the school’s students use it as a classroom. Ahead of the morning’s lesson, they lay out their clippers and tidy their stations. More barbicide, a blue-colored disinfectant for grooming tools, is on its way.
“Have you heard of a wolf cut?” Santana asked. A chorus of grunts means yes. “A fancy way to say layers,” she said as the students laughed while nodding studiously. “Everything always comes back to the basics.”. The alternative apparel store stocks brands from the neighborhood and across Dallas-Fort Worth.
“There’s deep sadness about leaving Deep Ellum, even though there’s excitement for us about our new location,” said Yasmin Bhatia, CEO of the charter school network. The East Dallas site will have enough room for students of all grade levels and outdoor greenspace that the Deep Ellum campus couldn’t fit.The picture of resilience: Passion for photography helps Dallas teen get through tough times
“See, now this is nice,” he said looking out at Canton Street and then pointing back to the ongoing Art Fair. “I know there’s still some nighttime troubles. But it’s changed.”The lunch crowd at AllGood Cafe is thinning as waiters bus the remnants of BLTs and chicken-fried steak. “Saint Dominic’s Preview” by Van Morrison plays from the speaker just above the bar of the funky diner. An empty stage will host a country music band later that evening.
The neighborhood is an incubator for independent operators, said Stephanie Keller Hudiburg, executive director of the Deep Ellum Foundation. “There’s just an entrepreneurial ethos that’s very alive and well in this district.”