Daily Dose - Happy Halloween!

"LIVE like your DYIN'...."

Psst...Home Decor Tent Sale!

For 4 days only, home decor and furniture manufacturer Globalviews is opening up the warehouse to the PUBLIC and will be selling off discontinued and scratch and dent items at DEEP discounts. Get there now as these items are going faster than your teenage adolescent son raiding your fridge...
Insider scoop - I saw Metropolitan Home's new local (gone national) IT designer Michelle Nussbaumer's - owner Ceylon et Cie on Dragon St. - stack of goods - think gold branch tables topped with sleek Absolute Black granite - yummy, I got two for me!

To Do List...

Fall is not only bringing cooler weather but also a bevy of design events and a few good reasons to partake in a little fun (all work no play lately?)...don't forget to squeeze in the AIA Tour coming up in the next couple of weeks that I previously posted about as well...

The Decorative Center Dallas is also kicking off its 12th annual Celebration of Design Week, sponsored by Joule Hotel, White Glove Delivery & Design Guide showcasing new resources and offering CEPH and CEU classes to interior designers and architects (also including an interactive student day Friday Nov. 6th) The kick off party on October 28, 7-9 features special guest Ricki Derek and His Big Band performing but not before you popin to hear keynote speaker Peter Shankman. Considered to be one of the leading experts on social networking and viral technology, and named "crazy, but effective" by Investor's Daily Journal - he will be presenting - ITS NOT WEB 2.0. ITS NOT WEB 3.0. ITS SIMPLY LIFE. Register here...

Peter Shankman

Next Thursday the Design District's notable Dragon St. showrooms will be opening their doors and hosting their annual Design on Dragon event from 6-9. (Rain Date Nov. 12) Be sure to stop in at some of my favorite's Pittet Architectual, Antique Floors and say hi to Sha Sha at Inessa Stewart's Antiques who can find what you are looking for pulling from an inventory of 3 different locations throughout Dallas and Baton Rouge and containers on the boat from Europe from Inessa's latest shopping trip.

For a good cause...

Partake in the DALLAS ROCKS - D.E.F. (Diamond Empowerment Fund) Diamond Dinner & Afterparty to raise money to support education initiatives that develop and empower economically disadvantaged people in African nation where diamonds are a natural resource. This event will be hosted by celebrity and founder of the program, Russel Simmons who will be honoring Marilyn Augur & basketball star Dikembe Mutombo. Later featuring DJ Cassidy for the Pave 009 Afterparty

Halloween night....

Instead of donning a tacky French maid's costume for the 4th year in a row (no offense if any of you have...) throw something glam and luxe on (think more in the lines of a Venetian Masquerade maybe or a Renaissance vampire - homage to Twilight/New Moon - I am sure we will be seeing a lot of those - see below) and get your haunt on at the "fright fete" - namely downtown Dallas' hautest Halloween Bash. Ghoulishly glam costume contest entries to be judged by Modern Luxury Dallas' editor in chief Stacy Girad on Oct. 31 @ Fashion Industry Gallery 1807 Ross Ave. $100 Buy tickets here...

Some ideas...don't steal mine - be ORIGINAL, okay I know your saying"How original is a vampire?!" but they're so fun to be for one night!

Venetian Masquerade

On my Bucket List - to do IN Italy, IN Venice, and AT Carnivale, presto! (soon)

Gorgeous and Ghoulish

Don't you love Halloween - it's my favorite holiday!

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"WALK with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerul, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the CLOUDS and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a FIRE within you to leave this world better than when you found it."
- Peterson

Walk?? I say RUN! Life's too short!
-Alana ;)

The Future of Publishing...is here.

Everyone in the blogospheres can't get enough of "Lonny". A new e-zine aimed at replacing shelter magazines such as Domino that have fallen flat with the rest of the economy. Lonny features in detail articles with simple point and click features that will take you right to advertisers and products that have been uesed in designs - thus saving time and paper, perhaps not money since we are an instant gratification kind of group, us Americans, and will surely be spending more of it since all of this great design is so readily accessible to the masses. Well, upside...at least we can get the economy going again.

Also the beautiful point is that the group that got this going started with nothing, just had a passion and knew that they could fulfill a growing need to interior design addicts while making money....I am sure we will be hearing alot about Lonny and new e-zines in the next couple of years.

ART/architecture - Dallas Performing Arts Center

In many ways Fort Worth has cast a shadow over the Dallas Arts and Performing Arts scene, with its world class Bass Performance Hall, the Kimball and the Modern Art Musuem, among others. Now Dallas finally has it's chance to step up with the opening of the Dallas Arts District this month, showcasing the best in theater, opera, contemporary dance, ballet, music and other events.

The district will include more than 5 new venues - The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dee and Charles Wyly Theater, Annette Strauss Artist Square, Margaret McDerrmott Performance Hall & Performance Park. Some of the highlights for the inagural week will include performances by Billy Crystal, Hillary Swank, Jose Carereras and others.

Above is the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House designed by Foster + Partners under Pritker Prize architect Norman Foster, in the 21st reinterperation of the "horseshoe" opera house, it will seat more than 2200 people. (This is the building we have all been trying not to get into wrecks while oogling the red glass panels that look like sails while on Woodall Rodgers.) Be sure not to miss the Dallas Opera season with the opening of Otello October 23rd, also to include performances of Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Pasquale, Moby Dick and one of my all time favorites, Madame Butterfly.

HIGHLIGHTS OF OPENING WEEK:

• OCT 12 8AM DEDICATION CEREMONY
• OCT 15 4PM FREE ARCHITECTURE FORUM WITH REM KOOLHAAS
• OCT 16 10:30AM FREE ARCHITECTURE FORUM WITH NORMAN FOSTER
• OCT16 4PM FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT WITH DAVID SANBORN
• OCT 18 100AM - 8PM SPOTLIGHT SUNDAY - FREE TOURS AND SPOTLIGHT PERFORMACE IN THE OPERA HOUSE AND SAMMONS PARK AND A FREE, BY-RESERVATION DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFOMANCE OF BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY CONDUCTED BY JAPP VAN ZWEDEN AT THE MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER

*Most grand opening events are free and open to the public. For a complete list click here.