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| A.M. Ramblers, Sour Diesel, Madison King City Tavern | Sat., August 30 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
When listening to country-folk-bluegrass bands that clearly have rock leanings, the first question becomes: Why not have a drummer? Take Denton's feisty sextet A.M. Ramblers, for example. These guys pick, grin, shout and carry on like someone's got a hot poker dangerously close to a sensitive... More >> |
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| Fishing For Comets, Eric Neal and Camille Cortinas, Chris Holt, David Little Opening Bell Coffee | Sat., August 30 | Oak Cliff & South Dallas | |
What's wrong with a little happiness? Nothingat least according to Fishing for Comets, with their sweet, unapologetic melodies, acousto-jangle and occasional accordion forays. When singer Camile Cortinas sings, "It's just so cute/Watching the waitress/Get swept off her feet" in her... More >> |
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| The International Cat Association Annual 2008 Show Arlington Convention Center | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., August 31 | Arlington | |
When you come in the door at night, do you say hello to a meowing, four-legged family member? Do you occasionally leave the TV on so someone with whiskers can watch his "favorite show" and have "company"? Do you have more cat food bowls than you do cereal ones? If you answered "yes" to any of... More >> |
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| Midnight Gaming Championship Open Location | Sat., August 30, 6:00pm-12:00am | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
It's pitch black. You're sitting on the edge of your Ultra-Recliner of Power doing an anterior shoulder stretch and your secret ninja thumb exercises. Suddenly a nearly blinding light floods the room, projecting an EA across your flawlessly mastered game face. You crack each knuckle in turn,... More >> |
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| Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair & Arts Festival Open Location |
Sat., August 30, 8:00am-7:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
Tulisoma, brothers and sisters. In Swahili, that means "we read." In South Dallas, that means a weekend of entertainment, politics, poetry slams and celebrity elbow-rubbing at the 6th Annual Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair & Arts Festival. Guest author readings cover topics on politics,... More >> |
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| Westfest West, Texas Fairgrounds | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., August 31 | Waco/Temple & Vicinity | |
Nothing says "Texas is a melting pot" like the Czechfest...er, I mean Westfest, held annually in West, Texas, to raise money for community projects. (Think the Texas State Fair with kolaches at every turn and polka dancing instead of roller-coaster rides.) Westfest has Brave Combo, Grammy... More >> |
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| Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy Dallas Museum of Art | Daily from Sun., June 1 until Sun., September 14 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
If you can say you inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel (among others), simply because of the way you lived your life, then you deserve a touring museum exhibition dedicated to your legacy. If you can say, in even uncertain terms, that you are a fan of the... More >> |
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| Dinosaurs Alive! The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Wed., December 31 | Allen/McKinney | |
We don't really want to see a dinosaur eat a child. That would be wrong. Entertaining? Perhaps. Be that as it may, if the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary really wants to thrill its patrons with its Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit of life-size, animatronic dinosaurs and demonstrate... More >> |
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| The Blues/Jazz Experience: Paintings by Earnest "Ernie" Benton and Daggi Wallace Irving Arts Center | Daily from Mon., July 28 until Sun., September 21 | Irving & Las Colinas | |
Painting portraits of your favorite musicians is a time-honored way of paying homage to the artists you love. But more often than not, it's not that compelling as art. Sure, the original photograph of Johnny Cash flipping the bird is a powerful image, but how many times do we really need to see... More >> |
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| Frozen River The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., August 31 | Fort Worth | |
The small screen brings some very memorable characters into our homes, but relatively few of them make a lasting impression in our consciousness. Those that do tend to be larger-than-life figures such as James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano. As a scholar of all things Homicide: Life on the Street, I... More >> |
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| Remnants The Magnolia Theatre | Daily from Thu., August 7 until Wed., September 10 | East Dallas & Lakewood | |
Photographer Kent Barker seems rather taken with the process of erosion--"There is a solitude and a quiet that for me is conducive to the act of 'seeing' and a unique visual beauty in the way that time and weather acts upon objects," he says. Barker finds such beauty in the small, dusty corners... More >> |
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| Cycles The Meridian Room | Daily from Mon., August 11 until Fri., October 10 | Fair Park | |
When it comes to glorifying man-made means of transportation and feats of technology, the entire country of the United States of America serves as a pretty powerful altar to all that is great and good about human ingenuity. We celebrate our vast intellectual superiority by driving gas-guzzling... More >> |
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| TWU Faculty Exhibition Open Location | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., August 26 until Fri., September 19, 9:00am-5:00pm | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
The idea of the faculty art exhibition is as old as the idea of art school. After all, perhaps the best way to teach a student about visual art is to show them the myriad possibilities inherent in the form. Really, I wish more of my teachers and professors would have shown me their own work--it... More >> |
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| Peter Pan Artisan Center Theater |
Sat., September 6, 3:00pm more dates/times |
Mid-Cities (H-E-B) | |
What is it with Peter Pan always being played by a girl? Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan, then Cathy Rigby--all flying around the theater on wires like a heavenly marionette act. No wonder Peter doesn't want to grow up--he'd have to lose the tights and makeup and get a career job in a monkey suit.... More >> |
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| What Is It? Where'd You Get It? Can I Have It? Webb Gallery | Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., August 9 until Sun., November 2, 1:00pm-5:00pm | Waxahachie | |
Advertising today is a reactive and cynical affair, mostly tongue-in-cheek, that tries super hard to relate to you. Note the rush of ads a couple months ago when everyone figured out the economy was going to shit: Advertisers suddenly assured you that they knew you worked hard for your money;... More >> |
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| The Who's Tommy Kalita Humphreys Theater | Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sun., September 21 | Uptown & Oak Lawn | |
Ahh, the rock opera. It all started in 1966 when The Who released its second album, which contained the phenomenal nine-minute suite of songs "A Quick One While He's Away," the tale of Ivor the engine driver and his lustful ways. The Who followed this with a full-length opera, Tommy, in 1969.... More >> |
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| More Events | |||
| Activity Time Highland Hills Highland Hills Branch Library | Daily | Lancaster/Balch Springs | |
| Personal Views: Texas Black Folk Artists African American Museum | Daily | Fair Park | |
| The Souls of Black Folk African American Museum | Daily | Fair Park | |
| Afterimage Gallery Afterimage Gallery | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am-5:30pm | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
| Afternoon Tea at City Cafe City Cafe | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 3:00pm-5:00pm | Park Cities | |
| Afternoon Tea at Renaissance Garden Café Renaissance Garden Café | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 2:00pm-4:00pm | Park Cities | |
| Miracle Al-Anon Group First Baptist Church of McKinney | Every week Wednesday, Saturday, 7:30pm | Allen/McKinney | |
| Also Gallery Also Gallery |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
| American Power Yoga American Power Yoga |
Every week Tuesday, 7:15am more dates/times |
East Dallas & Lakewood | |