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  The 19 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week, Dec. 9 – 15

  December 9 at 1:14 p.m.

  Monday, Dec. 9 Caroling in the Arts DistrictCaroling in the Arts District Ah, caroling, that holiday tradition in which groups of strangers come to your home or accost you on the street and sing Christmas songs at you until you give them money. How is that legal? Seriously, robbery at...

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  The 20 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week, Dec. 3 – 8

  December 3 at 4 a.m.

  Tuesday, December 3 Ernie Kovacs Retrospective Dallas VideoFest annually presents The Ernie Kovacs Award to television’s comedy visionaries. In doing so, the organization normally presents a smattering of clips featuring the man who inspired so many laughs, as well as the talent honored — this year’s recipient is John Cleese...

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  The 18 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week, Nov. 25 – Dec. 1

  November 25 at 1:03 p.m.

  Monday, November 25 Gaylord Texan: Lone Star ChristmasWhy do we get the feeling that the Gaylord Texan counts down the days until Christmas, starting every Dec. 26? If you also can’t get enough of Christmas, then visit the Grapevine resort, which has more Christmas spirit than all of frickin’ Whoville...

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  The Dallas Symphony Will Premiere a Concerto for Timpani, Wine Glasses and Bouncy Balls

  November 6 at 4 a.m.

  The timpani are among a symphony orchestra’s most exciting instruments. There’s nothing quite like a musician pounding away on wide kettledrums made from copper. But aside from the occasional dramatic drumroll, timpani don’t really get big solo moments. That changes this weekend, when the Dallas Symphony premieres a new concerto...

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  DSO Symposium Aims to Change the Game for Women in the Classical Music Industry

  October 28 at 4 a.m.

  Who is your favorite composer? Is it Mozart? Or maybe it’s Beethoven or Brahms? Whoever it is, we’re willing to bet that the name that comes to mind is a white, probably European, male. Of course, there is Clara Schumann, wife of renowned Romantic composer Robert Schumann. She was perhaps...

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  The 20 Best Things to Do in Dallas, Oct. 21-27

  October 21 at 12:32 p.m.

  Monday, October 21 Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind The Perot Museum deserves major props for presenting educational material in ways more entertaining than Sesame Street ever could, but their newest exhibition doesn’t require any added song and dance. Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind offers the recently...