The Sounding of Two Canons

Fountain, waterfall boost redone plaza

http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2009/08/28/news/top_stories/centennial_plaza.txt

Great article in the MRT today about the new Centennial Plaza Downtown.  It sounds like it is going to be a beautiful new centerpiece of Downtown Midland, and according to the article the goal is to finish by year’s end.  If you haven’t checked it out yet, for more “dreams” and possibilities for Downtown Midland revitalization, please see the section on Live Midland’s website, “Imagine Midland.” http://livemidlandtexas.com/imagine-midland/

Have a great weekend everyone!

Grand Opening for the Public:            

Monday, August 31^st

Hours of Operation:     

10:00 a.m. to Midnight, 6 days a Week

216 North Main Street

Featuring Cigars & Humidors

Serving:                     

Mornings: Upscale Coffee & Pastries

Night: Beer, Wine & Wine Margaritas

Entertainment:            

Will feature local artists once a month (gallery style display); Live bands nearly every night (low key soft music); Special event featured once a month – such as cigar rolling; sale of high end cigars, & wine tasting

For more details, see the website at: http://www.cigarfrogs.com/

UPDATE, 8/31/09: Laura went to the preview party!  Sorry we missed it!  See her post at: http://livemidlandtexas.com/downtown_junkie/2009/08/31/cigar-frogs-is-welcome-addition-to-downtown/

Saturday, August 22

9:00 AM (Tomorrow)

Claude ‘Butch’ Morgan at the Midland Downtown Farmer’s Market

501 W Texas Ave. (between Pecos St. and Marienfeld St. under the green canopies)

Performance 9-11 AM; Market closes at 1 PM

The Midland Downtown Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday 9a.m. - 1p.m. from April through November. We offer local and sustainable produce, coffee, baked goods, as well as local arts and crafts.

Sunday, August 23

The Museum of the Southwest’s Summer Sunday Lawn Concert series closes this Sunday with The Shades playing party rock beginning at 7:15 p.m. The performance is sponsored by House of Printing and Lite Rock 98 KODM.

No concert will be held in the event of rain. All performances are free and held on the grounds of the museum, 1705 W. Missouri Ave.

Friday, August 28

Concert and Dance: The West Texas Jazz Society will present the Lon Clark Moonlight Serenade Big Band in a concert and dance Friday at the Midland Hilton ballroom, downtown.

The event begins at 8 p.m. WTJS members are free. Non-members admission is $20. Seating is open. A cash bar will be available. For more information, call 683-2026 or 550-0996. The event is sponsored by the Arts Assembly of Midland, Texas Commission on the Arts and the Odessa Council for the Arts and Humanities.

On Saturday night, Chris and his best friend from high school came over and they were grilling out in our backyard.  Since they were catching up, I (Cory) took the opportunity to meet up with my friend Mary Ann for a girls’ dinner at Cancun Grill downtown so we could catch up as well.  As we were walking down Wall Street, a group of people standing outside of The Ground Floor invited us into the downtown (independent!) coffee shop to watch a Poetry Slam.  If you don’t know what this is, you’re in good company because we didn’t either.  We were told that a Poetry Slam is a competition amongst poets, where each poem is read or recited out loud and scored by a panel of five judges which are chosen from the audience.  We declined, as we had dinner plans, and we had plans to meet our husbands afterwards.  Further, in all honesty, spending Saturday night at a poetry reading was not either of our ideas of a good time.  However, we both agreed that any efforts to expand the art scene in Downtown, or throughout Midland for that matter, are welcome and worthwhile.  It is always good to have something different to do!  In summary, we have no idea how the Poetry Slam went - but it still was nice to know that local poetry fans had the option to attend.

Transportation group studies Midland-to-Odessa bus route

http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2009/08/18/news/top_stories/doc4a8a1858793c7952187778.txt