When: Friday, 7/10

Time: 7p – 11p

Where: The South Side on Lamar. (Loft 111)

Special Guests: Save Hip Hop, Save the World Performers

Event Facebook Invite

Join us for a night of Green Edu-tainment as we introduce you to The Marcus Graham Project Headquarters. Along with music provided by Neo Soul Cafe, we will serve complimentary food and beverage (while supplies last) The event will close with an overview of the Marcus Graham Project summer bootcamp initiative on and how you can do your part.

The summer bootcamp’s client is Broccoli City, an organic lifestyle brand focused on educating the urban audience on the “green movement.”

For more information or to RSVP email rsvp@marcusgrahamproject.org

SUGGESTED $10 DONATION I All donations are tax deductible and will benefit the MGP Bootcamp and youth media program.

The Marcus Graham Project (MGP) is a network with the intent strategically focused on building the next generation of leadership in the advertising & marketing industry thru mentorship & career development.

organic + fly

www.broccolicity.com

Sponsors: Veev Spirits & Newflower Markets

Individual Ticket: $13 General Admission, $25 VIP (@ the door $15/$30)

Where: 89.3 KNON, 5353 Maple Ave #200, Dallas

When: Saturday, 7/11, 5-7P CST

If you’re not saving hip hop, you’re failing at life.

Catch his live performance at The Lounge on Elm St.,. Dallas, Saturday, July 11 featuring Homeboy Sandman, Deloach, & Sivion of Deepspace 5 with DJ Robviktum & DJ Fishr Pryce. Doors open at 9PM!

Deep Ellum basically sucks. It has waxed and waned in and out of dopeness over the years, but decided to settle into sort of a dark and creepy landscape that begs for night crawlers and tweakers to eerily stare at you as you walk to your car that probably has a boot on it.

But here is what I love about Dallas. Dallas artists and musicians keep this city alive, and clubs like The Lounge on Elm St. are pulling our hip hop scene back together and our visual artists are gearing up for another great installment of the Mural Project! We are responsible for our own city and our own experiences while living here, so shouldn’t we make the best of it?!

Phase I of the 2009 Mural Project will be the Good Latimer Corridor Murals. This phase will introduce murals along the Good Latimer/DART rail line in the very area that the Good Latimer Tunnel Murals have been buried. Dart line passengers will exit the Deep Ellum rails and be welcomed with murals from the following Phase I artists: Luke Harnden, Cathey Miller, Sergio Garcia, Mark Nelson, Brian Crawford, Amber Campagna, Issac Brown, Issac Davies, Tyson Summers, Judith Lea Perkins and Frank Campagna.

For more information and to stay up to date about not only the 2009 Mural Project, but other happenings in Deep Ellum geared at pulling it out of desolate obscurity…visit the Save Deep Ellum website daily.

savedeepellum.org via DECA Deep Ellum Mural Project | savedeepellum.org.

Rex Ray, Alecetoria, 2009, oil, acrylic & mixed media collge on linen, 76x65"

Heyd Fontenot, Wendy & Manny, Dave & Ellen, with Three Others, 2009, oil on panel, 48x48"

Alejandro Diaz, Happiness, 2008, neon, size variable, editon 5

Conduit Gallery

http://www.conduitgallery.com

(214) 939-0064

1626 C Hi Line

Dallas, TX 7520

I’ve had the pleasure of viewing Anette Lawrence’s work a few times, most recently at both Dunn & Brown, as well as the CADD Art Lab.  Honestly, she produces the type of art work that I just really like! I have no explanation as to why, and very little insight into her creative process or educational background. I have almost nothing to go on besides the fact that I think her stuff is cool!

Her “Free Paper” exhibit is pictured to the left, and more of her work can be viewed on her web portfolio.

ART SOCIAL

Conversations in the gallery with artists featured in the current exhibition.

Annette Lawrence and Brian Fridge

Thursday, June 25, 7 p.m.

CADD Art Lab :: 1608-C Main Street, Dallas

Sore Losers

In walks tweets the Sore Losers. I’m already loving the name, but I’m particularly intrigued by the fact that as much as I stumble around into nearly every single (real) hip hop event/venue in Dallas, I’ve never heard of these guys! So I do a little reasearch, listened to a few tracks, we exchanged some emails, and I knew pretty quickly I wanted to do a post about them.

I already had in mind how I wanted this to go. I wanted to say that I don’t hate the music, but that the Sore Losers are the Cool Kids reincarnate and just like the whole lot of other boom box rockin’, nerd gear wearin’ acts that are quickly following suit. Then the phone interview happened, and one line in particular made me reconsider my approach completely.

Sore Losers Interview 6/12/09

Errr Brown doesn’t listen to hip hop?*crickets* *tumbleweeds* *pin drop*

I kept the interview rolling while we were on the phone, but that one line has haunted me ever since. It’s taken me 3 full days to collect my thoughts about how to tackle that statement. I was annoyed!

Hip hop history runs deep, and it is ludicrous to think that you can make it without being immersed in the culture. “How can you know where you’re going (or even where you are), if you don’t know where what you’re from?” Even those of that are all the way in and past the point of no return, still struggle to stay afloat in this city and build the level of support that is necessary to truly make it.

Just ask…

Chucky Sly (The world is waiting not so patiently!)
Headkrack
Crown Royal
Word Life
King Ashoka
Deepspace 5
Playdough
Mental Chaos
Neeky Devero & Money Stax (Hello ladies!)
Strange Fruit Project
Verbal Seed (Need I say more?!)
Pumah
Brown Lion
or Astronautilus

PPT

I purposefuly left off members of the now defunct PPT (Pikahsso, Tahiti, & Picnic), because they were the coolest kids before cool was even in style. They were the Chic-Fil-A of Dallas hip hop. (Chicken before chicken was cool?) PPT and Dallas hip hop were practically synonymous during their reign. (If you don’t own any already, download their music immediately! Tahiti’s “The Birth of Whack” is also a staple. Not like an office staple staple, or a potato. You know. A must have in the collection.)

The point isn’t that this has been done before (as I am a firm believer that ideas or neither created nor destroyed. we all pick thoughts from the same pool then put it back when we’re done for someone else to have their way with), but the point is instead that Sore Losers are young, brand spanking new to the game, and have the potential to do big things and make Dallas proud if their induction becomes a grass roots effort. It takes a village! (A longshot I know!)

There’s already some buzz building around the duo, and Vigilante Music Group (Hi Greg!) as well as a few others are booking shows and helping with promotions, so thangs aint lookin too shabby thus far! Sore Losers, TyCity, and even Jabee out of Oklahoma City (just to name a few) are paving the way as the future of our local hip hop scene..and I (for one) hope to see greatness!

All that serious stuff aside…the music is pretty alright! (I’m sure there’s a compliment in there somewhere.) Ha! Ok I’ll be nicer. I like the music…A LOT. It’s fun, and fun hip hop never gets old! It’s great to have a message or tell your tragic story in a song, but sheesh sometimes I just want to get loose and laugh! (Ok ALL the time.) Tracks like “Bizarre Celebrations” are on the quirkier hipster side of the game, then SL hits you with “Dope” which is dripping with the down south flow originally made popular by Swisha House (Houston, TX) back in the ’90’s. They’re able to bring back old school southern fried hood flavor and slap enough weird funk on it to make the perfect recipe for bangin’ music!

Production Credits:

Blue takes care of the beats (How much yo beats cost Blue??!!), and will be included in my upcoming series on Dallas producers.

For music and to stay all up in they business peep their MySpace and Twitter!

Catch them live:

Jun 26 :: 9:00P :: The Lounge on Elm :: Dallas

Jul 2 :: 9:00P :: Ace’s Lounge :: Austin

Jul 4 :: 9:00P :: InDentonDance Day Hailey’s :: Denton

Jul 10 :: 9:00P :: The Rubber Gloves :: Denton (My old stomping grounds! Is it still BYOB?!)

For more information about the show, visit the Save Hip Hop, Save the World MySpace page.

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Jamie Pink creates glittering abstract images of glass mosaic, pierced by light and color. Born and raised in Texas, Jamie holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has studied under renowned painter Bill Komodore and world-class mosaicists Sonia King, Emma Biggs, Ilana Shafir, Matteo Randi and others. Her work appeared in the 2008 New Texas Talent show at Craighead Green Gallery and most recently in a juried show at the Bathhouse Cultural Center.

Andrew Wick uses egg tempera to create haunting, moody multi-faceted figurative paintings of the American scene. His copperplate etchings vividly capture the Texas landscape. Andrew holds a BFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and an MA from the University of North Texas. His work has been shown at various galleries in the Metroplex. When not painting Andrew teaches art both in Texas Public Schools and in SMU’s Community Education program.

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Opening Reception:

Friday, April 17 6-8:30PM

AND

Saturday, April 18 11A-8PM

Location:

600 Cantegral Street, Dallas, TX 75204

Just off Live Oak behind the Latino Cultural Center and cattycorner to The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art.