An unfiltered look of Dallas, Texas and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Louie’s has always anchored this forgotten stretch of Old East Dallas.  Now a series of shops with a modern theme and outdoor cafés and restaurants, including Café San Miguel, are clustered to add a very chic destination for those in Dallas.  Whether someone lives in East Dallas, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, or Turtle Creek, Henderson Avenue is obscure but convenient to SMU, Park Cities and downtown.

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.

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 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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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.