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Lemongrass Asian Bistro, new to Deep Ellum, is hosting a Grand Opening celebration Saturday, June 6th. Join co-owners, Khoa Nguyen and Nancy Patterson, for a festive evening including free appetizers and wine beginning at 6:00 pm.

At the Grand Opening, Nguyen and Patterson are also celebrating the career and life of Lemongrass’ Executive Chef, Tyuet N. Davis, for contributing 22 years to great Asian dining in Dallas. The Grand Opening will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy Davis’ delicious Asian cuisine.

Nguyen invites everyone to enjoy the evening. “I want it to be a celebration of Deep Ellum. It’s not only about the restaurant…it’s about celebrating the community.” Since opening April 30th, the community has been very welcoming, tells Nguyen. “Everyone has been really warm…we just really want to thank the community.”

Free wine and appetizers will be served starting at 6:00 pm, and “continue until it runs out”, laughs Nguyen.

Lemongrass Asian Bistro is located at 2711 Elm Street, Dallas, TX, 75226. For more information call (214) 745-0001.

Downtown Dallas will host a New Year’s Day parade in 2010, city officials say, even if the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic football game will next year move from its namesake stadium in Fair Park to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

Officially known as the Comerica Bank New Year’s Parade, the event is closely tied to the annual football game, featuring team bands, cheerleaders and thousands of football fans.

At a pep-rally style announcement Tuesday afternoon outside Comerica Bank’s downtown Dallas headquarters, Mayor Tom Leppert said “events like this send a clear message that downtown Dallas is indeed on a roll.”

Asked afterward if there was ever a question the parade would move to Arlington, Leppert said, “we just wanted to make sure it stayed here. Comerica is a great partner.”

The mayor added that there is no formal long-term deal to keep the parade in downtown Dallas, or Comerica as its primary sponsor. But Leppert said he expects the parade to remain in downtown Dallas for years to come.

The parade is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day, at the corner of Harwood Street and Ross Avenue. It will end at the corner of All Star Way and Houston Street just short of the American Airlines Center.

Click here to view a map of the parade route.

Make plans to embrace the funky town that is Deep Ellum as the galleries throw open their doors and patrons from all over make their way to check out some of the latest contemporary and abstract art around today.

The threat of rain has canceled Sunday’s Pooch Parade and Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert at Lee Park.

The free concert will be moved to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St. in downtown Dallas. The performance will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Unleashed Indoor Dog Parks at 5151 Samuell Blvd. will carry on with a dog parade and costume contest. Registration begins at 11 a.m. with a parade of adoptable dogs starting at 12:45 p.m. The event is free.

Weather forecasters are predicting a 90 percent chance of rain in the Dallas area tonight, followed by sometimes heavy rain and thunderstorms Sunday morning.

There are so many iconic photos of the downtown Dallas skyline but Stuck in Customs has a truly unique, great shot from the southeast angle of downtown taken from the Dallas Farmers Market. Kudos to Stuck in Customs.

If you are looking for something to do on Sunday to enjoy being out in the gorgeous Spring weather, the last day of the Deep Ellum Arts Festival will be going on until 7p. With more than 75 artists and dozens of bands performing on 4 stages, all the action is taking place on Main Street.

For those that are wanting to embrace some Cajun lifestyle, MotoLiberty is hosting their 8th Annual Crawfish Boil — it’s FREE! They have 600 pounds of crawfish being cooked up — for those that love the motorcycles but aren’t into mudbugs, there will be chicken as well.

The evening’s AFI International Film Festival festivities will take place in the AT&T Plaza at Victory Park and are open to the public.

At 7:30 pm, Governor Rick Perry will be joined by other VIP’s as he proclaims April 3, 2009, Texas Film Day, and director Peter Bogdanovich will be presented the AFI DALLAS Star Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in film. The evening’s festivities will be punctuated by a 30-minute screening of “Great Texas Moments in Film”.

This is a FREE event and the public is welcome!