Weekend Plans

1. Saturday go learn to swing dance with the Dallas Swing Dance Society at the Sammons Center for the Arts. The best thing is that it will only cost you 7 bucks!

2. Vino 100 in Uptown will be serving flights of reds and sparking wines on Saturday for the low price of 10 bucks.

3. Saturday night, put your bell bottoms on and relive the 70s with Le Freak at House of Blues.

The making of an Eames shell chair

Great video on the making of the iconic Eames shell chair.




Tip of the hat to Grassroots Modern where I first saw the video.

Charles Dilbeck Home Tour and Book Signing

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 6:00pm Preservation Dallas will be hosting a tour of a Charles Dilbeck Home along with a discussion and book signing of Preservation Dallas' new book "Dallas Landmarks."

Charles Dilbeck was a local Dallas architect with a wide ranging style. If you have ever driven around the neighborhood behind the Old Monk you have driven by multiple Dilbecks. The Architect and I used to live in an international style home down the street from the Old Monk.

More info about the tour and discussion here.

Everything is better with bacon!

Even the internet! Go here to slap a piece of bacon on your favorite website.

Now to see this blog with bacon click here.

Youtube randomness

I don't quite know what to make of this. This being Johnny Lydon selling butter. Check it out here:

Weekend Plans

1. Miami has Art Basel, Marfa has Open House, and LA has the Los Angeles Art Show. Dallas now has the Dallas Art Fair. See works byDamien Hirst, Chuck Close and John Chamberlin. Get your tickets here.

2. Art in the Hood is this weekend. Take a tour of artists' studios to see where they create their art. Artists range from glassmakers to textile artists to photography.

3. Head down to Deep Ellum this weekend and catch simultaneous productions of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Hub Theater on Canton St. Make an evening of it by grabbing dinner at Local or Pepe & Mitos - both on Elm St.

Club Dada and the listening room

Anyone who has been to Club Dada might have had the opportunity to peek over to the room next door which is also owned by the club. I myself have seen Irving, TX born David Garza play there on occasion. According to the Dallas Observer's DC 9 at Night Blog, Club Dada is in the process of renovating the space to create a 100 person capacity acoustic space. What is interesting to note is that local Dallas musician and producer Salim Nourallah will be the booking agent. Can't wait to see what this new venue will bring to Dallas.

More details here.