Culture

Shop : Redenta’s Garden
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Redenta’s Garden was started in 1992 as a garden shop providing a quality shopping experience. Founder Ruth Kinler named it after her aunt who is a nun in a convent in Siena, Italy, because she wanted the shops to reflect an European influence. Ruth set out to staff the shops with fellow gardeners – people [...]

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March 16 : Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival
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Around this time last year the beloved Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade was $40,000 short and in danger of being canceled until Mark Cuban cut a check. One year later, the parade that began rolling down Greenville in 1979 is no more, but in name only: As of today, it’s officially being rebranded as [...]

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Book : Ireland’s Pirate Queen
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She was married twice, divorced once, took a lover when she wanted, and gave birth to one of her sons on the deck of her own ship. She was Grace O’Malley, the sixteenth-century Irish woman who provoked awe, anger, admiration, and fear in the English men who, by persuasion and by the sword, came to [...]

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March 11 : Larry Hagman Day
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March 11 is officially declared as “Larry Hagman Day.” The Dallas episode airing that evening is called “J.R.’s Masterpiece” and will be the funeral of J.R. Ewing. It is a very special show where you the fans get to say “goodbye to J.R. and to Larry Hagman”. You will get to go to the “funeral and the wake” [...]

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Movie : Logan’s Run
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The film was shot primarily in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex – including locations such as the Fort Worth Water Gardens and the Dallas Market Center – between June and September 1975 Logan’s Run is a 1976 American science fiction film directed by Michael Anderson. The movie was based on the novel of the same name [...]

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JR The Texan

J. R . THE Texan Rich, smart, dashing. Death and Life…. life and Death A cycle ever more! Transcendence here and there, To the light …everywhere! Dallas and the death of J.R. and our beloved Sue Ellen! The Life of Larry Hagman and the Resurrection of a pained City. Fun…BEAUTY….OIL, Wealth… And Texas Karma!!!! An [...]

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March 1 : Grand Opening Celebrations at The Lot
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It’s really exciting when local homeowners and friends come together for an enterprise which supports and renews our neighborhood, and, that’s exactly what’s happening at the Lakewood newest hot spot…THE LOT!!! The LOT is a locally-influenced restaurant and neighborhood beer garden in the heart of East Dallas …where all are welcome. Located off the Santa [...]

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Restaurant : Hypnotic Donuts
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It’s been over one year since the mad fried-dough scientists at Hypnotic Donuts moved from a counter in a pizza shop to their own store over here in White Rock. We finally had a chance to stop in for a sample and this place has the best breakfast sandwich in the city, hands down. These [...]

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Book : Soul Signs
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Most astrology books see personality as destiny, but in Soul Signs, expert astrologer and teacher Diane Eichenbaum shows you how your birth sign reveals your personal path to spiritual and psychological transformation. Your sun sign both describes your basic nature and holds the key to the lessons you must learn in this lifetime. For each [...]

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February 25 : Bella Gaia World Tour
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TITAS, in association with the AT&T Performing Arts Center, presents Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth). Bella Gaia is a “Living Atlas” of our world and will allow you to experience the beauty of Earth as few humans have—set to music and seen through the eyes of astronauts. Created in collaboration with NASA by award-winning director and [...]

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