Posts by David Conard

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  • Dave came to Oak Cliff People in July 2010, after moving to Oak Cliff in May. Prior to that, he was a reporter with Pioneer Press, a 39-publication chain in the Chicago suburbs. Dave spent 13 months as an AmeriCorps volunteer in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, helping to rebuild the Crescent City. While there, he figured out he liked the South (along with jazz, gumbo, and second-line parades).

• Mardi Gras Masks on Presidents Day

  If you need something for the kids to do on Presidents Day (Feb. 21), Oil and Cotton Creative Exchange is having a Mardi Gras mask-making class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

  The cost for  the class is $40. Oil and Cotton is located at 837 W. 7th St, and their website is here.

  By David Conard Feb. 8, 2011 | 10:58 am | No Comments | Comments RSS

• Luckie’s Open for Business

  Luckie’s, the new smokehouse at the corner of Davis Street and Clinton Avenue, opened Sunday evening, co-manager and partner Nhat Ngo told me today.

  They’re planning to be open 4 p.m. to midnight through Wednesday, then from 11 a.m. to midnight from Thursday on, he said.

  They’ll also be a fundraiser on Thursday at 6 p.m. to benefit Sunset High School’s music program and Adamson High School’s athletics program.
  

  For a $25 donation, participants get barbecue, a drink, and a chance to see the restaurant’s 16-foot-wide mural of famous OC folks unveiled.

  You can get tickets here.
  

  
  

  By David Conard Feb. 7, 2011 | 2:35 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

• If You Haven’t Seen This Oscar Contender, Here’s Your Chance

  Nominated for best picture this year, Winter’s Bone is the tale of a poor back country teenager searching for her father, who has disappeared after making bail by putting up the family’s house.

  If you want to figure out what all the buzz is about, check out the film at the Texas Theatre tonight at 5:30 p.m. The theatre is at 231 W. Jefferson Blvd.

  By David Conard Feb. 7, 2011 | 11:16 am | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

• Teco’s New Play Competition

  In case folks ever dig out of the snow, they can go to Teco Theatrical Production’s ninth-annual new play competition. The performances will be at the Bishop Arts Theater Center at 215 S. Tyler St, on these dates:

  Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011  -  8PM
  Friday, Feb. 11, 2011  -  8PM
  Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011   – 8PM
  Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011  -  3PM
  Friday, Feb. 18, 2011  -  8PM
  Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011  -  8PM
  Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011  -  3PM
  Friday, Feb. 25, 2011   -  8PM

  Tickets are $15, and are available here.

  And per Teco’s director Teresa Coleman Wash, here’s the line-up, all of them being performed each night:

  Ghost Dog Whisperer by Antay S. Bilgutay
  A man’s sex life is interrupted by the ghost of his dead dog.  He seeks the help of a psychic he found on Facebook to eliminate the problem
  Read More…

  By David Conard Feb. 4, 2011 | 11:20 am | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

• Oddfellows Hosts Coffee Tasting Event Feb. 18

  Oddfellows is hosting tasting of small-batch coffees from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Feb. 18.

  The event at the restaurant at 316 W. Seventh St. is “like wine tasting for coffee nerds,” reads a poster forwarded by Amy Cowan.

  The event will also offer insight into the origins of the featured coffees.

  Also, in weather-related news, Cowan wrote the next meeting on the Kings Highway and Seventh Street area has been rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Kessler Theater.

  By David Conard Feb. 3, 2011 | 10:31 am | No Comments | Comments RSS

• Lockhart Smokehouse Opened Today

  Lockhart Smokehouse opened today (Feb. 2) at 10:30 a.m. at 400 W. Davis St.  They sound popular – a staff member said the restaurant had run out of meat when we called at 1:15 p.m.

  That staff member said they should have the dearth of protein fixed by 4:30 p.m.

  The restaurant’s website is here.

  By David Conard Feb. 2, 2011 | 1:28 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

• Calling All Those Talented Folks Out There

  I’ve been wondering – are there any OC’ers out there with rare and unusual talents? Does anybody know some one who juggles, plays the didgeridoo, is a ventriloquist?

  Let us know if you can think of anybody.

  By David Conard Feb. 2, 2011 | 11:12 am | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

• Winnetka Heights Holds Wine Tasting

  Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association is holding another wine tasting, this one at 7 p.m. Feb. 12.

  Residents of the neighborhood are invited to bring by a bottle of wine and a complementary food.

  “We will sip and taste each bottle starting with aperitifs, then white, red, and ending with dessert wines. Each person will introduce themselves, and give a brief description of the wine and food,” states the association’s website.

  To RSVP the event, go to this message board.

  By David Conard Feb. 2, 2011 | 10:57 am | No Comments | Comments RSS

• Meeting on Kings Highway and Seventh Street is Cancelled

  Tonight’s public meeting on improving the Kings Highway and Seventh Street area, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Kessler Theater, is cancelled because of the bad weather, wrote Amy Cowan.

  She added she expects to have a new date for the meeting within a day or two.

  By David Conard Feb. 1, 2011 | 12:23 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

• Let’s Hope We’re Still not Slipping on Parade Route Ice

   

  In the spirit of trying to distract y’all from the lousy weather, here’s some Oak Cliff Mardi Gras related news.

  Parade registration is now available on the event’s website at $50 per float through Feb. 15. That parade is March 6 at 4 p.m. on North Bishop Avenue.

  An hour earlier March 6, there’s the crawfish boil in Bishop Arts.  Tickets are  available for $15 (for an adult admission and one pound of crawfish) on the website, or available “very limited quantities” at the door. For each additional pound of crawfish, it’s $8.

  Tickets are also available for the Mardi Gras  masquerade ball at  8 p.m. March 5 at the Kessler Theater. That party will have the bands Lil Malcolm, The House Rockers, and Zydeco Blanco.

  By David Conard Feb. 1, 2011 | 10:50 am | No Comments | Comments RSS