Prepare to be blown away!

The catch is, you can only try two beers within a 24-hour period from the Guild’s kiosk, so throwing back eight different beers at the Moth one night won’t necessarily help put a dent in your goal. You can either print order slips from the kiosk at the bar or from home, then hand them over to the bartender to keep track of your consumption.

As you try more beers, you get promoted from student, to graduate, to master, to professor, and, finally, to dean. If anyone actually makes it that far, the Moth will think of new challenges for its guild deans.

For most, drinking beer was the enemy of studying in college, but at the School of the Moth, drinking beer equals studying. I may go back to get another degree…

Here’s the rundown:
“Bret Slater” at the Marty Walker Gallery – May 10 : 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 2135 Farrington Street

“SURFACE PATTERN” by Dean Monogenis, Pepa Prieto, Kirath Ghundoo, Misato Suzuki, Thomas Spoerndle, Morgan Blair, Lucas Martell, John Guthrie, James Roper, Jessy Nite, Eddie Villanueva, Books|||| Bischof, Sandra Fettingis, and Maxomatic, at Circuit12 – May 12 : 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM – 1130 Dragon St., Suite 150

“Photographs and Video Installation by Jeremy McKain” at the Cohn Drennan Contemporary Gallery – May 12 : 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 1107 Dragon Street

“Brad Ellis, Orna Feinstein, Tracey Harris” at Craighead Green Gallery – May 12 : 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 1011 Dragon Street

“Letters from Home” by Murielle White at Cris Worley Fine Arts – May 12 : 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM – 2277 Monitor St.

“Space Between You And I” by Katherine Baronet at the Gallery at 1300 – May 12 : 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM – 1300 Dragon Street

“Fairest of the Fair” at the Galleri Urbane – May 12 : 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 2277 Monitor St.

“Freefall” by Jackie Tileston at the Holly Johnson Gallery – May 12 : 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 1411 Dragon Street

“FROM MOSCOW WITH LOVE” by Dmitri Beliakov, Mikhail Dashervskij, Gregori Maiofis, Ivan Mikhailov, Valery Samarin, Vitaly Smirnov, and Eugene Zaluzhny, at the PDNB Gallery – May 12 : 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM – 1202 Dragon Street, Suite 103

“Artificial I.D.” by Brian Ryden, “If I Won’t Love You, Nobody Will” by Brandon Benning, “Trans Am, Berkeley CA” by Eugene White, and “Midway to Madness” by Eugene Carter, at the Plush Gallery – May 12 : 12:00 Noon – 5:00 PM – 918 Dragon Street

“It’s All Relative” by Eddie D. Stafford, Erin Stafford, and Elissa Stafford, at Red Arrow Contemporary – May 12 : 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM – 1130 Dragon St., Suite 110

“Spring into Summer by Ray Phillips and Christy Lee Rogers” at Samuel Lynne Galleries – May 12 : 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM – 1105 Dragon Street

“Collective Memory” by Shannon Brunskill, Carole Cohen, Cecelia Feld, Grethe Haggerty, Barbel Helmert, Robin Herndon, Judith Seay, Cat Snapp, Mary Tomas, and K Witta aka Sally Ackerman, at the Mary Tomas Gallery - May 12 : 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM – 1110 Dragon St.

According to Weld’s website, the space will be”A new collaborative studio with super-fast Internet, world-class coffee, community work spaces, meeting rooms, independent workshops and more.”

The Grand Opening Party is from 8 to 11 p.m. tonight with complimentary pizza, beer and mingling with creative minds. The new space is at 2410 Farrington Street.

Bridge Bistro at 921 N. Riverfront Blvd. created a special menu featuring items like cornmeal fried oysters, Texas peach pancakes, hot homemade biscuits, crab cake eggs benedict, and key lime pie. You can view the full menu here.

Meddlesome Moth, 1621 Oak Lawn Ave., is sticking to its regular (though, like all things Moth, very creative — and mouthwatering) brunch menu; think challah French toast with fresh berries, eggs creole and a plate of rosemary, eucalyptus and honey with artisanal breads. Or, go with the day’s theme and order the “Mother and Child Reunion,” a fried chicken breast tenderloin with poached eggs, peppered grits and jalapeno gravy.

Just across the street, Oak is featuring a special Mother’s Day menu with chilled heirloom tomato soup, chorizo biscuits, wagyu sirloin salad, Gianduja chocolate panna and more — guaranteed to be delicious!

Photo from Oak Dallas’ website.

Here’s what you can expect this Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m.:

• Show kite teams from the Southwest
• Reliant Energy kite giveaway
• Reliant’s Smarter Home on Wheels
• Hot Air Balloons on display
• North Texas Hang/Para Gliders Association
• Kroger Kids Fun Zone with bounce houses, clowns and face painting
• Blackland Prairie Raptor Center birds
• Sprint Cellular Phone recycling center
• Dallas Zoo with birds and cool animals
• Wildflower Planting
• Ultimate frisbee
• Paper Plane Making Designs and Contests
• Free Dallas Wind Symphony Concert
• Food for purchase

You can download the full schedule of events here.

Don’t forget your kite!

Here are some of their latest tweets:

Though the supporters of the toll road emphasize Dallas’ need for traffic congestion relief in the Downtown area, the Mayor’s decision has been met with much outrage from many vocal members of the community, expressing concerns that another toll road will prolong the urban sprawl of Dallas instead of encouraging the city center to become a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly community.

The Mayor attempted to touch on their concerns in his speech; he said, “Frankly, I don’t want to be L.A. covered in concrete and with the poor air quality. And on the other hand, as much as I love Austin, I don’t want to be that type of city with the major traffic gridlock they experience everyday just because they didn’t come to terms with the problems they faced…I don’t really love roads; I don’t think many of us do. But if done right, they can be a major catalyst for growth.”

He also judged the toll road in three areas: safety, beauty and money. “Are we going to be safe, beautiful and cost efficient? After considering those three questions, I believe building the parkway inside the levees, alternative 3C, is the right thing for the future of Dallas,” he said.

The Mayor also assured his audience that the plan for the Trinity Parks is still in place, that bike and pedestrian-friendly initiatives for the city are well under way, and that the toll road will not be visible from the parks. “You will not see this road from the downtown park and anything short of that is unacceptable to me,” he said.

Funding for the road is provided by citizens of Dallas who have authorized tax revenues to support bonds for the parkway, and from sources outside the city, including users of the road and state and federal transportation dollars.

For a round-up of some varying opinions on the project, you can explore the following links (warning: most of them are pretty negative):

“Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Officially Behind Trinity River Parkway” – CBS Local

“Dallas Mayor Backs Trinity Toll Road” – KERA

“Yesterday Was a Sad Day for Dallas” – The Dallas Observer

“Mayor Rawlings backs $1.4B Trinity River Corridor toll road “ – Dallas Business Journal

“Of Rawlings, the Trinity, and the DMN” – Dallas Morning News Transportation Blog

“Put Up or Shut Up, Please: Send Your Best Alternative to the Toll Road” – Call for alternate solutions to the congestion problem on Dallas Morning News, some of which have already been posted

“Why We Will Spend Decades and Billions on a Toll Road and Never Properly Address Public Transit” - D Front Burner

Petition for a Second Vote on the Trinity Toll Road

The 220+ comments on Mayor Rawlings’ Facebook Page (scroll down to the April 26 post asking for opinions)

You can also download the Mayor’s speech on the project here. The public hearing for the project is still scheduled for May 8, 7 p.m. at the Dallas Convention Center Arena.

The show, which began April 27 and will run through May 5, takes a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of eight burlesque dancers, providing a glimpse into both their on-stage and off-stage characters.

The performance will star:

Nicole Berastequi as Coco L’amour

Rosuara Cruz as Spanish Jade

Elizabeth Evans as Collateral Damage

Lydia Mackay as Copperhead Lane

Anastasia Munoz as Betty Cocker

Jenni Pittman as Deux Minnie

Kara Torvik Smith as Mistress Head
Natalie Young as Crazy Mazie

Tickets are $10 at the door and performances will be held at 9 p.m. each evening from May 2 to May 5, with special late night performances on May 4 and 5 at 11 p.m. All shows are BYOB.

Photo credit: Project X Theater’s Facebook Page