“PCMA After Hours” place during the 2010 PCMA Convening Leaders Conference! Please direct everyone to Sambuca on McKinney Avenue! Sambuca is doing it up right for PCMA attendees… combining live music and a DJ to create a dance friendly, party atmosphere for all PCMA attendees!

During the conference you will be asked time after time… “Where can we go out after all the dinners and receptions?” or “Where will everyone be meeting late night?” Please direct everyone to Sambuca on McKinney! Sambuca is going all-out to create a party place on nights they are not typically staffed up for. Last year in New Orleans one club in the French Quarter was filled every night. After all the dinners, receptions and parties… everyone gathered at the same place every night… in Dallas, we want that place to be Sambuca!

Sambuca is providing $10.00 coupons at the Dallas Booth that can be used to purchase all drinks & appetizers… please invite everyone… meeting planners & suppliers, to come to the Dallas Booth and pick-up a coupon then meet us at Sambuca for fun! All volunteers are invited to join us nightly!

Sambuca
http://www.sambucarestaurant.com
2120 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, TX 75201
(214) 744-0820

Schedule of Events:

Saturday, January 9th, 2010
9pm – 2am Tom Petty Cover Band

Sunday, January 10th, 2010
7pm – 10pm Live Band
10pm – 2am Dance-friendly DJ mixing the classics from 80’s & 90’s!

PCMA HAPPY HOUR PRICES ALL NIGHT!!!
½ Price call & well drinks
½ Price wines by the glass
½ Price appetizers

Monday & Tuesday, January 11th & 12th, 2010
7pm – 10pm Live Band
10pm – 2am DJ

Please forward an invitation to anyone & everyone connected with PCMA… we want to create the “buzz” about fun in Dallas!

Good news, Casa Blanca Sabor is now open on Monday nights starting at 5 pm. If you do go there, it’s located in the Bishop Arts District in North Oak Cliff a short cab ride from downtown Dallas. Make sure you tell Gina or Henry, the owners, that you’re with PCMA and Jeff sent you. They’ll treat you right.

Other Tex-Mex restaurants that are open on Monday night are Uncle Julios, located on Lemmon Ave, Iron Cactus downtown on Main Street, Jorge’s Tex-Mex located in One Arts Plaza in Downtown Arts District and La Calle Doce located in North Oak Cliff or Lakewood.

Very fun blog post! I’m so looking forward to everything Dallas has to offer, including the warmer weather! Even 30s are sounding warm right now.

Anyway, just wondering if you have any great suggestions for tex-mex on Monday night? Looks like both your suggestions are closed on Monday evenings.

Thanks! Jenny

Thanks for the help on Texas. Being a vegetarian from San Francisco I anticipated being attacked by rednecks and dragged behind longhorn bulls and forciblely fed fried meat products.

I am now relieved and excited to know that I should just expect networking with nice people, being educated and informed!

Being my first PCMA you already have been a great help and I look forward to meeting you in person.

Your friend

mike

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Below are some Dallas driving tips, which will assist anyone who might be on the road next week.

Dallas drivers are not rude so much as they are in a constant hurry
and agressive, and cannot be bothered by people who do not know how to
drive here. Overall, we are a very civilized and friendly people, it just does not
carry over to the roads. Below are some tips to drive in Dallas. We do
expect you to know them before you come here, so please study.

1. Turn signals are for suckers. Especially do not use it for changing
lanes. Doing this will cause the driver in that lane to speed up. Just
make sure there is enough room in the lane next to you and take the
lane.
2. If you are in the left lane of any road, make sure you are going
15-20 MPH over the speed limit. There is a reason it is called the
fast lane. If you want to obey the speed limit (another sign of
suckers), please do us all a favor and stay in the right lane, or
better yet, stay home.
3. When it ices over or snows, or threatens to ice or snow, stay home.
We do not change our driving habits for the weather, and still go 80
MPH. This leads to a ton of accidents, clogging up the freeways
something fierce. Not a pleasant driving experience, so your best bet
is to not drive that morning. It will all melt by noon anyway, so you
can go out then.
4. We do not give a damn how you did something back home. Nothing irks
a Texan more than being told how you it back in Yankeeville. We know
you can drive perfectly on the ice, in the rain, etc, we could too if
we changed our driving habits, but we all know that ain’t happening.
5. Never, ever, ever make eye contact with a driver, especially if you
are angry about something that they did. Also included in this tip are
cautions against hand gestures, name calling out the windows, shaking
a fist, etc. You probably do not want to know the percentage of
drivers who are armed, so just assume all of them are and drive away.
6. If we pay a toll for driving on a road, we will get our moneys
worth by driving fast on that road. The toll roads (outside of rush
hour) are our version of Talladaga. The speed limit sign is a joke, so
just go with the flow, which usually averages in the mid 80′s to low
90′s, anything below this you will be called a sissy.
7. We give directions based on local landmarks, stores, and previous
occupants of a place (“Go by the old Home Depot, turn left at the Wal
Mart, and then it will be on your right next to the windmill”). Also
be aware that all highways have at least two or three names. 635 is
LBJ, 35 is Stemmons, 190 is the Bush tollway, 121 is the Sam Rayburn
Tollway, etc, so it helps to know both names if you are getting
directions.
8. Chances are good that wherever you are in the metroplex, the
directions will include a segment on Belt Line. This is not our
version of Peachtree in Atlanta, but rather one very long circle with
a million stop lights around Dallas county. At least 40% of our roads
change names at least one or more times, with no notice. Please try
and keep up.
9. For your own safety, do not ever stop at a yellow light. You will
be rear ended, and rightfully so. Yellow and blue make green, so
therefore a yellow light equals a green light. You might want to wait
a few seconds after a light turns green to let the traffic get out of
the intersection and avoid being killed.
10. Have fun, and remember the state motto “Don’t Mess with Texas” and
also the motto of driving in Dallas, “Hold on and Pray”.

Tim