I Learn my Arts Education from A Starbuck's Cork Board.

Planning Dallas Arts Exploration from a Starbuck's Cork Board (Dated 7/28/06)
All these art events were found on postcards on Starbuck's West Village, Dallas Texas, Corner of Cole and Newman Streets. Probably the hottest Starbuck's in all of Dallas and comparable only to the old-school Starbucks at 4th and Main in Royal Oak, Michigan.

The Control Room, Inaugural Showing, 842 First Street, Condominium # 2, Dallas, Texas, the 75225. No phone number given. Work of the Davies Brothers will be displayed.

Hmm, that's next door to Fair Park, just east of it. Home of the Cotton Bowl stadium and many old-time Dallas museums, concert hall and cultural assets. Could be good. It's like Detroit's Redd Apple Gallery. In a condominium district, probably someone's personal home.
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=842+First+Street+Condominium+2,+Dallas,+TX

In Color, an Exposition of four new talents: Colleen Beakey, Winn Jackson, Misty Singleton and Kyle Warren. Nice colorful card, different than the primal scream one tone for The Control Room.
The only Colleen Beakey I can google is a Broadway actress, and its an usual name. Hmm, a Broadway actress with Dallas roots?

Winn Jackson's Google trace is pretty weak, too. Just a online business card from 1999: http://www.arts-info.co.uk/pages/Bcards2000Full.asp?id=1252555078

Misty Singleton has more than one hit, and this ones pretty hot: she's a marketing director for a glossy society magazine. Dallas has several society magazines, all free, and Misty is in pictures here:http://www.socialwhirl.com/SwModLuxHome.htm
Modern Luxury Dallas is a smokingly chic magazine. Detroit has no street magazines dedicated to the cultural chic elite, alas: www.modernluxury.com/

Kyle Warren is a radio personality and a podcaster, but that might not be Kyle Warren, Dallas photographer ---> http://www.kylewarrenshow.com/
Web page looks pretty sharp.

830 Exposition, Suite 103 is a photographer's studio, primarily: http://www.vanditthavong.com/

Address of the In Color Exposition:
830 Exposition Avenue, Suite 103 Dallas, TX
Telephone: 214.770.7863

Oh, this is very good. Google maps locates these guerilla art galleries in a cluster.

Start address: 830 S Exposition Ave Dallas, TX 75226
End address: 842 1st Ave Dallas, TX 75226
Distance: 0.2 mi (about 21 secs)

It's not the Arts Plaza, where the Dallas Museum of Arts and the symphony performs. It's not Deep Ellum with its mix of restaurants, art galleries and funky retail. It's off off Deep Ellum, a whole new district taking off.

There's several more cultural offering on this Starbuck's community board, such as http://bendstudios.com, a Yoga studio that hosts musicians for a listening room experience Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. You can buy a ticket, but you can't reserve a seat. Bring your Yoga mats for all audience members sit shiva on the floor. Tickets paid in advance for PayPal are best. I think Bend is the only one of all these resources one MySpace. MySpace is a great start for cultural networking, but only a start.

On the way back from lunch to the Cityplace tower, I caught the Martin Roger's Photography (http://www.martinrogers.com) exhibit displayed a Via Pelle (http://www.viapelle.com/), a luxury leather goods store specializing in to-die-for custom purses. One of the best retail salespersons I had ever met worked for Dr. Bill at Shades Optical in Birmingham, Michigan (http://www.shadesoptical.com/) and I remember her name as Julie or Julia. She's selling for a retailer of high-end lenswear now.

I have finally seen her match in action. As I viewed Roger's close-up photographs of dogs and cats, reminiscient of William Wegman's (http://www.wegmanworld.com/) anthropomorphic hounds, a man and a saleswoman were doing this dance around the store, the woman and man exchanging the glossy leather purse between them as frequently as a basketball at a Maverick's game. The saleswomen struck me as a modern Dallas marvel, a tall woman on heels too high for normal walking, with long dark hair, who could have descended from Europeans, American Indians or Aztecs. One couldn't stereotype not only because no clues were available from facial shape or hair color, and one didn't want to stereotype such an exciting beauty. Where ever the man moved, and the pair started in the front of the boutique and waltzed far west of the sales counter, she moved into his space with her hair, her face, her smile, uttering sweet and suble, sexy closer lines. My credit card would have been exposed to light and air after ten seconds of this dance.

So much can be shared on a single bulletin board. Kitty-corner to the West Village Starbucks, the Landmark Magnolia Theatre (http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Dallas/TheMagnoliaB.htm) is hosting an the Asian Film Festival of Dallas: http://affd.org/2006/ next week. This festival is running the same time span as the Dallas Video Festival www.videofest.org/ , which is hosted out of several Dallas theatres. Many videos are screening at the Angelica Film Center http://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dallas/default.asp, a superbly located film theatre that practically leans over the Mockingbird Station light rail stop. You can go for Irish food at Trinity Hall, Sushi at Reiyiku or Texas barbecue during intermissions, although I don't know who is barbecuing. I only catch its unmistakable aroma when I leave a picture on a late Sunday night.

West Village is waterless, but wonderful. But for an enclosed pool for condo residents only: http://www.westvil.com/location.html

Have you tasted the Apple, Redd Apple gallery in Detroit? I wrote the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Apple_Gallery

Wilbo Juntunen
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