Culture

October 2010 : Follow Your Heart
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FOLLOW YOUR HEART You can trust your heart’s true desires, even if you can’t clearly see how the outcome will appear or manifest. You’re called upon to walk in faith and be true to yourself. The universe will ensure that your needs are met and will help with your relationships as you make life changes. [...]

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September 24-25 : Greek Food Festival
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Opa! Enjoy the annual Greek Party this weekend. Well into its fifty fourth year, the 2010 Greek Food Festival of Dallas offers amazing food, dancing, music, shopping and even cooking demos. Enjoy traditional greek folk dances including the spirited taverna style music and dance. Partake in the folk fun with some plate smashing, shop around [...]

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Movie : Never Let Me Go
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Going defiantly against the grain of a hyperbolic movie culture, “Never Let Me Go” is passionate about deliberation and restraint. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley, the A Team of young British acting talent, this is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the [...]

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Movie : Cairo Time
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Cairo Time is an exquisite feast for the eyes, ears and eventually, the heart. Ruba Nadda takes us on a tour of Cairo which flows so well because it appears complete even down to such minute details such as showing street children selling bobby pins, a wild motorcycle driver nearly hitting the film’s heroine, and [...]

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September 18 : Surfin’ STA Carnival
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Catch a wave and surf on over to the coolest scene in East Dallas…St. Thomas Aquinas School is in full preparation for its oldest fundraising tradition Carnival! Fun starts friday night with beach blaket bingo, laser tag and some really awesome entertainment! There will be raffle drawing, a totally tubular talent show, live music and [...]

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Book : The Lady In Blue
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An intriguing blend of spellbinding action, modern metaphysics, and ancient religion and faith, The Lady in Blue explores the trances and bilocation (the power of beign in two places at once) of María Jesús de Ágreda, a seventeenth century nun from Spain, who was accused by the Inquisition of travelling a distance of 6,000 miles [...]

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September 11 : Dallas Flea Market
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Forget the Mall and head over to the Dallas Flea Market this Saturday. The Dallas Flea is a grassroots shopping concept and a curated market composed of Texas-based businesses, designers and entrepreneurs ranging from chocolate makers and abstract painters to jewelry artists and interior decorators. Not only will you be supporting local creatives, but you [...]

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Restaurant : The Common Table
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The Common Table is a recently opened restaurant that evokes newness and urbanity. A great Uptown Location. Each of the restaurant’s cocktails is named for something newsworthy that happened on June 2, the day The Common Table opened. The events cover everything from a first lady commemorating a birthday to the disastrous cyclone that hit [...]

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Sep 1-Nov 1 : Discover Dallas @ The Old Red
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The exhibition of art and artifacts traces the 118-year-old history of the former “Old Red” Dallas County Courthouse. Local artists have contributed works to illustrate Old Red as they see the historic landmark in their daily lives: at work, at play, and as a symbol of the strong leaders of Dallas and Dallas County. Old [...]

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September 2010 : Detach From Drama
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DETACH FROM DRAMA We are drawn into the upsetting world of human egos by focusing upon a drama. Although it’s nothing more than a story, the drama feels frightening to us. Don’t get pulled into the various plots, twists, turns, and characters of the drama. Instead, view it as a movie that you know will [...]

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