Culture

Top Places to See Holiday Lights
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Put on your hat and gloves, fill that thermos with cocoa and pack some cookies. It’s time to take in all things twinkly. Guide Live has rounded up some top area light displays to help you plan a perfectly merry and bright outing. For the neighborhood displays, note that it’s still early in the season [...]

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Army–Navy Game
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It’s Game Day!!! Get ready for the 112th annual Army Navy Game…The greatest rivalry in sports history. This year’s game will be held in Philadelphia, the great city where our Founding Fathers met to sign our Constitution granting our freedom. Go Navy!!! My little brother Christopher Carlson attended and played football for the United States [...]

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Book : Drawing Blood
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From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York’s Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed. Returning to New [...]

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Light Up Lakewood
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Join East Dallas for the annual Light Up Lakewood event. There will be opportunities for pictures with Santa Claus, face painting, a petting zoo, hot chocolate and other family entertainment! The tree lighting starts at 7pm followed by special performances by Lipscomb Choir, Woodrow Variations Choir, and the Woodrow Marching Band. The Wilkinson Center will [...]

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Aurora Recap
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For one long night, the Dallas Arts District Dallas was transformed into an open-air, urban playground of contemporary art on an expansive scale. Presented by Aurora’s founders – in a new partnership with the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center – this immersive, free and public exhibition showcased work by local and international artists, selected by [...]

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Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot
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The original Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot was held at the Old Fairgrounds back in the early 1940′s, but the long string of consecutive years began with the eight mile race back in 1968. The unique eight mile distance was created when the one hundred and seven participants were instructed to run along the shores of [...]

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Movie : Brooklyn
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Thanksgiving means eating and shopping, but that can’t take up the whole four-day weekend. If you’re looking for an alternative family activity, the movie theaters have some great options. The USA Film Festival screened this movie last week and I needed an escape so I grabbed my friend Diane and we headed to the Angelica Theater. A [...]

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Late Night @ DMA
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Join The DMA on the third Friday of each month, when the Museum is open until midnight. Each Late Night offers hundreds of experiences for visitors of all ages with performances, concerts, readings, film screenings, tours, family programs, and more! This month it is Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, which is only the third major U.S. [...]

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How To Dress Like JFK
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Vive La France! Jaqueline and John F. Kennedy Visit France Video Here is a link to watch the video A polo and khakis might be as dressed up as you get – and today, that’s fine. But before January 1961 or so, that would’ve been considered shockingly casual for most events, maybe even slovenly. To [...]

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39th Annual Lakewood Home Tour
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The Lakewood Home Festival began in 1976 when the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA staged a tour showcasing five distinctive and historic neighborhood homes as a fund raiser to purchase playground equipment for kindergarten children. Last year the home festival raised $155,000 for Lakewood Elementary, J.L. Long Middle School, and Woodrow Wilson High School. It has [...]

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