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A MATTER OF PRINCIPALS

MEET THE NEW LEADERS OF J.L. LONG AND WOODROW WILSON

Story by RENEE UMSTED Photography by JESSICA TURNER

Next-door Dallas ISD schools in our neighborhood started the year with new principals.

Chandra Barnett, who was previously the principal of J.L. Long Middle School, took over at Woodrow Wilson High School. Amir Boroujerdi came from Molina High School to replace her at Long.

With a few months on campus now under their belts, we spoke with Barnett and Boroujerdi to give them a chance to introduce themselves, share their goals for the year and talk about the safety issues still fresh on the minds of many community members.

CHANDRA BARNETT

BIO:

Barnett grew up in Dallas and attended Skyline High School, though she graduated from an El Paso school. She attended East Texas State University, where she earned a degree in social work. After college, she worked at a nursing facility and the Dallas County Juvenile Department. Her mother then suggested she consider education because she liked working with children.

Barnett received master’s de grees in education administra tion and special education. Her first position with Dallas ISD was teaching special education stu dents at the now-closed Pearl C. Anderson Middle School in 2002. After 11 years at Anderson, Barnett worked as an assistant principal at Lincoln High School, Billy Earl Dade Middle School and Long, and then she became principal at Long before moving next door.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO IM PROVE THE CAMPUS CLIMATE AND CULTURE?

We have different activities I do throughout the week for the teachers, for the students. I do meet with the teachers on a reg ular basis. We do temperature checks on a monthly or a weekly basis as we see fit. I greet them in the morning. I send them pos itive messages every morning. And the teachers do respond to those, and I respond back. But it’s just a two-way communica tion. How are you doing today?

What are some of the things that you feel like I’m doing well, I’m not doing well? But the main thing that I think has changed at Woodrow, is the fact that I am in the hallways, interacting with the

teachers, the students, family members. I have an open-door policy.

WHAT ARE SOME PRIORITIES FOR THE YEAR?

One of our priorities is for the safety and security of the school, inside the school and outside of the school. This summer going until the school year, I did develop a school safety plan that we put out to the community. We did create a QR code just to let the community know if some thing is happening within the school, we’ll send out a quick message: We’re having a prac tice fire drill; just to let you know, the staff and students are OK. Some of the things that did happen prior to this year that was one of the com munity’s biggest concerns, was the safety and security of their students while they’re at school. So that is one of our main focuses that we look at on a daily basis with our dai ly door checks, making sure people have ID badges when they come in and things of that nature.

HOW ELSE ARE YOU ENSURING STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE SAFE?

I do have officers that I en sure are at the park or outside of our school, whether they be regular DPD [or] Dallas ISD PD at the park across the street to ensure after school, there’s no incident. Or even a plain-clothes officer that they may not see. So, we did increase some security out side of the school. And I had meetings with parents prior to the school year starting to let them know these are some of the safety measures that we have put in place within the school and out.

Chandra Barnett was given scholarships to play basketball and run track at East Texas State University.

Amir Boroujerdi is trilingual; he can speak Persian (also called Farsi), English and Spanish.

AMIR BOROUJERDI

BIO:

Boroujerdi was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to North Texas when he was 7 years old. He attended schools in Dal las, Plano and Richardson, including Dan D. Rogers Elementary, before attending the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a degree in Spanish language, literature, history and culture. Boroujerdi has an MBA from Hardin-Sim mons University and a master’s in ed ucational technology leadership from Lamar University.

His first full-time job in education after college was as a Spanish teacher and a football and baseball coach at Woodrow. Since then, he’s worked in the Office of Student Discipline, the Student Services Department, at North Dallas High School as a reconnection center facilitator, at Skyline High School, Kennedy Curry Mid dle School and Pinkston High School as an assistant-principal intern, and at Moli na High School as an assistant principal.

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO GET INTO EDUCATION?

I come from a family of professional educators. My mother was a high school principal in Iran. My father was a deputy minister of education in Iran as well. It’s just something that kind of runs in the family. My sister is currently an art teacher in Garland. I always had a pas sion for education, knew that I wanted to help people, and becoming an educator just seemed like a natural fit.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR PRIORITIES THIS YEAR?

We’ve been filling some of the vacan cies that we had. There’s obviously a national teacher shortage, and we’ve moved very quickly to fill all those va cancies. The second thing is always going to be just making sure that our teachers have the help and the support that they need in order to effectively instruct their students. My third big one is safety and security. We’ve got to make sure that we have a safe campus environment. We

want to make sure that safety is always our No. 1 priority, working with our admin team, our security team, our campus officer, in or der to make sure that the school day goes smoothly, and that the students are safe, and they feel secure, and that we can have a great school year.

HOW ARE YOU ADDRESSING SAFETY CONCERNS?

We are working very closely with the high school next door to ensure that all of our students are safe, especially since Wood row and Long are so close to one another. We have also worked with the DISD Police and security team to review our building, re view our safety protocols, make sure that we’re training our peo ple, training our teachers, making sure that we have a strong and responsive administrative team that can respond to any kind of safety and emergency issues. Our referrals for the first five weeks of school are already about 53% less than they were the last year. So, we’re already making some progress in terms of just having a little bit more order on campus so that we have less discipline issues. We’re also tightening up our hallway transitions, making sure that students get to class on time and quickly so that they can get the maximum amount of instruction. We’re even working with our PTA to have some par ent volunteers, at least in the morning during arrival, just to have a greater presence outside of our campus to make sure that the students are being adequate ly watched. Right now, we have teachers, we have myself, we have security out there in the mornings, but we just want more people to ensure the safety of our students.

Interviews edited for clarity and brevity.

THE UGLY DUCKLING OF JUNIUS HEIGHTS

Story by RENEE UMSTED Photography by JESSICA TURNER

On Tremont Street, between Henderson Avenue and Augusta Street, the surroundings are normal for Junius Heights. The street is lined with oneand two-story homes, many of them exhibiting the craftsman style that characterizes the historic neighborhood.

But where Tremont intersects Augusta, it’s clear that one of these things is not like the others.

The building at 5422 Tremont St. sticks out like a sore thumb. Instead of being coated with a pale shade of paint and a light trim color like the rest of the homes, this building is completely white. There is a porch but no windows.

Almost the whole front yard is covered with concrete. The roof is blocked from view by a terraced structure propped up at the front of the building. It doesn’t look like any of the houses nearby because it isn’t a house.

The Dallas Central Appraisal District describes the 2,472-square-foot structure built in 1920 as a “free standing retail store” on its website. City permits confirm the building’s use.

Unfortunately, there’s nearly a 60-year gap in records at the city’s Permit Center. The earliest use lists the building as a grocery/retail store owned by an individual, Jerry Garner, in

1978. The same year, a certificate of occupancy was issued for a liquor store at the property, with a different owner, Noel Song, and tenant, Gilbert Rodriguez.

In 1980, the use on the certificate of occupancy permit is listed as grocery/retail; the owner remains the same, but there’s a new tenant.

The next year, a certificate of occupancy was issued, but like the previous years, no business name is listed. There’s only the use — liquor store — with an owner, Michael W. York.

In 1986, the city’s records show a business at the Tremont Street property: Mike’s Grocery. It remained Mike’s Grocery, or Mike’s Grocery and Market, until 2005.

In that year, a certificate of occupancy was issued for a general merchandise or food store doing business under the name “Carroll Properties.” No additional certificate of occupancy has been issued since then, although the city did approve the applicant’s request to make repairs to the roof in 2008.

What differentiates this building from other retail centers in our neighborhood is that it stands alone. Other buildings, such as the one on Greenville Avenue near Marquita, where Window Seat Coffee and St. Martin’s Wine Bistro are located, was built before 1931 and serves as a commercial property in the middle of the Lower Greenville neighborhoods. But it offers several storefronts for several retailers.

The 1940s building on Junius Street that houses Garden Cafe and other businesses is another commercial property that’s unlike the Tremont building.

It must be just another one of those charming East Dallas quirks.

MI NG EDUCATION

ART LEGACY DALLAS

Frank

Story by RACHEL

Photography by JULIA

PULL A THREAD on the Creative Arts Center of Dallas, and it unravels a history of local fine art in our city dating back to the turn of the 20th century and the Monet of Texas, Frank Reaugh.

Octavio Medellín started what would become the Creative Arts Center in 1966 at El Sibíl, Frank Reaugh’s home and studio near Lake Cliff Park.

He started the school at the urging of Reaugh’s “disciples,” says Diana Pollack, the center’s executive director.

“They were fans of his, like a fan club that kept the studio going after Reaugh’s death in 1945,” Pollack says.

For years, Medellín taught at the Dallas Museum of Art, when it was at Fair Park, which made him a great candidate to start the school.

Medellín died in 1999, and the Dallas Museum of Art is showing a retrospec tive of his art through February. It took about two-and-a-half years to put the show together.

The Creative Arts Center he founded, now located near White Rock Lake, still operates on the same educational foundation on which Medellín built it, Pollack says.

“We abide by his teaching methods here,” she says. “We continue his phi losophy of providing a nurturing space for students to learn.”

There’s no in-your-face curriculum, and students are encouraged to ex periment and explore their creativity.

The center is celebrating 56 years with a newly renovated building and a planned expansion, just as its exec utive director is retiring after 25 years at the helm.

PLAY IN THE CLAY

Demand for classes at the Creative Arts Center is higher than ever, Pollack says. The center offers about 500 class es a year. More than 300 students are currently enrolled, and about a third are in pottery classes.

There are 11 pottery classes a week, each with 10 students, and they’re all full through October.

“We saw it really blow up during the pandemic,” Pollack says. “If you’ve got your hands in mud, you can’t look at your phone. There’s a desire to disen gage with technology and engage with other people creating art.”

Medellín required students to make their own pottery clay, but the Creative Arts Center now buys it from Trinity Clay.

Besides pottery, there are classes in welding, woodworking, painting, draw ing, glass, jewelry and stone carving.

It’s easy for our neighborhood to take the center for granted, but this serious yet non-academic art school is rare. There’s only one other in Texas that’s comparable, Pollack says.

But no other place in Texas offers the depth of instruction.

“If you want to do stone carving, you’ve got to come here,” she says.

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In March 2020, the nonprofit Creative Arts Center’s board of di rectors had been expected to ap prove a feasibility study to launch a campaign to raise $5 million for an expansion. That would’ve add ed a second building to the 2-acre campus, doubled its capacity for classes and added gallery space for art exhibitions.

“Then the pandemic hit, and everything came to a halt,” Pol lock says. “We’re now in a holding pattern.”

Renovations of the offices and gallery, totaling about $500,000, were recently completed. That in cluded updating Americans with Disabilities Act compliance to the original building, the old Works Progress Administration-built Bayles Elementary.

The center has been a stop on the White Rock Lake Artists Stu dio Tour for decades, showing one piece from every artist on the tour. The new gallery means the center can expand on that and offer more shows to new artists and those who have been affiliated in the past.

Since the center is a nonprofit, it receives grants to provide free classes and camps to the commu nity. Camp Metal Head, for exam ple, teaches welding and jewelry to underserved kids. Run with the Pack offers creative classes to older adults.

THE LEGACY OF OCTAVIO MEDELLÍN

The Dallas Museum of Art’s Oc tavio Medellín: Spirit and Form is the first museum retrospective of his work.

Medellín “was obsessed with ma terials,” Pollack says. He dabbled in many media, but he was best known as a sculptor.

“Medellín’s grand legacy can be attributed to both his incredible talent and his enormous influence in our community as a mentor to so many,” says Agustín Arteaga, the museum’s Eugene McDermott

director. “We hope this exhibition cements his place among the most important artists working in Texas in the 20th century.”

Dallas-based artists Edith Baker and Marty Ray were among Me dellín’s students. Artists influenced by Medellín have returned to teach at the Creative Arts Center.

“We like to say that he influenced generations of Dallas artists,” Pol lack says.

The indigenous art of Mexico was Medellín’s main influence.

He was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, the same year as Frida Kahlo, 1907. His family immi grated to San Antonio in the wake of the Mexican Civil War in 1920. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago but left to travel in Mexico.

“He journeyed to Mexico City, where he explored Mexican Mod ernism, encountering important artists such as José Clemente Oroz co and Carlos Mérida, but also trav eled on foot through the rural coun tryside of the Gulf Coast,” according to the Dallas Museum of Art.

Mexico is where his point of view blossomed.

The retrospective includes 30 sculptures Medellín produced from 1926 to 1995.

Pollack says she’s seen the retro spective six times. “I see something new every time I go.”

Medellín also produced a ton of public art in San Antonio and Dal las. The museum also put together a driving tour of his public art in Dallas, as part of the retrospective.

The Creative Arts Center is on the map, along with St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church, where Medellín created the altar wall and stations of the cross. His work can also be seen at the Latino Cultural Center in Deep Ellum, Southern Methodist University, Calvary Hill Cemetery, Temple Emanu-El and Love Field Airport.

Learn more about Octavio Medellín at medellin.dma.org.

ICONIC, TIMELESS, MAJESTIC

HOME TOUR, BENEFITING LECPTA, RETURNS

LECPTA

After two years of Covid restrictions, the 46th Annual Lakewood Home Tour is back “in-person” this year featuring six neighborhood homes.

Among the homes available to tour Nov. 12-13:

• An iconic 1926 Dines and Kraft on Westlake

• A 1924 Georgian on Gaston

• A timeless Tudor on Lakewood Boulevard

• A reinvented 1920s Cape Cod on Wildgrove

• A majestic Mediterranean on Velasco

If you sign up for the limited-ticket candlelight portion of the tour (Saturday, Nov. 12, from 7-9:30 p.m.), you’ll have a chance to see a bonus home: a 1954 Mid-Century Modern designed by Dallas’ Earle Grady Hamilton, a founding partner

of the Omni Plan and best-known for designing NorthPark Center.

The Lakewood Home Tour, presented by Comerica Bank, primarily raises funds for Lakewood Elementary and its Dallas ISD feeder schools — J.L. Long Middle School and Woodrow Wilson High School. This year’s tour is scheduled from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. & 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, and from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13. Tickets are available at lecptahome-tour.square.site/ Home tour tickets are $25, while candlelight home tour tickets are $35.

The Home Tour also includes the Viva Las Lakewood Auction Party, presented by Dave PerryMiller Real Estate. Tickets for that event are sold out, but you can join a “waitlist” for tickets at lecpta.org/auctionparty.

Chairs of this year’s Home Tour are Stephanie Bowen Wright, Genniva Bruce and Michelle Rehberger. Last year’s tour raised more than $240,000 for neighborhood schools.

The Lakewood Early Childhood PTA helps bring naeighborhood residents together to support neighborhood schools and build a social network of parents. The group sponsors regular events and facilitates neighborhood playgroups, along with hosting the Home Tour.

If you are interested in joining, visit lecpta.org/ joinus.

Page 30: Living room at 7320 Lakewood. Above: Kitchen at 6630 Gaston Ave. Left: Bathroom 7081 Wildgrove.

Photos by: Jenifer McNeil Baker

in a pickle

THE KINGS & QUEENS OF LOW-KEY ATHLETICS

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

They call Cynthia PaineDrennan the pickleball pusher.

She’s brought at least a dozen people into the fast-growing sport, described as a cross between tennis, pingpong and badminton, and she plays every day. Paine-Drennan packs paddles and balls and plays pickleball on vacation. She uses tournaments for fundraising, and although she has a career and volun teers at her kid’s school, she generally organizes her life around playing pickle ball.

“I didn’t say I was good at it,” she says after whiffing a shot. “But I love it.”

With its ridiculous name and cult-like status, it’s easy to make fun of pickleball. But the sport is addictive and rewarding, players say. It’s a cardio workout and a social outing that can seriously shake the blues away.

Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the world, with an estimated increase of 40% to 4.8 million players, according to a 2022 report from the Sports & Fit ness Industry Association.

Interviews with about 15 people in Dallas who play pickleball daily turned up no one who played before 2017; most took it up in 2019 or later. Pick leball is taking over rec centers and tennis courts all over town due to high demand.

The City of Dallas Park and Recre ation Department has reconfigured at least five public tennis courts to the 50% smaller pickleball courts in the past year, says Assistant Director M. Renee Johnson, who has also taken up the sport and plays every Wednesday at Thurgood Marshall Rec Center in Red Bird.

Indoor pickleball courts can be found at about 20 rec centers around Dallas, and there is a game somewhere every day.

The premium outdoor courts at Campbell-Green rec center in Far North Dallas can draw 50-60 players at a time, who mark their place in line by shoving the handles of their paddles into the chain-link fence.

Joleen Decle of East Dallas started playing about two years ago when a friend who works for a pickleball com

pany took her out to Cole Park. This was before the tennis courts were con verted, and they used tape to mark out pickleball courts.

Now she plays at rec centers all over town, and she organizes the Lake High lands group, sending out a group email and overseeing the system of play — paddles are stacked on the bleachers to mark players’ places in line. She recent ly celebrated her birthday with rec cen ter pals at Chicken N Pickle, a restau rant and bar in Grand Prairie that has multiple indoor and outdoor courts.

“The nicest thing about pickleball is that it’s a social event,” she says.

Decle used to play racquetball, and lots of former tennis players take up pickleball, but plenty of players have no prior experience with racket sports.

“Most of the people we play with are older and retired,” Decle says. “Some lo cations have reputations for being very competitive.”

Getting into pickleball is inexpensive. There are start-up sets with two paddles and balls costing less than $20. A good paddle can be had for $30-$70, and a set of balls costs less than $10. Tennis fashions are part of the fun for some, however, and opportunities abound to spend money on pickleball gear.

On Cloud tennis shoes and Lululemon (or knockoff) skirts are trendy among the pickleball set in Oak Cliff.

At the Lake Highlands North Rec Cen ter, about 30 players take turns, two to a side, on four pickleball courts paint ed into the floor of the basketball gym. Most of them are here every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but they also see each other at Cole Park, Samuell-Grand and Walnut Hill Rec Center.

There is a no-nonsense urgency to turn-taking — Who’s next? Whose turn is it? Who’s playing? Cheers and con gratulatory paddle taps are mixed with light-hearted trash talk. But it’s not like things get heated.

“We call it chuckleball,” says MerriLee Anderson, an empty nester who started playing after the start of the pandemic.

“That was my lifesaver. That’s the only time I was seeing people.”

What is pickleball?

Pickleball is a professional sport with televised matches that are played around the world. But it’s also accessible for many people of all ages and easy to pick up. The game was invented for chil dren in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was named the official sport of the state of Wash ington this year.

Basics

A pickleball court is 20 feet by 44 feet, about half the size of a regulation tennis court, with doubles or singles using the same lines.

It is played with paddles, not rackets, and light plastic balls with holes.

A pickleball net is a couple of inches lower than a tennis net in the center.

A 7-foot box directly in front of the net on both sides is known as “the kitchen,” or non-volley zone. Players cannot hit the ball from this box unless it has bounced once.

Rules

Games are usually played to 11 and won by two, with only the serving side winning points. Serves alternate between the right and left sides of the court.

A ball that hits the baseline or sideline line is in. A server faults if the ball lands inside the kitchen or on its line.

Unlike tennis, there’s only one shot at the serve, which must hit the diagonal crosscourt.

Underhand serves only in pickleball, and they must be from the waist, with contact on the up swing. Drop serves are also allowed.

The “two-bounce rule” means a serve must bounce once before it is returned, and the return must also bounce once before the opposite player can hit. After that, “volleys” are allowed. That is, hitting the ball before it has bounced.

Terms

Dink: This is an onomatopoeia for a soft shot that usually lands in the opponent’s kitchen.

Kitchen: This 7-foot zone is essential to the game, and strategies are built around it. If a player’s foot or even part of their clothing is on or over the line while returning a volley, it is a fault. Players’ feet cannot land in the kitchen in execution of a shot, even after the ball is dead. It’s similar to an offsides rule and best to stay out of the kitchen.

Rally: Volleying, or hitting the ball before it bounces, is not allowed until the third shot.

A rally is the continuous play before a fault.

GATEWAY

TO GREATNESS

A world of coffee (and empanadas) awaits at El Portón

Story by LUCY ERSPAMER | Photography by KATHY TRAN

EL PORTÓN translates to “the gate.” To Bruno Bianchi and Isabel Amaya, the name represents the gates at the entrances to coffee farms in El Salvador, their home country.

“El Portón embodies the significance of creating new ways to enjoy coffee,” Bianchi says.

Coffee has always been a part of Bianchi and Amaya’s lives, as they have family ties in the coffee industry. Bianchi’s brother-inlaw is a fifth-generation coffee producer. In 2017, during their first year of marriage, Bianchi and Amaya moved across the world to Italy. There, Bianchi completed a master’s degree in business while Amaya worked as a barista. Living in Italy allowed Bianchi to try different kinds of coffee sourced from all over the world and learn about the coffee market.

“The world just opened itself,” he says. “I tried coffee from

Honduras, Costa Rica, from Ethiopia, from all across the world.”

El Salvador is a prominent coffee-producing country, but most coffee growers don’t sell domestically, he says. After a year and a half immersed in the Italian coffee industry and learning everything they could, opening their own coffee shop seemed like a feasible dream.

“We had talked about opening a coffee shop since we started dating,” Bianchi says.

The time was right; their only question was, “Where?”

They considered Europe and El Salvador, but Dallas called to them. The specialty coffee industry in Dallas has been growing over the past few years, and they were familiar with the area, Bianchi says. They were frequent visitors for many years because of friends who lived here.

“Dallas has always felt like home to us,” Bianchi says.

El Portón opened in 2019, while Bianchi and Amaya supervised from El Salvador, where they still lived. Their coffee shop was entrusted to temporary managers and family friends who were hands-on while they couldn’t be there. They went back and forth as much as they could, until the COVID-19 pandemic slowed everything down. That made it difficult to implement all their ideas, but handing over responsibilities to their staff was easier than they expected.

“We learned how to delegate better and to trust our team,” Bianchi says.

Bianchi and Amaya moved here permanently this past January.

El Portón prides itself on its globally-inspired coffee. A staple item is Salvadoran horchata cold brew, but they also have a taro

latte and Italian cold brew. Cold brew growlers and bags of coffee are also for sale, so El Portón’s taste can be enjoyed from home as well.

Empanadas are a highlight of the food menu.

“Empanadas are widespread in Latin America. Almost every country has their own variation,” Bianchi says. “With empanadas, we can represent many cultures at once.”

Brewing the coffee is just as important as where it is sourced. Amaya’s experience as a barista gives her the knowledge and skills to make sure every cup is the highest quality.

While Amaya manages the baristas, Bianchi strives to make El Portón not only a cafe with incredible coffee, but a space for the community as well. Recently they hosted a Christian Open Mic for local musicians, and they have a “mercadito,” an area of the cafe that sells jewelry and goods from local businesses. Currently in the works is an entrepreneur workshop, so other people can learn how to turn their own dreams into reality.

El Portón’s cozy vibe is a perfect place to get some work done, have a relaxing morning, or just try something new.

“Specialty coffee means the best standard every step of the way, but nobody has the ‘perfect’ coffee,” Bianchi says.

A cup from El Portón comes pretty close.

El Portón Coffee, 9450 Garland Road, elportoncoffee.com

Above: Within a year after marrying, Bruno Bianchi and Isabel Amaya moved to Italy, where they learned about coffee. Right: Drinks are flavored with taro, matcha and coconut tres leches.

Making of a

Making of a

Making of a Superfan

Bucks Burnett owns a ‘shoe box’ filled with 5,000 record s

Story by RENEE UMSTED Photography by JESSICA TURNER

When he was 14, Bucks

Burnett met Neal Smith, the drummer for Alice Cooper, at a concert. He told Burnett his eye makeup was better than Alice Cooper’s, and he gave him a backstage tour.

That began a series of encounters with music legends. Burnett’s ability to meet rock stars — among them Pete Townshend, all four members of Queen, Jimmy Page and in one momentous 24hour period, Joni Mitchell (a “goddess,” by his account) and Bob Dylan — provided fodder for the “Namedropper” column in the Dallas Observer and created a job opportunity. (By the way, Burnett’s yet to meet Keith Richards, but he’s determined to make his acquaintance.)

Burnett had seen Tiny Tim perform several times in the ’60s, and he developed “a perverse curiosity” to see what he was like two decades later. He wanted an interview. Tiny, as Burnett calls him, was playing in an East Dallas club called Confetti, and Burnett went. He walked down the hallway — security nonexistent — found Tiny between sets and asked for an interview. They ended up meeting at Tiny’s hotel at 3 a.m. By the time they were done talking, Burnett had become his manager and producer, roles which he kept until Tiny died in 1996.

At a recording session before his death, Tiny heard a song Burnett had written. He demanded to record it. “It’s my comeback hit single,” Tiny said. The song, “Fourteen,” became the 14th track of the album, the last song of the last record Tiny ever made.

That number, 14, has popped up so much throughout Burnett’s life that it’s what he named his record store, 14 Records, now on its third iteration on Garland Road near White Rock Lake. While many cities have one or no record stores, East Dallas has two, the other being Good Records, separated by a matter of steps.

Burnett’s love of music began the first time he heard it, which was as a child, listening to what his parents played — Andy Williams, Dean Martin, country.

He went to Skyline High School, the arts magnet at the time, and got his first job in the industry at age 15, at Oak Cliff’s Hit Records. The owner had seen Burnett in action: His knowledge of music was more comprehensive than most adults, and when he made recommendations to strangers, they bought the albums. He was a natural salesman. Within a week of starting the job, Burnett had a key to the store and was running it on his own.

“For a teenager in the ’70s, in the glory days of rock, you might as well have given me the keys to a new Camaro,” Burnett says. “I couldn’t have been happier.”

In all, he says he’s probably worked at 15 record stores in the area, including Peaches Records and Sound Warehouse.

The first record store he owned was one that he bought in the 1980s from a man in Denton. It was called Saved Sounds, and it only sold Christian music. When Burnett acquired it, he changed the name to 14 Records.

That location remained until 1991. Staying in Denton would have meant going out of business. Just in time, Burnett found an available retail space near Blue Goose on Greenville Avenue. It was open for four years, brought down by the rising popularity of CDs and Burnett’s realization he’d have to transform 14 Records into a used record store.

“I laid down my sword and just shut down because I didn’t want to be like everybody else,” he says. “It was a hard decision to make, but I don’t regret it.”

Between closing the Greenville Avenue store and the “late-life crisis” in 2017 that resulted in the opening of the existing 14 Records, Burnett stayed busy by forming a band, The Volares. (Plymouth made a “very mediocre” model called the Volare. Burnett had two, both 1978 models, for seven years each. That’s 14 years total.) One member, Paul Averitt, worked with Burnett at the Denton record store, and he’s now at the Garland Road location. Their first album, recorded in England, like all of Burnett’s favorite albums, was released in 1998.

HIGH NOTES

Bucks Burnett’s inspiration for naming his band The Volares came in a dream. He was watching a movie at the theater, and at the end of the credits appeared the words, in bold, white letters, “The Volares.”

It was 1975. “Killer Queen” had been on the radio for a matter of weeks. Queen put on a concert at McFarlin Auditorium, and the show didn’t sell out. But Burnett was in the audience, and he spent 15 minutes with Freddie Mercury.

Burnett still keeps in touch with Pete Townshend. In fact, he says he has over 500 emails from The Who’s lead singer. In one of their more recent conversations, Burnett says he asked Townshend to stop putting barcodes on his album covers. Townshend said no.

One of Burnett’s favorite albums is The Velvet Underground & Nico It’s a white album with a banana, designed by Andy Warhol. The banana is peelable, like a sticker, and it reveals the same fruit shape, but printed in pink. Warhol’s name is written on the cover, but The Velvet Underground isn’t.

Left: Bucks Burnett opened 14 Records on Garland Road because it was the cheapest rent he could find.

“The British records made me want to play guitar and make a record, so I needed to honor England,” Burnett says. “And it made it a lot harder and longer and expensive, but it had to be done.”

He also managed The Eight Track Museum in Dallas for five years.

The “shoe box” that is the Garland Road store is half the size of the bygone Greenville Avenue 14 Records and onefifth the size of The Eight Track Museum. It also comes with a rent that’s twice as high as the last location.

“Welcome to the 21st century,” Burnett says.

About 5,000 records are arranged by genre, alphabetically by artist and chronologically by the release date. The most valuable albums are for looking, not for touching, and are placed high on the walls accordingly. A sealed, first-edition of The Dark Side of the Moon by

Pink Floyd, with promotional drill and inserts, is available for $4,000. Those kinds of records don’t sell more than a handful of times per year, but they show customers what kind of store 14 Records is and what kind of person runs it.

One special record, part of Burnett’s personal collection, isn’t on display — a firstedition, No. 18 British copy of the Beatles’ White Album , which he purchased from a company based 40 miles from Liverpool that specializes in Beatles memorabilia.

Burnett’s favorite part of owning a record store is buying albums, the process of rummaging through a box of music to find the gems.

But not all of his inventory are from purchases. He says he receives deliveries from the Easter Bunny. Every weekend, the Bunny, who has a key to the store, brings a gift basket full of painted eggs and records. Burnett says he’s met

Bucks Burnett wore this custom-made Led Zeppelin suit, covered in the cover art from the Houses of the Holy album, to a 2007 concert. Jimmy Page signed it in 2013. Photo courtesy of Bucks Burnett.

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“I said, ‘Dude, you need to put out a record,’” Burnett says. “He said, ‘I’ve got eggs to boil. And then I got to dip them all in paint.’”

Business has slowed since the pandemic, but Burnett says he hasn’t seen sales drop because of streaming. Actually, technology generated the opposite effect. Streaming exposed Generation Z to a variety of genres and artists. They visit the store, hunting for their favorites, telling Burnett they just want great music. For good music, Burnett says, head next door.

The markup rate is determined by rarity and condition, but customers can rest assured that Burnett tests every album for quality — no scratches.

New wave and jazz have been selling the most frequently, with the former being hard to find because they sold less than classic rock.

The store isn’t open during typical business hours. Burnett says he doesn’t want his work to feel like a real job. The pandemic made business patterns at 14 Records unpredictable, Burnett says. Now, he sells most of his records between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.

“I just suit up and show up,” he says.

But the best bet to find him around is 2 p.m. until midnight Wednesday-Sunday. He’ll probably be wearing one of his many colorful shirts that he keeps at the store.

“You know how you achieve excellence? By doing 99 things that only one person will notice,” Burnett says. “That’s what I do at my store.”

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By SAM GILLESPIE

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Residential development proposed for Glencoe Park church site

Story by SAM GILLESPIE | Photo by RENEE UMSTED

A residential development with 21 single-family units is proposed for the Ridgecrest Baptist/Mockingbird Community Church site in the Glencoe Park neighborhood.

Neighbors gathered in October at the church at the corner of Ellsworth and McMillan to listen and query developer Mark Weatherford and District 14 City Plan Commissioner Melissa Kingston. Weatherford is asking for a zoning change on the 1.82-acre site to build 21 singlefamily homes in a shared-access development. The project would be very similar to Weatherford’s project on Pine Tree Court. Developed in 2013, it is adjacent to Ridgecrest on land Weatherford purchased from the church a year before.

The corner site has a 75-year history of serving as a church in the Glencoe Park community. Current Pastor Greg Byrd says Ridgecrest was a “church plant” of Lakeside Baptist

Church on Garland Road. Initially, a small group met in an M Street house until 1947, when the church acquired the acreage at Ellsworth and McMillan. The sanctuary that exists today was built in 1961.

Seeking to grow the East Dallas Christian community, Byrd provided space for two other small but growing churches — Eastside Community Church and Christ City Church. At the same time, Byrd wanted Ridgecrest to be “a church of the community,” and it rebranded to Mockingbird Community Church, its current name.

In the ensuing years, many older members of the church died, and the nearby Hispanic community was displaced by younger, more affluent neighbors who didn’t speak Spanish. The inability to meet in person during the COVID-19 outbreak made it more difficult to gain any traction in growing the membership.

Byrd says peak membership of the church was about 450 members in the 1970s. In the case of Ridgecrest, the congregation began drawing Hispanic faithfuls, and when the bilingual Byrd arrived in 2012 from Mexico City, the congregation was 60%-70% Hispanic and numbered about 100. In 2020 and 2021, Byrd partnered with nonprofits Unite Greater Dallas, Services of Hope and Project Unity, offering up the Mockingbird Community facilities to serve as a hub for food distribution to local food banks and other service groups meeting needs during the pandemic.

Despite this difficult time, Eastside Community and Christ City grew their membership and moved to other facilities. Eastside now meets at Scofield Christian Church, and Christ City assembles at Lake Highlands Baptist Church.

The physical plant at Ellsworth and McMillan continued to deteriorate with little capital available to properly maintain the buildings. The church had dwindled down to 19 members and exhausted all financial resources they received when they sold real estate to Weatherford in 2012.

Right now, the building needs are overwhelming. The roof was installed in 1982, the electric installation is not up to current code, the sewer line has 200 feet of aged pipe that doesn’t flow properly, and the building is full of asbestos. The current insurer is unwilling to renew after Dec. 31 without an electric upgrade of $150,000.

The work to fix it all is in the mil lions, and Mockingbird Communi ty Church made the decision to sell the property and end services after four generations. Weatherford had built trust and credibility with the church 10 years ago during the de velopment of Pine Tree Court, so instead of identifying a real estate agent and listing the property, Byrd and Weatherford struck a deal. The property is now under contact with a closing contingent upon a successful rezone.

Although serving as a church since 1947, the property, like much of the real estate in this corner of Dallas, is zoned for duplex development. Weatherford thinks a better plan for his business and the neighborhood is a single-family project with shared access from a private street.

The wonky twist here is that a duplex zoning requires two units attached in one structure on a minimum 6,000-square-foot lot. Pine Tree Court version 2.0, like the original next door, will be detached, single-family homes on lots with a minimum lot size of 3,000 square feet. The smallest lot size for a single-family designation is a 5,000-square-foot lot, so the best path for Weatherford is to do what he did in his first development. He will pursue a multifamily zoning classification (MF-2(a)) and place deed restrictions on the property prohibiting multifamily uses. Seems odd to choose a multifamily zoning with deed restrict against multifamily, but that’s the zoning universe.

In the meeting, Weatherford’s zoning consultant Rob Baldwin presented a site plan for a Pine Street Court-like project and compared it to what a developer could do “by right” under the current duplex zoning. Depending on the layout, a duplex project could allow 22 units with three-story structures and 12 curb cuts on Ellsworth and McMillan. Compared to the proposed 21-unit, for-sale, singlefamily project with a two-story deed restriction and limited access from Ellsworth and McMillan, a for-rent duplex project with 22 units, three stories and more curb cuts looks ominous.

Livable space in each unit ranges from 2,340 square feet to 3,036 square feet, and a 400-square-foot, two-car garage is attached to each one. Weatherford estimates pricing will be $1 million to $1.3 million. This brought some angst to the crowd as

affordability is

top of mind for city and citizens. Neighbor Camille Gilchriest challenged Weatherford, Kingston and other Glencoe Park neighbors about affordability of new home ownership at these prices and asked both Weatherford and Kingston for at least one unit that could be offered at a price considered affordable. Neither committed.

drainage and trees were posed by the neighbors. Kingston shared that she had spoken to city staff in charge of each discipline and felt comfortable with the project as proposed. Specifically on traffic, she noted that city staff had reviewed the plan and determined additional traffic would be “negligible,” and no traffic-management plan was necessary. Regarding the existing trees, Kingston said that the city’s arborist believes this plan “has the greatest chance to save the existing trees.”

Commission to review and vote on the project is not currently scheduled but will likely happen in the next few months. Interestingly, current District 14 Council member Paul Ridley was on the plan commission when Pine Tree Court came before the commission in 2012 and voted to approve the development.

Byrd says Mockingbird Community Church’s 19 members will vote on how to distribute 100% of the proceeds to other ministries.

“Our desire is that out of the ashes and death of this local church, new churches and ministries will be born or rebirthed,” Byrd says. “The greatest effect Mockingbird Community will have will be on the future. I really don’t care if anyone ever remembers me, but that years from now people say this, whatever this is, would never have happened except for the gift years ago from Mockingbird Community Church.”

By PATTI VINSON

Unexplainable encounters

Cindy Kirkland has tales to tell

For some, the supernatural pays no heed to the calendar and makes itself known at random times to a special few. Count among them neighbor Cindy Kirkland, who has tales to tell and a deep and personal desire to investigate and understand these occurrences.

Kirkland, a semi-retired graphic designer and illustrator, has lived in Dallas over 50 years, 12 of those in East Dallas. Her younger years were spent around the world, as her family moved with her father’s military career assignments.

While living on the east coast, around preschool age, Kirkland had her first unexplainable encounter.

“I saw floating eyes in the middle of my bedroom,” she says. “In my small child’s mind, I had no way of understanding this, but I knew it wasn’t right, and it scared me.”

Her parents chalked it up to bad dreams. The family moved to Los Angeles a few years later, and Kirkland saw the same floating eyes there as well.

“Whatever phenomenon it was followed me across the country,” she says.

Kirkland spent her high-school years in France, where her father was stationed. The family lived in an old house outside Paris, and it was there where Kirkland woke one night to see an apparition of an old woman sitting in a rocking chair at the foot of her bed.

“She never spoke, nor did she ever turn to look toward me,” Kirkland says. “She just slowly rocked back and forth and wasn’t there for long. I kept my covers pulled up with one eye peeking out, watching her, and she just faintly faded away.”

Kirkland told her parents about these occurrences but says their response was “weak.” So she was surprised many years later when her father told her of his own paranormal experiences, including an incident at one of their homes in France. When Kirkland’s younger sister, preschool age at the time, repeatedly complained that her bed was

moving, their father decided to put an end to the claims by sleeping alone in her room.

“The next morning, he announced at breakfast that we were going to be moving,” Kirkland says.

Confronted years later, Kirkland’s father revealed to her that the sister’s bed had levitated and rocked violently back and forth. He also confided to her other paranormal experiences of his over the years in various locations.

“I believe my dad was ‘sensitive’ to some degree, and maybe I inherited that from him,” she says.

This sensitivity might have been at play when Kirkland had a frightening experience years later at her farm between Rockwall and Terrell. She was driving alone on the property during the day.

“As I drove toward the gate, I saw through my rearview mirror what appeared to be a ‘shadow person’ running behind my car, waving as if trying to flag me down,” she says. “I was stunned because it was an 80-acre farm, and I was there alone that day. It looked to be male, tall, lanky and dark translucent black, like a silhouette.”

She turned to look over her shoulder, and there was no sight of him.

“But when I glanced back through my mirror he was still there and getting closer,” she says. “I wasn’t scared until then, and when I returned from shopping, it took me an hour to get the nerve to drive back onto the property.”

She says it’s a vision which haunts her to this day.

Her husband died suddenly six months later, leading Kirkland to wonder if the dark figure had been an omen.

“I’ve heard ‘shadow people’ portend a warning of something on the horizon,” she says.

It was after her daughter’s death, followed soon after by her husband’s death, that Kirkland became “more intensely aware of paranormal happenings.” She began collecting “ghost-hunting” equipment, among them a structured light sensor camera, which captures spirit forms as “stick figures.” She experimented with the camera late one night at her parents’ home after her father died, scanning each room, and was taken aback when the camera viewfinder revealed a figure.

It seemingly responded to Kirkland’s questions, including when she asked it to wave if it was her dad. It did indeed raise its hand and wave.

Kirkland’s experiences have brought her to a point that she is ready to learn more and investigate Dallas-area locations. But due to limited mobility resulting from an accident, she needs help. Her ideal team would consist of a few people who would approach the matter seriously and respectfully, not in a “thrill-seeking” manner.

“A willingness to help those spirits who wish to cross over is, in my opinion, the most rewarding part of this pursuit,” she says. “I certainly don’t claim to be any kind of psychic or expert — just someone who has had enough real experiences to light a fire of curiosity and willingness to find out more.”

Contact Cindy Kirkland at dallasparaguild@gmail.com.

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 20 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine.

Cindy Kirkland. Photography by Julia Cartwright.

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Iturn to Scripture to learn about cultivating gratitude amidst life’s trails. This Thanksgiving month, we find ample material in the Book of Genesis, which Jewish com munities around the world are reading at this season.

When Sarah was barren, Hagar bore a son to Abraham, named Ishmael. As the boys grew up together, Sarah feared that her son Isaac’s future in heritance was at risk, so Sarah and Abraham banish Hagar and Ishmael to the wilderness. When mother and son run out of water, Hagar sits down and cries, and in her moment of de spair, a messenger of God appears and asks her:

“What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heeded the cry of the boy where he is. Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him. Then God opened her eyes, and there was a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and let the boy drink. God was with the boy, and he grew up.” (Genesis 21:17-20).

From this story, we are challenged to expand our vision beyond our own needs, an essential expression of grat itude. The divine messenger asks a simple question that makes room for Hagar’s heart: “What troubles you?”

Questions are the opening to em pathy. If a coworker’s eyes fill with tears during a meeting, do we remain on task and assume we know what troubles him or her? And what about those we don’t know well, who pro vide a service that benefits us? Do we wonder about them when it’s evident they are struggling?

Curiosity can illuminate where we are as individuals and as a community. Are our eyes open to what is happen ing around us and to what the future might bring? The angel’s question “what troubles you?” — the question of seeing and response — still resounds in our day, teaching us to choose a more just and compassionate world. This choice starts right in our own families and neighborhoods.

Like Hagar, we may be overcome by the fear that all is lost. We might tend to avert our eyes from the world around us. At times, this can be the only way to cope, a necessary step in making our way forward. However, if casting our eyes aside becomes a more permanent state of being, we can miss sources that will sustain us through life’s trials. Especially in these moments, a force greater than ourselves, what we call “God” of many different names can help lift our eyes.

In our celebration of harvest, the Genesis account reminds us what it means to see. To see the caring souls who embrace us when we are heart broken after the loss of our partner, our best friend. To visualize our pain transforming over time with the trust ed help we need.

Hagar embodies the kind of seeing that helps us taste a sense of hope and feel gratitude for the spiritual sustenance ever within and around us.

KIMBERLY HERZOG COHEN is a rabbi with Temple Emanu-El and serves the congre gation’s social justice efforts, including ad vocacy, community organizing and service projects. To support the worship column, email sales@advocatemag.com.

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the best remodelers in our neighborhood — Kitchen Design Concepts. Clients say “on time and on budget” best describes Kitchen Design Concepts’ work. Give us a call, and see for yourself.

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