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Music : Tom Cheatham

Tom Cheatham is a Dallas native and Lakewood local who has picked, strummed and fought his way through the Texas music scene one dive bar at a time. After living in Austin, TX for 5 years, music became an important part of Cheatham’s life. He moved back to Dallas and began writing songs and pursuing [...]
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Movie : The Help

The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Racial tension is high, and at the core of everything going on in this town. The Black women who are maids in that town not only clean the houses of their bosses, but they practically raise their [...]
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Restaurant : Red Fork

Chef Jeff Harris, the highly acclaimed former chef of Craft, Dallas, and his team are excited to announce the opening of their new restaurant, RedFork. This is the new relaxing hideaway off Fitzhugh featuring an upscale menu. We surprisingly enjoyed the brunch choices given the fact it is in a strip mall next to a [...]
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Shop : We are 1976

You’ll take credit for the good taste when your giftee thanks you for the gift, but deep down in your heart, you’ll know it was all Vynsie, Jully and Derek Law making you look good. Sifting through the latest design trends from New York to San Francisco to Tokyo, but always most enthused about handmade [...]
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Music : Milky Way

Musical group Danger Beach cap off their most recent album effort Milky Way with an animated video for their “Apache” track. Executed by animation director Ned Wenlock and character animation by Rodney Selby, the final product is stunning to say the least with a fun and casual take that compliments the original video from the [...]
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Movie : Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen’s new film, “Midnight in Paris,” seeks to understand romance vs. reality, pitting fleeting relationships in golden era dreams against the reluctantly accepted crush of convenience and safety in modern times. Introduced to mismatched couples operating in different dimensions, the audience quickly sees that the antagonists, the harsh realists played by Michael Sheen and [...]
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Book : Dressmaker of Khair Khana

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila’s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These [...]
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Movie : I AM

Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a camera crew, Shadyac embarks upon a journey to discover how he as an individual, and we as a race, can improve the way we live. Appearing on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig, Shadyac meets with a variety of thinkers and doers–remarkable [...]
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