Scott’s Picks

Restaurant : Lark on the Park
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Meddlesome Moth owner Shannon Wynne has done it again. He just opened LARK on the Park a few weeks ago. This is a new contemporary, urban restaurant located on the edge of Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas. LARK introduces two new exciting chefs, Melody Bishop & Dennis Kelley, and will feature seasonal cuisine with global influence. [...]

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Movie: The Place Beyond the Pines
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This is an exhilarating epic of fathers, sons, and consequences. Interesting how the patterns of Fathers show up in their sons. Kind of a random movie…Great motorcycle scenes and the best acting is towards the end of the film with the two teenage sons. A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out [...]

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Gym: Crossfit
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Get ready for Spring by checking out one of our local East Dallas or White Rock CrossFit gyms. Crossfit is done in a group setting and borrows the best exercises from sports such as weightlifting, gymnastics, and track and field. Those highlights are combined into a functional and effective fitness regimen that is always varied. [...]

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Lounge : The Goat
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Looking to unwind after a long week? The Goat is always a good time and neighborhood favorite for the reasons that it’s relaxed, inexpensive, and depending on the karaoke theme,you can be transported to another fun time and place. Go ahead and drop in for a little blues music this weekend. Link: The Goat

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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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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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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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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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