Starting November 3rd through December 19th, Mockingbird Station will host events & feature promotions Mon-Friday from 5pm-9pm. The website currently only lists the events happening for November – I’ll post December events as soon as they are made public. Valet parking is free, however, parking has never really been a problem on weeknights at Mockingbird […]

The 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival will be showcased at Anglika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. The 4 day festival will feature “cutting-edge, fiercely independent work by local, regional, national and international video artists…. Programs range from imaginative 30-second television commercials to mesmerizing video art, compelling documentaries, surrealistic animation, innovative digital features, and narrative shorts […]

Thursday, October 30th, The Jewish Community Center of Dallas will have a special screening of the film “The Monster Among Us.” The event will be at the Jewish Community Center’s Zale Auditorium and will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets are $9 in advance and $10 at the door. Purchase tickets online or email Judy Cohn for more information. […]

Recently I posted about the November 8th Festival of Ideas hosted by The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. It wasn’t long after that post I was contacted by DIHC and invited to a recent event with Au Courant, Dallas Institute’s newest membership group. Originally inspired by The Insitute’s vision, Au Courant heightened my inspiration […]

Image via Wikipedia This Sunday WRR is presenting the 14th Annual Picnic in the Park at the Dallas Arboretum. The Dallas Wind Symphony will be playing at 7pm and at 8:30pm AFI Dallas will present The Princess Bride. Download the WRR program for this Sunday. WRR will be giving away promotional prizes as well as […]

Jerry Levitan was 14 yrs old when he skipped school to find & interview John Lennon. You could say this kid was quite a fan; and intelligent and brave. Lennon was staying in Toronto and Levitan had takena guess as to where Lennon would be staying. He went to the top floor and knocked on […]

I recently posted about one of the current books I am reading, “Hell’s Angels”, by Hunter S. Thompson. The story is fascinating and the writing is poetically justifiable. Thompson captures beauty, fear, and hate in describing his first hand experiences with the Hell’s Angels. His life is truly one to pay attention to and study. […]

Tonight at the Studio Movie Grill in Addison, AFI Dallas will be presenting the “Best of Fest”. Admission is free and you’ll get the chance to win free prizes by entering yourself in the door drawing. Here is the schedule for tonight’s Best of Fest: 5:30pm Family Day Highlight JUMP 7:30pm Target Filmmaker Award Winner […]

I’m currently reading Slaughterhouse-Five. This is the second Kurt Vonnegut book I’ve read. The first one, “Breakfast of Champions” was brilliant writing, and if you haven’t read it, you must. Towards the end I couldn’t stop smiling and saying out loud “oh, shit” as he creatively places himself in the bar as the “creator” of […]

Last night Rachel and I went to see Young@Heart. Our goal was to get as far away from sappy love movie’s, and I think we succeeded. Here’s the plot summary from IMDB: Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose average age is […]