Clayton Hurt and Alvaro Perez show their studio scrap assemblages in the project room at 500x through October 4. Below, the artists weigh in on their work.

I have always enjoyed Kiest Park, ever since I first went there as a 10-year-old boy. While I admit it has “changed” since then, I think it is an under-appreciated crown jewel in the OC that just needs a little TLC. It has a nice, llloonnngg hike and bike trail (unlike that wimpy, short .6 [...]

From William Holston:
Dixon Branch is a lovely creek, and nice short trail through the cedar woods. There is a pond on private land, which overflows into this creek and over some falls. I’ve seen wood ducks, herons, kingfishers, yellow warblers and red bellied woodpeckers. I sit on a huge limestone boulder, and listen to the [...]

It is easy to see where the needs are in the city, but if you were the one in the hot-seat with the red pen, what would you cut from the unbalanced city budget? Or how could the city earn more cash?

We want to use our Renegade Bus Flickr group like a digital version of that overstuffed drawer of photos. Contribute your photos of Dallas: passing moments on the street, frustrated times in traffic, interesting faces, pretty found-objects, awkward family photos – nothing is too personal, too obscure, or too unprofessional.

Or maybe you live there already. Tell us why.

Our favorite park is the one at the Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital. I have been told it is open to the public, so we go there often. It is fully fenced with nice, clean bathrooms. It has an area for smaller children and one for the bigger kids. It has a green space with a [...]

I’d like to recommend the Ridgewood/Belcher Rec Center strictly because of their spray park. As a mother of three very small children that really aren’t old enough to swim in a regular pool, the whole concept of a spray park makes a lot of sense to me right now. I wish there were more spray [...]

I know that it is not necessarily a park, but if you ever have a chance to walk the Santa Fe Trail near the Holllywood Heights neighborhood you will not be disappointed. You can go to Woodrow Wilson High School and park your car at the park off of Glasgow or go over to Lindsley [...]