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Justin Timberlake American Airlines Center : 7:00 p.m. December 4
Yes, Justin Timberlake, the crown prince of pop/viral video appearances will bring his 20/20 Experience Tour to Dallas on December 4. It's at the American Airlines Center, and tickets went on sale Monday, May 13 at 10 a.m. More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Music

Open Stage House of Poets : 7:00 p.m. every Mon.
For those who dreamed of performing on stage and now are confined to singing in the shower, there's still a chance to show the world your talent. Open Stage, a weekly variety show featuring aspiring singers, comedians and other entertainers, gives wannabe Carmen Mirandas and circus performers... More >>
Richardson & Vicinity	Theater - Small, Theater, Performing Arts, Open Mic

Dallas Comedy House Open Mic Dallas Comedy House : Every Tue.
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... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Comedy

Dallas Fort Worth Ultimate Women's Expo Fort Worth Convention Center : Daily until May 19
Listen, sister. Underneath that Jezebel-browsin’, beer-swillin’, takin’-care-of-business exterior lies a girl who once wore high-waisted acid-wash pants and danced to Amy Grant in her bedroom. Baby, baby, just maybe you like to embrace your girly-girl side once in a great... More >>
Fort Worth	Conferences

A.D.D. White Space Gallery : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until June 6
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,... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Arts

Scarborough Renaissance Festival Scarborough Renaissance Festival : Every Sat., Sun. until May 26; May 27
You might buy into Scarborough Renaissance Festival’s reputation as a haven for cat ladies, polyamorous-leaning couples and corset enthusiasts, but then you’d be missing out on the big picture. And that picture is so epically medieval, so soaked in mead and turkey grease, so full of... More >>
Waxahachie	Festivals

Wildest Weather in the Solar System Perot Museum of Nature and Science : Daily until August 25
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... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Film - IMAX, Film, Family Events

Meerkats 3D Perot Museum of Nature and Science : Daily
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... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Film

Half-Priced Monday Dinner Barcadia : Every Mon.
Mondays are sneaky. They’ll kick you in the groin without apology, and the pain — oh, the excruciatingly merciless pain — will stay with you until your weekend liberation returns and applies party salve on your wound. The least it could do is take you out to dinner. Why not... More >>
East Dallas & Lakewood	Nightlife, Food & Drink, Barhopping

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Wine Chats Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek : 6:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. every Thu.
Über-aficionados of the vine bandy about terms like 'horizontal wine tasting' and 'Methuselah,' respectively meaning a tasting of a group of wines from the same vintage or region and a really, really, big bottle of wine. Show off your newfound knowledge at The Mansion's weekly Wine Chat.... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Food & Drink

Big J Rockin Rodeo : 8:00 p.m. every Wed.
"It's a party at a Rodeo, man!" Big J shouted over Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." during the Back to School Bash at Rockin Rodeo. The crowd went wild. Wild. And, honestly, there's nothing quite like seeing a dance floor packed with a couple hundred folks dancing in unison, doing the "Cupid... More >>
Denton	Music

Jody Jones The Grotto : 9:00 p.m. every Mon.
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... More >>
Fort Worth	Music

DJ Dirty Cha Cha Renfield's Corner : 10:00 p.m. every Sun.
The old joke doesn't work on Chelsea Callahan. She loves local music so much that she probably would marry it—if she could. For now, though, she's just pleased that they have a really great relationship. "I don't think there's a reason to be negative," Callahan says. "To me, the music... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Music

Monday Nite Fights Caribbean Grill : 10:00 p.m. every Mon.
You say, "Public speaking?" and we say, "No, thank you." The idea is nauseating. But man, if we could only rap. Then we could turn to our alter ego, MC Pants, and get all 8 Mile up in that piece for our certainly supportive audience. Right. Problem is we can't freestyle. So, for the Monday Nite... More >>
Carrollton/ Farmers Branch	Music

Mesophase Ro2 Art Downtown : Every Thu., Fri., Sat. until June 1
Dallas artist Justin Ginsberg debuts his solo exhibition Mesophase at Ro2 Art (110 N. Akard St.) Friday. According to his statement, he attempts to “utilize molten glass in non-traditional means, directing it to engage in extreme, and sometimes violent interactions, with outside... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Art - Galleries

Fela! The Winspear Opera House : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 19
It’s hard to resist the sound of a good Afrobeat tune, and we have one man to thank for its prevalence in modern culture — Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The Nigerian musician, composer and social and political activist led the life that musical legends are made of. And with some help from... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Theater

Fort Worth Music Festival: Drive By Truckers, Old 97's, Whiskey Myers, Dirty River Boys, Quaker City Night Hawks, Calhoun, The Will Callers, The Southern Renaissance, The Longshots, Galactic, The Walkmen, Allen Stone, Delta Spirit, ZZ Ward, Ivan Neville's Panther Island Pavilion : 1:00 p.m. May 18
This year’s Spune-produced Fort Worth Music Festival has a lineup built for picnics. Good thing, then, that its setting will be the most beautiful chunk of riverfront anywhere in the metroplex. From the green of Panther Island Pavilion you can watch local heroes Old 97’s kick up... More >>
Fort Worth	Music

Fly By Night Kalita Humphreys Theater : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 26
In the time between her critically lauded 2011 play Tigers Be Still and her new musical Fly By Night, co-written with Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly, playwright Kim Rosenstock has sharpened her comedic knife considerably. Fly By Night, which debuts at the Kalita Humphreys Theater (3636... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Theater

Yoga in the Galleries The Crow Collection of Asian Art : 5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. every Thu.
If there is one thing more relaxing than roaming the galleries of an art exhibit, thrusting your eyes upon beautiful paintings, sculptures and photographs, it's doing so in the midst of an intense yoga session. Lucky for all you tranquility-seeking art lovers, the Crow Collection of Asian Art... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Sports - Participatory, Museum Exhibits & Events, Arts

Deep Ellum Brewing Company Tours Deep Ellum Brewing Co. : 6:00 p.m. every Thu.
Imagine touring Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, only instead of chocolate it’s flowing with beer — cold, craft-brewed beer that makes those little Oompa Loompas a little more annoying than usual, but screw it: There's beer. That's basically what Deep Ellum Brewing Company... More >>
Fair Park	Tours

DJ SpaceChase Andy's Basement Bar & Grill : 9:00 p.m. every Thu.
Each week at Andy's Bar, Denton Dance Collective and DJ SpaceChase host Subsonic Indulgence, a bill of local artists, DJs and electronic musicians who play enough electronic, techno, dance and hip-hop to get your body rockin'. The all-original music is accompanied by live painting by Beth... More >>
Denton	Music

Big Mike's Box of Rock Lola's Saloon : 9:00 p.m. every Tue.
I know what you're thinking. I'm not too terribly keen on cover bands either, but Big Mike's Box of Rock delivers. The group recently started a new residency at Lola's Saloon each Tuesday and it covers the best rock 'n' roll songs from 1960 to 1999. Rock musician and guitar-shredder "Big" Mike... More >>
Fort Worth	Music

Matt Tolentino The Bavarian Grill : 8:00 p.m. every Thu.
At age 8, Matt Tolentino, a kid in East Dallas, became enchanted by the great Adrian Rollini, an early 20th century jazz instrumentalist best known for his bass sax in the speakeasy era just before the advent of big band swing music. Lucky for Dallas, Tolentino never came out from under... More >>
Plano	Music

Norman Rockwell and the Art of Scouting National Scouting Museum : 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. every Mon.; 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat.; 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Sun.
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... More >>
Irving & Las Colinas	Arts

DJ Rob Viktum The Slip Inn : 10:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri.
"The first hip-hop record I owned was The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five," recalls DJ Rob Viktum. "My father bought it for me." When that record first dropped, back when Viktum was but a wee lad, it was mostly the inner-city kids who were having The Message handed down to... More >>
East Dallas & Lakewood	Music