by Guest Author | Jul 14, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People
By Taylor Adams Cogan “Is it that hard to make us look cool?” Actor Jason Lee shouts this to the sky in Almost Famous, pleading for his fictional band in the movie to be portrayed as awesome as he feels it is. It can take a lot to make a band seem cool. Deep Ellum...
by Guest Author | Jun 17, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People, Entertainment, Music
By Taylor Adams Cogan Allen Falkner is not your average small business owner. He’s the kind of man a lot of people know from varying circles of interest. Some know him from his years of work ridding their bodies of tattoos they don’t want – fading away unwanted...
by Guest Author | Jun 10, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People
By Taylor Adams Cogan When Madison King Gray picked up a guitar at age 8, she was taking a simple step that would shape her future in Dallas, first as a musician, then as a culinary talent. Going to a private school downtown, Madison and her group of musician friends...
by Guest Author | Jun 3, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People
By Taylor Adams Cogan When Chris Lewellyn was a teenager growing up in Rockwall, his path to Deep Ellum wasn’t exactly direct, but it was magnetic. Eventually, it would become the place that helped him rebuild his life. “When we were young, we’d come into East Dallas...
by Guest Author | May 27, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People
BY Taylor Adams Cogan In 2009, Paula Harris picked up the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” issue and paused at a certain listing. “There was this gallery, and I thought, ‘That’s an interesting name,’” she says. “We were still in the MySpace days, so I was...
by Guest Author | May 19, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People
BY Taylor Adams Cogan It’s often the case that a pastor hopes to guide and teach, shaping beliefs and offering a path forward. But try that in Deep Ellum, and the neighborhood just might change the pastor instead. That was the case for Joel Triska, who came to Deep...
