A Bent Tree home in the spring equals blue skies and vast views of greenbelts and golf courses. This Bent Tree home designed by architect Frank Welch has several thousand square feet of terraces to enjoy the landscape.

The National Center for Policy Analysis Economic Policy Forum & Author Series hosted a lecture by Philip K. Howard, Founder and Chair of the advocacy group Common Good, at the Belo Mansion in Dallas. Mr. Howard discussed his new book Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America which describes how the current state of the American judicial system prevents ordinary citizens from exercising common sense and the steps necessary to fix the problem. Dr. John Goodman, President of NCPA, discussed the positive economic implications of life without lawyers. Dr. Peter Raad, Executive Director of The Guildhall at SMU, discussed his work with The Guildhall with Mr. Howard.

Children spill out of their University Park homes to enjoy the many parks found in University Park, including Coffee Park at the corner of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue.

Former Mayor Laura Miller, who was so supportive and instrumental with the development of the Arts District in Dallas, enjoys meeting friends outside of Dali Wine Bar & Cellar at One Arts Plaza. Dali is owned by the culinary great Paul Pinnell who has served great food for years to Dallas and Highland Park homeowners who have left their kitchensto enjoy his food.

While flowering azaleas are flourishing in Preston Hollow, Munger Place, North Dallas, and University Park, they are almost the trademark of Highland Park in the spring.

Prominent Dallas civic leaders, business leaders, TED organizers, Preston Hollow homeowners, and great Dallas citizens, Carole and Jim Young, contribute to a good time, thoughtful conversation, and profound insights wherever they are around the world, including an outdoor café on Henderson Avenue near Downtown Dallas.

The Fashionistas founder Heidi Dillon, who has a beautiful Frank Welch designed home on Turtle Creek Drive, joined forces with the American Foundation for the Blind's Center on Vision Loss 2010 "Designing with a Vision" to host a fashion runway show benefit at The Fairmont Dallas hotel. Exuberant dresses and costumes reflected the shapes and styles of blind Ukrainian designer Sergey Ermakov and his affection for Texas with a Texas wedding dress that was auctioned. Fashion events always draw homeowners from all neighborhoods across the city from Bent Tree to Highland Park.

Doesn't it also seem to you that Dallas and Highland Park homeowners are the most attractive in the county? They are smart, well educated, successful, and always have a good time when they are looking for a home in Highland Park in the spring.

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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.

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The DALLAS International Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station located in East Dallas featured the documentary film Thunder Soul about Houston's legendary Kashmere High School Stage Band. Movie patrons from across Dallas, including residents from the Park Cities, Turtle Creek Corridor, and Kessler Park, enjoyed viewing the film and hearing Mark Landsman, the director of the film, discuss this incredible story of how low income kids formed the first black high school show band that went on to win the national championship and tour Europe.

Meeting the actors, directors, producers, critics and Dallas homeowners who love film is one of the great joys of the DALLAS International Film Festival. The red carpet allows photographs, the lobby and auditoriums allow conversation, and the after parties are, well, after parties. The Dallas and Los Angeles art communities are well represented at these events.

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One of the movies featured on the opening night of the DALLAS International Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center near Highland Park was the movie Bill Cunningham New York. Michael Cain, Chairman of the DALLAS Film Society, interviewed the movie director, Richard Press, and the producer, Philip Gefter, before the showing of the movie about Bill Cunningham, a writer for the Style section of The New York Times. Mr. Cunningham's columns focus on the street fashion of everyday New Yorkers and the fashion of New York socialites. Liener Temerlin, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the DALLAS Film Society, was in attendance for the viewing. After the film, audience members spoke with Mr. Cain, as well as Mr. Press and Mr. Gefter and attended the opening Gala with events throughout Mockingbird Station.

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Great architecture and quality design was never interrupted in Dallas. Waterworks, with its quality designs inspired by Europe, is simultaneously classic and modern. Co-founder Barbara Sallick enjoys visiting the Preston Hollow showroom and seeing the great homes Waterworks has contributed in creating.

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Artist Ricardo Baptista Fernandes, a former Highland Park resident having recently sold out his shows in Lisbon and Santa Rosa, came to Highland Park to discuss his work and how it relates to the group of artists he is associated with, the European Seven. What better place than Café Pacific to discuss business and enjoy the day?

Culinary patrons from across Dallas stop by the Live Oak Bar before or after a spectacular dinner at Fearing's Restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton on McKinney Avenue or simply come to spend the evening in revelry. It might not be the streets of New York, but you will always see great fashion.

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One of the crucial components of a home selling is the appraisal required by the lender. Brad Edgar appraised this Highland Park home which closed a few days later. He also appraises many houses in University Park and Preston Hollow.

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Sir David Frost, with his signature red socks and English delivery, charmed the crowd with his humor and insights at the Brinker International Forum held at the Winspear Opera House in the Arts District of Dallas. Sir David Frost, who interviewed Richard Nixon, compared notes with Frank Langella, who played Richard Nixon in the movie Frost/Nixon.

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This pastoral neighborhood of Dallas has its advantages and disadvantages. Squirrels are a horrible nuisance if they are in one's own house, but great fun to watch if they are in someone else's house. Here a 1907 Prairie style house is the home of this young squirrel family.

Betsy Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means and other great works, came to Dallas to meet Russell Martin and to visit the DeGolyer Library. The DeGolyer Library is the home of many great collections and papers, including works by prominent Dallas residents, like Stanley Marcus, and authors, such as Horton Foote. What better way for Russell Martin and Pamalla Anderson, also with the library, to discuss the monumental role of the Forsythe and Hailey families and their contribution to Dallas and the arts than at Café Pacific on a spring day in Highland Park Village?

Louie's across the street has always been the destination point of Henderson Avenue. Now Pearl Cup draws people from Highland Park, Preston Hollow, East Dallas and Uptown. Interesting restaurants and modern shops soon followed.

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