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Josh Groban American Airlines Center : 7:00 p.m. November 13
Josh Groban has pretty much done it all, including going multi-platinum, and nowadays he's hitting the road for his "In the Round" Tour, where he performs on nothing but 360-degree stages. More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Music

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

City of Angels Theatre Three : Every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until July 13
If you heard a piece of theater described as “a film noir homage to a book author whose narrative intertwines the Hollywood machine, a detective story and real life” you’d shrug and say “that’s confusing.” But when the same plot comes to life on stage, as it... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Theater

Gruesome Playground Injuries Second Thought Theatre : Every Thu., Fri., Sat. until June 22
Oh, allegory is the most useful of linguistic tools, keeping us from living in a world of painfully concrete Brady Bunch-esque revelations that beat us over the head with the lesson of the day. It’s so much more entertaining to unwrap life lessons one metaphor at a time, and playwright... More >>
Uptown & Oak Lawn	Theater - Small, Theater

Dallas Contemporary’s Street Art Camp Dallas Contemporary : Daily from June 24 until June 28
You spent your summer vacations shotgunning Capri Suns and watching CHiPs marathons. Maybe you got sent to vacation Bible school for a week — or if you were really lucky, actual camp — but by and large, summers were a high-fructose wasteland. Spare your kids from the monotony of... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Pop Culture, Children's Events, Arts

Life in a Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour) Bass Performance Hall : Daily from June 26 until July 1
Married people live dangerous lives. Relying on (and compromising with) one other person for all of eternity sounds risky to the unwed, so James Braly throws the doors of the espoused wide open in Life in a Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour). Part walk down memory... More >>
Fort Worth	Theater

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

Surface and Mark El Centro College : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until July 3
“Don’t touch” will be a hard request to honor at Surface and Mark, the latest group show at El Centro College’s H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery (801 Main St.). Two-dimensional art from Justin Hunter Allen, C.J. Davis, Timothy Harding, Nicholas Mathis, Jeff Parrott,... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Arts

Midsummer Night's Dream Samuell Grand Park Amphitheater : Every Tue., Sat., Sun. from June 23 until July 20
Everyone seems to have a soft spot for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Maybe that’s because of an inspired reading in high school, or perhaps it’s just that we love characters named Bottom, Snug and Snout. Really it’s because we all got sucked into Neil Perry’s love of... More >>
Oak Cliff & South Dallas	Theater, Outdoors

"Clear View" and "Pleased to Meet Me" Talley Dunn Gallery : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until July 27
Fort Worth artist Helen Altman returns to Talley Dunn Gallery (5020 Tracy St.) for the opening reception of her latest exhibit, Clear View. Altman’s work has always had a naturalistic shade, and Clear View expresses that through intricate bird sculptures and tree paintings. Also on... More >>
Park Cities	Art - Galleries

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 : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until September 5
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.... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Art - Museums

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 and Drink, Barhopping

Adult Nights at Legoland Discovery Center Legoland Discovery Center : Last Mon. of every month
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... More >>
Grapevine	Nightlife, Classes and Seminars

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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 and Events, Arts

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 and Drink

DJ Sober Beauty Bar : 10:00 p.m. every Thu.
Since being an integral member of The Party, which helped revitalize DJ culture in Dallas in the mid-'00s, Sober has branched out on his own, and quite successfully. At gigs -- and especially his popular Big Bang night every Thursday at Beauty Bar -- he and can will spin everything, so long as... More >>
East Dallas & Lakewood	Music

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

Taming of the Shrew Texas Christian University : Every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 30
The Trinity Shakespeare Festival returns for its summer run at Texas Christian University (2800 S. University Drive, Fort Worth), with two of the Bard’s most well-known plays: Julius Caesar and The Taming of the Shrew. The latter, directed by festival artistic director T.J. Walsh, is... More >>
Fort Worth	Theater - Large

The Odd Couple, Female Edition Pocket Sandwich Theatre : Every Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 22
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... More >>
East Dallas & Lakewood	Theater

Traces, by 7 Fingers The Winspear Opera House : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 23
Montreal group 7 Fingers wants to make the circus relatable. If you’ve ever seen the psychosexual alien invasion that is a Cirque du Soleil production, the scale and structure is dizzying; it’s about spectacle and endurance. With Traces, 7 Fingers is attempting to draw something a... More >>
Downtown & Deep Ellum	Theater, Circus

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

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

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

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