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Restaurants Open on Thanksgiving That Taste Like Mom’s Cooking
Arguably the most important meal of the year, the traditional Thanksgiving feast can take days to prepare. Cooks have to spend hours — and hours and days — brining the bird, making stuffing and putting together any number of potato and vegetable side dishes, not to mention baking all that pie. Thankfully, some delicious restaurants all over North Texas are providing their own twist on the Thanksgiving feast. The Second Floor Bistro – Bar: Enjoy a buffet brimming with delectable favorites like Roasted Prime Rib and Turkey, and array of traditional sides and other Southern specialties, then top off the meal with assorted pies, cakes and fresh fruit desserts at…
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RAIN Showers The Beatles with Love in Dallas + Giveaway
Dallas Summer Musicals brings RAIN direct from Broadway to Dallas on Saturday, November 23 through Sunday, November 24, 2013! Associated Press says RAIN is “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles’ discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. Together longer than The Beatles, RAIN has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance in this multi-media concert, that’s as infectious as it is transporting. From the early hits to later classics (I Want To Hold Your…
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Holly Jolly Holidays at LEGOLAND Discovery Center
Celebrate the holidays with LEGOLAND Discovery Center! Your kids can write and mail their letter to Santa in the LEGO mailbox while enjoying complimentary milk and cookies. Next, your family can build a LEGO ornament that they can hand on the LEGOLAND Discovery Center Christmas tree. Also, they can do all the other fun things like: LEGO® Factory Tour LEGO® 4D Cinema Kingdom Quest Laser Ride LEGO® CITY: Forest Ranger Pursuit MINILAND® Star Wars™ MINILAND Model Display Episode 4 LEGO® Racers: Build & Test Merlin’s Apprentice Ride LEGO® City Play Zone & Fire Academy The LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Shop DUPLO® Village Earthquake Tables LEGO® Girls – Princess Palace
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2014 Chevy Volt Offers Impressive Features at Lower Cost
Chevrolet is reducing the price you need to pay if you want to “go green” on your wheels. The 2014 Chevy Volt, which offers a combination electric and gasoline-powered drivetrain, will be available for $34,995 this coming model year. That’s $5,000 less than last year, and if you subtract federal tax credits that can range as high as $7,500, the sticker price could go as low as $27,495. Buying a Volt will give you gas-free driving for 38 miles, at which point the car’s 80 horsepower gas engine kicks into gear. However, it doesn’t power the wheels — it simply powers the 149 horsepower electric motor, with some excess going to…
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Old Red Museum Unveils Erik Jonsson Exhibit #JFKDay
It was 50 years ago this November that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas’ Dealey Plaza in a presidential motorcade. The tragedy shocked a nation and would become a defining moment in each Americans’ life. This month, many will be coming to Dallas to mourn Kennedy’s untimely death and to honor the life of one of the most revered presidential figures in American history. Yesterday, the Old Red Museum, which faces Dealey Plaza, unveiled an exhibit called “Dream No Small Dreams” that details the work of Major J. Erik Jonsson, who was elected mayor of Dallas after the assassination and helped the city recover from tragedy. The story…
