Is Facebook the new front porch?
Social media can forge relationships, improve efficiency, boost business and promote safety in the neighborhood. But not everyone is on board.
How Advocate Media uses social media
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.
Hearty winter soups
Fabian Chavez starts his mornings at Eno’s Pizza Tavern making the soup of the day with fresh local veggies and herbs.
Our Back Story readers share bits of Oak Cliff history
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.
Q&A: ‘Granny Geek’ Gay Revi
The Dells District resident’s blog offers helpful information and insights for Oak Cliff residents and people all over the city.
Advocate radio archives: When we were newbies
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.
New additions to the $10 Wine Hall of Fame and a recipe for sweet and sour cole slaw
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?
Events for January 2012
Texas Theatre presents a free series of awesomely terrible B movies called Tuesday Night Trash every Tuesday night in January.
Digital news can’t compete with the surprises newsprint offers
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.
Scene and heard in Oak Cliff
Pictures and happenings around the neighborhood, like the Real Estate Council fireside chat at Eno’s Pizza Tavern in Bishop Arts.
True crime: Theft
Someone ripped off the paneling.
Neighborhood business buzz
The Bishop Arts Winery is expected to start serving wine and food around the middle of January. Owner Elias Rodriguez has been open, serving coffee and bagels for several months while he waits for approval so sell and manufacture wine.