Deep Ellum

Deep Ellum People: Jeff Swaney

by | May 6, 2025 | Deep Ellum History, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

BY Taylor Adams Cogan Back when Deep Ellum was boarded-up buildings and shopping carts, Jeff Swaney saw more than potential — he saw possibility. The kind that burns at both ends, then tosses the candle into a warehouse party with 2,500 people and says, “Let’s go...
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Deep Ellum People: Don Cass

by | April 29, 2025 | Deep Ellum History, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan Plenty of people aspire to the American dream, but Don Cass has pursued a bit of the Texas version, going from working the fields of a farm as a 6-year-old to developing real estate in the best parts of Dallas. Maybe...
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Deep Ellum People: Keisha Hunter

by | April 22, 2025 | Deep Ellum People, Music | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan Born in McKinney and raised in Plano and Garland, Keisha Hunter admits she’s “from the ‘burbs.” But it didn’t take long for her to find her way to Deep Ellum — first as a young adult club-hopping in the early 2000s, and...
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Deep Ellum People: Karen Fitzgerald

by | April 15, 2025 | Deep Ellum Community, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan Living in Deep Ellum today means having the privilege of provocative art, blossoming music, creative food, and wonderful people. More than 20 years ago, Karen and Sean Fitzgerald made the neighborhood their permanent...
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Deep Ellum People: Kaia Bellanca

by | April 8, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People, Music | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan While most people know Three Links is a destination for live music, people in the neighborhood know the spot is more than that, offering a third space for drinks, art, and community. And that’s due, in part, to Kaia...
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Deep Ellum People: Eric Bradford

by | April 1, 2025 | Deep Ellum People, Music | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan In 2009, just a handful of spots brought people to Elm Street in Deep Ellum. And a few people wanted to add in one more, reopening a spot that had thrived in the 1990s. Clint and Whitney Barlow reopened the legendary...
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Deep Ellum People: Frank Campagna

by | March 25, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan Like a musician who dreams of playing at Three Links, a wannabe painter itches to have her work shown at Kettle Art Gallery. It’s not just because the third Saturday of the month includes a wine walk that brings hundreds...
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Deep Ellum People: Maya Piata

by | March 18, 2025 | Deep Ellum People, Music | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan It’s not often you hear a creative say they have a true muse – we’re living outside of Greek mythology, after all. But anyone who puts color to a canvas, writes notes on a staff, or adds an unexpected ingredient to the...
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Deep Ellum People: Steve Hunter

by | March 11, 2025 | Art & Culture, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan When Steve Hunter studied art in Glasgow, he honed his craft and considered his future. What the Scottish native didn’t anticipate was that he’d thrive by painting the walls of an urban neighborhood in Texas. “I didn’t...
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Deep Ellum People: Rachel Triska

by | March 4, 2025 | Deep Ellum Community, Deep Ellum People | 0 Comments

Photo Credit: Breonny Lee BY Taylor Adams Cogan Deep Vellum wasn’t selling its translated literature. Cane Rosso wasn’t even slinging its Neapolitan pies yet. Twisted Root was there, pulling in crowds to the somewhat quiet Commerce Street for their excellent burgers...
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