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Aug 27, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Abbie Fleeman |Kelsey Shoemaker |Aysia Lane |Varsha Jhanak
Dogs Matter partners with Dallas Pets Alive! to foster dogs whose owners are in addiction treatment By Abbie Fleeman|August 27th, 2024| The muralist behind Northaven Trail Bridge’s art By Kelsey Shoemaker|August 27th, 2024| NorthPark’s JOEY Dallas has a globally-inspired menu By Aysia Lane|August 27th, 2024| How a Preston Hollow-based nonprofit is working to save giraffes By Varsha Jhanak|August 27th, 2024| St. Mark’s student starts nonprofit aimed to make sports equipment more accessible By...
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
It’s a Wednesday and muralist Chera Brooker is days away from finishing a project months in the making. Throughout the morning, bicyclists, walkers and drivers who roll down their windows have all given Brooker a wave, her mural a long look and a nimiety of compliments. She’s gotten handfuls of other appreciative words since she first dabbed the paint four weeks ago. Now, Brooker predicts it will be done this Saturday.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
The pitch was simple: When you have lemons, you make Lemon Aides. One afternoon, gymnastics coach Debra Weinstein and her long-time friend and coaching partner, Julie Cruz, sat down to hatch a new plan to help young women find services in the community. With over 60 years of combined leadership experience in gymnastics coaching, the duo wanted to continue teaching, but in a way that made a difference, especially after the pandemic closed their gym and children retreated online.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker |Simon Pruitt
Neuhaus Cafe celebrates 20 years of sweets By Kelsey Shoemaker|July 30th, 2024| MABO is Preston Hollow’s most intimate dining experience By Kelsey Shoemaker|July 30th, 2024| Anthony’s Eatalian is opening its new location with a revamp By Simon Pruitt|July 30th, 2024|...
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
“The kids tell their parents I’m Willy Wonka,” Mervyn Sacher jokes. And it’s not too far from the truth. For Neuhaus Cafe’s 20th anniversary, the self-proclaimed candy man and owner promises to don a tall hat, black-and-white-striped jacket, red glasses and a cane. Around here, though, that’s just business. Sacher’s first taste for the business began as a candy buyer for his father-in-law in Cape Town, South Africa. Slowly, he worked his way up the corporate ladder before becoming director.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
It’s a Friday night and there’s only room at the table for eight. Mabo, an intimate dining experience new to Preston Center, creates a sanctuary for its guests. It’s open five nights a week with only two dining slots, each three hours long. The restaurant follows an omakase approach, a Japanese phrase that simply put means: “I’ll leave it up to you.”Here, guests trust chef Masayuki Otaka to decide where the night goes. “I don’t think there’s a place like this in Dallas or anywhere,” Otaka says.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
Photography by Gabe CanoFrom a young age, Beth Myers’ female role models weren’t seeking education or careers, but by defying that status quo, she became the first woman in her family to graduate from a university. “You can do anything the boys can do,” Myers says. “I didn’t have a lot of females who were showing me that was possible, so I just did it anyway.”Myers has been a longstanding champion of community service, driven by a desire to address injustices in the world.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
Photography by Kelsey ShoemakerRalph & Rose Café doesn’t want to be the garden’s secret. Tucked inside North Haven Gardens, the cafe grew from the debris of the 2019 tornado. Regulars might brag that they knew it when it was named The Cabinet, the former cafe that was destroyed. The Pinkus family had been waiting to rebrand it for some time. “It was kind of a blessing in disguise,” Aaron Pinkus says. For the Pinkus family, it wasn’t about starting over, it was about looking forward.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
Photography by Yuvie StylesSomeone from Texas might say the requirement for dubbing oneself a ‘Texan’ is being bred and raised here. Perhaps a marker of being a true Texan is appreciating its legacy and its land. Preston Hollow-based artist Kathryn Vermillion believes being a true Texan means appreciating the state’s legacy and lands. Through her work, she studies Texas’s ecosystem and wildlife.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
prestonhollow.advocatemag.com | Kelsey Shoemaker
Photography by Victoria Gomez“What about the books?” Kate Nordyke asked her mom. It was a question prompted by Nordyke around the holidays where her mother, Angela, was working as a Dallas police offer during the annual Santa Cop Toy Drive. In 2015 at 8-years-old, Ursuline Academy student Nordyke was single-handedly opening a conversation. Nordyke’s nonprofit, Kate’s Books, began with a story.
