Douglas Newby Insights - Page 58
Fashionistas Founder Heidi Dillon at Her Standing Saturday Night Family Dinner at Abacus
Abacus and Chef Kent Rathbun serve the Dallas culinary elite, prominent estate homeowners, visiting dignitaries, and art collectors. Leave it to the chic Heidi Dillon, founder of The Fashionistas, to visit Abacus on McKinney Avenue as her family restaurant.
Screenwriter, Producer, and Director John Lee Hancock Dazzles Audience at DALLAS Film Festival
John Lee Hancock gave an incredibly honest, insightful, and entertaining interview with WFAA News 8’s Film Critic Gary Cogill discussing his journey from law school in Waco to working with Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood and going on to write and direct the Academy Award® nominee The Blind Side. In the audience were high school and college friends of John Lee Hancock, Hector, part-time actor and owner of Hector’s on Henderson, and many movie lovers from Dallas, Park Cities and Preston Hollow neighborhoods.
DALLAS Film Festival Features Winter’s Bone and Magnolia Theatre
DALLAS International Film Festival Artistic Director James Faust interviewed actor John Hawkes who brilliantly played Teardrop in the movie Winter’s Bone which the Dallas International Film Festival audience loved viewing. The Magnolia Theatre in West Village parallels the vibrancy of the film festival. The development of West Village created much spunk and action to the Turtle Creek neighborhoods. The restaurants, shops, and outdoor cafés draw young professionals from downtown,homeowners from Highland Park, and artists from East Dallas.
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Sweet Science Is a Movie That Celebrates the Success of Oak Cliff Boxing Club
Dallas resident Chris Howell directed the movie Sweet Science which is supported by many prominent people in Dallas. The film follows the seven year journey of young kids to national and international prominence in the world of boxing. The film was about Oak Cliff, but the audience was from Munger Place, Highland Park, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, and Oak Cliff. The athletes, coaches, and director answered questions from the Dallas community interested in the arts.
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DALLAS Film Festival Features Thunder Soul at the Angelika Theater at Mockingbird Station
The DALLAS International Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station located in East Dallas featured the documentary film Thunder Soul about Houston’s legendary Kashmere High School Stage Band. Movie patrons from across Dallas, including residents from the Park Cities, Turtle Creek Corridor, and Kessler Park, enjoyed viewing the film and hearing Mark Landsman, the director of the film, discuss this incredible story of how low income kids formed the first black high school show band that went on to win the national championship and tour Europe.
DALLAS Film Festival Red Carpet Celebration of Dallas and LA Film Stars, Directors, and Celebrities
Meeting the actors, directors, producers, critics and Dallas homeowners who love film is one of the great joys of the DALLAS International Film Festival. The red carpet allows photographs, the lobby and auditoriums allow conversation, and the after parties are, well, after parties. The Dallas and Los Angeles art communities are well represented at these events.
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Opening Night of the DALLAS Film Festival at the Angelika Theater Features the Movie Bill Cunningham New York and an Opening Gala Afterwards
One of the movies featured on the opening night of the DALLAS International Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center near Highland Park was the movie Bill Cunningham New York. Michael Cain, Chairman of the DALLAS Film Society, interviewed the movie director, Richard Press, and the producer, Philip Gefter, before the showing of the movie about Bill Cunningham, a writer for the Style section of The New York Times. Mr. Cunningham’s columns focus on the street fashion of everyday New Yorkers and the fashion of New York socialites. Liener Temerlin, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the DALLAS Film Society, was in attendance for the viewing. After the film, audience members spoke with Mr. Cain, as well as Mr. Press and Mr. Gefter and attended the opening Gala with events throughout Mockingbird Station.
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MetroTex Association of REALTORS®
In a thriving metropolitan area like Dallas, it is a lot easier for REALTORS® to sell Dallas and Park Cities homes with the help of MetroTex Association of REALTORS® located at 8201 North Stemmons Freeway and its support staff. Whether a home is in Bent Tree, Uptown, or Mayflower Estates, the MetroTex staff offers invaluable tools and resources, including educational seminars and continuing education, to REALTORS® so they can help North Texans find the home of their dreams.
Waterworks Co-Founder Barbara Sallick Visits Preston Hollow Showroom
Great architecture and quality design was never interrupted in Dallas. Waterworks, with its quality designs inspired by Europe, is simultaneously classic and modern. Co-founder Barbara Sallick enjoys visiting the Preston Hollow showroom and seeing the great homes Waterworks has contributed in creating.
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International Artist, Ricardo Baptista Fernandes, Visits Highland Park
Artist Ricardo Baptista Fernandes, a former Highland Park resident having recently sold out his shows in Lisbon and Santa Rosa, came to Highland Park to discuss his work and how it relates to the group of artists he is associated with, the European Seven. What better place than Café Pacific to discuss business and enjoy the day?
