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 | Jul 8, 2025 | Deep Ellum Community, Deep Ellum People
By Taylor Adams Cogan Across America, we have neighborhoods that have been ripped apart by highways cutting through to allow for urban sprawl. You can see this in countless cities, including Dallas, where highways sever through areas, like I-30, which wrecked through...
by Guest Author | Jul 1, 2025 | Deep Ellum People, Music
By Taylor Adams Cogan Staring up at the stage, your eyes long-adjusted to the dim room pierced by vibrant lighting to set the tone, your body moves to the sound without thought or concern. You make sure not to let your drink spill out from the plastic cup in your hand...
by Guest Author | Jun 24, 2025 | Deep Ellum Community, Deep Ellum People, Music
By Taylor Adams Cogan People love Deep Ellum for its music scene, the reliably good restaurants, and/or the hundreds of murals we have, making both historic and brand-new buildings special. But fewer know the fuel behind that, and the real reason people love this...
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...