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| 25th annual Beaujolais Wine Festival World Trade Center | Fri., November 21, 6:00pm | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
Other than having free reign to eat copious amounts cornbread stuffing and pumpkin pie with family and friends, my favorite thing about Thanksgiving Day is popping open a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau. Yes, wine snobs, I know that it's a young wine that hasn't had time to fully mature and... More >> |
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| The Black Crowes Palladium Ballroom | Fri., November 21 | Oak Cliff & South Dallas | |
On Warpaint, the band's first studio release since re-forming in 2005, the Black Crowes show how a little time off can work wonders. The album continues to improve the band's winning brand of Southern-fried power blues-rock, as opener "Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution" and "Movin' on Down... More >> |
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| Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band McFarlin Auditiorium | Fri., November 21, 8:00pm | Park Cities | |
Divine inspiration brought the Blind Boys of Alabama together in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, a school that taught blind youth of the beleaguered South Braille and trained them for rudimentary careers making broom handles and chair bottoms. Today, leader Jimmy Carter is... More >> |
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| The Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis and The Honey Bears, Les Amercains Club Dada | Fri., November 21 | West Dallas | |
Punk blues/soul musician Black Joe Lewis is apparently a man of few words, but then again, songs like his own "Bitch, I Love You" pretty much speak for themselves. The track, from his self-titled 2006 debut, marries Lewis' foul-mouthed man-done-wrong verses ("Come home late at night/Bitch, you... More >> |
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| Torche, Black Cobra, Clouds The Lounge on Elm Street | Fri., November 21 | West Dallas | |
Listening to the colossal wallop of the Florida underground metal outfit Torche is a pleasure. And making that colossal wallop is equally fulfilling.
But as I discover upon ringing guitarist and band co-founder Juan Montoya, there are some perils involved as well: "Can I call you right back?"... More >> |
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| Beowulf is min Nama Fort Worth Community Arts Center | Daily from Fri., November 21 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm | Fort Worth | |
Jeff Kaplan, a Denton-based actor and dancer will perform his one-man show, Beowulf is min nama, on 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Imagine, a Texan spouting verse in Old English while supertitles float above the stage to aid the baffled audience. Add to this the beauty of post-modern dance as Mr.... More >> |
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| Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art | Third Friday of every month | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
Makes sense that Starbucks, which serves wake-the-dead coffee, would sponsor a program about the afterlife for the after hours: the Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art series from 6 p.m. to midnight the third Friday of each month. On November 21, weary parents can get wired on triple shots... More >> |
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| The Marriage of Figaro Music Hall at Fair Park |
Fri., November 14, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Fair Park | |
They're doing The Marriage of Figaro! For those who groan at the mention of the word opera, let me just add to your misery by assuring you that Mozart did write it and it's in Italian. I know, now you really don't want to make the trek all the way down to the Music Hall at Fair Park to see the... More >> |
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| Roger McGuinn Bass Performance Hall |
Fri., November 21, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Fort Worth | |
When Roger McGuinn first plugged his Rickenbacker 12-string into a compressor and hit a few chiming arpeggios, it's unlikely he knew he'd just created the jingle-jangle shot heard round the world. Along with his talented bandmates in the Byrds, the man helped invent both folk-rock (with the... More >> |
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| Make Space of Artists: Design-A-Studio Dallas Museum of Art | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 6 until Thu., February 12 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
A long overdue trip to IKEA can act as a reminder that there's a designer in everyone--if they can make a 200-square-foot space livable, just imagine what you could do if you were given a shot. Now you get your chance to show your flair for interior design as the Dallas Museum of Art's new... More >> |
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| Deck the Halls Old Red Museum | Daily from Sat., November 15 until Sun., January 11 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
Old Red's getting into the spirit of things, though they're doing it a little late by modern standards. After all, everybody else had their halls decked the day before Halloween. Better late than never as they always say--of course, we don't know who they are exactly, but we're told they are... More >> |
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| Get Gifted at the Station Mockingbird Station | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Mon., November 3 until Fri., December 19 | East Dallas & Lakewood | |
Nothing says "holiday season" like a bustling train stop. Fortunately, Dallas being the way it is, our train stops come complete with retail, dining and film opportunities. Mockingbird Station does, at least, and much like retailers everywhere, the station is getting in the holiday spirit. With... More >> |
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| The Great Russian Nutcracker Majestic Theatre | Daily from Thu., November 20 until Sun., November 23 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
There is a holiday story that's bigger than Santa's bag of toys. That blows the nose off Rudolph. That melts Frosty and burns Alfie the Christmas tree...no, never mind, no one messes with Alfie (regardless of his association with John Denver). This legendary tale travels through reality, Nod... 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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| Hanging Out with Boys and Little Cloths Latino Cultural Center | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., September 12 until Sat., November 29 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
If you've seen the movie Top Gun you're no doubt familiar with the Kenny Loggins song "Playing With The Boys," which perfectly scores that film's classic beach volleyball scene. It also happened to be the first thing I thought of when confronted with the title of the Latino Cultural Center's... More >> |
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| Synecdoche, New York The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |
Fri., November 21 more dates/times |
Fort Worth | |
The word "genius" tends to be thrown around loosely these days, but Charlie Kaufman might actually warrant the label. Like a modern-day bard, the prolific screenwriter tells original, inventive stories that cause people to think and feel in delightfully different ways. He's paired his... More >> |
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| Brian Gibb: All That Glitters Isn't Gold The Magnolia Theatre | Daily from Fri., October 17 until Wed., December 3 | East Dallas & Lakewood | |
Brian Gibb is a dangerous man. He can make you want things. He can make you buy things. And he doesn't even have to be in the room. His eye for talent brings some seriously amazing shows to his gallery, The Public Trust. But more important, his own art is...well...addictive. I have a... More >> |
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| Super Market: An Exhibition of New Work by Brent Ozaeta The Public Trust (formerly Art Prostitute Gallery) | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 24 until Sat., December 6 | ||
The first thing that strikes me about the artist behind Super Market is that he was born in 1985. In 1985, I was angling for a Spuds McKenzie T-shirt for Christmas and obsessing over Depeche Mode. Brent Ozaeta, however, was being born. This piece of knowledge has the effect of a) making me feel... More >> |
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| SMU for the North Texas Food Bank Food Drive Open Location | Daily from Sat., November 15 until Mon., November 24 | Downtown & Deep Ellum | |
Redistributionist-In-Chief-Elect Barack Obama will soon rescue us from the horrible poverty created by the evil Bush regime. But until January 20, 2009, we'll need charities like North Texas Food Bank. The Meadows School of the Arts, SMU-in-Legacy and Resounding Harmony choir will help restock... More >> |
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| Social/Scene University of Texas at Dallas | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., October 31 until Sat., December 13, 9:00am-10:00pm | Richardson & Vicinity | |
Anyone who knows anything about this country of ours knows that it's a fusion of different cultures, locations, ideals and lifestyles. It's obvious, even deep in the heart of Texas, as ethnic neighborhoods bump up next to each other and spill over freely, and it's visible in the hodgepodge of... More >> |
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| A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant The Circle Theatre |
Every week Thursday from Thu., November 20 until Sat., December 20, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Fort Worth | |
The Church of Scientology has shown its willingness to bully critics in the courtroom, and because I could no sooner afford to defend myself in a lawsuit than I could afford my own personal E-meter, I'll just say that any religion that offers protection from spirits trapped on Earth by the evil... 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 | |