Scott’s Picks

Restaurant : Liberty Burger
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Liberty Burger is family-owned and Texas-grown, and that’s how they operate. This new burger spot will surely be a Lakewood favorite. From the beef to the beer to the beverages, Liberty Burger strives to use only family-owned and Texas-grown products and services. You can choose from a variety of burgers such as beef, bison, turkey, [...]

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Movie : Capturing Oswald
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Brand new documentary, ‘Capturing Oswald’, marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, as retired homicide detectives and officers from the Dallas Police Department break their silence about the events of November 22, 1963. Many of them haven’t spoken publicly in years about the tragic events that unfolded on that fateful day that [...]

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Magazine : November Issue D Magazine
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Dallas 1963 Who We Were When Everything Changed This is a great issue celebrating the excellence of what made Dallas…Dallas and the players who were very clear that what’s best for EVERYONE is what’s best for Dallas!!! The issue is filled with interesting history and details on the Dallas business community’s Children of the Progressive [...]

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Restaurant : The Rustic
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This week is actually Amy’s Pick…my wonderful neighbor. If you haven’t heard, this restaurant and concert venue owned in part by country singer Pat Green is now open in Uptown Dallas and is decked out with reclaimed wood, a bull’s head on the wall and a flag above the bar crafted out of beer cans. [...]

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Movie: The Fifth Estate
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The term “Fifth Estate” is used to describe any class or group in society other than The Clergy (First Estate), The Nobility (Second Estate), The Commoners (Third Estate), and The Press (Fourth Estate). Making reference to the medieval concept of “Three estates of the realm” (Clergy, Nobility and Commons) and to a more recently developed [...]

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Book : Lawrence in Arabia
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Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is a marvel of a history book. The research is impeccable. The story is fascinating and unforgettable. And the characters are so compelling that they seem to have been plucked from a novel. During World War I, the course of the modern day Middle East was set by a handful [...]

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Restaurant : Savor
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It’s here, finally…We’ve waited over a year and now Dallas’ most beautiful restaurant is open for business. Completing our city’s rise to the epitome of being an international world class city. This restaurant will do for Dallas what Tavern on The Green did for Central Park in New York City. The space is so stunning [...]

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Music : Steve Holy – Radio Up
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When Lakewood native Steve Holy’s breakout smash, “Good Morning Beautiful,” stood atop the country charts for five straight weeks in 2002, it sparked a fire that has continued to smolder throughout his decade-long career. Holy has shown unyielding tenacity and persistence since his first big break in 1993, when he beat out 500 hopefuls in [...]

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Restaurant : Fearing’s at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas Sendero Room
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On our way downtown to do research at the Dallas Public Library, we got caught up in all the Downtown construction detours and lucky us, ended on the other side of Downtown at the Ritz Carlton. It being lunchtime, we figured, “Why not?” It’s been seven years since the introduction of Fearing’s to our great [...]

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Health : Lakewood Primary Care
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Overnight our building has transformed from a bank building into Lakewood Medical Center. I’ve been officing out of this building for almost 30 years and have seen the name of the bank change almost 10 times. It’s exciting to see the transformation in Lakewood and I’m proud to office with such an exceptional doctor. The [...]

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