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Questions of Color: How Texas couples navigate race, culture — and resistance

Before they moved to Texas, Elaine and John Stitten met and fell in love as college students at the University of Arkansas.

It was the late 1980s, more than two decades after the 1967 Loving vs. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court case that invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Since 1980, the percentage of bicultural marriages has more than tripled nationally to 17 percent, a Pew Research Center study shows.

Elaine and John were still one of only a few mixed-race couples on campus. Occasionally, there were jeers from white fraternity members, but that didn’t stop them from being together.

“I grew up accepting everybody,” Elaine said. “I wasn’t used to that.”

Love isn’t easy. Especially as it grows between two people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.

In an ongoing video and story project “Questions of Color,” The Dallas Morning News seeks to reflect how North Texans navigate issues of race in their everyday lives with ground-level details. The News solicited the Stittens’ story and those of 50 others in interracial relationships. These couples shared some of the difficult and beautiful moments of being in love.

Among the lessons: Their love needs to overcome others’ judgmental perceptions. Communication is crucial, as is the strength to let go of some of the smaller slights from family members and strangers.

Couples said they learned to keep an open mind and figure out together how to bridge their cultures. While every couple has some things in common, there may be key differences to discuss: religion, how to confront racism, the unspoken rules and expectations within each other’s family.

Different upbringings

John played on the football team and although his athlete status made him popular, he was very shy. He met Elaine through a mutual friend and saw her at several parties. She was a social butterfly, sparking a conversation with one group and moving on to the next. They were opposites to a degree, but balanced each other out.

When Elaine told her father about the man she loved, his reaction surprised her. He was happy for his daughter. But he worried about the children they would bring into a racially charged society.

“If you two get married and have kids, I worry about what’s going to happen,” Elaine, now 52, recalls her father saying.

Elaine and John Stitten were married on Valentine’s Day in 1995.

John’s mother was worried, too. “I don’t want a cross burned in the front yard,” she said at the time.

John, 53, grew up in East Texas, and remembers being told to be careful in his hometown because of Ku Klux Klan activity. In 1998, Jasper made national headlines as the place where three white men were arrested in a racially motivated crime for the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr.

As recently as 1975, a Dallas County judge denied a black man and white woman’s right to marry, news accounts at the time show. In the late 1970s, only 36 percent of those surveyed approved of interracial marriage, the Gallup Poll showed. By 2013, Gallup said, 87 percent supported it.

Today, there’s less outright racism, though many interracial couples still notice uncomfortable stares and hurtful words from loved ones and strangers. Every time there’s a hurdle to get over, couples said, it makes their love stronger.

The first meeting

Parents and other family members can make first meetings awkward in any relationship. But bringing home someone from a different race can give rise to stereotyping thoughts and comments. The “jokes” aren’t funny when it makes the person you care about feel bad.

It’s how Kwanzaa Bennett, 26, felt when she told her family she was with Jonathan Delarosa. Delarosa, 27, is biracial and strongly identifies with his Latino heritage, but his fair skin often leads to confusion about his ethnicity.

"I mean, there was one family member who said that he was just the white guy with a taco," she said. "It bugs me to this day."

At the time, Bennett felt she couldn’t mention the comment to her boyfriend. She worried that he’d hate her family, that he would end the relationship.

Kwanzaa Bennett (left) and Jonathan Delarosa met while in high school. They’ve been together for 12 years.

Growing up, Bennett’s family revered the idea of “black love” as a way to change the narrative of fragmented households. It wasn’t that her family disliked Delarosa, Bennett said, but they often asked her why she wasn’t with a black man.

Bennett, a substitute teacher, fell in love with Delarosa’s generosity. The social worker helps people find affordable housing in the city of Dallas.

The two, who live in Dallas, have been inseparable since they were teenagers at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Now after 12 years together, they find that the awkward comments come less frequently.

Difficult conversations

Couples who cross racial lines often find they must have difficult conversations with family members and then with each other. It’s a talk that Catie Wood had to have with her mother once her relationship became more serious.

She met Centurion Wood through the Disney College Program, working and living at Disney World in Florida. The two, who share easygoing personalities and a love for traveling, quickly discovered they had chemistry. Their relationship started through flirty messages on Instant Messenger.

Other friends, Catie noticed, would call their moms about upcoming dates or ask advice on dating problems. But in her family of Filipino descent, those conversations would have been awkward, she said. Centurion was much more comfortable talking to his mother about dating Catie.

When Catie told her mother she was dating Centurion, her mother’s response stunned her. Her mother worried about whether a black man would make a good husband.

Would he be loyal? Would he have children with various women? Even liberal parents can stereotype others, Catie realized.

Centurion Wood and Catie Wood have been married for more than eight years. They met as interns through the Disney College Program.

Discussions about race are key to making the relationship work. From the beginning, Catie and Centurion’s conversations centered on how pop culture stereotypes influenced her mother’s thoughts.

Instead of having a fight over those views, they took time to talk about the reactions and didn’t let “my-family-vs.-yours” resentment settle in. They built trust and strengthened their relationship. The nerves Centurion felt at the first meeting with Catie’s parents quickly went away.

"You always think the worst. But I love them, they love me," said Centurion, a 35-year-old database administrator.

After Catie’s mother met Centurion, the topic never came up again. The two, who live in Prosper, have been married for eight years, and are expecting their first child, a boy.

Bridging language and traditions

Bart Rogers and Lisa Mesa-Rogers found they had vastly different upbringings although they both grew up in the Dallas area.

Bart, 48, was raised in an upper middle class, white, Protestant family in North Dallas. He describes his family as soft-spoken and polite. Lisa, 48, grew up in Oak Cliff with a boisterous Hispanic Catholic family.

Despite their different upbringings, both found a common cause as volunteers at a nonprofit helping people with HIV in the early 1990s.

Bart Rogers and Lisa Mesa-Rogers met as volunteers in Dallas more than 20 years ago.

Bart, a sales engineering manager, sometimes had a hard time communicating with Lisa’s family, particularly Lisa’s mother. Although she could understand and speak English, she preferred Spanish, which Bart did not speak fluently. Lisa’s mother said few words to him during their visits.

When Bart knew that Lisa was the woman he wanted to spend his life with, he privately asked Lisa’s mother how she felt about him. She responded with two words that left him speechless.

“You’re OK,” she said, with an affirming nod.

There was no long heart-to-heart, emotional conversation to help build the family connection. But as it turned out, that wasn’t needed. Lisa’s mother showed her approval with her cooking. Bart showed his appreciation with a big appetite.

Lisa said there’s plenty of miscommunication within her blended family but that makes for great stories. “When you come from different cultures, we can appreciate and laugh at those moments because those are uniquely ours,” said Lisa, executive director of Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico.

From eating menudo to knowing the wrath of la chancla in disciplining their two kids, Bart says he gained a new perspective on culture, thanks to his wife.

“I still learn things, even 20 years later,” he said.

One sticking point for Bart and Lisa was their different expectations about their responsibilities to extended family.

Lisa said that she was used to putting her siblings and other relatives first. Unannounced visits were common. She was quick to lend money or take in relatives for extended periods of time.

Marriage created a new set of priorities.

They both said they’ve compromised, with Lisa checking first with Bart before agreeing. Bart, meanwhile, says he has gotten more comfortable with sharing a household with extended family members.

“It’s a new dynamic,” Bart said.

Slights and stares

Nearly every couple we spoke with experienced the same subtle treatment from strangers: double takes and stares that make them uneasy.

According to Pew Research Center, interracial marriages still aren’t commonplace in the U.S. They’re more prevalent in larger cities compared to rural areas. In Dallas, about 19 percent of couples are in an interracial marriage — higher than the national average of 17 percent. The study did not have statistics on interracial dating.

Unfriendly stares are especially worrisome for Gary Johnson and AD Henderson as an interracial gay couple, they said. Johnson and Henderson met one night at a bar while out with friends.

AD Henderson and Gary Johnson started dating more than five years ago. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer)

Johnson nearly didn’t go out that night. But friends visiting from out-of-town insisted on getting drinks nearby. Now, he’s happy he did. “I met the love of my life when I went,” Johnson said.

The stares make them more careful about how they act in public. They try not to show a lot of affection. Sometimes, they stand farther away from each other than usual.

“We are more aware,” said Henderson, 32. “He says, ‘Oh no, don’t get too close to me’ if we are down in Mississippi.”

They encounter prejudice in two different realms and said they see more intolerance for being a gay couple than an interracial one.

Johnson, 52, who grew up in Mississippi, has seen racism and discrimination against gay people all his life. Friends and family members told them their relationship wouldn’t last.

They’ve been dating for more than six years. Johnson and Henderson, who work in management and health care, break down barriers with humor. Once, when they were at a store, they noticed a cashier who kept giving them “the eye.” It’s second nature for Johnson to break out jokes.

“This is my ‘sugar baby,’” he told the cashier, laughing.

The woman, embarrassed that her staring caught his attention, didn’t have much to reply.

“You know, you just got to lighten ’em up. You see the looks,” Johnson said.

The stares no longer bother John and Elaine Stitten, who married on Valentine’s Day 23 years ago. But the way strangers regard their two children still takes them by surprise. No one takes a second look at the kids when they’re with Elaine, who works as a flight attendant. But John often notices the perplexed reactions when he’s the parent in charge.

“People will see her dad pick her up and then they’re like, ‘Your dad’s black?’” said John, an operations manager. The reactions have confused their kids, who see their parents’ love as normal, not a rarity.

“That’s the thing that has to change. Society needs to change. Race: It shouldn’t matter,” John said.

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PFF 2018 NFL Draft Recap – Dallas Cowboys

Apr 26, 2018; Arlington, TX, USA; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell with Leighton Vander Esch is selected as the number nineteen overall pick to the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports

As we noted before, the Dallas Cowboys have built one of the league’s most versatile back sevens in terms of how they can use and deploy their linebackers, cornerbacks and safeties. Dallas drafted LB Leighton Vander Esch with their first-round pick of the 2018 NFL Draft, continuing that narrative as Vander Esch is on the heels of a breakout year with Boise State.

LVE enters Dallas’ linebacker room after finishing first in the draft class in run-stop percentage and total defensive stops a season ago but has also shown abilities against the pass.

Versatility on defense and the selection of Vander Esch aside, the Cowboys remaining picks in the 2018 NFL Draft also showcased the front office’s ability to create a plan and attack through the draft whether it was filling needs that were recently created or bolstering specific units for years to come.

Connor Williams was added in the second round from Texas and should immediately fit in on the offensive line as he has versatility to play multiple spots in a pinch while he could serve as a starter right away. Michael Gallup enters the receiver room as the nation’s highest graded receiver a season ago, filling a need after the departure of Dez Bryant while Dalton Schultz helps repair the hole left by the retirement of Jason Witten. Add in the length and power of Dorance Armstrong (on the edge) and Bo Scarbrough (at running back), and this draft class is complete, concise and seemingly exactly what Jerry Jones and Co. wanted.

For more on the Cowboys fifth-round pick in QB Mike White, and where he could possibly find a role with Dallas this year or in years to come – check out our resident quarterback experts Zac Robinson and Steve Palazzolo’s recent writeup on scheme fit and skillset usage for each rookie quarterback.

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Dummy Post Lakewood estate of mayor known as ‘Mr. Dallas’ hits market for $2.9 million

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Superior T Offers GAINSWave® in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

MCKINNEY, Texas, May 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Superior T practitioner, Dr. Jerry Lewis, is pleased to announce he now offers GAINSWave at his two locations outside of Dallas! This breakthrough non-invasive medical therapy uses low-intensity shockwave therapy to enhance sexual performance and to treat Erectile Dysfunction (ED) symptoms.

As men age, the vessels in their penis weaken, contract and fill with micro-plaque, which can lead to Erectile Dysfunction. As these tiny vessels become clogged, the penis decreases in sensitivity, making it harder for men to achieve and maintain an erection. Thankfully, the GAINSWave protocols can enhance a man’s performance by using high-frequency acoustic waves to repair existing blood vessels and improve blood flow.

Thanks to the numerous clinical studies on Low-Intensity Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (Li-ESWT), we can see that this therapy improves not only Erectile Dysfunction symptoms but also sexual performance. "GAINSWave is an ideal solution for men looking to improve spontaneous erections without the use of Viagra or Cialis," says Jerry Lewis, MD. Patients receiving GAINSWave therapy have reported improved erection quality, enhanced sexual performance and decreased refractory times between orgasms, which is why this a great alternative to ED medications.

This drug and surgery-free procedure only takes about 20 minutes and can enhance a man’s sex life while addressing the root cause of Erectile Dysfunction. Superior T is now treating men with the GAINSWave Therapy in their office located at 6045 Alma Road Suite 305, McKinney, TX 75070.

Jerry W. Lewis, MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 28 years of experience in the pain management field. During his 28 years of practice, he has developed protocols to help alleviate his patient’s suffering along with providing a complete wellness care for men. He is committed to improving men’s sexual quality of life and offering a broad range of customized treatment plans, including a non-invasive procedure to help with erectile dysfunction (ED) along with medication management, and testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), for men suffering with low testosterone.

Dr. Lewis’s primary goal is to help his male patients with diagnosing and managing their sexual health and wellness. He is an expert at diagnosing, managing, and treating patients through performing non-invasive procedures and counseling patients on their men’s sexual health and wellness.

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Lakewood estate of mayor known as ‘Mr. Dallas’ hits market for $2.9 million

The French-inspired estate, at 6941 Gaston Ave., was built by famed Texas oilman and builder Edwin Cox, Sr. Photo courtesy of Dave Perry-Miller The home sits on one acre. Photo courtesy of Dave Perry-Miller A tunnel stretching from Chateau des Grotteaux to White Rock Lake might have been used to smuggle liquor during Prohibition. Photo courtesy of Dave Perry-Miller The home is 3,201 square feet. Photo courtesy of Dave Perry-Miller An 8-foot-high privacy wall surrounds the estate. Photo courtesy of Dave Perry-Miller The grounds have numerous statues, sculptures, bridges, ponds, and a secret garden.

Chateau des Grotteaux — a Lakewood estate with a storied past, most notably the one-time residence of Dallas mayor R.L. Thornton — just hit the market for nearly $2.9 million.

Construction on the French-inspired estate, at 6941 Gaston Ave., was started by famed Texas oilman and builder Edwin Cox, Sr., who sold it to Thornton following the stock market crash in the late 1920s. Thornton, a banker and civic leader who was nicknamed “Mr. Dallas,” lived there with his family until his death in 1964. Ten years later, the Thornton family sold the one-acre home, which was featured in the 1929 souvenir program for the State Fair of Texas.

Among other accomplishments, Thornton served four terms as mayor of Dallas and three years as president of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, “helped build Dallas into a major metropolis,” and “helped mold the State Fair of Texas into one of the largest in the world,” according to a 1964 news account about his death.

It’s said that a tunnel stretching from the southern-most corner of Chateau des Grotteaux (House of Caves) to White Rock Lake might have been used to smuggle liquor during Prohibition. The City of Dallas eventually sealed off the tunnel, so it’s no longer accessible.

“When you drive by this house, it’s natural to wonder what life is like at Chateau des Grotteaux,” says the listing agent, DeCarla Anderson of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate. “I’m thrilled to report it’s every bit as fascinating as you might expect. Its history is rich, the grounds are impeccable, the privacy is unrivaled, and the potential for customization is unlimited. Anyone who values those four things will want to take a look.”

The current owners have painstakingly restored and updated the grounds in recent years.

Highlights of the 3,201-square-foot home, which has been a fixture in many photo shoots, include:

Four bedrooms Three bedrooms Two fireplaces An 8-foot-high privacy wall Mosquito-misting system A heated saltwater pool Numerous statues, sculptures, bridges, and ponds A “secret” garden

The list price is $2,895,000.

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Dockless bikes promise the future of transportation, but litter the city of Dallas

DALLAS — Colorful fixed-gear bikes litter the city’s streets here.

They’re in Uptown, where 20-somethings sip craft cocktails on breezy outdoor patios, and in White Rock Lake, where moms in yoga pants meet to push strollers. From the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, bikes are visible in the Trinity River below. The bikes are everywhere downtown, leaning against cement planters, outside parking garages and cafes, lined up at Dealey Plaza.

The bikes belong to companies that are hoping to change how people get around cities. Dockless bike-share startups, already common in China, have been making their way into the U.S. The idea is simple and utopian — easily accessible, low-cost bikes that people can grab, use and leave just about anywhere.

The problem, however, is they do leave them anywhere — and everywhere.

With at least five companies having introduced their services to Dallas, there are thousands of these bikes throughout the city. They clog sidewalks and pile up on street corners. Mayor Mike Rawlings, the former CEO of Pizza Hut, likened them to the tribbles from Star Trek, saying they “asexually reproduce or something.”

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Moving to Dallas Texas can be trying if you’re new to the process. There are so dummy

Moving to Dallas Texas can be trying if you’re new to the process. There are so many places to live there that it can take time to find your perfect home. Use this guide and you can find a nice home to live in quickly.

A home is going to have to be in a good price range. In this city, you can expect to pay a little more than if you live outside of it a little. When you live in a cheap place, it may be in an area that’s known to be bad so do your research. You can find on some real estate sites, for instance, maps of where crimes happen. Nowhere is crime free, so you have to look for a place that has the better rates of what goes on there instead of a place with no crime at all

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Some Oklahoma teachers find the grass really is greener in Texas

After years of poor pay, supply shortages and overcrowded classes, former Oklahoma teacher Chelsea Price decided the best way to pursue the profession she loves was to leave her home state and head south to Texas.

The harsh economic realities of teaching in Oklahoma, where school salaries are some of the lowest in the United States, have created an exodus to neighboring states where wages are higher.

As a consequence, Oklahoma is grappling with a teacher shortage that has forced school districts to cut curricula and deploy nearly 2,000 emergency-certified instructors as a stop-gap measure.

“It just got to the point where it was really defeating,” said Price, 34, who last year moved to the Dallas suburb of Grapevine with her husband and 10-year-old daughter to start a job as a second-grade teacher.

Crossing the Red River that separates Oklahoma and Texas meant a salary increase of about 40 percent for Price, who has a master’s degree. She saw few prospects of improving the lot of her family by staying put.

Price earned around $30,000 a year when she began teaching in Oklahoma. When she left 11 years later, she was earning just under $40,000. At her new position, Price earns about $55,000.

The benefits transcend salary. There is a cap on class sizes and every student has an iPad, which Price said makes her job easier.

In Oklahoma, where educators statewide walked off the job this week to protest years of low pay and budget cuts to the school system, teacher complaints range from decaying infrastructure, students’ having to share worn-out textbooks and teachers’ having to dip into their own pockets to buy supplies for underfunded classes.

In contrast, the northern Dallas suburbs, an hour or less south of the Oklahoma border, enjoy increased spending on schools as population growth in recent years, which has outpaced nearly every area of the United States, has driven up local tax revenues.

Grapevine, with about 50,000 people, has a refurbished main street, a major resort hotel and easy commutes to major employers in Dallas and Fort Worth. Like many of the northern Dallas-area suburbs, new parks, schools and businesses are springing up in a region seen as a place of relatively low crime, good employment prospects and affordable housing.

Oklahoma City and Tulsa also have relatively low unemployment rates and spectacularly refurbished urban areas, but median household income and wages are far lower than in the northern Dallas suburbs.

Price and other teachers from Oklahoma have followed the money.

“If I can find a better situation for all of us, then why wouldn’t I?" she said.

Since 2010, Texas has seen about 3,500 teachers from Oklahoma apply for teaching certificates, the most of any state, according to the Texas Education Agency.

"LOSING OUR BEST, BRIGHTEST"

About 11 percent of Oklahoma teachers overall leave the state or profession every year, according to data from the Oklahoma State School Boards Association, an umbrella group.

More than 80 percent leave over low pay, according to the data. In constant dollar terms, the pay for Oklahoma teachers has dropped by about 15 percent over the last 25 years, federal data showed.

"Oklahoma’s teacher shortage has been devastating for children. When schools can’t find qualified teachers, they either must increase class sizes or hire under-qualified, under-prepared teachers," said Shawn Hime, executive director of the association.

Every state bordering Oklahoma offers higher wages for teachers, with mean wages in the neighboring states about $8,600 to $16,000 higher, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Striking teachers in Oklahoma are seeking a $10,000 raise.

Those leaving are often teachers who have several years of experience and generally hold a master’s degree or higher, according to a survey from Theresa Cullen, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Oklahoma. The average salary increase for those who fled to other states was about $19,000, the survey showed.

"We are losing our best, brightest and most prepared," Cullen said.

Of neighboring states, Texas offers the highest mean wages. Ginny Duncan, 24, decided to relocate there two years after starting her teaching career at an elementary school in Tulsa.

"I’m moving to Texas this summer because I can’t afford to live here," she said in a telephone interview.

Duncan, who holds degrees in both special education and regular education, earns about $32,000 a year as a teacher and needs to work three summer jobs to make ends meet. If she can land a similar teaching job in the Dallas area, she could earn about $20,000 a year more.

"I love teaching so much," Duncan said. "I wanted to be a teacher my entire life. I have a special passion for special needs kids." But her Oklahoma salary "makes it so hard to actually do it."

(Additional reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas, and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Frank McGurty and Leslie Adler)

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Where to Eat in Dallas Right Now: 10 Restaurants to Find This Veggie Rock Star

Hey now, the cauliflower at House of Blues’ Foundation Room sure is pretty.

Cauliflower is the unlikely vegetable rock star, moving from trendy dish to restaurant menu staple. In season year-round, pale and brainy, it’s been embraced by restaurants that wouldn’t give another vegetable a second look. And they’re not just steaming the cauliflower and slapping it on the plate as a side. They’re putting it on the center of the plate and making the most of its firm texture to do all sorts of magical things, from mimicking rice in a risotto dish to grilling it like a steak.

Q. What’s the nicest thing you can say about a vegetable? A. It’s meaty.

Here are 10 restaurants doing creative things with cauliflower:

Black Walnut Cafe Small Houston-based chain is on the forefront of a trend of shredding cauliflower into small grain-like bits and treating it as if it were rice. Among its dishes introduced in the spring is a surprisingly creamy “risotto” made with cauliflower and topped with blackened salmon. Cauliflower rice is also on the menu at Snappy Salads and at Pok the Raw Bar in West Village. You can buy it pre-shredded in a bag at Trader Joe’s.

18th & Vine Upscale barbecue joint in Uptown Dallas is, surprisingly, not the first upscale barbecue restaurant to grill a mighty slab of cauliflower as if it were a steak. That credit goes to Woodshed Smokehouse, Tim Love’s restaurant off the Trinity Trails in Fort Worth. Both cut a wide cross-section to mimic the size of a thick steak. They marinate it, then smoke it, so you get all the same flavors you’d get from a slab of meat. The cooked center is as juicy as a steak done rare.

Happiest Hour Harwood District restaurant has a patio for miles and won CultureMap’s Tastemaker award for best bar. Its menu of elevated bar snacks includes standards like wings, spinach-artichoke dip, a charcuterie board, and fried calamari. Its Kung Pao cauliflower takes the flavors of the classic Chinese kung pao chicken — peanuts and chili — and applies them to cauliflower clusters enrobed in a thick crunchy batter. You can get a single serving for $10 or a larger one for the group to share for $35.

House of Blues/Foundation Room Foundation Room is the formerly private now-sultry nightclub tucked inside the House of Blues, where you can have a better-than-bar-food dinner Wednesday through Sunday nights. Its tempura cauliflower alone is reason enough to go. The tempura crust is super crunchy, while the cauliflower inside is just on the brink of tender and firm. The presentation in a balsa-wood circular box, lined with paper, is pretty, and it comes with two sauces: aioli and ponzu sauce.

Lounge Here Chic restaurant-bar on Garland Road brings a much-needed place for ultra hipsters who live east of White Rock Lake and have nothing else. The cocktails are stunning, and the menu is definitely not your typical bar food. They do a cauliflower hash, served in one of those mini ironstone pans, with chunks of cauliflower spiced up with bits of tasso ham and chicken confit, and a fried egg plopped on top. Served with cornbread and arugula salad, it’s a full meal.

Moxie’s Grill & Bar Canadian restaurant chain owned by Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi opened a branch at The Crescent, the first in the United States. Along with lots of TVs and a nice atmosphere, it has a Korean-style fried cauliflower with spicy gochujang pepper sauce and jalapeño-lime dip that is far from run of the mill. Cauliflower is fried in a tempura batter, then tossed in the Korean pepper sauce until it is evenly coated — spicy, crunchy, hot.

Public School 214 California gastropub chain with a school-room theme has two branches in DFW, one in Uptown, the other in Addison, and both are on board with the cauliflower thing. Their Buffalo cauliflower takes all of the flavors of Buffalo-style chicken wings — the spicy hot sauce, the cooling blue cheese — but substitutes cauliflower for the chicken. The cauliflower comes in florets, which are breaded in rice flour and fried, for a light, crisp coating. They come with ramekins of hot sauce and blue cheese dip, hot and cold.

Resident Taqueria Gourmet taqueria in Lake Highlands has all kinds of tacos on the menu, but the one for which it has become known is its epic cauliflower, inspired by a recipe that owner Andrew Savoie learned from New York chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Florets are thickly sliced, seared on the flat-top until caramelized, then steamed until soft. They’re folded into a flour tortilla along with pumpkin seeds, crispy kale, and lemon-epazote aioli. The popularity has inspired others, such as Crush Taco ,to offer their own versions.

Rise Cauliflower and Brie are a pretty classic combination, partnered the world over for luscious gratins, creamy bisques, and decadent dips. Dallas-based soufflé chain Rise, which is opening a branch in Fort Worth in 2017, pairs them in a savory soufflé that highlights the delicacy of their flavors. Usually flavors are fighting each other to emerge victorious, but cauliflower and Brie together are like a battle of restraint: Who is the subtlest flavor of all?

Sixty Vines Grandiose pizzeria in Plano from the owners of Mexican Sugar and Whiskey Cake has many talking points, including good thin-crust pizzas and an expansive wine program. But its take on cauliflower has carved out a niche. They take an entire head of cauliflower, blanch until tender, then dredge with pesto, Parmesan, and lemon dill. They plop it on a wood board and you dive right in. Like much of what they do here, there is nothing subtle about this dish. It screams cauliflower.

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Trade Deadline Awaits: What You Need to Know to Gear up for Interesting Rangers Week Ahead

Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer Texas Rangers catcher Robinson Chirinos (61) talks with pitcher Yu Darvish (11) during the fourth inning during the Boston Red Sox vs. the Texas Rangers major league baseball game at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Rangers enter the final week of July with a full calendar.

By the end of the nine-game, 10-day homestand that begins Monday, Ivan Rodriguez will officially have a plaque in the Hall of Fame. Adrian Beltre will very possibly punch the final hole on his own passport to Cooperstown. In the middle of it all, the Rangers just might climb back to the top of the wild-card race. And if they don’t: Hey, there’s at least one more opportunity to see Yu Darvish pitch.

At least things ought to be interesting.

After a five-game losing streak that seemed to push them to the edge of selling assets, the Rangers finished off a weekend sweep of Tampa Bay on Sunday with a 6-5 win, their third straight come-from-behind win. The Rays entered the series leading the AL wild-card race. The Rangers leave it with renewed enthusiasm for what this team is capable of doing.

“We have an amazing feeling right now,” Elvis Andrus said over his new boom box that both shakes the room and lights up but had mostly been silent earlier in the week. “We feel right now that sooner or later, we are going to put runs together and on the board. Maybe we had been lacking some of that, but right now is the time to get hot and put things together.”

“Our offense is still not where we want it or where we are supposed to be,” said Beltre, who enters the homestand 11 hits shy of 3,000 after a two-hit day Sunday. “We haven’t been consistent. But we have the offense to do it. When we get hot, we get hot. Hopefully, we can do this more often.”

On Sunday, the Rangers came back from a three-run deficit. It matched the season’s biggest comeback. They had also come back from a three-run deficit Saturday. On Sunday, they scored three times in the eighth inning on back-to-back homers by Rougned Odor and Carlos Gomez to take the lead. The bullpen pitched 5.1 scoreless innings.

When the day was over, the Rangers were 2.5 games out of the second AL wild-card spot and suddenly things look much brighter. Start with the schedule: The Rangers have more home games (36) remaining than all of the wild-card contenders except the New York Yankees.

The homestand starts with the Miami Marlins, who are already in full sell mode. It concludes with three games against the Seattle Mariners, one of the four teams currently ahead of them in the race for a wild-card spot. When the homestand ends, the Rangers go to Minnesota, another of those teams ahead of them, for four more games.

The opportunity to catch – and pass – other contenders quickly.

“We’ve had a pretty challenging road schedule this year, but we should get some normalization to our schedule here,” manager Jeff Banister said. “That part of it for me – the number of games at home, who we play – you’d hope to think that would work in our favor.”

The plan was and remains to try to add some reinforcements, particularly for the bullpen, leading up to the trade deadline. After getting swept in four games at Baltimore, GM Jon Daniels had started to field more calls about his own players, however, and had started to make some of his own, too. At the top of the list of Most Desired Rangers is Darvish, who is scheduled to start Wednesday against Miami.

Among the teams the Rangers have spoken to regarding Darvish are the Los Angeles Dodgers. Daniels sent a key evaluator to see Los Angeles’ Triple-A team on Friday. Center fielder Jason Verdugo could be a key figure if talks were to advance. And the Dodgers may have seen their need for Darvish grow Sunday. Dallas’ Clayton Kershaw left his start after two innings with what was described as a lower back injury.

If momentum is fleeting, there is still time for the Rangers to pivot after Darvish’s start Wednesday and become more aggressive about making a deal before the July 31 deadline, the day after Rodriguez is enshrined in Cooperstown.

It’s going to be a busy week for the Rangers.

But it’s certainly going to be an interesting one.

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Meet the Dallas Woman Who Dated Dos Passos, Hiked with Hemingway and Appears in ‘the Sun Also Rises’

In the opening pages of Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking work The Sun Also Rises, the main character is found sipping expensive brandy in the Parisian Café de Versailles. “I know a girl in Strasbourg who can show us the town,” he tells his drinking companions. “She been there two years and knows everything there is to know about the town. She’s a swell girl.”

What few readers down the years have known was that the girl of whom they were speaking was Crystal Ross, a Texan who accompanied Hemingway and other writers on an early trip to Pamplona, where most of the novel is set.

Crystal Ross sometime in the 1920s. In the middle of that decade, she became acquainted with writers John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway

Born in 1900 in Lockhart, near Austin, the daughter of a country doctor with a big library, Ross graduated from the University of Texas in 1919. She obtained a master’s degree in English at Columbia University in New York City and decided to pursue a doctorate in comparative literature at the university in Strasbourg, France. Few women at the time were so daring to travel overseas on their own to pursue a degree.

Upon completion of her degree she returned to Texas, took up a teaching post at Southern Methodist University, became a prominent social matron in Dallas, active in theater circles, and even wrote occasional articles for this newspaper.

During her time in France in the mid-1920s, she became acquainted with Hemingway and inspired the anonymous cameo appearance in his famous novel. Before embarking for Europe, Ross had been introduced to John Dos Passos, then a well-known and successful novelist. He was captivated by the prepossessing woman, who favored a cloche hat pulled down over her flapper hairdo.

In 1924, taking a break from her work on a thesis comparing the writers O. Henry and Guy de Maupassant, Ross caught up with Dos Passos in Paris, where she accepted his proposal of marriage. Soon after he brought his fiancée to meet Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, at La Closerie des Lilas. Hemingway and Dos Passos were close friends and Dos Passos was working assiduously to help launch Hemingway’s writing career. At the time, the 25-year-old writer was struggling to make ends meet. He was paying the bills by working as a stringer for a Canadian newspaper and drawing monthly remittances from his wife’s trust fund.

Crystal Ross when she was in France in the 1920s. While in Paris, she accepted a marriage proposal from John Dos Passos.

Ross found Hemingway to be hulking and handsome, but she was also struck by his manner of dress, from his canvas shoes to his Basque beret. “This fashion of dress is not an affectation,” Ross decided. “It is a naturalism.”

The group talked about Spain. Pamplona was the place to go, Hemingway said. On Gertrude Stein’s advice he had taken Hadley to the northern Spanish city the year before. With Dos Passos and Ross now convinced to come on the journey, Hemingway expanded his search for traveling companions and enlisted six others.

Dos Passos and Ross left first, taking the train to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in southern France. The small town, five miles north of the Spanish border, was the usual starting point for pilgrims walking the 500-mile Camino de Santiago. Early the next morning, the pair set off on foot up to the Roncevaux Pass that crosses the Pyrenees into Spain.

Dos Passos, a veteran of many hikes across Spain, delighted in the ascent but blithely gave no consideration to Ross, who couldn’t maintain his pace, especially having made the rookie mistake of wearing new shoes. At last an amiable farmer came to her rescue and provided a donkey to carry her the remaining portion of the 18-mile hike to Burguete, across the border in Spain, where she recovered resting by a stream. (In the summer of 2016 my wife and I made the arduous climb up the pass and I grew very sympathetic to Ross’ plight.)

Crystal Ross with an unidentified group (probably in the Pyrenees) in the 1920s. In 1924, she, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, hiked through the rugged country to Pamplona, Spain.

Ernest and Hadley Hemingway showed up in Burguete the next day, and the four of them set off together for Pamplona. The entire group reached Pamplona in time for the Feria del Toro, a bullfighting event held each July as part of the city’s annual festival honoring its patron Saint Fermín.

An undated photo of author John Dos Passos.

The week was filled with bullfighting during the day and heavy drinking by night. While Hemingway wished Hadley had not come, Dos Passos found that Ross’ company preserved his sanity. “Between us,” he said, “we built ourselves a sort of private box from which we looked out at all these goings-on, in them but not of them.”

The bullfighting at an end, at least for that year in Pamplona, the group broke up. Ross grabbed a Paris-bound train. Dos Passos left Pamplona by foot with three companions for a 270-mile hike to Andorra before returning to New York and work on his manuscripts.

In 1925, Hemingway mounted another trip to Spain. Dos Passos was in the United States and Ross was on her way back to the U.S. So a different group gathered in Pamplona. But the intoxicating and adventurous spirit of the previous Pamplona trip was absent. “The Garden of Eden wasn’t the same,” said one of only two friends to make both trips. “Something had gone out of Pamplona.” The companions became mired in sexual intrigue, roiled with jealousy, and almost resorted to fisticuffs, all fueled by drunkenness.

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

Not only was the gathering different from that of the previous summer, Hemingway the affable guide of 1924 seemed ill-tempered in 1925. Absent of the calming influence of Dos Passos and Ross, the group frequently triggered angry outbursts from Hemingway.

Ross was then miles away on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, having completed her studies in France. Her father and brother came to New York City from Texas to meet her ship. She and Dos Passos managed to get together for some meals and even took in a play, escaping her father, who disapproved of her choice of suitor. But he needn’t have worried. Ross made it clear to Dos Passos that she was breaking off their engagement. She was going back to Texas to teach at Southern Methodist University. She loved Dos Passos but could not imagine a life as the wife of a novelist — she had her own ambitions.

Two years later Dos Passos came to Dallas and caught up with Ross. She was preparing an article for The Dallas Morning News that recounted their time with Hemingway in 1924 and reviewed The Sun Also Rises. The novel was a thinly veiled account of the 1925 Pamplona gathering, a roman à clef. By this time it was in its sixth printing.

Crystal Ross’ book review of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises appeared in The Dallas Morning News Jan. 16, 1927

“To say it quickly,” Ross wrote in her 1927 Dallas Morning News article, “Ernest Hemingway’s style is remarkable and exciting, and his book valuable; it is not so valuable as his style.” The story of lost Americans and Brits, drifting and drinking in Paris and Pamplona — in which she appears as the “girl in Strasbourg” — was not the point of the work, she perceptively told readers. “The things he writes about seem scarcely worth the care of his artistic energy. But what of it? The thing is perfectly done.”

American writers John Dos Passos (left), Theodore Dreiser and Samuel Ornitz in New York City on Nov. 12, 1931. (The Associated Press)

The suitor who had replaced Dos Passos’ place was Harvard-educated lawyer Lewis Meriwether Dabney Jr., the son of a prominent Dallas attorney. They married in 1927 after a wedding breakfast at the governor’s mansion. In 1936, the Dabneys left Dallas and moved to Washington, D.C., where Lewis had accepted employment in the federal government. Their two Dallas-born sons were raised in a home filled with books and tales of their mother’s literary adventures with two of the century’s most accomplished authors. The sons both grew to become noted literature professors.

There was no bitterness between Ross and Dos Passos after their failed romance. After his 1927 visit to Dallas, they parted as friends and remained in touch to the end of his life. James McGrath Morris is the author of The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War, which was recently released by Da Capo Press.

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Top D-FW commercial real estate deals for the week of Jan. 22

Illinois-based ML Realty Partners has purchased two industrial buildings at 1402 and 1406 Dunn Drive in Carrollton. The buildings are fully leased and total 100,586 square feet on a 4-acre site. JT Samford of ML Realty Partners brokered the sale with Adam Herrin and Stephen Bailey of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP.

A local investor purchased an 8,000-square-foot, single-tenant fully leased retail property located at 1130 N. Country Club Road in Garland. David Zoller and Jon Redmond with Weitzman brokered the sale.

Investor Salco has purchased an 11,608 square foot industrial property at 11031 Grissom Lane in Dallas. Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates brokered the sale with David Dunn of Dunn Commercial Real Estate.

Dominium Development and Acquisition purchased the Rosemont at Timber Creek, a 100-unit multifamily community at 801 Beckleymeade Avenue in Dallas from Cascade Affordable Housing. Jeff Kunitz, Alex Medeiros, Chris Deuillet and Chandler Sims of CBRE brokered the sale.

9292 Hunting Square LLC purchased a 6,771-square-foot office building at 9292 Huntington Square in North Richland Hills. Russ Webb with Silver Oak Commercial Realty brokered the sale.

Leases

Prestige Autotech Corp. leased 49,280 square feet of industrial space at 2023 Exchange Dr. in Arlington. Mark Graybill and Colton Rhodes of Lee & Associates negotiated the lease with Conrad Madsen and Greg Nelson of Paladin Partners.

Legrand Building Control Systems has leased 42,000 square-foot office at Campbell Creek Pavilion, a 5-building office park on Campbell Creek Boulevard in Richardson. Foundry Commercial and ICM acquired Campbell Creek Pavilion in 2016.

Georgia Underground & Supply Inc. leased 21,000 square feet at 1515 Monetary Lane in Carrollton. Jeremy Mercer and Keenan Cook at Mercer Co. negotiated the lease with Mike Smith at Mike Smith Co.

Southern Wealth Management LLP has leased 11,331 square feet of office space located at 5005 LBJ Freeway in Dallas. Kent Smith and Nick Lee of NAI Robert Lynn negotiated the lease with Chase Lopez, Sara Terry and JJ Leonard with Stream Realty Partners.

Lundberg Enterprises LLC has leased 7,409 square feet of office space in Arlington Downs Tower, 2225 E. Randol Mill Rd., in Arlington, from J&F Investments GP. Erik Blais and Richmond Collinsworth of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services negotiated the lease.

MD Engineering L.P. has leased 7,714 square feet of office space located at 1255 West 15th Street in Plano. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn negotiated the lease with James Engels and Holden Lunsford with Holt Lunsford Commercial.

Garcha Truck & Trailer Service Center has leased 7,200 square feet of industrial space at 915 Finn Rd., in Hutchins from Texas Ginger LLC. Richmond Collinsworth of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services negotiated the lease.

Grandstream Networks Inc. expanded its lease for 5,503 square feet of office space at Plano Corporate Center West, 2301 W. Plano Parkway S., in Plano. Transwestern’s David Besserer negotiated the lease with Trey Smith and Rodney Helm with Cushman & Wakefield.

Premier Rental Purchase has leased 4,000 square feet of retail space at the northwest corner of Galloway Drive and Kearny Street in Mesquite. The Retail Connection’s David Levinson negotiated the lease.

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Want to Buy a Texas Town? There’s One for Sale South of Dallas

Big property sales are pretty standard in North Texas, with everything from skyscrapers to megamansions changing hands.

But here’s your chance to buy an entire town.

Dallas real estate broker J. Elmer Turner is hunting a buyer for the tiny town of Mustang that’s south of Dallas in Navarro County.

Located on Interstate 45 and 55 miles from Dallas, Mustang is only 76 acres.

“It’s about 5 miles south of Corsicana,” broker Mike Turner said. “You can buy the town and all of the real estate.

“You have endless opportunities.”

Incorporated in the 1970s, Turner said Mustang was created as “a wet spot,” or somewhere you could legally buy liquor when “dry” and “wet” communities were the norm.

“It was the only wet spot around until liquor sales changed,” he said. “It had an illustrious strip club called Wispers.”

A killing in the nightclub back in 2008 made headlines in the area.

The town of Mustang had a population of more than 50 people back when liquor sales fueled bumper-to-bumper business in the community.

But since liquor purchases have loosened up, Mustang has faded.

“There are only a handful of people living there now,” Turner said. “There’s a warehouse and a little store and some mobile homes.”

Turner said the buyer of the town has to think beyond what’s on the ground.

“The whole site could be repurposed,” he said. “It could be a truck stop, a mobile home park, almost anything.”

There’s even a volunteer fire department. And the town has its own sewage plant and buys water from its neighbor, Angus.

Turner — whose Dallas-based real estate firm is one of the city’s oldest — said he’s selling Mustang for a client who is the general partner in the ownership.

“I’ve never sold a town before,” Turner said.

Mustang has a volunteer fire department.

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A Lot on the Line for Rivals Oklahoma and Texas in Dallas

No. 12 Oklahoma (4-1, 1-1 Big 12) vs. Texas (3-2, 2-0) in Dallas, Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)

Line: Oklahoma by 8.

Series record: Texas leads 61-45-5.

WHAT’S AT STAKE:

A whole bunch. Oklahoma’s hopes of making the College Football Playoff. Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield’s Heisman contender status. Texas’s surprise early lead in the Big 12 standings. And bragging rights for both head coaches, Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley and Texas’ Tom Herman, who are meeting in this storied rivalry for the first time.

KEY MATCHUP

Texas freshman QB Sam Ehlinger vs. Sooners MLB Kenneth Murray. Herman won’t commit to starting Ehlinger, but his start and win over Kansas State point to Ehlinger taking over the offense. The Sooners will need a spy on him to limit Ehlinger as a rusher. That likely falls to Murray to defend against quarterback draws and power runs.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Oklahoma: Mayfield. After the loss to Iowa State, the Sooners will be looking to their senior quarterback to provide the leadership and touchdown passes to get their season back on track. Mayfield admitted he sees the game as a chance to create a legacy in the storied rivalry. But he’s also excitable and will need to keep his emotions in check against a defense that will blitz him often.

Texas: WR Reggie Hemphill-Mapps. The freshman is on the verge of a breakout season and turning into a favorite target for Ehlinger. He had 12 catches for 121 yards last week. He also had a punt return for a touchdown in the first game. Several Texas-Oklahoma games have been swung by big touchdowns on special teams.

FACTS & FIGURES: This is the first time both teams have first-year head coaches since Texas had Blair Cherry and Oklahoma had Bud Wilkinson back in 1947 … Texas hasn’t started 3-0 in the Big 12 since winning the title in 2009 and hasn’t won three games in a row since 2014 … Mayfield has thrown for at least two touchdowns in 18 consecutive games, a Big 12 record.

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