Calendar of Events in Dallas

Saturday, May 25
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  Annual Beverly Drive Polo Cup and Concorso
  Prestonwood CC Golf Course

  There was a time when being a royal male meant more than helping to camouflage a baby bump or dodging zoom lenses on exotic Grecian islands. Not many years ago, being royalty meant being a proper diplomat, strategizing with heads of state and spending every spare moment attempting to wrangle a half-ton beast into chasing a ball across a field. That shit was important. They don’t call... Read more about this event >>

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  Carmina Burana
  Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

  Apocalyptic drumbeats and blazing brass are quickly followed by the hushed, pulsing chants of a choir as Carl Orff’s darkly seductive masterpiece begins. The opening notes of Carmina Burana, performed live by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on Saturday, are an instantly recognizable and menacing soundtrack. You’ve heard its ominous minor chords in commercials for shaving... Read more about this event >>

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  Dallas International Festival
  Centennial Hall

  This weekend, the DFW International Community Alliance brings more than 85 nations and cultures together to wave their flags as part of the second annual Dallas International Festival. Relocating to Centennial Hall at Fair Park (1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd.), the family-friendly fest will feature three stages of global music and dance performances, an extensive international bazaar with more... Read more about this event >>

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  SpringFest Closes With Two Dance Performances
  Wyly Theatre

  Summer is taunting us, with its beady eyes peeking around every corner, so to relish these final fleeting days of spring, the Texas Ballet Theater offers up amazing dance performances as part of SpringFest. Slated for the final weekend of the TBT festival is a can’t-miss double feature at the Wyly Theatre (2400 Flora St.), where the best local dancers will appear in an encore... Read more about this event >>

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  The Black Angels
  Granada Theater

  There’s been an absolute resurgence of psychedelic music over the past few years. It’s not as though it ever left, but it’s jumping from the tongues of quite a few garage singers these days. Austin’s The Black Angels deserve much of the credit for the psychedelic renaissance we’re witnessing. Together almost a decade and led by vocalist Alex Maas and the... Read more about this event >>

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Sunday, May 26
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  The Tomato Battle
  Fair Park

  Tomatoes are all kinds of awesome. The magical fruit, which mistakenly poses as a vegetable from time to time, comes in as many varieties as it has uses. But there’s one hard and fast rule with the almighty tomato: Overripe ones are disgusting. So, what’s one to do with old, inedible tomatoes? Well, some brilliant folks have decided to gather up about 300,000 of them and hold the... Read more about this event >>

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  Air Review, Dark Rooms, Great Big Beluga
  The Where House

  This awesome 10-dollar lineup is the most expensive show I've seen listed at Fort Worth's fabulously artsy, DIY music venue The Where House. That's the beauty of it. Bands like folk-pop group Air Review, who first picked up steam in 2009, and has since opened for heavy-hitters like Flaming Lips, Portugal. The Man, Grimes and School of Seven Bells, are featured alongside fresh local talent... Read more about this event >>

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  Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, a Reunion of Masterworks Exhibited in the Hotel Suite of the Presidential Couple
  Dallas Museum of Art

  Dallas started gearing up for the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination a year ago, and it will be interesting to see how much revision and hand-wringing goes into November’s “festivities.” On a more interesting note, the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) is presenting Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, a... Read more about this event >>

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  The Odd Couple, Female Edition
  Pocket Sandwich Theatre

  Dallas Theater Center’s recent production of Neil Simon’s 1965 play The Odd Couple, which focuses on the dynamic between neat freak Felix Unger and his slob roommate Oscar Madison, showed how timeless the story is. However, Pocket Sandwich Theatre (5400 E. Mockingbird Lane) thought it was time for an update, and did so with Simon’s own retooled version, starring Florence... Read more about this event >>

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Monday, May 27
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  Memorial Day at Lone Star Park
  Lone Star Park

  If drafting up a list of things that feel lucky, you’d have to include the following: A day off from the rat race. Getting to choose from a wide variety of awesome food that comes from a festival of mobilerants (aka food trucks). Bounce houses and pony rides, hello. All of this stuff is four-leaf clover good, and is readily available at Monday’s Memorial Day at Lone Star Park... Read more about this event >>

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  A.D.D.
  White Space Gallery

  Is there a more fitting acronym for an art show featuring Austin, Dallas and Denton artists than A.D.D.? Your attention will be drawn to a series of works by 18 emerging and established artists at newish collaborative venue White Space (2001 N. Lamar St., Suite 500), including Bereniche Aguiar, Michael Broussard, Luis Fernando Camacho, Alfredo Cuy, Chad Evans, Kelsey Anne Heimerman, John... Read more about this event >>

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  Adult Nights at Legoland Discovery Center
  Legoland Discovery Center

  If you’re sitting in a bedroom staring at your fully assembled Lego Creator Green Grocer set, then you clearly have a passion. A very specific one that includes showing those miniature interlocking blocks who’s boss. (Hint: It’s not Tony Danza. Or Judith Light. It’s you.) There is a special evening just for your kind: Adult Nights at Legoland Discovery Center. For a... Read more about this event >>

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  Jody Jones
  The Grotto

  Fort Worth acoustic folk singer-songwriter Jody Jones--a man, not a woman--plays compelling, heartfelt sets each Monday at The Grotto. Sometimes soft and subtle, sometimes booming and powerful, Jones gives you the entire spectrum. The folk musician and proficient guitarist was recently nominated for the 2012 Fort Worth Weekly Awards for Best Americana/Roots Rock. That's just another reason to... Read more about this event >>

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Tuesday, May 28
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  Consciousness Couture
  MVC Performance Hall

  Podiums are boring. A sculpture deserves a befitting platform, and while a rectangular box painted gallery white with a matte finish might be appropriate for formal work, pieces that veer toward the avant garde deserve something special. Or so believes fabric artist Chesley Williams, whose new show Consciousness Couture is sculptural work best rested on a human skull. (Let’s not call... Read more about this event >>

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  Bosnian Rainbows, Zorch
  Trees

  The breakup of The Mars Volta happened so far under the radar that it was almost ninja-like. A brief announcement of a hiatus was followed four months later by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez calling time on the musical project he had created in 2001 with Cedric Bixler-Zavala after the dissolution of their famed hardcore band At The Drive-In. Claiming a band was “something I haven’t been in... Read more about this event >>

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  Dallas Comedy House Open Mic
  Dallas Comedy House

  Has life turned out the way you planned? Do you see the absurdity of the daily hubbub but stay silent and limp, like a human slug just waiting to be salted? Maybe you should channel all of those observations into stand-up comedy. More than just a coping mechanism like booze and pills, stand-up comedy builds confidence and teaches you how to get to the point of a story. It also teaches you... Read more about this event >>

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  Meerkats 3D
  Perot Museum of Nature and Science

  Impossibly adorable and standing only 12 inches tall, the meerkat clan in the new National Geographic release Meerkats 3D is freakishly relatable. That’s likely due more to the film’s design then its subjects — the animals’ existence is narrated with highly emotive plot and each tiny desert dweller is granted a quirky human title. Still, when one meerkat embraces... Read more about this event >>

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Wednesday, May 29
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  Deepak Chopra
  The Winspear Opera House

  Did you know Deepak Chopra gave spiritual advice to 50 Cent? Why that relationship was never turned into a reality show is an unsolvable riddle, but he taught Curtis Jackson how to meditate by giving him the mantra “I am.” Chopra’s status as a celebrity advisor might often overshadow the more basic spiritual teachings that made him so famous, but synergy is part of his... Read more about this event >>

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  Guns N' Roses
  House of Blues

  Running through a jungle with a crazed redhead whom people refer to as “Mr. Brownstone” screaming “Welcome to the jungle; we’ve got fun and games” wouldn’t seem like a way to spend your Wednesday night. But when the crazed redhead is Axl Rose crooning classics like “Welcome to the Jungle,” “It’s So Easy” and “November... Read more about this event >>

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  Total Control, UV Race, Parquet Courts, Infernoh, Effluxus, Vaginors, Strange Factory, The Novice
  Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

  The Savage brothers, now of Parquet Courts, spent some time in Denton bands before moving to New York. Local connections aside, this underground punk act has received its fair share of critical acclaim since they put out their cassette debut American Specialties in 2011. This was followed by a limited LP self-release of Light Up Gold on Savage’s own label and then re-released on the... Read more about this event >>

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  Wildest Weather in the Solar System
  Perot Museum of Nature and Science

  Man, you think Texas weather is a bear? Try vacationing on Titan. They've got liquid methane rainstorms which National Geographic assures us are just as bad as they sound. In the new IMAX film, Wildest Weather in the Solar System, you'll soar through a 400 year old hurricane in 3D and pop into see the sun's famous magnetic storms. Think of it as part visual ride, part educational program,... Read more about this event >>

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  Norman Rockwell and the Art of Scouting
  National Scouting Museum

  Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts of America are often underestimated these days. Rockwell is often looked upon as little more than a talented illustrator who’s given too many unimaginative home decorators an easy out for folksy Americana options, while it seems as though today’s grade-schoolers are only into smartphones and PSPs, not merit badges that boast the ability to... Read more about this event >>

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Thursday, May 30
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Friday, May 31
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