Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday There’s almost never a time we don’t want to let loose at a dance party, and when it benefits a great organization? All the better. That’s why you’ll find us front and center at the Greg Dollenger Memorial AIDS Fund’s annual MetroBall 2018 at 7 p.m. Friday at Station…

Busking With The Bacon Brothers at the Belmont Hotel in Dallas

Globe Trek Productions caught up with The Bacon Brothers — that’s Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael — before their gig at the Kessler earlier this month. On the balcony of Room 51 at the Belmont Hotel in Dallas, Kevin and Michael and their band performed two songs from their new…

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Wednesday Clemantine Wamariya was 6 years old and her sister Claire was 15 when they fled the Rwandan genocide and were separated from their family in 1994. They finally made it to America in 2000, and Wamariya went on to write The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War…

Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is once again teaming up with conductor Jeff Tyzik to bring epic cinema scores to life. Expect the grandiose and the moving as the orchestra explores the most enduring works of Korngold, John Williams, John Barry, Mancini and more. Classics such as Indiana Jones, Pink…

Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday The Dallas Mavericks had a terrible season on the court — and a worse one off it when a Sports Illustrated feature revealed the corporate work environment was rife with sexual harassment. But somehow, Dallas’ GOAT — greatest of all time — and our recent cover boy, Dirk Nowitzki,…

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Wednesday Five-time Grammy Award winner Shania Twain will forever be held up among the likes of other past queens of country music, such as Kitty Wells, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Reba McEntire. She’s sold more than 100 million records, making her the top-selling female country recording artist of all…

Demi Lovato Deletes Tweet About Sexual ‘Prank’ on Bodyguard

On Twitter this weekend, Dallas native Demi Lovato tweeted about pranking her bodyguard with a “lady of the night.” During a Twitter Q&A, Lovato said it was the “funniest prank ever.” “She walked into his room without permission and grabbed him in his ‘area’ and he freaked the fuck out…

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Wednesday See late 19th century France through the eyes of Parisian nobility when French literature professor and fashion historian Caroline Weber discusses her latest book, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siecle Paris, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717…

You Didn’t Ask for It: Your Dallas Reality Show News

Dallas is known for cowboys, the Cowboys, the Cowboys Cheerleaders, housewives, the Housewives and a lot more really great reality television. And the bad good reality TV will continue this fall. CMT announced Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team will return for its 13th season at 9 p.m. Aug. 2. Cheerleader…

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Friday Let’s see, it’s step, step, hop, turn, hop. Or is that hop, step, hop, turn? It’s so tough to remember polka steps without a head full of beer. Never worry, though — there’ll be plenty of dancers willing to show you the ropes at the National Polka Festival this…

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Thursday The robots will soon overtake us, and Alexa will be their queen. The world’s most chipper shopping assistant is more intuitive than Siri, more confident and more pop culture savvy. It’s her job to connect you with you with binge-worthy, earwormy content as well as with household cleaning supplies,…

Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday Addison might be known for its endless row of chain restaurants, but its food scene deserves more credit than that. Taste Addison is here to prove that even foodies can love the suburb. Blue Goose Cantina, Table 13, and yeah, On The Border all participate in the three-day event…

Eric Nadel Is the Texas Rangers’ Voice of Hope

Eric Nadel was aware of mental illness from an early age. His mother volunteered for an organization for emotionally disturbed children, and his family has a history with depression and anxiety. “I became very aware at a really early age that that sort of problem was very prevalent,” says Nadel,…

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Wednesday Metallica with cellos. That’s all you really need to know about Finnish orchestral rock band Apocalyptica, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its debut album, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos. The group (which hopefully you’ve gathered is made up of four cellists) created a new genre with this…

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Friday Playwright Eric Tucker’s Cry Havoc! is a meticulously layered piece of theater. It functions as autobiography, therapy, social commentary, literary tribute and more. Tucker, an Army veteran, has done something of a mind-meld with Shakespeare, interweaving the experiences, traumas and aftermath of his service with formidable quotes from Julius…

20 Things To Do in Dallas This Week

Wednesday If your parents drive you nuts now, wait until they are old and relying on you to decide their future. The Velocity of Autumn, a play at Bath House Cultural Center, explores what happens when Alexandra, an 80-year-old artist, gets in a showdown with her kids over how she’ll…