Things To Do In Dallas Tonight: Nov. 30

It’s a funny coincidence in light of Krista’s Leading Off, but I was contemplating my favorite quote on my chilly little trek into the office this morning. It’s from a Tom Stoppard play called The Real Thing (which Stage West plans to stage in the spring, actually). A daughter asks her father what happiness is, and he replies, “Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.” In the context of the play, you can’t be entirely sure that’s true or very real at all. But I’ve always found the statement comforting, mostly for the way Stoppard makes a difficult task sound so simple.

As promised, I did not coerce any poor soul into growing facial hair for my own amusement/Movember. Let’s all take a  moment to remember Ryan’s sacrifice last year. Now. For the love of everything holy, please shave. Especially you, Anthony Weiner. You could undertake this task at home, or you could accompany your upper lip party caterpillar to the Dallas Moustache’s End of Movember Stache Bash for one last hurrah. Head to Hotel ZaZa and celebrate all the men (and their long-suffering significant others, I’m sure) who donated their faces to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research and treatment. The evening is complete with a DJ, a live raffle, light bites, and a shave station provided by The Gent’s Place. It’s cocktail attire, so dress dapper.

If you don’t feel like getting gussied up, The Cedars Social has sent word that they’ll offer free shaves and a special cocktail. It’s an Angel’s Envy Flip, made with an egg, cinnamon simple syrup, a couple dashes of lemon bitters & Angel’s Envy Bourbon. If you haven’t gotten rid of your moustache yet, be careful: I’ve been warned that you’ll probably end up saving some of that egg for later. The drink is nicely priced at $6, and the establishment will donate $1 to Movember for each one sold.

And now for something a bit off the beaten path. The Firehouse Gallery in Fort Worth hosts St. Andrew’s Night, a spin on the traditional day of feasting in honor of St. Andrew, a former fisherman and the patron saint of Scotland. Obviously, this appeals to me because I’m a little bit Scottish and us Johnstones do, in fact, have a tartan. We’re lumped in with the inferior Johnstons, but that’s beside the point. It just so happens that the gallery’s director, Keith Thomson, is Scottish-born. He’s the brains behind this evening of music and dance where you can taste Scottish foods (Thomson says no singed sheep’s head, but there will be haggis— sheep innards!) and, of course, whiskey.

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