Posts by Georgia Fisher

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    • Georgia Fisher is a reporter for Oak Cliff People, Park Cities People, and Preston Hollow People, and an occasional contributor to D Magazine’s business publication, D CEO. Georgia lives just outside Beckley Club Estates. She shops at Wynnewood Village in her sweatpants, hits Cesar's Tacos at 1 a.m., and always talks to strangers.

  • Oak Cliff Gets Big Kudos From Preservation Dallas

    Recognize this building? It's Fire Station No. 15 — now Gloria's — on West Davis Street, circa 1920.

    Preservation Dallas is doling out its annual achievement awards May 16 at the Majestic Theatre, and Oak Cliff haunts are all over the list.

    The local lineup: Gloria’s (Fire Station 15), the D.A.R.T. police headquarters at Illinois Station, and Good Space Inc.’s Cottages of Eighth Streeet. Eric Cowan and the Adamson High School Alumni Association will get a stewardship award, too, for their work to preserve the historic campus.

    The Hall of State Building at Fair Park; the Interpretation Program at Fair Park; the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay Street; First Unitarian Church; 508 Park Avenue; 4519 Gaston Avenue; and 500 South Ervay Street also made the cut.

    Click here for tickets to the 6 p.m. ceremony

    By Georgia Fisher May. 2, 2012 | 1:34 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • TeCo Seeks Teen Playwrights

    Know a kid who can tell (and write) a funny story? TeCo has put out the call for its second annual Teen 10-Minute Play Competition, with the top playwright to be picked from six finalists.

    Each finalist’s one-act comedy will be performed at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center from Aug. 8 to 11, and the winner — by audience vote — gets $500 and a backpack full of school supplies.

    The application form has script rules and other details.

    By Georgia Fisher May. 2, 2012 | 11:49 am | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Manicure Machines are Worth Stealing, Apparently

    Well, here’s a theft trend I’ve never noticed before. Two Jefferson Boulevard nail salons got hit last week, and a car burglary had ties to the manicure biz, too.

    There’s this, from the blotter.

    Between 7 p.m. April 17 and 11 a.m. April 18, a burglar broke the breaker box outside KD Nail in the 800 block of West Jefferson Boulevard, kicked in the back door, and stole $1,000 cash and five manicure machines with a combined value of $2,000.

    Then this.

    At 11 a.m. April 18, a thief stole $100 from a drawer at BB Nails in the 200 block of West Jefferson Boulevard.

    And finally this — which seems coincidental, but it’s still odd to see. A UP200 drill is another nail/manicure tool.

    Between 10:45 and 11:30 a.m. April 22, a thief broke into a 2006 Toyota in the 200 block of Sunset Avenue and stole a $500 UP200 drill and accessory set and a $100 leather backpack.

    (Cue jokes about nailing a quick-handed thief.)

    By Georgia Fisher Apr. 24, 2012 | 1:15 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Chefs to Converge Upon Paul Quinn’s Garden

    A Community Cooks, Paul Quinn College’s big fundraiser, is Thursday at 6 p.m., and tickets are still available online.

    It sounds like a big to-do; 14 popular chefs (including folks from Bolsa and Bolsa Mercado), will actually grill on the school’s football-field-turned-garden. Live music, a ribbon-cutting for the farm’s expansion, and a talk from Dr. Eduardo Sanchez are also on the agenda.

    By Georgia Fisher Apr. 18, 2012 | 12:26 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • DISD Candidates Will Hold a Forum at the Kessler

    Want some scoop on DISD’s trustee race?

    Election Day is right around in the corner in May, for starters. And all six candidates (four for District 1 and two apiece for districts 3 and 9) have agreed to be part of an education forum on April 10 at the Kessler.

    Sponsors D Magazine and TEDxSMU have details.

    By Georgia Fisher Apr. 4, 2012 | 5:11 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Oak Cliff Resident Knits Uteruses For Perry

    Interesting. Oak Cliff’s own Kimberlyn Crowe is part of a knitting group that will mail hand-crafted uteri to Rick Perry and other lawmakers who are under fire for their stance on funding cuts to women’s health care programs, and for limiting access to birth control.

    As Crowe told WFAA, “The statement is: ‘Get your hands off my uterus!’”

    You can read more about the project here.

    By Georgia Fisher Apr. 4, 2012 | 1:14 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Dunne Students Are ‘Homeless’ Tonight

    If you see a crowd of kids occupying the Bishop Dunne football field tonight, there’s a reason, says school spokeswoman Judy Porter:

    Over 100 students are sleeping outside tonight to get a feel for what it’s like to be hungry and homeless.

    The group will be posted on the field until 6 a.m., Porter tells me, and will hear presentations from people who were once (actually) homeless themselves.

    By Georgia Fisher Mar. 30, 2012 | 5:59 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Planning a Quinceañera (or Know Someone Who is)?

    Quinceanera boutique La Glitter is one of about 20 dress shops on Jefferson Boulevard. (Staff photo: Rick Lopez)

    Know a Sunset or Adamson student who’s planning or recently had her quinceañera?

    If so, drop Rick Lopez a line at rick.lopez@peoplenewspapers.com. We’re working on a colorful, photo-heavy story about Jefferson Boulevard’s many quince shops, and hope to include local girls’ thoughts and perspective.

    Many thanks!

    By Georgia Fisher Mar. 22, 2012 | 3:52 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Burglar Cleans Out Las Islitas

    I often drive by Clarendon Drive restaurant Las Islitas — a no-frills, mom-and-pop-looking Mexican seafood place with a wraparound mural —  and keep meaning to try the food.

    Well, it turns out the owners had quite a Monday; according to a police report summarized below, the place was ransacked around 3 a.m. yesterday morning. Like, bad.

    The thief (or thieves) damaged a side door, wall, jukebox, beer sign, cash register, and TV stand, and stole 12 bottles of wine with a combined value of $400, a $150 TV, five cases of beer with a combined value of $125, an $85 DVD player, and $50 cash.

    Ouch.

    By Georgia Fisher Mar. 20, 2012 | 3:55 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS

  • Thursday Workshop Covers WOB Certification

    Free mid-day tomorrow?

    “Tools You Can Use,” the Oak Cliff Chamber’s workshop series catered to contractors and small-business owners, continues tomorrow with a presentation on Women-Owned Business (WOB) certification. Guest speaker Emilia Menthe of the Southwest Women’s Council will lead the event, which starts at 11:30 a.m. in the Oak Cliff Bank Tower’s Oak Room.

    The price is right, too: free for Chamber members, and $15 for everyone else.

    To RSVP, email memberservices@oakcliffchamber.org.

    By Georgia Fisher Mar. 7, 2012 | 3:46 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
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