Scott’s Picks

Restaurant : Mirador @ Forty Five Ten
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Located on the fourth floor of Forty Five Ten on Main, across from The Joule, Mirador is an approachable yet elegant restaurant serving modern American cuisine by executive chef Josh Sutcliff, in collaboration with Junior Borges, executive chef of The Joule. As the name implies, Mirador boasts expansive views of downtown through 11-foot floor-to-ceiling windows [...]

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Movie : Faces Places (Visages Villages)
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Art and Film! This new French documentary film made jointly by Agnès Varda (born in 1928) and the photographer and muralist JR (born in 1983), is named “Visages Villages,” meaning “Faces Villages,”. They travel in JR’s van (equipped with a photo booth and a large-format printer) to small towns in France, which are as infused [...]

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Restaurant : White Rock Alehouse
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An Adult Establishment. The best new date night place to chill on the shores of White Rock Lake. Parking, Parking and more parking. Awesome access to the lake. White Rock Alehouse & Brewery is the result of Greg Nixon and Dave Kirk, two East Dallas locals with a mutual love of craft beer. White Rock [...]

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Movie : Icarus
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My awesome cousin Linda Carlson was Executive Producer on this Oscar-Nominated documentary. Icarus is a 2017 documentary film by Bryan Fogel which chronicles Fogel exploring the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of [...]

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Forbes Article : Dallas Is Blooming
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Forbes is the magazine that annually assesses the value of professional sports franchises, and at the moment, the Dallas Cowboys are No. 1, at $4.2 billion. But now, Forbes has turned its attention in a different direction — the arts. “In the Texas culture, Dallas has been investing heavily in making the city a Southwest [...]

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Restaurant : Beau Nash
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Time to raise a glass because one of Uptown’s original places is making a major comeback. Beau Nash first made its entrée to Dallas with the opening of the iconic Hotel Crescent Court in 1986. The restaurant remained a pillar of the hotel, serving upscale American eats to travelers and swanky Dallasites until 2004. Now, [...]

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Shopping : Joule Spa
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Love is in the air!!! The perfect Valentines gift. It’s that time of year and this is one of the best spas in the southwest. Located in one of my favorite areas of Downtown Dallas in the marvelous Joule Hotel. Right next door to the original and world famous Neiman Marcus and across from Forty [...]

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Real Estate : Scott Carlson Team
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2018 welcomes our new team members, Ryan Booth and Beth Pierson. In 1984, Scott helped establish Whiteside Associates, which became the number # 1 brokerage firm in the area. I worked hard, had a lot of fun and really took Lakewood to the next level as far as raising property values and a larger exposure [...]

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Real Estate : Scott Carlson Team…
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Patrick Bukowitz, Ryan Booth, and Beth Pierson 2018 welcomes our new team members, Ryan Booth and Beth Pierson. In 1984, Scott helped establish Whiteside Associates, which became the number # 1 brokerage firm in the area. I worked hard, had a lot of fun and really took Lakewood to the next level as far as [...]

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Movie : Phantom Thread
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Date Night Movie… Phantom Thread is a 2017 American historical drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, set in London’s couture world in the 1950s. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a dressmaker who falls in love with his waitress, played by Vicky Krieps. The couple’s relationship vacillates between affectionate and distance until they [...]

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