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From golden girl to sordid grandma
Rue McClanahan gets her Pr tie on
The Emmy Award-winner joins her 'Sordid Lives' castmates during
Dallas Pride for stand-up — or in her case, sit-down.
■ COMEDY, Page 20
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Resident-only zones
could pinch parkir
near Cedar Springs
3900 block of N. Hall would be
2nd in area to enact restrictions
JOHN WRIGHT I News Editor
wright@dallasvoice.com
The parking situation for visitors to the Cedar
Springs entertainment district may be on the
verge of going from bad to worse.
A group of residents who live in the 3900
block of Hall Street, one block northeast of the
strip, is petitioning to have their street become
a "resident parking only" zone, meaning Cedar
Springs patrons would be prohibited from
parking there on weekend nights.
The 3900 Hall Street petition would affect
only about 10 on-
street parking spaces
between Reagan
and Throckmorton
streets, and the block
would be just the
second near the en-
tertainment district
to become an RPO
zone.
But conventional
wisdom holds that
the 3900 Hall Street
petition — along with an RPO created in the
3200 block of Throckmorton Street last year —
signals the beginning of a trend that could even-
tually ban nonresident parking on numerous
side streets near the strip.
"It's going to be viral, just like it was on our
street," said Avi Adelman, a resident and neigh-
borhood watchdog in the Lower Greenville Av-
enue area who's helped create dozens of RPO
zones near the East Dallas entertainment district
in the last few years. "It's not only viral
■ PARKING, Page 10
Neil Emmons
Fire damages landmark bar in Fort Worth
SURVEYING THE DAMAGE I Mike Castlow, show director for Stampede, looks into the back bar of the nightclub after fire damaged much of the longtime gay bar early
Thursday morning, Sept. 10. Fort Worth Fire Department officials say the blaze was apparently sparked by faulty electrical wiring. (TAMMYE NASH/Dallas Voice)
Fire department officials say blaze
was electrical in origin; owner not
sure when or if club will reopen
JOHN WRIGHT I News Editor
wright@daiiasvoice.com
FORT WORTH — Sheri Wojcik and her busi-
ness partner were looking forward to celebrating
one year as owners of Stampede on Oct. 1.
They were also getting ready for October's
Tarrant County Gay Pride Week, which tradi-
tionally has included several events hosted by
the 30-something-year-old gay bar on South
Hemphill Street.
Then, just before 2 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10,
a fire broke out in a storage area at Stampede and
quickly spread to the rest of the building, causing
$60,000 worth of damage.
The cause of the fire was believed to be electri-
cal, and authorities don't suspect any foul play.
Wojcik said the back bar at Stampede was "to-
tally lost" and the front bar was heavily damaged
in the fire.
■ FIRE, Page 12
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