Social media can forge relationships, improve efficiency, boost business and promote safety in the neighborhood. But not everyone is on board.

We love interacting with our neighbors on social media, and the web features so many of these virtual “front porches.” Here’s how we at the Advocate are using some of those places right now.

Fabian Chavez starts his mornings at Eno’s Pizza Tavern making the soup of the day with fresh local veggies and herbs.

One of the many perks of writing this column each month is the great people I meet and the great stories they share, to add to my own Oak Cliff experiences and stories from my parents.

The Dells District resident’s blog offers helpful information and insights for Oak Cliff residents and people all over the city.

We admit: The audio on this thing is truly awful. And we introduced the podcast with a song. It’s supposed to be funny, but we have a weird sense of humor. We had fun with the podcasts in those days, because we were pretty sure that none of you listened.

Cheap wine is more popular than ever, but the wine industry — and especially the wine writing part of it — seems to resent cheap wine more than ever. Their reasons aren’t quite clear, but chalk up much of the backlash to the fact they’re tired of cheap wine, and want to get back to making and writing about the expensive stuff. We can be a bit snobbish, no?

Texas Theatre presents a free series of awesomely terrible B movies called Tuesday Night Trash every Tuesday night in January.

For me a newspaper on newsprint still offers something more — the opportunity to stumble across something I didn’t know I needed to know. Like the story I read the other day about the death by brain damage of a 28-year-old Minnesota hockey player, or the story about why Army wound up beating Navy for the 1944 college football championship.

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