who grew up in Dallas and got his start in Deep Ellum. Photo courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Duran Duran: October 1988 Ramones: November 1988 The Judys: June 1989 Ramones: 1990

tato products there. The success of musicians such as Blind Lemon Jefferson prompted other blues and jazz artists to flock to Deep Ellum in the 1920s and 1930s, searching for work. Deep Ellum was a hub for small businesses, many owned by Jewish immigrants who arrived by trains. These shopkeepers were, in general, kind to the Black community. They welcomed them into their stores and let them try on clothes, something not allowed downtown. Many business people were pawnbrokers who lived in South Dallas. Their shops included Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop, Rocky’s and Honest Joe’s, all on Elm Street. Another Deep Ellum establishment was The Model Tailors, which clothed everyone from George “Machine Gun” Kelly to civil rights leader A. Maceo Smith. After decades as a thriving entertainment and commercial district, Deep Ellum began to change in the 1950s. Small businesses closed when they lost customers to malls. The Great Depression had quashed peoples’ entertainment budgets. And as integration efforts were implemented and the possibility for upward mobility emerged, some Jewish and Black families moved.

Blue Oyster Cult: March 1996 The Plebians: March 1999 Bryan Adams: April 1999 Lizard Lounge Deadmau5: September 2008 Will.i.am: March 2010 Steve Aoki: May 2011, August 2012 Armin van Buuren: May 2011 Zedd: October 2012 Calvin Harris: March 2013 The Chainsmokers: August 2014 Cherub: October 2016 Robin Schulz: December 2016 Waka Flocka Flame: May 2017

Source: Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas, by Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield, 2013

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really one of the only few concepts that you can build a really good product and a really good reputation is generational.” Lane’s three kids — 14, 12 and 10 — come up to wipe down tables, serve food and do other tasks around the restaurant once or twice a week. Oak’d is staffed with 10 people. In the early days of the pandemic and restaurant, Lane and another staff member would put the meat on the smoker at 7 p.m. each day and watch the brisket cook low and slow, spritzing ever so often to develop a thick bark. “There’s just a lot of different variables. You got to be here. You can’t just be the kind of restaurant where you just put them in and go home, go

to sleep, come back next morning. It doesn’t work that way,” Lane says. It’s one of the few barbecue joints in town where the brisket is locally sourced, buttery wagyu from Rosewood and Hunt Ranches. The pork butt is a shorter cut, so there’s the perfect ratio between bark and fatty meat. Each side, like the organic kale salad featuring smoked almonds, has one smoked element incorporated into the recipe to carry the oak flavor throughout the menu. The newly launched breakfast and brunch menu has the Texasfavorite brisket taco. Lane’s love for Southwestern food is evident with the featured chilaquiles entree and smoked carnitas tacos.

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hen it came time for Rebekah Wright and her husband Kevin to agree on a name for their first child, there was no disagreement. They met at The Village apartments. They married under huge live oak trees that have stood guard for nearly 50 years over the Village Country Club pool. And Rebekah has worked at The Village for the past 20 years in a variety of roles, starting as a leasing agent at the Village’s Northbridge apartment buildings. They named their daughter after a “lovely, one-bedroom den” apartment floorplan at Northbridge. That’s right: Welcome to Dallas, Emerson Wright. Maybe there are other children named after Village floorplans. (Northbridge’s were named after writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson.) Certainly, there are plenty of children throughout Dallas whose parents met at The Village or who live at The Village today. That’s what the 7,300-apartment-unit facility — the most gigantic apartment

early years as construction of the eventual 17 sets of apartment neighborhoods began in 1968. The late 1960s through the early 1980s were a growth period for Dallas much like today — real estate developers can’t build apartments fast enough to satisfy the demand for young people moving into the city. The Village came about when an arm of Lincoln Property Co. acquired 307 acres of land on the then-outskirts of Dallas near the original Caruth Homeplace. After adding a golf course and the original Country Club building, construction began on The Gate series of apartment buildings in 1968 bounded roughly by Skillman Avenue, Lovers Lane, Northwest Highway and just east of Greenville Avenue. The original 14 apartment neighborhoods were constructed from 1968 through 1986, with age 21+ residents filling the series of apartment buildings clustered around pools and parking areas, giving residents a distinct, neighborhood feel atypical of many apartment complexes. The exception was Whether the original plan for The Village The Glen, built in 1969 for families only. Today, more than 500 separate buildings was to become Dallas’ mecca for singles or are part of The Village property. not, that’s the reputation it earned in the

complex in Dallas — has brought to the city for more than 50 years: a unique place for people new to the city to make friends, learn about what ithas to offer and eventually (although not always) venture to settle in other parts of the city. Just ask Wright, whose 20 years of dedication has been rewarded with the title of Senior Vice President of All Things Fun at The Village. These days, she offices next door to the trees under which she and her husband were married. “I met all of my friends here at the Village Country Club pool, and I met my husband in The Village when I worked in the leasing office of Northbridge during the building’s lease-up in 2001. “He was looking for an apartment, and I was looking for a boyfriend!”

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Life at the village Neighborhood resident Kathleen Thompson says she moved to an efficiency near a pool in The Corners in 1974. “Everyone just hung out by the pool, and there weren’t any kids around,” she says of the “adults-only” days. “In May, we had a party, and we called it ‘The Village Idiots’ Memorial Day Shindig.’ We charged everyone $5 and got handstamps to show they’d paid. We bought kegs, and a bunch of guys barbecued chickens and did oysters on the half-shell. “We gathered by the pool late at night and played charades. It went on for hours. Everyone talked to everyone — it was the best place to be. I know of three couples who met by the pool and got married. “I had lived there several months before I realized there was more than one way into and out of the complex,” Thompson says. “It was only when a date picked me up and went out a different way that I saw another entrance.” Jan Staats retired from teaching at Merriman Park Elementary a few years ago. As first-year teachers, she says she and her roommate couldn’t afford to live in The Village in 1970, but that didn’t stop them from frequenting many parties at the Country Club. “Old Town (Shopping Center, which stretches along Greenville from Lovers to Southwestern on

the western boundary of The Village) was new, with lots of small shops and restaurants,” Staats says. “We went to opening night of TGI Fridays (the first Fridays in the country), and it took at least 45 minutes to get around the bar area. It was so tightly packed with people you could hardly lift your drink to take a sip. “The most fun nights were Thursdays, when at midnight, it was like celebrating New Year’s. Mariano’s was the place for a great frozen margarita, and many happy hours happened around their Wednesday half-price margarita night. It was such a fun time to be single in Dallas.” Neighborhood resident Joe Clifford says he and his wife, Rhonda, lived in The Village from 1987-1992 and made lifelong friends during their years there. “We loved living in The Village. It was great. On the weekends, we would just go play volleyball and drink beer. It was the Mike Tyson era, and we’d set up these giant boxing parties, but they’d usually be over in one round. “Everything was so close to Greenville Avenue, so we’d walk over for things like the St. Patrick’s Day parade.” Clifford recalls huge water volleyball tournaments, with teams from each Village neighborhood fighting it out for the ultimate title. The contest became so popular, teams from other apartment communities jumped into the competition. “We actually had a really good team,” Clifford says. “It was fun.” OCTOBER 2021

THE VILLAGE BY THE NUMBERS The Village includes more than 500 individual apartment buildings. Each year, 75,000 tulip bulbs are planted. When possible, during construction projects, The Village relocates existing trees (most of which it planted originally years ago). During a recent construction project, a 70,000-pound live oak tree — planted in the early 1980s at The Village — was relocated. The tree has a 200-inch root ball and is about 35 feet tall. It has been dubbed “Ulysses” after a superhero squirrel and was relocated to the front of the new Drey Hotel onsite at The Village. At any given time, about 11,000 residents live in The Village’s 17 “neighborhoods,” which are clusters of apartment buildings. About 600 people work at The Village.

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a country club & the pool The original centerpiece of The Village was the Country Club, a building that served as the clubhouse for a nine-hole golf course built on a portion of then-vacant farmland. For several years, The Village operated the golf course as an amenity for residents, but the Country Club building became something more: The nexus of singles life in 1970s and 1980s Dallas. Shaded by live oak trees and featuring a diving board and huge pool deck, the Village Country Club and pool became the most famous place in Dallas for singles who didn’t want to stay single forever, or even for the day. Neighborhood resident Matthew Daniel lived in The Village several different times over the years while he was attending college and then graduate school. “My father was an internist at Presbyterian Hospital,” Daniel says of the Village’s early days. “All the docs called The Village ‘Herpes Hollow.’” To entertain resident and non-resi-

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dent throngs flooding into The Village on weekends, the Country Club hosted live music poolside — everything from local bands to national acts such as Three Dog Night, The Allman Brothers and Foghat. And the bar was open all night, every night, for residents who couldn’t get enough of each other’s company. “At the Country Club, there would be the same five to seven older guys — I think they were divorced guys living at The Village — sitting at the bar,” Clifford says. “It was like the cast of Cheers. They were always there. We went back (after moving out of The Village) a year later with friends, and they were still on the same stools.” In November 1981, Scott Chrissey joined The Village staff as a bartender at the Country Club. Later he became bar manager, then assistant Country Club manager. Later still, he joined the leasing team. Thirty-nine years later, Chrissey still works and lives in The Village, wo r k i n g a s s e n i o r c a r p e n t e r i n charge of special projects. But as he talked about his life at The Village, the years working at the Country Club bar stood out most. “When I started working here,

the drinking age was 18 or 19, all of the SMU people lived here, and there were wild pool parties. It was all singles then, and it was pretty crazy,” Chrissey says. “We had a lot of celebrities come to the club to visit: I remember one time, Priscilla Davis came in, way after the Cullen Davis thing. Tommie Chong, Tattoo from the TV show Fantasy Island, Elke Sommer the actress, they came, too. “Mark Cuban used to live here. So did Mark Reeves, who turned out to be the Dapper Bandit. Reeves always used to come into the Country Club and shoot pool during the day. We always wondered what he did for a living. “When Foghat played here, there’s a drink we called an upside-down margarita. You would literally lay down on the bar, and we would pour tequila, Grand Marnier and a squeeze of lime into your mouth, and that was the drink,” Chrissey says. “I remember giving a girl one of those drinks, and the band members of Foghat saw what I was doing and asked: ‘What’s that, mate?’ “After I told them, they said ‘four all around’, and they laid down on the bar and we poured them an upside-down margarita. “Those were some crazy times.”

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p ro p e r ty ow n e rs e l e c te d n o t to i nvest i n b u i l d i n g re p a i r s a n d re n o v a t i o n s a n d i n s t e a d l e t t h e i r p ro p e r t i e s d e te r i o ra te. The Village headed in a different d i re c t i o n . L i n co l n Pro p e r t i es co n t i n u e d m a i nta i n i n g , re i nvest i n g i n a n d re b u i l d i n g i ts c o m m u n i t y, Wr i g h t s ays . T h e p ro c e ss o f evo l v i n g a n d m a i n taining the apartment complex, updati n g o r re p l a c i n g b u i l d i n gs , co n t i n u e d ove r t h e ye a rs , w i t h a s e a c h a n ge o f development thought crystallizing around the construction of Upper East S i d e c o m p l ex i n 2 0 13. “ Yo u c a n s e e i n t h e l a n d p l a n n i n g t h e d i f f e r e n c e t h e r e ,” Wr i g h t s a y s . “ T h e fo c u s i s o n o u td o o r s pa c e s , d e s i g n i n g wa l ka b l e a m e n i t i e s , t h e h a rd and soft programming of event spaces and using design to create spaces a n d ways w h e re p e o p l e we re ‘ fo rc e d ’ to b e s o c i a l a ga i n . “ W h e n we s aw t h a t wo r ke d , we d e cided to start planning the core of T h e V i l l a g e ( t h e a re a i n c l u d i n g t h e

fo r m e r Co u n t ry C l u b b u i l d i n g a n d s u r ro u n d i n g a c re a ge) . “Actually re-envisioning the e n t i re Vi l l a ge sta r te d i n 20 0 9 after the redevelopment of T h e D a k o t a n e i g h b o r h o o d ,” Wr i g h t says. “ Ref l e c t i o n , pause and thoughtful land p l a n n i n g we n t i n to o u r 2 0 13 redevelopment, which took the 400-plus units of the 1974 n e i g h b o r h o o d k n ow n a s T h e Bluffs, and redeveloped it into a 330-unit neighborhood n a m e d U p p e r E a s t S i d e. “ T h i s n e i g h b o r h o o d fo c u s e s o n c o m m o n - a re a a m e n i t y o f fe r i n g s s u c h a s a n i n f i n i t y pool and lap pool, event lawn, a private on-site coffee house, fitness center and community garden. The layout and design allows us to unite the ‘Upp e r E a s t S i d e rs ’ by g i v i n g u s s p a c e t o h o s t w e e k l y h a p py hours, neighborhood meetups, a resident-run garden club and offer an onsite barist a to t h o s e t h a t c h o o s e t h i s particular neighborhood to c a l l h o m e. “ T h i s n e i g h b o r h o o d se r ve d as a petri dish to see what works, what actually brings people outside of their apartment walls and gets them connected. It allowed us to see what would work o n a l a rge r sca l e so we co u l d b r i n g a l l Vi l l a ge rs t o ga t h e r to ge t h e r.” “ P l a n s fo r t h e co re of T h e Village redevelopment started in 2014, after rezoning, focus g roups, Villa ge r s u rveys a n d employee feedback, we started construction July 5, 2017, right after one last epic pool party at the Village Country Club.”

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WHEN THE ARCADIA THEATER opened on Greenville Avenue in 1927, it only played silent movies. Over time, its status changed from movie house to Spanish movie theater to concert venue to nightclub. Everyone from Elvis Presley to Duran Duran has graced the screens and stage at the local gathering place. Fifteen years after it was swallowed in a conflagration, here’s how some neighbors remember the Arcadia.

hen Kyle Hall was younger, concert tickets were expensive, a treat for himself. So he was picky when choosing which events to attend, only splurging on a ticket to see his most favorite acts. That explains why he only attended one concert at the Arcadia. It was Simply Red in October 1987, early in the British band’s tenure. He had just graduated from SMU in the spring. “I was really happy that Simply Red was going to be playing at the Arcadia because I hadn’t been to a concert there before,” Hall says. He knew a little about the neighborhood and the venue’s history, since he grew up in Tyler, where the television stations and news sources were based in Dallas. By the time he came to Dallas for college, he already had a handle on the city. Hall can’t remember exactly how the evening progressed, but he assumes he and his friend, who wasn’t a huge fan of live music, grabbed dinner at a nearby restaurant and walked to the theater. “It had not been sort of artificially spruced up,” he says. “It had what felt like a real Lower Greenville Avenue vibe of the time, you know, not too shiny. And I was just happy that the interior hadn’t been altered a whole lot.” Hall went to see Simply Red, but the opening act made a greater impression on him. It was Danny Wilson, a Scottish band and none of its members were named Danny Wilson. At the end of the set, the band played “Mary’s Prayer.” Until then, the audi-

ence had been chatting, buying drinks, waiting for the main attraction. When they heard “Mary’s Prayer,” they “jolted to attention.” After the song, the lead singer thanked the crowd. Hall had witnessed Danny Wilson’s first performance this side of the pond. Simply Red lived up to Hall’s expectations, sounding just like the record. He made the most of the whole night in Lower Greenville. “I loved that it was a great mix of food and drink and music and strolling around,” he says. “It was a great place to spend time.”

Arcadia Theater after a fire in 1953. Photo courtesy of the Dallas Firefighters Museum.

THE ARCADIA: A TIMELINE 1927 The Arcadia Theater opens. SEPTEMBER 1929 A culprit steals $265 from the theater. APRIL 1931 The Arcadia is robbed of $830 in ticket receipts. OCTOBER 1937 A gunfight takes place near the theater after police respond to reports of a robbery at the nearby Sears, Roebuck & Company. DECEMBER 1940 A three-alarm blaze inside the Arcadia causes $175,000 in damage.

APRIL 1941 The Arcadia reopens.

eff Downing was a regular at many Dallas event venues in the late 1980s. He went to the Arcadia, too, but not because it was part of his job. He just wanted to see the shows there. One time, he went to see Suicidal Tendencies. There was a space between the Arcadia’s stage and seats, about 20 feet deep, a breeding ground for mosh pits. “Normally I would just dive right in, but I was with her (a girlfriend), and she was jumping up and down and flailing about like everyone was, and she wanted to go up there,” he says. “And I warned her about just jumping into the pit up there, and she did anyway. And I remember it ripped one of her earrings out, and she was all upset.” That concert, where Downing met his best friend who now lives around the corner from him, was the first of many he saw at the Arcadia. There was also Motorhead, the Ramones, Slayer, Danzig, Front Line Assembly and They Might Be Giants. With its mosh pit area and few security officers, Downing says the Arcadia was a great place to see heavy metal concerts. “There weren’t people walking up and down the aisles with flashlights, telling you to get down off your seats. People were allowed to have a good time,” he says. Those “good times” might be why Downing remembers the place being a little torn up. But he saw past its flaws. “I always appreciated the fact that it was authentic to the time it was built,” he says. “It was very retro looking, which to me is instantly interesting. To a lot of people, it’s not.” The Arcadia stood out to Downing not just for its architecture, but also for the environment it created. “People were free to just enjoy the show for all the right reasons,” he says. “The sound was always great. You could always see things clearly. You could see the band clearly, and it felt very engaging because it was a small, sort of intimate venue.” OCTOBER 2021

MAY 1954 Two teen boys are arrested after setting off a stench bomb in the balcony. NOVEMBER 1958 The Arcadia closes after another fire that causes $75,000 in damage. APRIL 1959 The Arcadia reopens with new projection equipment. DECEMBER 1959 A 19-year-old is shot five times and killed by her estranged husband as they sit in a car in the parking lot. MARCH 1973 Dallas police seize multiple reels of Deep Throat as the Arcadia tries to screen it. JUNE 2006 A third fire marks the end of the Arcadia. AUGUST 2013 Trader Joe’s opens on the former site of the Arcadia.

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It’s only rock ’n’ roll but he likes it T h e t h e ra p i st u s i n g m u s i c to h ea l

n Mark Beal’s home office where he sees therapy clients, it’s telling that a thick volume of the DSM-5 shares space with a side table fashioned out of a drum. Beal is a believer in the healing power of music and was an enthusiastic Ringo-inspired drummer and performer until a devastating physical setback a few years ago. Beal says he is now ready to challenge his fears. He’s ready to rock again. Beal was just a 9-year-old kid in Kansas City back in 1963 when he heard “She Loves You” come crackling through his transistor radio. “ That song was so different and intense,” he says. “Ringo starts it off and the drums are as loud as the other ins truments.” He immediately announced to his family that he wanted to be like Ringo. Jumping at every opportunity to see or hear The Beatles, Beal recalls taking desperate measures to catch their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show one Sunday evening, a traditional Baptist ser vice t i m e . Hi s f a t h e r b e i n g t h e church minister, Beal laughs as he describes feigning illness to stay home and plant in front of the TV. Up to that point, Beal had

been fed a steady diet of church hymns and classical music. He enjoyed playing his parents’ collection of 78 RPM classical recordings and discovered he “experienced a connection between classical and rock music.” He says, “Both depended

When I sat down in front of the drums/ cymbals, it seemed my hands and feet and brain all came together. on melody, repetition and often loud passages.” An upside down metal trash can and wooden dowels served as his first drum set, to be replaced three years later with an actual set. Always a music lover, Beal had attempted guitar, violin and other instruments, but none felt right. Drums were a whole different animal for him. “When I sat down in front of the drums/cymbals,

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it seemed my hands and feet and brain all came together,” he says. He first took the stage in sixth grade for a school talent show and would go on to play in bands in Abilene, Houston, Nashville and Dallas. Yeah, he has stories. While in college in Abilene, h e w a s p a r t o f a “ p i c k u p” band, composed of whoever was available to play on any given night. They had no name, but Beal laughs, “I would have called us the Hardin Simmons Sinners.” One of the most memorable gigs was at a private club named The Cave. In a scene straight out of “ The Blues Brothers” movie, the band p l ay e d c o u n t r y m u s i c o n a stage surrounded by chicken wire — to protec t the band from drunkenly tossed beer bottles. Yes, there were glass projectiles; no, there were no injuries. Beal spent about three years in Nashville trying his luck in Music City. “My band was called ‘The Unknowns,’ and that describes our level of success,” he says. He muses it might have had something to do with the fact that they played The Clash and Pink Floyd inthe country music capital. B e a l l o ve d h i s m u s i c b u t

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was prac tical. “Drumming was my first love, but I had to find something else to pay the bills,” he says. He felt his d e g r e e i n p s yc h o l o g y a n d graduate degree in counseling were natural extensions of music. “Both therapy and music are about expressing what is inside of us,” he says. He adds, “Music bypasses our rational problem-solving thinking, and takes us on a journey close to the edge of healing and exquisite joy.” As a therapist, he encour-

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ages clients to bring their musical instruments into sessions and asks what songs he should listen to so he can learn more about them. “I also ask clients to name their current theme song, the song that describes their place in life now.” One going through a divorce named The Who’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It”; another dealing with childhood memories chose Peter Gabriel’s “Digging in the Dirt” and another managing chronic depression found solace in The Eagles’ “Take It Easy,” he says. Beal enjoyed his therapy career in Dallas but continued playing gigs at venues mostly in the neighborhood such as O’Riley’s and The Green Ele-

phant until 2011. “I lost the hearing in my right ear from a viral infection on Thanksgiving Day,” he says, and now wears a hearing aid in his left ear as compensation. For five long years, Beal d i d n’ t t o u c h t h e d r u m s , afraid he could no longer keep a beat. Ironically, it was more loss in his life that prompted him to pick up the drum sticks again. After losing several loved ones in a relatively short period of time, he decided, “I had nothing left to lose. It was play drums or self destruct.” The first time playing after such a long time? “It felt natural, like putting on your favorite flannel shirt in the fall,” he says. He now plays several times a week, but it’s not the same as performing. “Playing different drum beats and fills can ge t boring fas t when you’re alone. It’s with other musicians that the magic happens: the tuning of the guitars, microphone checks, lighting tests, amp feedback … all combine to create this wave of energy that excites and surprises and makes you smile,” he says. He’s ready to rock again and hoping to connect with other musicians about his age who want to play music just for the love of playing. To quote Beal ’s own c urrent theme song, “Lights of Home” by U2: “I believe my best days are ahead/I can see the lights in front of me.”

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why not consider just such a real-time exercise among everyday people here and now? We have the laboratories of incubation: smaller social environments like families of flesh, communities of faith and neighborhood blocks. Siblings of blood and spirit, along with proximate neighbors. We can look out for one another while respecting the individuality of each kind of kin. Former U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill used to say: “All politics is local.” By that he meant that people don’t vote for politicians for their big ideas or abstract ideals; they vote for leaders who care about them and their lives on a micro scale. Learning to forgive your brother, reconciling with your mother, making peace with the chair of deacons, praising the president of your neighborhood association, apologizing to your daughter, complimenting your son, kneeling at the Communion railing next to someone who gossiped about you, assuming the best from someone you suspect might wish you ill, asking questions more than making statements, sharing your goods with those in need, seeking to serve rather than be served: These are just some random everyday practices that everyday people can do to live together well. We don’t have to go to Mars to learn survival skills. And we don’t have to be anything other than everyday people. What we must have is only this — unflagging love for one another. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Pastor George A. Mason / Worship at 9 & 11 a.m. Sunday School at 10 a.m. / wilshirebc.org

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel 10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH /corner of Peak & San Jacinto/English Worship 10:00 am/Sunday School 11:00am-Noon/Spanish Worship 12:15pm/ church.emanueldallas.org CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Rev. K.M. Truhan Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary LAKEWOOD UMC / 2443 Abrams Rd. / 214.823.9623 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am / mylakewoodchurch.org Messy Church for Children and Families Sunday 5:00 pm MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Come & See

Sunday: Morning Worship: 9:30 & 11:00 am Evening Worship 5:00 pm 5200 Bryan Street / mungerplace.org

N O N - D E N O M I N AT I O N A L LAKE POINTE CHURCH – WHITE ROCK CAMPUS

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Sunday Service at 10:30am / Spanish speaking Service 12:30pm / Pastor Travis Endsley / 214-484-1055 / tcjh.org

PRESBYTERIAN ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 9999 FERGUSON RD. saintmarkchurch.org / Sunday School 9:15am / Worship I0:30am/ 214.321.6437/ Rev. Rick Brooks NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sunday Worship 10:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family. PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 4124 Oak Lawn Ave Sunday Worship 9:00 & 11:00 A.M. To all this church opens wide her doors - pcpc.org

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Growing up in Dallas, I saw a community divided. I had always admired how United Way works to tackle local social issues, and after trying a few volunteer events, I was hooked. Today, I encourage other young people to look at what’s not working in their community, stand up and be part of the movement to make it right. TYLER’S STORY

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It’s not just what they know. It’s who they become. The power of education goes beyond knowledge. It can cultivate character, compassion and persistence. It can truly transform a child. At Primrose, we help every child flourish with a thoughtful balance of play and structure.

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Since its inception in 1972 as Parish Day School to the expansion to a PreK – 12th grade program in Parish Episcopal School to the new addition of the beautiful Noble Family Performing Arts Center, after 50 years, the School remains focused on the whole child, helping students thrive and reach their potential in a loving, supportive and collaborative environment where the possibilities are infinite.

Bring Your Student to a Campus Preview Hillcrest (PreK 3 yrs old - 2nd grade) Midway (3rd - 12th grade) Sunday, October 24 Saturday, November 13 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Visit us online at parish.org or contact our Admission office at 972.852.8737 OCTOBER 2021

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The Lamplighter School is dedicated to igniting the potential of each child. Focused on students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, young children are engaged in the joy of learning through intellectual discovery in a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment. At Lamplighter, the student is central and our faculty is extraordinarily skilled at working side by side to nurture each child’s natural curiosity. Lamplighter offers limitless possibilities for learning, including opportunities to solve real problems, develop STEM skills, and benefit from our innovation lab, barn, and gardens. Through age-appropriate intellectual, creative, and physical challenges, our students learn to both lead and work together to support one another. Students at the School emerge as risk takers, problem solvers, and confident leaders. Founded in 1953, today’s 12-acre educational campus has an enrollment of 450 students. Lamplighter delivers serious education wrapped in the wonder of childhood.

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ACCEPTING NEW STUDENT APPLICATIONS 2020-2021 Serving Grades PK-8TH What Our Parents Say About The Kessler School! TKS has been a second home and family for my kids; it is a place where every educator and staff member knows your child and is committed to their academic and personal growth. I never have to fight my kids in the morning about getting ready for school; they are always ready and eager to be the first ones on campus. Because of TKS, my kids see school as a fun and supportive place!

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TKS has offered my daughter a place where she is able to grow, learn, and become the best version of herself. The small class size was a driving factor in my initial decision to choose TKS, but the ongoing support, warmth, and interest in her success that each teacher, staff, and the head of school has shown has kept us at TKS through the years. My daughter loves to go to school every day and I appreciate the open lines of communication. Go Owls!

- ALISHA SENOUR, TKS PARENT I was so excited for Chelsea to attend after reading the school bio, and from the first day until now I have watched her grow and thrive in her ideas writing her personal responsibility towards others and herself. It is an amazing adventure to see as a parent. The teachers and staff are such lovely people and take such a personal involvement in her education and development of character. If given the opportunity it would benefit any family to try The Kessler School. You won’t be disappointed!

- ALISA DAUGHTRY, TKS PARENT We are so grateful to be part of the TKS community. The school has been very supportive of our family, despite some difficult family health issues. We love Ms. Hayes’ pre-k class, with its emphasis on socio-emotional development. Our son Luca has learned and grown so much over the years. TKS is the

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5105 Swiss Avenue

6621 Mercedes Avenue

5610 Goodwin Avenue

4 BED | 6.2 BATH | 6,262 SQ. FT. | GUEST QTRS | $2,295,000

.79 ACRE ELEVATED CREEK LOT ON CUL-DE-SAC | $2,100,000

4 BEDROOMS | 3 BATHS | 3,710 SQ. FT. | PRIVATE SALE

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6171 Llano Avenue

5000 Worth Street

11761 Neering Drive

4 BEDROOMS | 3.1 BATHS | 4,076 SQ. FT. | $1,250,000

4 BEDROOMS | 3.1 BATHS | 4,075 SQ. FT. | $950,000

3 BEDROOMS | 2 BATHS | 2,165 SQ. FT. | $650,000

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6110 Palo Pinto Avenue

5422 Belmont Avenue

7471 Walling Lane

3 BEDROOMS | 2 BATHS | 1,904 SQ. FT. | $625,000

2 BEDROOMS | 2 BATHS | 1,391 SQ. FT. | $495,000

4 BEDROOMS | 4 BATHS | 2,656 SQ. FT. | $445,000

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Gromatzky Group

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