GRAB YOUR (BOWLING) BALLS!

DATE: Saturday, May 30th

TIME: 7:30 PM

WHERE: Splitsville Luxury Lanes

401 Curtis Mathes Way

PH: 817.465.BOWL (2695)

Map (Arlington Highlands, off I-20 between Collins & Matlock, behind Bone Daddy's)

COSTS: $7/game/person (2 game limit); $4 shoe rental

ATTIRE: No bowling shirt? Wear a colorful Hawaiian shirt!

“Splitsville Luxury Lanes & Dinner Lounge is a lot different than the bowling alley you remember. We’ve polished up the entire gaming experience with a contemporary design and a full-scale restaurant & bar. We’re talking fresh rolled sushi, champagne and dancing the night away.

“The first thing you’ll notice when you walk into Splitsville is our innovative design. Our 13 lanes are built in clusters throughout the space, which allows you to view bowling from varying angles and perspectives as well as creates cozy nooks that are perfect for an intimate dinner setting. Our décor combines hip and retro elements resulting in a playful yet sophisticated environment—the kind of place people feel comfortable hanging out in.

“Between our four chic bars, plasma TVs and gourmet menu, at Splitsville, you can have a blast with or without picking up a bowling ball. We’ve really taken bowling to the next level!”

There is a limited number of bowling lanes. So that I can reserve lanes for our group for a specific time, I'll need a guesstimate of the number of men planning to attend. Please leave your FIRST NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS in the comment section for this posting by Friday, May 29th. Even if you don't post an RSVP, please come; we just may need to wait for additional lanes if a significant number of additional guys show up. When you arrive at the bowling alley, ask for the ARLINGTON SUPPER CLUB group.

**ALTERNATIVE: Splitsville offers $2 Tuesdays - $2/person/game and $2 shoe rental on Tuesdays. If there is greater interest in having this on Tuesday, June 2, instead of Saturday evening, please leave a comment for this blog entry and we can change nights.

I look forward to seeing you there!

MAY GATHERING

Saturday, May 16*
7:30 PM
Joey's Pizzeria
1121 W Arkansas Lane

(817) 277-7601

This restaurant does not have a beer/wine license; however, they allow customers to bring their own wine. So…

Dinner & Wine Tasting
Bring your favorite wine to share!

Wineglasses & corkscrews will be provided.

Side room has been reserved. So that I can give the restaurant a guesstimate of the number of men attending and they can set-up the room in advance of our dinner, please leave your FIRST NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS in the comment section for this posting. When you arrive at the restaurant, ask for the ARLINGTON SUPPER CLUB group.

*NEW DATE! The original date was Mother’s Day weekend, and several guys were going to be out of town. Hopefully, there will be fewer conflicts with this weekend.

UPDATE: Join Don, James, Jay, Jeff, Joe, Larry, Bill & Andy, Chris & Tony, Doug & Terry, Joe & Mark, John & Dave, John & Howard, John & Larry, Ken & Steve, Mat & Chad and others at this supper. I look forward to seeing you there and sharing a glass of wine!

May 2: Drum & Bugle Corps Fundraiser

Tony and I are hosting a Margarita Pour Saturday night, May 2, at our house from 7-10pm. This event is a fundraiser for the Drum & Bugle Corps that I run (a group from TN, we are moving to TX).

We would like to invite the Supper Club members to attend.

It's a $10 minimum donation, and people need to bring their own glass (we will have a contest for the most unique or fabulous glass). The donation guarantees them at least 4 drinks.

We have a facebook event created for event (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=79669351919&ref=mf) and people can RSVP there, or leave your name and email address here as a comment and I'll email more information to you.

Thanks so much!

Chris Green, Corps Director
Memphis Sound
http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=director@memphisdrumcorps.org
http://www.memphisdrumcorps.org/
To leave a voice mail for the corps: 901-405-9476
Facebook Campaign - http://apps.facebook.com/causes/214707/41138936

dfwteddy (James): Many of you may remember meeting Chris and Tony at the first dinner meeting. I'm pleased they are opening their home for this event, and hope many of you will attend.

APRIL SPECIAL EVENT

Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival
Saturday, April 18th

The Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival will celebrate its 24th year by showcasing a nationally recognized fine art and fine craft juried art fair, live concerts, performance artists and street performers on the streets of downtown Fort Worth. The #1 Arts Festival in Texas and the 9th largest Arts Festival in the country as rated by the Harris List, the prestigious Art Fair SourceBook has just released its 2008 national rankings and the Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival has come in at #3 in Fine Art and #6 in Fine Craft!

• Car Pool / Caravan: 5:00 PM – Home Depot Parking Lot (Road To Six Flags between Cooper & Collins)
  OR
• Drive Yourself and Meet the Group: 6:00 PM – Johnnie Red & the Roosters (Sundance Square Main Stage)
• 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: On your own or in small groups
• 200 juried fine artists
• 25+ restaurants
• Entertainment
• 9:00 PM – BoDeans (WaMu Main Stage / 9th and Main)
• Cost: There is no charge to attend this festival; however, food and beverage coupons must be purchased at coupon booths located conveniently throughout the festival prior to obtaining food and beverage products.
• Strip of 12 coupons: $8.00; Individual coupons: $.75 (Purchase of a strip of coupons includes a charge of $2.00 for festival amenities, and the purchase of a single coupon includes a charge of $.25 for festival amenities.)
• Non-alcoholic beverages (water, soft drinks) are 5 coupons. Alcoholic beverages are between 7 coupons (Coors Light) and 9 coupons (large frozen wine margarita and specialty beers). Food items are between 4 coupons and 20 coupons.
• Coupon booths accept cash, Visa, MasterCard and American Express. ATM Machines are located conveniently throughout the festival.
• Festival Map
• A complete list of parking lots is available at http://www.fortworthparking.com/.

UPDATE: APRIL GATHERING

Southern Recipes Grill
Saturday, April 11

7:30 PM
2715 N. Collins St, Arlington, TX

Those who've let me know they will be there Saturday evening are: Andy, Ben, Benny, Bill, Don, James, Jerry, Joe, John, Don & Steven, Doug & Terry, and John & Howard. I hope you’ll decide to join us as well!

The backroom has been reserved for our group. So that I can give the restaurant a guesstimate of the number of men attending, please leave your FIRST NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS in the comment section for the original posting.

I look forward to seeing you there! James

MOVIE NIGHT: Sunday, March 29th

Film: I LOVE YOU, MAN

When: 1:15 PM (Movie starts at 1:40 PM, but if we want to sit together and order food we should get there earlier.)

Where: Studio Movie Grill – Arlington Highlands (I-20 & Matlock)

Tickets: Adults $6.75

Studio Movie Grill also offers a menu of burgers, pizzas, muchies, as well as beer/wine/full bar.

I Love You, Man (trailer): In I Love You, Man, a comedy from John Hamburg (Along Came Polly, co-writer of Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, Zoolander), Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, (The Office’s Rashida Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward man-dates, before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter’s relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancée and his new found bro, in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a friend.

APRIL GATHERING

Southern Recipes Grill

Saturday, April 11
7:30 PM

2715 N Collins St Arlington, TX; (817) 469-9878
Directions: Take Hwy 360 N (toward the airport); Exit Brown Blvd., and turn LEFT onto Brown Blvd.; turn RIGHT on Collins St.; restaurant is between Brown Blvd. and Green Oaks Blvd., across from the golf course.
map

menu

The backroom has been reserved for our group. So that I can give the restaurant a guesstimate of the number of men attending, please leave your FIRST NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS in the comment section for this posting. When you arrive at the restaurant, ask for the ARLINGTON SUPPER CLUB group.

Thanks, Joe, for the suggestion. I look forward to seeing everyone there!

MOVIE NIGHT: Thursday, March 19th

Film: Slumdog Millionaire

When: 7:00 PM (Movie starts at 7:50 PM, but if we want to sit together and order food we should get there earlier.)

Where: Studio Movie Grill – Arlington Highlands (I-20 & Matlock)

Tickets: Adults $8.25

Studio Movie Grill also offers a menu of burgers, pizzas, muchies, as well as beer/wine/full bar.

Slumdog Millionaire (trailer): Jamal Malik, a penniless eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…

MOVIE NIGHT

Hate to go to the movies alone? Like to chat about the movie before/after the movie? Chris suggests a weekly movie night!

Three new polls have been added to the left-hand frame. Polls close on Wednesday at 10:00 PM, and I'll post the movie, location and time immediately thereafter for the weekend. Suggestions for a place to eat before or coffee/dessert after will be helpful!

Thanks, Chris!

CONCERT

(From Jerry) Here are the details about the event I mentioned last night:

• Performers: Arlington Master Chorale (Randy Jordan, conductor)
• Program: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein
• Dates and tickets: Trinity United Methodist Church, Arlington, Thursday, April 16, 8:00 PM; tickets $18 (open seating) [map]
• Tickets: TITAS Ticket Office or call 214/528-5576)

I'm planning to go and would be interested in meeting others somewhere for dinner beforehand.

dfwteddy: For those interested in the concert, please contact Jerry or leave your contact information in the comments and I'll pass along to Jerry. Thanks, Jerry!