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CliffDweller Sold to Advocate

Posted on May 7th, 2008 9:55am by Tim Rogers
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Rob Shearer confirms that the CliffDweller has been sold to the Advocate. The deal should be finalized this summer. When I asked him if he’d tell me the purchase price, he said, “No. And I know too many people who know you. They’d tell me to stop talking to you right now.”

Well played, sir. Well played.

15 Comments to “CliffDweller Sold to Advocate”

Michael Davis @ May 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am

I look forward to having a “North Oak Cliff Advocate” or whatever the name turns out to be. Nice move.
Bobby Ewing @ May 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am

CliffDweller is a refreshing publication with good personality. Always enjoy reading it. Congrats to their folks.
ericthegardener @ May 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

This is good news!
dazzling urbanite @ May 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

And the folks at D should start reading the Advocate so they can learn about Dallas.
publicnewssense @ May 7th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

Oak Cliff may be the largest area of the entire world, including the Gobi Desert, without either an actual book store, movie theater or a Starbucks. And don’t try to pass off that Starbucks on Camp Wisdom as being in Oak Cliff — it’s practically in Duncanville.
It isn’t just D that ignores Oak Cliff. Betcha there are some red-lining financial guys, too.
Michael Davis @ May 7th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

^ I’m not sure why you like to draw maps that aren’t used by Mapsco or anyone else, but the OC has several Starbucks including the one on Camp Wisdom. People that live in Oak Cliff in Dallas use that Starbucks.

There is also one in the new Target on Hampton Rd, as well as Westmoreland & Illinois. Both of these have opened in the last two months.

Not that I feel that having a Starbucks defines your neighborhood, I just felt an urge to use facts.

D Mag has written more about Oak Cliff than the Observer or any other pub other than Cliffdweller.

You must have missed the December issue of D that had a feature article about Oak Cliff, as well as Rawlins’ article this month on street food that has multiple Oak Cliff mentions.
Max Edison @ May 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

If you think Camp Wisdom Road is in Oak Cliff, then you are not from the ‘hood. Unless, of course, you regard anything south of the Trinity River and north of Waco as Oak Cliff. I believe D Magazine’s attitude toward Oak Cliff is embodied in the rag they call Oak Cliff People. It consists of a front section with stories written by someone who never saw the inside of a journalism school, and a very generic second section. It is better than the Tribune, but what is not?
dazzling urbanite @ May 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I remember for several years D had a map of Fair Park on the wrong side of I-30. I think they are now finally discovering East Dallas (E.Dallas home prices up, Park Cities home prices down) and Lakewood People has stopped using the “Wilson” headlines.

Hmm but I don’t see blogs for anything but Park Cities People…
Zac Crain @ May 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Max Edison: Michael lives in Oak Cliff.
Michael Davis @ May 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

I guess that’s why the “Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church” is on Camp Wisdom, the Oak Cliff Family YMCA is a 1/4 mile north of Camp Wisdom, and the Golf Club of Dallas (p/k/a Oak Cliff Country Club until last fall) is on Red Bird which is the next major street north of Camp Wisdom, etc etc.

Some people call parts of it that are near the airport ‘Redbird’ but it’s all part of Oak Cliff. oh forget it…
publicnewsense @ May 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Michael, there is only one stand-alone Starbucks in all of southwest Dallas County, the one on the brink of Duncanville — the others are inside grocery stores and hardly qualify as a Starbucks. And, I’m not sure what your points are about the names, but you can call those places Oak Cliff until the sunshine turns a Redbird into an Executive airport and it won’t put a bookstore, a movie theater or a real Starbucks in the whole of Oak Cliff.
Are you a red-lining banker?
El Rey @ May 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

publicnewsense - Calling Michael Davis a red-lining banker is the funniest thing I have seen all day! Go back to reading your Collin County edition of the DMN…
Susan Thornton @ May 7th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

We thumb our noses at Starbucks - we go to the Nodding Dog instead.
Michael Davis @ May 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

Susan - that’s the thing. I’d rather see more Nodding Dogs than national chains. Local homegrown businesses tend to put more into the community.
HHAS @ May 7th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

ok look, i want to enjoy the nodding dog as much as the next local. it’s cute. it’s not corporate. and it’s local. sounds perfect. problem is, neither me nor my friends will go. why? the coffee tastes bland and watery. it’s like this hush hush sentiment that no one can bare to share with the owners. so owners…please fix your coffee. give us rich flavor we deserve. and droves of us will return and to support you.