Entertainment
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Taste Addison Turns 20
Taste Addison turns 20 this weekend, May 18 – 20, 2012, and will offers a tasty weekend blend of food, music and family fun. This three-day festival features over 60 Addison restaurants serving generous samplings of their menus at reduced prices, national musical entertainment, celebrity chef demonstrations and wine tasting seminars, carnival rides, midway games, award-winning children’s entertainment, and more. My top three restaurants and dishes that you need to taste: Thai Star‘s Khao Soi Chamberlain’s Fish Market & Grill‘s Pan Seared Sea Scallops, Maine Lobster And Chive Mash Potatoes, Coca-Cola Candied Carrots, Butter Braised Scallions, Champagne Beurre Blanc, Port Wine Reduction And Fried Mint Leaves Los Lupes’ Tacos De Trompo…
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Boots and Bling: A Texas Fling
The Vince Young Foundation and Matt Nordgren’s Leadership Foundation have teamed up to host Boots and Bling: A Texas Fling on May 10-11, 2012. The two-day charity bash kicks off with the Texas Swing Golf Classic, a round of golf at the prestigious Dallas National Golf Club for top-level sponsors and many Texas Longhorn legends. On Friday, May 11 the festivities continue at Eddie Deen’s Ranch in Downtown Dallas with a Texas Longhorn studded red carpet arrival and private VIP sponsor reception. Patrons will get the opportunity to meet Texas Longhorn football heroes and have their photograph taken with many of the 2005 National Championship team’s greats. Jerry Jeff Walker…
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How to Throw a Galactic Star Wars Party
We celebrated the posh boy’s 5th Birthday with a Star Wars themed party. It’s no secret that my family LOVES Star Wars, so I went online to search for the perfect party. Thank goodness for Pinterest! It is here that I planned and executed his party in less than a week. First, I found the perfect way to display the party – Yard Candy. Then, came the menu. I discovered Hello, My Sweet, where they provide invites, signs and food tags for you. You’ll have to figure out where to cut them yourself. I mounted them on black cardstock. The posh boy chose a Star Wars Cake with his Favorite TV Series, Star…
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Help Homeless One Pound At A Time
It’s a sad fact of modern life that the number of people without a permanent residence to call their own are growing dramatically. According to the National Coalition For The Homeless, children under the age of 18 made up 39% of the population of homeless shelters, and 42% of those kids were younger than five. As stressful as my life gets, I have never worried about where my family was going to sleep. I’m one of the lucky ones. Fortunately, there are organizations like Dallas LIFE. The largest homeless shelter in North Texas, Dallas LIFE ministers to the homeless in need both physical and spiritual healing. It provides food, clothing, shelter,…
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All-time Favorite Kids’ Books
All-time Favorite Kids’ Books A Starter Library for Kids Big & Small Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Where Do you See?, by Eric Carle Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr. Corduroy, by Don Freeman Curious George, by H.A. Rey & Margret Rey Everybody Poops, by Taro Gomi Fancy Nancy, by Jane O’Connor Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose, by Scott Gustafson The Going to Bed Book, by Sandra Boynton The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney The…
