Archive for the ‘Downtown’ Category

The Annual White Rock Marathon looks to be a sellout again this year as it’s already more than 50% booked.

Feeling up to running from downtown Dallas to White Rock Lake, around the lake and back downtown? The maybe you have what it takes.

Get registered here: http://www.runtherock.com/

Exploring John Cage, Buddhism and Japan
Crow Collection
2010 Flora Street
8 - 9:30p
$10

Check out CHI Studio if you enjoy yoga or are wanting to learn!

THURSDAY 10.23
5:30 - 7:00PM Ashtanga Yoga with Sheri
7:00 - 8:00PM Advanced Beginner Yoga with Shannon

FRIDAY 10.24
*12:00 - 1:00PM NEW! Yoga Flow with Leanne Hall $10.00 Drop-In
6:00 - 7:00PM All Levels Yoga with Mary/Optional Meditation Following
7:30 - 9:00PM Nia Premier Party Free to EveryBody!
We will watch a quick Nia information video and do a routine. Come ready to dance/play and celebrate more classes in Dallas.

SATURDAY 10.25 & SUNDAY 10.26
Alpha-Omega Yoga Shala/Yoga Teacher Training
* African Dance & Drum Classes please email Moussa at omdiabate@msn.com or Andrea at and.cruz@sbcglobal.net)
* Beginner’s Series Yoga resumes next week!

MONDAY 10.27
9:30 - 10:30AM NEW! Nia with Blythe $10.00 Drop-In
12:00 - 1:00PM All Levels Yoga with Shannon
5:45 - 6:45PM All Levels Yoga with Linn
7:00 - 8:30PM Vinyasa Flow with Ro

TUESDAY 10.28
5:30 - 6:30PM All Levels Yoga with Mary/Optional Meditation Following

WEDNESDAY 10.29
12:00 - 1:00PM All Levels Yoga with Shannon
5:30 - 6:30PM Tai Chi Beginner’s Series with Aaron
7:00 - 8:30PM All Levels Yoga with Douchka

THURSDAY 10.30
5:30 - 7:00PM Ashtanga Yoga with Sheri
7:00 - 8:00PM Advanced Beginner Yoga with Shannon

*All yoga classes $5 unless otherwise noted

The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is hosting its 3rd International Book Fair October 24-26 to promote the love for books, reading and writing.

The event is free and open to the public. International, national and local authors will be reading and signing books. Cultural programs will again include artistic performances, poetry reading, music and children activities.

Short Story Contest
Do you have a story to tell? If so, you could win a prize in the Dallas Public Library’s Short Story Contest. The contest is part of the Third Annual International Book Fair to be held at the Central Library.

There is a new addition to the Deep Ellum area.

Calais Winery has opened its doors @ 3000 Commerce Street, on the corner of Commerce and Walton.

They are opened Tuesday - Saturday 1PM-6PM. Here is the cool part they will be releasing three wines named after Deep Ellum
- La Cuvee du Commerce (Commerce St)
- La Cuvee d’Elme (Elm St)
- La Cuvee Principale (Main St)

Billionaire oilman turned wind-power advocate T. Boone Pickens says he will donate $5 million to renovate and improve the downtown Dallas YMCA – the largest single gift ever for a YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas facility.

The donation from Mr. Pickens’ charitable foundation, slated for official announcement Tuesday, will bankroll replacement of the aging building’s façade and fund a variety of internal improvements, ranging from new elevators and stairwells to remodeled fitness facilities and enhanced programs.

Also changing: the building’s name. It will henceforth be known as the T. Boone Pickens YMCA.

“Dallas is my home, and where I can help out the most is where I want to put my money,” said Mr. Pickens, a YMCA patron in his younger years who has long advocated the physical fitness of his employees. “I’m an old Y person. And this building obviously needed help. They made a good presentation to us, and we were happy to do our part to help them.”

Gordon Echtenkamp, president and chief executive of YMCA Metropolitan Dallas, says the donation will help the downtown YMCA better serve the fitness needs of a clientele quickly morphing from primarily center-city business people to full-time, downtown residents.

In the past decade, downtown Dallas’ residential population has increased from a couple hundred people to more than 5,000. City officials project that as many as 10,000 people will reside inside Dallas’ downtown freeway loop by early next decade.

The renovations, Mr. Echtenkamp said, are scheduled to begin early next year with completion projected for late 2009.

“This is an opportunity for us to do what we need to do and create a real, neighborhood Y feel,” he said.

Likewise, the donation “will change this area, the heart of our city, helping us on our way to creating a vibrant and bustling downtown, which is something all major world-class cities have,” Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert said in a statement. “And Boone Pickens’ commitment to corporate fitness means a healthier Dallas for all of us.”

This is the third major donation in recent months Mr. Pickens has made to an inner-city Dallas institution.

In December, he gave $6 million to South Dallas’ Jubilee Park neighborhood to clear blighted land and construct a new community center and a resource center housing a neighborhood police station. And last year, Mr. Pickens donated $50 million to Dallas’ University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

The Latino Cultural Center is offering two free screenings.
2600 Live Oak St. Dallas, TX 75204
www.dallasculture.org/latinocc

El Topo
Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:00 PM
Admission: FREE to the public

The gunfighter El Topo (”The Mole”) and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1970). This film has English subtitles, is rated NR and lasts 124 mins.

Frida Naturaleza Vida
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2:00 PM
Admission: FREE to the public

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history. Directed by Paul Leduc (1984). This film has English subtitles, is not rated and lasts 108 mins.