Oak Cliff’s own Sour Grapes graffiti crew got in on the Seventh-Street murals this week, putting up its signature ice pops on the exterior wall of the Oak Cliff Bicycle Co. building.

Advocate photo editor Can Türkyilmaz was there, and he captured this slideshow. Also, check out his video of the crew working:

As you might be aware, the Advocate recently hosted a video contest — several of you put your best footage forward, submitting lovely bits of neighborhood imagery. But, gee, there always has to be a jokester in the crowd … doesn’t there? That’s evidenced by this submission that treats Advocate like “Saturday Night Live” treats “The View”. OK, haha, we get it. Seriously, though, most of us got a real kick out of it and it kind-a went inter-office viral. We learned, in short, that the funny guy was one of us: Luke Shertzer of Ribbit Multimedia, who shares an office with us. Either you’ll get it or you won’t, but if you get it, I promise you’ll laugh your face off.

The Happy Bullets, whose band members include Oak Cliff neighbors Jason and Andrea Roberts, had an album-release party at Good Records on Greenville Avenue Thursday for their new record, "Hydropanic at the Natatorium". All these years, I never knew their producer, Lindsay Graham, is my neighbor. Graham, just like Dallas musician Salim Nourallah, owns a "backyard guest house turned into a recording studio".

The businesses on Tyler Street had their best sales numbers of all time this weekend during Oak Cliff Art Crawl’s Better Block installment, Jason Roberts tells us. And Matt Spillers of Eno’s says businesses in the Bishop Arts District were slammed all weekend — one of the top five weekends of the year for them, he says.

Victor Hugo says “What’s better than a dream to create the future?” The folks at the Dallas School of Metaphysics are dedicated to show you ways to get a grip on your waking life in the guidance of your dreams. After the video is a list of all the dream related events coming up within the next couple of weeks:

Kettle Art in Deep Ellum is the new home for six local photographers’ 18 photographs until March 27th. Produced and curated by Photopolus, 18 Photographs features new work by Andrea Roberts, Andrew Shepherd, Ange Fitzgerald, Daisy Yokley, Justin Terveen and Wendy Woodruff-Wezensky.

It certainly is a guilty pleasure watching grown up man in suits go bonkers and dance around like five year olds. This is exactly what Council members Dwaine Caraway, Jerry Allen and Tennell Atkins did while hosting a drum line face-off in front of City Hall. Bands from Lake Highlands, Skyline, Adamson and Townview put on quite a show to bring attention to the March for Respect, a walk through the West End on March 27 to show support for Texans with developmental disabilities.

Advocate web editor Kris Scott is in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration. Here is some video she shot of the action.

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