If you see a huge block full of Custom Cars in Deep Ellum today….here’s what’s up. Go, go now! Before it’s over!
The Invasion
Sept 6th
2700 Commerce Street

QUICK Presents:
A Decade of Texas Music Photography by Jason Janik
August 29th through September 6th
A decade of photos shot by Jason including such bands/artists as Peter Thomas (Slow Roosevelt) / Todd Lewis (The Toadies) / Vanilla Ice / Willie Nelson / Ben Kweller / Erykah Badu / Tripping Daisy / Shibboleth / Bowling for Soup / John Dufilho / Salim Nourallah / The Old 97’s / Eisley / P.P.T. / Record Hop / Wanz Dover / Dimebag Darrell / Carter Albrecht and more.

Live Performances Nightly include:
8/29 - Man Factory - 9:00pm - free

8/30 - John Dufilho - 9:00pm- free
8/31 - Collin Herring - 4:00pm- free
9/04 - Smile Smile - 9:00pm- free
9/05 - Shibboleth - 9:00pm- free
9/06 - Closing party at Club Dada w/ Red Monroe / Baboon / Frankie 45 and Members of PPT w/Glen Reynolds.

I don’t normally post stuff about anything outside Deep Ellum, but I was having lunch at Jimmy’s and saw the coppers in full-farce.

There are probably fifteen or so police, mostly constables and they are checking everyone’s gestapo paperwork, insurance and I saw one scanning the bar code on a inspection sticker. So those of you with less-than-legal cars you’re warned. The checkpoint runs up Fitzhugh and the tow trucks are taking people’s uninsured rides in the lot across from Jimmy’s.

I wish the police could spend six months dick-ass broke so they could see what impact they are having on people’s lives. I know, I know… just following orders.

From Etsy Dallas:
Join Etsy Dallas at the upcoming Show Pony Show on August 17th! We’ll be hosting a “progressive craft” project where shoppers will get to make their very own bookmark to take home with them. Look for the Etsy Dallas table to get started on this crafty project.
Not only will Etsy Dallas help you get your craft on, we’ll have a raffle giveaway and a fun scavenger hunt. Find all the Etsy Dallas members participating in the event and get a free goodie bag full of promos and coupons!

SNAKOFA & BAR

// 2820 Commerce St. // Dallas 75226 // 214 749.1911
myspace.com/sankofakrew

Sankofa is open:
Mon. - Thur. 11AM - 7PM
Fri. 11AM - 2aAM
Sat. 3PM - 2AM

Fri. 4:30PM - 8PM is happy hour w/ $3 you call it drinks & a free Cajun style buffet 7PM-10PM a live band 10PM - 2AM is social networking hosted by DJ Steve Nice.
Sat. 9PM - 2AM is Sankofa Unplugged open mic w/ a live band.

They specialize in Cajun Cuisin, if you go up the stairs and all the way back they have a stage for live music. It’s an interesting set up ya’ll must check it out!

STUDIO FLING GALLERY

// 2924 Main St., Ste. 102 // Dallas 75226 // 817 929.7991
www.studiofling.com

“Off the Record” & Hammer’s Birthday // July 12, 2008
This Saturday there will be the end of “Off the Record” show, and will be celebrating Hammer’s Birthday. For those of you who don’t know Hammer, he is a good friend to Studio Fling. Almost always he is here for Flings shows playing his music, or he is entertaining the crowd with his raw truth in poetry! We will have live Music, Drinks, and also if you missed our fist vinyl show now is your chance to check it out. Studio Fling would like to thank all the Flingers who made it to the last show!

Peace, Love, and Fling!

Hello to all,

eXcuses eXtreme Cafe’ is eXcited to announce that another great eXcuse - to return to Deep Ellum - is being added to our location!! The Leroy Roper Gallery will join us beginning this next week.

We are eXcited to have this Deep Ellum “cornerstone artist” agree to join us in time for the upcoming Art Walk in Deep Ellum on September 13th and we are targeting that date as Leroy’s “soft”opening here.

We plan to host a reception for him with wines and “munchies”(eXact details to follow).
Leroy is preparing an official Press Release and we will forward it to you as soon as possible.
We absolutely want to be included in the preparations for the day and continue to support all efforts to preserve the artistic roots of the Deep Ellum Community.

Many thanks,

Barbara Martinez
Deep Ellum Enterprises, Inc.
d.b.a. eXcuses eXtreme cafe’
3025 Main Street
Dallas, Texas 75226
214 741.1111
my cell: 214 356.9130
www.excusesdeepellum.com

TRACTORBEAM

// 325 S. Central Expy. // Dallas 75201 // 214 747.5400
tractorbeam.com

Tractorbeam pres. American Dreams // August 15 - About a month after.
An exhibition of works by Carter Herrington & Gaedge Erikssen. This looks like a great show. Kool-aid Man with TNT and a butcher knife. The blue woman falling has a myster and reminds me of “The Secret Window” movie… Opening Reception Friday, August 15, 2008 6PM - 9PM.

DATE: TUESDAY, 8/12/2008
TIME:  6PM.
LOCATION:  EXCUSES EXTREME CAFÉ
ADDRESS:  3025 MAIN ST.  DALLAS, TX. 75226

Please join the Dallas Book Club Party for a book signing, and reading from Dirty Girls on Top with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.

In 2005 Time Magazine dubbed Valdes-Rodriguez “The Godmother of Chica Lit” and named her one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States.  Hispanic Business Magazine has twice named her among the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America.

Book Club History:
Hello!  My name is Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.  Last year I gave a copy of my teen novel HATERS to one woman.  She was born in Mexico, she had never read one novel in her life, and did not understand why anyone would ever want to read.  Still, because I’d given it to her, she read it.  And she loved it.  And through her network of family, and friends (most of who had never read a novel before), she ended up selling about 50 copies of the book for me.  I started getting text messages from her young relatives across the country.
That’s how it is for me, with many of my readers.  My books are sold through networks of friends and family, women telling other women about the books.  My first novel sold half a million copies this way, and is widely credited with creating a whole new genre in the US publishing industry, called “chica-lit” – which is to say: novels about fabulous, interesting and complex professional women in the United States, who just happen to be Latinas, written in English, the language 94 percent of Us born Latinos speak and read.  Hard to believe such an idea was revolutionary just five years ago, but it was.

Since then, I’ve learned that many of my readers want more than to just read a novel; they want to connect with a community of women like themselves.  I’ve learned that in much of the Latino world, personal relationships are often the basis of most professional ones. In other words, I have discovered that my readers want to be friends with me, with each other.  They want community.  That is never going to be achieved with an advertisement in the New Yorker, or even with a great review in Kirkus, or a feature in The New York Times.  This will be achieved through networks of caring, interesting women coming together to talk about books.

HCG Gallery is proud to host  New Designers & New Faces, a fundraiser for the Dallas Fashion Incubator and Texas’ Next Top Designer, Thursday, August 14th, from 7-9pm.

The evening will feature last year’s winner, Julia Plume, jewelry finalist Rachelle Dauphinee and accessories by finalist Chance Jackson as well as Kim Dawson Model Search Finalists.

$15 in advance / $25 at the door
RSVP @ METHODEVENTS.NET

Cutting-edge,Contemporary works in all media by regional and national artists in the Dallas design district. HCG Gallery. What’s next. Now.

HCG Gallery
1130 Dragon St. Suite 190 (off Howell)
Dallas, TX 75207
214.760.9230

For more information please visit www.dallasfashionincubator.org or www.hcggallery.com