Find out why Pocket Sandwich Theatre is rom-com city
The stage of Pocket Sandwich Theatre, our neighborhood’s very own dinner theater, has hosted comedies, popcorn-tossing melodramas and romances — but not the scripted…
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George Mason: Why America’s first slave Angela matters to you today
Black History Month has added solemnity this year as we mark the 400th anniversary of the journey of Angela, the first known slave to…
Mita Havlick: Why everyone belongs in the East Dallas in-crowd
We’re a great hodgepodge in our area of town. Some residents are lifelong Dallasites. Others are transplants, having arrived via job offers, educational opportunities…
George Mason: Front porches make us who we are
Let’s have more porch time this year. I know it’s January, and we’ll probably be huddled by fireplaces more than spread out on the…
Sounds like us? Local pastor finds conflict and harmony in Bethlehem
“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie …” I happened to be in Bethlehem on Election Day last month, co-leading a…
Mita Havlick: They’re all our babies, so why aren’t we helping them?
My tour of Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School began in the roomy entrance hall. The campus belies the South Dallas neighborhood where it resides…
Why you should see Electric Lizzyland: How one woman displays 30,000 lights with lots of glitter
Where do you find an Abominable Snowman, vintage elves, taxdermied rat scenes and about 100,000 lights? And glitter — lots of glitter? “Electric Lizzyland,” neighbor Liz…
George Mason: 20 years of public theology in 20 quotes
Wilshire Baptist Church senior pastor George Mason writes monthly missives meant to provoke. He was a father of three teenagers when the Advocate worship…
If we vote Nov. 6, maybe we can beat Oklahoma — again
I’m putting out a challenge to all of us: Let’s beat Oklahoma — again. We’ve already done it once this year. As a Longhorn…
How Woodrow teachers create a piece for peace
Woodrow Wilson High School art teachers Miranda Korschun and Jessica Martinez have a vision for a peaceful garden. They are transforming an underused, dumping ground of…
Havlick: Gentrification squeezed out a neighborhood favorite
I confess to uttering a mild expletive when my phone rang and I saw that it was Faulkner’s Cleaners on Lower Greenville. I forget…
Wamre: Why you should take the train
In the midst of reading yet another ponderous article about how North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un believes the U.S. is disrespecting him, and then laboring through…
