Category Oak Cliff
Last Night’s Performance Shows OC’s Ridership Increase
If there was any doubt about Oak Cliff’s resurgance in bicycling, last night’s performance by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra officially put it to rest. At last year’s performance, BFOC was in its earliest stages and we counted 3 bicycles at the show…this year, I counted 42! That’s a pretty dramatic increase, and it was great […]
Congrats to BFOC member, Eric Cowan!
(New DISD Board of Trustee Eric Cowan, with wife Amy Cowan) As of 7PM today, BFOC member Eric Cowan has won the District 7 DISD Board of Trustee race. Several BFOC’ers helped manage the campaign and official word from the Dallas Morning News is that Eric “trounced” the competition. This is an exciting time for […]
Oak Cliff People Coverage of Ninjas vs. Pirates
(photo from Oak Cliff People) Click here to view the Oak Cliff People photo gallery of the Ninjas vs. Pirates ride.
DMN Posted video of the Ninjas vs. Pirates ride
Thanks to everyone who came out for the Pirates vs. Ninjas ride. Great turnout, great weather, and great times.
Guerilla Urbanism: North Oak Cliff residents create their own Complete Street
The block heard round the world. Go Oak Cliff finally wrapped-up the video outlining the Better Block event and posted to their site. View it to see how the new non-profit along with residents and members of BFOC took a street that was dominated by cars, and converted it to a place for pedestrians, bicyclists, […]
Pints for Paint a Success!
Go Oak Cliff was able to raise $3,500 at the Pints for Paint event at Eno’s new upstairs pub last Thursday night. The proceeds benefit the Seventh Street Mural Project which is being developed to help create a family friendly bike and pedestrian corridor along a street that is often tagged by graffiti and blight. […]
BFOCer’s on NPR’s THINK
(image from Oak Cliff People) Tomorrow at 1PM, Community Organizer Amy Cowan, OC Community Garden Founder Mariana Griggs, and BFOC Co-Founder/OCTA President Jason Roberts will be on NPR’s THINK on 90.1FM. Tune in to hear about all of the new activism occurring on the left banke of the river.
More From the OC Community Gardens: Experiments on Code Hybridization
Article by OC Community Garden Advocate, Scott Griggs In gardening and biology, hybridization is the crossbreeding of two species to create a plant with some characteristics of each parent. We all remember high school botany and the stories of the great Gregor Mendel using hybridization in pea plants to discover that one inheritable trait would […]
A chance to fight for our community gardens!
(photo from Willard Farms) Many of you may know that BFOC has several community gardener’s as members, and currently we’re planning a group ride which takes you to visit several of the plots they currently have developed. With that in mind, Mariana Griggs, Founder of Oak Cliff Community Gardens sends out a note to all […]
A New Bike Friendly Organic Grocer in the Cliff
For years, we’d hear friends and neighbors alike bemoan the fact that North Oak Cliff lacked a Whole Foods store, and while we probably joined the chorus for a time, a new, authentically Oak Cliff option has surfaced…Urban Acres. Billed as an organic farm store, the owners have taken up shop in the old De […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 