Jeff Siegel: Hold on to your houses
Or don’t. It might be a good time to sell. Or not. It’s all quite perplexing. How hot is the neighborhood real estate market?…
Worship: Wisdom from a 64-year-old long-distance swimmer
Last month 64-year-old Diana Nyad finally achieved her lifelong goal of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Key West.She had tried four times…
Inside the creative spaces of White Rock area artists
The neighborhood residents will be on this year’s White Rock Lake Artists’ Studio Tour. Every October for more than two decades, artists around White…
Wine: $3 chardonnays worth trying
Can a wine drinker survive on $3 wine? Probably, given my experiment with five $3 chardonnays from Dallas retailers. The wines weren’t spectacular, but…
‘I survived’: Real-life brushes with death
Lakewood residents’ near misses, miraculous recoveries and other near-death experiences. A slip, a lump, the doctor’s call — the end can arrive in a…
October 2013 events
Oct. 10 Santa Fe 5k Run in the third annual Santa Fe 5k, “the Best Happy Hour Race in October,” to benefit the Friends…
The magazine contains only a portion of what we report
Even though we’re in the magazine publishing business here at Advocate Media, we spend only about half of our day working on our magazines….
Mike Henry’s homemade climbing wall
Do you know the ‘mountain man’? That’s the nickname bestowed upon neighbor Mike Henry, who spends his free time practicing rock-climbing moves on the…
Writer in residence: Richard Ellison
East Dallas neighbor Richard Ellison is a man full of stories. And at 85, he has more than a few of them. Recently he…
Delicious: Diet dishes at Trinity Hall
The popular Irish pub satisfies veggie lovers, too. Trinity Hall Irish Pub in Mockingbird Station, which offers both vegan/vegetarian and gluten-free menus, is an…
Let’s go food truckin’
The Truck Yard is open for business in East Dallas. To the untrained eye, the rusty old junkyard on Spear across the street from…
Lakewood neighbors share chicken farm
Next-door neighbors create a co-op coop. When Greg and Jill Gordon moved to Lakewood from Forest Hills, they weren’t too chicken to bring along…
