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Katy Trail Weekly, When the Fol- Minneapolis Online at katytrailweekly.com May 24 - 30, 2019 Downtown • Uptown • Turtle Creek • Oak Lawn • Arts, Design and Medical Districts • Park Cities • Preston Hollow CriMe WATCH Candys dirt Movie trailer Take page 2 page 6 page 8 one! Vol. 6, No. 15: SECTION ONE | Neighborhood News | Community Calendar and Food Guide | Local Arts | Opinions COMMUNITY NEWS Crow awarded prestigious medal Trammell S. Crow has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for KATY TRAIL his efforts founding EarthX, the largest Earth Day cele- bration in the world held in Fair Park. Crow accepted the award at a special reception on Ellis Island. Past medal- WEEKLY ists have included seven U.S. THE DALLAS INSTITUTE presidents, three world lead- ers, several Nobel Prize win- ‘The Open City’ connects people with ideas, books ners, and various leaders of industry, education, the arts, By Rachel Savant sports and government. – [email protected] Lindsey Lyons EARTHX The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Charity golf event swings and The Dallas Morning News announce the Fifth Annual Dallas Festival of Books and Ideas in part- nership with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Public Library and Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Speakers ranging from poets and novelists to sci- entists and architects will come together, over multi- ple days, to discuss a variety of topics connected to the DALLAS CASA theme of this year’s festival: “The Open City.” The Dallas AT&T, Goldman Sachs and Pioneer Natural Resources Festival of Books and Ideas joined forces April 29 to host the Dallas CASA (Court will be held Tuesday, May THE DALLAS INSTITUTE Appointed Special Advocates) Classic, a charity golf tour- 28 through Saturday, June The Dallas Festival of Books and Ideas will be held Tuesday, May 28 through Saturday, nament that raised $1.8 million for abused and neglected 1. All events are free. June 1. children served by Dallas CASA. Since 1998, the Dallas Through its “Open CASA Classic has raised $19.7 million for Dallas CASA. City” theme, the “Ideas” and how the city can address its el- visitors. The keynote speaker will be The tournament was held simultaneously at the Four part of the Dallas Festival will fea- ders’ needs and benefit from their Keven Ann Willey, former VP and Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas and the ture separate “City Track” teams that wisdom and experience. The keynote editorial page editor of The Dallas Brookhaven Country Club. – Rosanne Lewis will explore different aspects of our speaker will be Dr. Emi Kiyota, envi- Morning News and travel author of city in four venues on Tuesday, May ronmental gerontologist and founder postcardsfromtheperimeter.com on 28 through Saturday, May 31. Then of Ibasho, and held on Tuesday, May Wednesday, May 29 from 6:30 to It was in the (chocolate) chips on Saturday, June 1, the culminat- 28 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the UT- 8:30 p.m. at The Dallas Institute at ing “Books” part of the festival will Dallas Center for Brain Health, Brain 2719 Routh St. In honor of National occur at the downtown Dallas Public Performance Institute at 2200 W. Science in the City seeks to an- Chocolate Chip Day on Library and the other at the Dallas Mockingbird Lane. swer how Dallas can utilize its exten- May 15, Dallas-based Museum of Art. The Welcoming City ex- sive resources of data to connect and Nestle Toll House Café This year’s “City Tracks” include: plores how Dallas can adequately harmonize different parts of our city. broke the Guinness The Physical City. It will consider welcome and include its great and World Records title for Dallas’ growing elderly population growing diversity of residents and ideas cont'd on page 3 the longest line of cook- ies at The Star in Frisco. Former Dallas Cowboys MUSICAL PREVIEW defensive back Charlie Williams and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ‘Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical’ now playing were in attendance. Nestle Toll House Café though. It’s based very plans in motion, with no lined up 3,029 cookies loosely on a French novel, regard for anyone who in the shape of a football NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Les Liasions Dangereuses, might get in their way, they (607’ X 1”). The cookies first published in 1782. are soon entangled in their were then donated to the Salvation Army, Trusted World Then there was the 1999 own web. and Foodsource DFW. – Brooke Johnston classic cult film star- Entertainment Weekly ring Reese Witherspoon, said the musical “provides Ryan Phillippe and Sarah the ultimate night out.” INSIDE Michelle Gellar. The film Single ticket prices proved so popular with range from $46 to $76 and Notes from the Editor Automobility teenagers and young adults can be purchased online Bubba Flint Mull It Over DISD Environment it spawned two sequels. at attpac.org, by phone at 2 7 Fashion Sense “Cruel; Intentions: The 214-880-0202 or in person AT&T PERFORMING arTS CENTER ’90s Musical” (according to at the AT&T Performing Boater Safety Uncle Barky's Bites Travel “Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical” will run through press information), “pulls Arts Center Winspear 3 8 Sunday, May 26. you into the manipula- Opera House Box Office tive world of Manhattan’s at 2403 Flora St. For Crossword Puzzle Dotty Griffith By Jo Ann Holt the nostalgia fix you need. most dangerous liaisons.” groups of 10 or more call Your Stars This Week Recipe [email protected] The musical production Sebastian Valmont and 214-978-2879. 4 Reality Estate 9 Uptown Girl features popular hits Kathryn Merteuil are AT&T Performing Arts “Cruel Intentions: The guaranteed to bring back charming and privileged Center is a nonprofit foun- Community Calendar Winding Roads ’90s Musical” will be on- the ’90s. Featuring hits step-siblings who love to dation that operates and Photo of the Week Sudoku stage at the Wyly Theatre by such artists as Boyz II play manipulative games programs a 10-acre campus 5 Charity Spotlight 10 at 2400 Flora St. through Men, Christina Aguilera, with each other. They place comprised of three premier Sunday, May 26, presented REM, *NSYNC and Britney a bet on whether or not performance venues and a Hammer and Nails Scene Around Town by AT&T Performing Arts Spears, “Cruel Intentions” Sebastian can deflower an park in downtown Dallas. Perot Museum Center. offers a musical trip back innocent classmate, their Opening in October 2009, 6 11 If you’ve been miss- in time. incoming headmaster’s the Center has helped com- ing the 1990s, “Cruel The musical has roots daughter. As the dangerous plete the 30-year vision of @katytrailweekly @katytrailweekly Intentions” may be just way before the 1990s, duo set their destructive the Dallas Arts District. PAGE 2 KATYTRAILWEEKLY.COM MAY 24 - 30, 2019 NOTES FROM THE EDITOR Stop letting air out of my tires! By David Mullen purple Schwinn Stingray – [email protected] banana seat, sissy bar and all – to my house for me to glide After six decades of being like the wind. I was in eighth a committed (insert joke here) grade and “husky,” as I was Skippy guy, I made a bold deci- classified by the Sears boy’s sion and switched to Jif … May department. I had a schoolboy 17 was “Ride your bike to work crush on a neighborhood girl day.” When is “Come over to who I grew up with. My first my garage and inflate my flat slow dance ever was with her bike tires day?” … When I was at a sixth grade party, dancing a kid, I couldn’t afford to have a to “Just My Imagination” by bike. My folks did the best they the Temptations. We proceed- could to raise four children – I ed to go to junior high togeth- am the oldest – with my fa- er and my crush continued. So ther often unemployed and my I rode that bike all summer, saintly mom doing everything lost all of my baby fat despite she could to make sure that an occasional stop at Baskin $10 went into the Wells Fargo Robbins 31 Flavors over by “Christmas Account” every Mills College, was coming in month. In Oakland, we had a as president of my ninth grade budget store called Gabardines. class and now had a student Kind of like a Kohl’s without body. I would ride my bike the steroids. Their theme song to Lake Chabot Golf Course was “Every day is sale day, at where for $10 a kid could play Gabardines. Cash, charge or lay- golf all month. I would chain William "Bubba" Flint — Special Contributor away, at Gabardines.” We never my bike to the fence, someone did, to my would let the air out of is contemplating approving a like candidate endorsements, together a bookcase this week- knowledge, the tires and I would bill that would ban local gov- et al. and rarely take a person- end, after staring at the box for layaway an walk the bike down to ernments from banning plastic al stand. However, on Maher’s months. Of course, the instruc- item. Most the Shell station next straws. In a state with so much show recently, he blasts Hillary tions were impossible to follow. of our ma- to the Oakland Zoo at water, that has to be a bad thing Clinton for stealing his opinion And before you jump to conclu- terial prod- an intersection that … I like Bill Maher. I think he is on China and accused her of sions that the manual was in ucts were everyone called “The funny, and he has great guests plagiarism.
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