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Nicole Stewart admits she is obsessed with stories. The neighborhood resident began by telling fictional stories. In her first professional acting gig, she played the Ghost of Christmas Past at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre. The ghost hasn’t entirely left her, though she now focuses on her own stories of the past.

The White Rock Lake Artists' Studio Tour 2012 took place Saturday, Oct. 13 and Sunday, Oct. 14 throughout Lakewood. The Advocate's Lauri Valerio spoke with photographer Sharon Neel-Bagley, who has opened up both her own and her husband Matt's studios to the tour for about four years.

Dallas United Crew officials visited the Advocate offices Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, to discuss their plans to build a floating boat house near Mockingbird and Buckner on White Rock Lake. Team coach Jonathan Stevens, president Donna Swanson and vice president Belinda McDonnell talked with Advocate editors Christina Hughes Babb and Rick Wamre about the $3 million-plus facility, its funding, the group's membership and the city's role in the project's development, funding and eventual ongoing maintenance, assuming that the Dallas Park Board and Dallas City Council eventual approve the group's plans.

A Dallas breakfast institution, the Mecca, is moving into the old Tipperary Inn — right across the street from another Dallas breakfast institution, Gold Rush. How will they fare in such close proximity? Just fine, says Jeff Siegel in our latest podcast.

The voices of publisher Rick Wamre and contributing editor Jeff Siegel are mainstays in the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate. But what readers don't get to experience on a monthly basis is what we around the Advocate offices get to enjoy — the two of them bantering about everything from City Hall to predictions on retail development to what East Dallas was like 20 years ago. So we've decided to let readers in on the conversation in a podcast version.

Vicki Hitzges discusses her new book, Attitude is Everything