"On the Avenue!" 3/12/08
Mark Pittard
Hello Dallas! Take time to journey with the Mayor of Greenville Avenue down our beloved Avenue. It's finally here! It's the greatest weekend of the year, as Greenville Avenue is awash in Green! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE:
As most people know by now, all of Dallas will be crazy as St. Patrick's Weekend begins with huge events this Saturday! This newsletter will especially detail the two events that have grown into legendary status! It's the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade and the Lower Greenville Block Party on Saturday! These are the days that you might spot me becoming very emotional, because these are the two events that I live and die for each year on that most beloved of all Avenues! Both of the following events are Mayor of Greenville Avenue's Highlight events of the year!
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FOR SATURDAY 3/15/08 – ST. PATRICK'S PARADE – UPPER GREENVILLE – 11 AM
ON THE AVENUE - 29th Annual Greenville Ave St. Patrick's Day Parade - 11 A.M. Location: Parade begins at Park Lane and ends up on Yale. Event Activities: This year there are a record breaking 125 floats entered! The event is FREE and parking is available all along Greenville Ave. at the various business parking lots. Bring the whole family! Over 1500 participants will march down Greenville Avenue in what is sure to be the largest and most celebrated St. Patrick's Day Parade in North Texas history. Celebrity judges will be judging this year's parade entries in categories ranging from Best of the Best to Most Irish Animal. GAABA officials expect a larger crowd than last year's 70,000 people! The parade was started to not only celebrate the tradition of St. Patrick's Day but to heighten the public's awareness to all the activities and merchants on Greenville Ave. (The Mayor of Greenville Avenue will make an appearance on my 17th Society float! We are number 10 position in the parade. Our float will be have a record breaking over 17,500 green beads and 14,000 St. Patrick's Day stickers for my constituents! The Hooters float will lead off. At number 9 position is Chipotle and behind us is the Tie One On Society. This parade has turned into one of the greatest parades and most fun times there has ever been in Dallas!
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FOR SATURDAY 3/15/08 – ST. PATRICK'S PARTY – LOWER GREENVILLE – 9 AM
ON THE AVENUE – Lower Greenville Avenue – St. Patrick's Block Parry 2008 – 9 AM to 6 PM – Greenville Avenue between Vanderbilt and Vickery – Free shuttle service and parking provided from Mockingbird DART Station (1,000 parking spaces) – buses leave every 10 minutes from 11 AM – 7 PM – Cabs available. Parking in the neighborhood will be limited, please consider using the DART rail to Mockingbird. For more information on parking or shuttle service, call DART hotline (214) 979-1111 or visit www.dart.org. Event site and perimeter secured by D & L security and DPD. As the Dubliner describes it, "…The street becomes a sea of green revelers and is truly Dallas' best street party, often compared to a mini mardi gras...." (The Mayor of Greenville Avenue will make an appearance among thousands of my constituents! I will start off at Stan's Blue Note; spend a little time on beloved Greenville Avenue (street is blocked off) and then hit the Dubliner. Then I begin the routine all over again in reverse order until the party is over!)
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FOR SATURDAY 3/15/08 – ST. PATRICK'S PARTY – UPPER GREENVILLE
ON THE AVENUE – There will be a Post Parade party on Greenville and University at Energy Square across the street from Desperados. Contact Information: GAABA office 214.363.1850 or 214-823-4370 or visit www.greenvilleavenue.org
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – PUB CRAWL – 10ISH AM
ALL OVER TOWN – Join the Mayor of Greenville Avenue for one of the greatest holidays of the year – St. Patrick's Day! Chris O'Hagan (H.O.F.#125), the Mayor of Gaston Avenue (H.O.F.#137) and I will be off work and we will be leading an all day St. Paddy's Pub Crawl. Current plans are to start at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station for brunch. At 2 PM, we will head to the Dubliner on Lower Greenville. Around 3:30, we will head to the Tipperary Inn on Skillman and Live Oak. Then we might head to the Idle Rich Pub and Black Friar to finish the night, depending on the situation. Contact me for updates, as this is a fairly unstructured Pub Crawl. I already have several people committed for the Pub Crawl.
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – TRIPPERARY INN – 8 AM
OFF THE AVENUE: From the Tipperary Inn - The Tipp's Annual St. Patrick's Day celebration is here! Doors open at 8 am! Look for our Chef Joe Patrick on WFAA's Good Morning Texas on Monday, March 17th - St. Patrick's Day! Chef Joe will be the featured cooking segment for this year's annual St. Patrick's Day special. 12 p.m. - The Tipp kicks off their annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration with Boru's Ghost! 4:30 p.m. - BEHAN. And at 9 p.m. the Tipp welcomes Celtic or Not to the stage! Continuing the celebration with the BEHAN family returning to the Tipp for amazing Celtic music sing-a-longs!
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – TRINITY HALL – 10 AM
OFF THE AVENUE - Trinity Hall - March 17th - St. Patrick's Day Has Arrived! Doors open for late breakfast early Lunch!
10:30 - 12:30 KILAVIL - Family Trio Phenoms!
1:00 - 5PM THE IRISH ROGUES Singalong
5:30 - 8:30 JED MARUIM & BAND
9:00 - 1:00 SEAMUS STOUT—Upbeat Celtic
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – IDLE RICH – 11 AM
ON MCKINNEY AVENUE – From the Idle Rich - The Idle Rich Pub http://www.idlerichpub.com - 11 am - 2am - On Monday the Idle will have a slightly trimmed down version of their regular menu but offer all of the above plus a traditional corned beef, cabbage and mashed potato plate and shepherds pie.
U2.0 (acoustic U2 cover band ) 5pm
Irish Dancing display 7pm
The Killdares 7.30pm
$5 cover after 5pm
U2.0 (u-2-point-o) are two of the guys from Blood Red Sky , who played at the Idle last year, doing acoustic U2 covers inside the pub for happy hour. This is the third year for the Killdares to headline the St. Patrick's day party. They bring bagpipes, an amazing fiddle player and tons of energy.http://www.killdares.com
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – OLD MONK – 11 AM
OFF THE AVENUE – From the Old Monk - The Old Monk http://www.oldmonkdallas.com - 11 am - 2am - On Monday they will have a slightly trimmed down version of our regular menu but offer all of the above plus a traditional corned beef, cabbage and mashed potato plate and shepherds pie.
Entertainment:
Boys Named Sue 5pm
The Kingbucks 9pm
$5 cover after 5pm
Boys Named Sue are a great local act and a lot of fun live. The Kingbucks featuring Keith Killoren and Chad Stockslager (The Drams) and Danny Baliss ( Sorta) bring a honky tonk sense of fun entertainment complete with slide guitar and a fiddle player.
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – OLD MONK – NOON
ON THE AVENUE – From the Dubliner - The Dubliner http://dallasdubliner.com - 12 - 2am - Monday the Dub opens at 11am and are serving corned beef and cabbage, Guinness beef stew and shepherds pie. Mondays entertainment is:
Free Whisky noon - 3pm (once again that is a band not a special)
Irish dancers at 1pm
The Mumbles 9pm
$5 cover after 5pm
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY MONDAY 3/17/08 – BLACKFRIAR PUB – 3 PM
ON MCKINNEY AVENUE – From the Blackfriar Pub - Blackfriar Pub http://blackfriarpub.com - 3pm - 2am - On Monday the Blackfriar will offer all of the regular fare plus a traditional corned beef, cabbage and mashed potato plate.
Entertainment: 5 pm Chad and Keith of The Kingbucks acoustic set on the porch. 9pm DJ Mick Foutune plays lively trad along with The Pogues, Flogging Mollys, Dropkick Murphys etc .Says Mick "I'll keep it reel". The weather looks great so they hope to see you in the beer garden.
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WHAT'S ON TAP?
Here are some additions to music gigs listed above from my long time friend Emily Bryant of the new hot Celtic band – Shift. If you haven't heard them yet, they are awesome!
Saturday, March 15
1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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Monday, March 17 – St. Patrick's Day
Capital Pub
12 noon - 4 p.m.
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WHAT'S ON TAP?
From Chris O'Hagan (H.O.F.#125) - As the movement to make St. Patrick's Day an official holiday moves forward, Proposition317.com has been updated! Sign the petition and you can upload your St. Patrick's Day photo! Then explore the site for other new features, like the Top 5 Green States, and Sway a Skeptic to show your friends their elaborate Irish Heritage! We only have until March 16th if we are to present the petition to Congress, and it's going to take a million strong. Remember to sign the petition and click below to send this email to a friend. Slainté - http://proposition317.com/ ***********************************************************************
THE DALLAS SEEN!
This column will return next week. I am too pressed on time working on the float, getting this newsletter, out, etc. Believe me, next week's "The Dallas Seen!" will be a huge one!
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I have to run, but I hope to see you on the Avenue!
The Mayor of Greenville Avenue (H.O.F.#1)