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Advocate slideshow: Oak Cliff Mardi Gras 2012

We ate pie and crawfish. We drank sparkling wine and beer. We ran 3.1 miles. We threw and caught beads and candy. We danced, we laughed, we ate some more pie. Oak Cliff Mardi Gras 2012 came and went this weekend.

Winnetka Heights won best float in the parade for their 70s disco theme. The judges — Roy Appleton of the Dallas Morning News, Joanna England of Oak Cliff People and I — scored a tie between the Winnetka Heights float and last year’s winner, Krewe La Rive Gauche. In the end, a coin toss decided it. There were many terrific floats, and it’s impressive that neighbors put in so much time and work on them.

Posted by on February 20th, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Bishop Arts District, Events, Photos
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Pet pause picture

This article is 12 of 13 in the 02.2012 issue.

Tank is not even 2 years old yet, but he already has personal style. His owner is a Edgar Salas of Winnetka Heights.

Posted by on January 26th, 2012 in All Magazine Articles, Launch, Pets, Photos
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Scene and heard in Oak Cliff

This article is 10 of 13 in the 02.2012 issue.

Kiera Cotten and Kael Alford watch the 2011 Oak Cliff Mardi Gras parade, along with thousands. Mardi Gras Oak Cliff 2012 takes place Feb. 16-17.

Posted by on January 26th, 2012 in All Magazine Articles, Arts, Bishop Arts District, Entertainment, Photos, Scene and Heard
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Scene and heard in Oak Cliff

This article is 10 of 14 in the 01.2012 issue.

Pictures and happenings around the neighborhood, like the Real Estate Council fireside chat at Eno’s Pizza Tavern in Bishop Arts.

Posted by on December 23rd, 2011 in All Magazine Articles, Business, Nonprofits and Volunteers, Photos, Scene and Heard
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Pet pause picture

This article is 14 of 14 in the 01.2012 issue.

Oliver and Zsa Zsa like to play, crash and cuddle. Their people are neighborhood residents Rodney Walter and Allie Anderson.

Posted by on December 23rd, 2011 in All Magazine Articles, Launch, Pets, Photos
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Dreaming of Oak Cliff Christmas lights

This article is 2 of 13 in the 12.2011 issue.

Back when the Oak Cliff Bank Tower began beaming the building’s iconic, red- and green-lit NOEL, Cliffites knew the Christmas season had arrived.

Posted by on November 23rd, 2011 in All Columns, All Magazine Articles, Back Story, History, Photos
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Oak Cliff artists contributed to DMA’s Gaultier exhibit

The Dallas Museum of Art’s John Paul Gaultier exhibit, “The Sidewalk to the Catwalk” opens officially Sunday, Nov. 13.

A couple of Dallas artists spent two days creating an art installation outside the museum.

Julie McCullough Kim of Make and IndieGenius and Oak Cliff-based artist Marisa Dukowitz “lace bombed” trees outside the museum.

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Photos courtesy of Julie McCullough Kim

Other trees they covered in this blue-and-white fabric.

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Kim and Dukowitz also created a 7-foot topiary shaped like a dress form and another topiary shaped like hangers.

Kim said she got to see the Gaultier exhibit Wednesday, and she wants to see it two or three more times. “You can’t take it all in at one time,” she says. “It’s like no other exhibit I’ve ever seen.”

Dukowitz is the artist who created these amazing masks, which showed recently at the Ross Akard Gallery.

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Posted by on November 11th, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Arts, Events, Photos
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Slideshow: Stevens Park Estates Halloween

Stevens Park Estates resident Mark Hupert submitted these 64 photos he took of trick-or-treaters and pals on Halloween. I spent Halloween in Kessler Plaza, and we saw a lot of butterflies and Super Marios. Who did you see?

Posted by on November 2nd, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Photos
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Scene and heard in Oak Cliff

This article is 11 of 13 in the 11.2011 issue.

Pictures and happenings in the neighborhood.

Posted by on October 27th, 2011 in All Magazine Articles, Photos, Scene and Heard
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Photos: La Reunion TX Art Chicas/Chicos

The annual program that brings together students and artists, who create art from the surroundings at the La Reunion TX campus, is wrapping up.

Their work will be on display for family, friends and La Reunion TX supporters during a reception from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29. County commissioner Elba Garcia will speak at 2 p.m. Artist Jennifer Sereno and her students will follow with a brief performance piece. And then guests will be invited to tour the site and installations.
Art Chicas is in its fifth year, and La Reunion TX offered it to boys for the first time this year through Art Chicos. Six artists and 20 high school students participated, working every Saturday in October. During their lunch breaks, artists from the Dallas Art Dealers Association spoke to them about having careers in art.

Check out these photos by Allison V. Smith, taken at La Reunion TX.

 Photos: La Reunion TX Art Chicas/Chicos
La Reunion – Images by Allison V. Smith

Posted by on October 27th, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Arts, Nonprofits and Volunteers, Photos
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