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Communit y News
HP goes back to Rydell High
Photo by Alana Massar
Field Parsons, Claire DeJean, Mark Hitzelberger, and Ryan Douglas.
Highland Park High School (HPHS) is presenting “Grease” for their annual musical. Staring Morgan Gurlach and Ryan Douglas, the HPHS cast will transport audiences to the halls of a 1950’s high school. A must see for all families. Showtimes are Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 11 at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for reserved seating and $8 for general admission and are on sale at HPHS Box Office. — Alana Massar
Dallash opens in Dallas Dallash, at 3848 Oak Lawn Avenue, #199, invites guests to their grand opening celebration on Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 6-9 p.m. and experience Dallas’ newest spa while enjoying complimentary cocktails by On the Rocks and hors d'oeuvres by Paul Martins. Book an appointment at the event and receive a complimentary Éminence Exfoliating Peel during your scheduled visit. To attend, send a confirmation to RSVP@ haseevents.com. — Emily Sharp
Raise a stein to Oktoberfest Biergarten on South Lamar Street brings Germany to Dallas for an Oktoberfest celebration featuring live German music, food specials and more on Photo courtesy of Biergarten tap. The fun begins Thursday, Sept. 15 from at 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. To add to the festivities, 105.3FM The Fan will be broadcasting live from Biergarten, 665 S. Lamar St. The first 150 dine-in guests will receive a free Paulaner beer stein! — Brooke Johnston
Nowitzki trades nets for net Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki is ready to show off his skills on a different court. With racquet in hand, he returns to his first love by hosting the inaugural Dirk Nowitzki Pro Celebrity Tennis Classic on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the SMU Tennis Center. Actor Ben Stiller, tennis star Andy Roddick and Mavs players J.J. Barea and Harrison Barnes are among the participants. Proceeds benefit the Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, which awards grants annually to organizations focusing on children’s wellbeing, health and education. To purchase tickets, go to ticketmaster.com. — Becky Mayad
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Along the Green Trail Crossword Puzzle Your Stars This Week Hammer and Nails
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Movie Trailer: "Morgan"
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LOCAL POLITICS
After months of struggles, Hawk gives up post By Molly Evans/ KERA News Susan Hawk announced her resignation as Dallas County district attorney Tuesday afternoon so she can focus on her mental health. In a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott, Hawk wrote “my health needs my undivided attention.” Hawk has been in and out of treatment for depression and anxiety since August 2015. In May, Hawk was admitted to The Menninger Clinic in Houston, where she spent two months last fall. She returned to Dallas in early June, but wasn’t cleared to work. Days later, she left for
Arizona to continue treatment for depression. During that time, Hawk said in a news release: “Mental illness is a fluid and dynamic disease that calls for unexpected and prolonged treatment. Like tens of millions of Americans that suffer from mental illness, I did not choose this disease, but I am choosing to treat it aggressively and openly in an effort to provide transparency from our office, and to encourage others living with similar struggles to be proactive in treatment and not live in shame.” The Dallas Morning News reported in early August that Hawk had worked just 66 days
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Susan Hawk. this year. Hawk has been in office since January 2015. Abbott will appoint an
interim district attorney but his office gave no immediate indication Tuesday when that may happen.
PEROT MUSEUM
Gems the size of Texas coming to shine
By Taylor McDonnell taylor@mayadpr.com
This week, nearly 30 enormous and spectacular gems (some never before displayed in a museum and some as large as a football!) make their way from the Smithsonian’s world-renowned National Gem Collection in Washington D.C. to Dallas. Never before seen together, these magnificent, Texas-sized gems — officially called “Giant Gems of the Smithsonian” — will be on display in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s “Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall” on Level 3 from Friday, Sept. 9 through mid-January 2017. This temporary installation will mark the first time such a large collection of Smithsonian gems will be on exhibit outside the famed Washington museum complex. The stunning exhibit includes an “American Golden” topaz weighing nearly 23,000 carats (more than 10
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pounds), a blue topaz “football” of nearly 7,000 carats, kunzite Tiffany necklace, a Mogul emerald diamond necklace and more. “Giant Gems of the Smithsonian” is free with Museum general admission, thanks to funding generously provided by Lyda Hill. The “Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall” at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science is located at 2201 N. Field St. The top cultural attraction in Dallas/ Fort Worth and a Michelin Green Guide three-star destination, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a nonprofit educational organization located in the heart of Dallas, with campuses in Victory Park and Fair Park. With a mission to inspire minds through nature and science, the Perot Museum delivers exciting, engaging and innovative visitor and outreach experiences through its education, exhibition, research and collections programming for children, students, teachers, families and life-long learners. To learn more, visit perotmuseum.org.
ARTS DISTRICT
‘Constellations’ explores parallel universes at Wyly Theatre By Shari Goldstein Stern
York and settled in Dallas. He became a company member of DTC's Brierley Resident Acting “Constellations,” now playCompany in 2012. He serves ing at the Dallas Theater Center as artistic director of Second at the 6th Floor Studio Theatre Thought Theatre, which producof the Wyly through Oct. 9, is es shows in Bryant Hall on the billed as “a mind-bending love Kalita Humphreys campus. story.” It might also be referred Allison Pistorius captures a to as “mind boggling,” while at range of herself, as does Organ. times you might find yourself She plays a theoretical physiexhausted from hanging on to cist, and he is a beekeeper. Their every word, speech, intonation romance breaks the boundaries and sentence. Subtle differencof the space-time continuum. es give alternate meanings to She is at once indifferent and at every line and speech, so it’s another loving, and she switchimportant to pay attention, es between those seamlessly. Photo by Karen Almond albeit draining. An Arlington native, Alex Organ and Allison Pistorius explore alternate universAlex Organ, one of Dallas’ es in Dallas Theater Center’s “Constellations” at Wyly's 6th Pistorius, earned her undergradfloor Studio Theater. most in-demand actors, plays uate degree at the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA Roland, who makes a living as at the National Conservatory a beekeeper. According to the in Denver. She lived in New York and then returned home to versatile actor, this play is an affirmation of the power of live Dallas. theater. No one can debate that, when an audience sat motionBoth actors are onstage 100 percent of the time, with the less at Sunday night’s performance, not missing a word for 90 simplest of sets because nothing more is necessary. This show minutes with no intermission. Organ, after earning his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, the Abilene Christian University graduate lived in New CONSTELLATIONS cont'd on page 11
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