Mar 25, 2009
Arts Goggle This Friday
By: Kevin Buchanan
It’s time for another Arts Goggle in the Near Southside. This Friday, the 27th, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, come to the Near Southside for a huge, free art & music festival fairly unlike anything else in the city. This time around, there are no less than fifty-four venues for you to check out, attracting an even greater number of artists. Paintings, photography, sculpture, jewelry, street performers, and live music will be on display. Featuring art and music on all of the Near Southside’s major streets: Magnolia Avenue, Park Place, Pennsylvania Avenue, South Main Street, Oleander Walk, and more.
In addition to walking, there will be pedicabs and a new trolley shuttle to get you to all the venues of the event. Naturally, since this is in the Near Southside, you won’t have to leave the event to eat or grab a drink, as some of Fort Worth’s best places are in the Near Southside, like Spiral Diner, Chadra Mezza & Grill, Yucatan Taco Stand, the Chat Room Pub, the Fairmount, Finn MacCool’s, Junsuree Thai, King Tut, Lili’s Bistro, Gallery Art Cafe, Old Neighborhood Grill, and more – all local and indie.
Live music includes:
Blue Beats – 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM – 1612 Park Place
Fort Worth National Band – 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM – TMA|CHL Architecture, 814 Pennsylvania
Ginny Mac – 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Robert W. Kelly Architect, 126 South Main
Usual Suspects – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM – Gallery Art Cafe, 609 South Jennings
Darth Vato – 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM – between JJ Robb & Chat Room Pub, 1200 block of Magnolia
Fairmount Music Collective – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – J. D. Moore Building, Oleander & Henderson
Venues include:
1208 W. Magnolia
1223 Washington
Alpha Cleanse
Arts Fifth Avenue
Callahan Engineering
Chadra Mezza & Grill
Circa
Cut
DMS Architecture
Esperanza’s
Fifth Avenue Eyewear
Finn MacCool’s
Gallery Art Cafe
Hatch Financial Services, LLC
Hattie May Inn
Herringbone Home
HHS Gallery
Jason Needham State Farm
J. Frank Thompson
J. D. Moore Building
Jennings Street Yarns
JJ Robb
J&N Automotive
Jo Dufo Gallery
Julie Lazarus
Landers Machine Shop Gallery
Letterpress Graphics
Lili’s Bistro
Linda Broiles Studio
Magnolia Avenue Salon
Old Neighborhood Grill
Oleander Place Townhomes
Panther City Bicycles
Park Place Pharmacy
Quarles Window Center
Rahr & Sons Brewery
Robert W. Kelly Architects
Sawyer Lofts
Scarborough Specialties
Schmedel Custom Furniture
Spiral Diner
Sundance Scooters
Tarrant County Aids Interfaith
Texana Townhomes
The Chat Room Pub
The Fairmount
The Neighborhood Library
The Salon Upstairs
The Wild Bunch
TMA|CHL Architecture
Tracy Autem Photography
Urban Green Build
William T. Fitzgerald
Yucatan Taco Stand
So this Friday, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, come to the Near Southside and enjoy some local arts talent. A link to the PDF of the Arts Goggle flyer on Fort Worth South’s web site is here.
Actually this event was kind of modeled after the FWADA Gallery Night and piggybacked onto the FWADA weekend. Also similar to DADA walk. The only real difference is that it is businesses and not galleries, though many businesses open their doors for FWADA Gallery Night to show work.
Don’t forget about Benito’s, one of the oldest restaurants on Magnolia, and one of the tastiest. Definitely shouldn’t be left off the list.
Benito’s is, of course, awesome. Wasn’t going for a comprehensive list.
The biggest difference, to me, is that Arts Goggle is so much more compact and has more of a festive urban neighborhood sort of feel to it as a result. Everything is within an easy bike ride or trolley ride from everything else, and in fact the majority can be seen by nothing more than walking. Gallery Night’s flyer lists venues all over the area – the Cultural District, University/Berry, the Mercado/Stockyards area, even in *Arlington.* That alone gives the thing a very different feel.
Gallery Night is great – don’t get me wrong. I hope everybody takes advantage of it on Saturday night as well. I do think that Arts Goggle has evolved into its own, very unique thing and that it’s more different from Gallery Night than you’re giving it credit for. Arts Goggle is as much about the neighborhood and the district as it is about the art and music.
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This is one of favorites blog. I had a great time last, discovering new local artists. Thanks!!