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THINGS TO DO IN DALLAS FORT WORTH THIS WEEKEND
(September 19-21 2014)

Irving Main Street Event
When: September 20, 2014 | 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Where: Irving Heritage District Dallas, TX

Description: Each year thousands attend this family affair, featuring live music, the Manifolds on Main Street Car Show, free rides and activities for children, a wide selection of vendors and great food.  5,000 attendees expected.

Website: http://cityofirving.org/808/Parks-and-Recreation

2nd Annual Oak Cliff Jazz Fest/Arts & Crafts Fair
When: September 20, 2014 | 11:00am to 10:00pm
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff Dallas, TX

Description: The Fest boasts 10 jazz/blues artists: Naughty Professor, Freddie Jones, Miss Marcy, Carolyn Lee Jones, Kids4Trumpets, Lady Diamond, Tutu Jones, Fingerprints, et al. Arts/Crafts Fair features talented artist/crafters selling their own art and/or handmade crafts & a few ethnic arts & craft items made in the USA or purchased via Fair (not Free) Trade. Advance tickets are $15 adult, $10 ages 11-18 at the website; at the gate they are $20 and $15. Please bring your own seating; no coolers please.

Website: http://www.oakcliffjazzfest.org

Dallas' Best BBQ & Brewery Tour, presented by Dallas Bites!
When: September 20, 2014 | 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Babb Brothers BBQ, 330 Bedford St. Dallas, TX 75212

Description: Your chance to sample the best of Dallas' renowned BBQ, on a fun bus tour! We'll start at Babb Brothers BBQ in Trinity Groves for some terrific Q, then head to Community Brewing Company to sample great beers, along with BBQ from world-famous Pecan Lodge. Plus meat from Off the Bone BBQ, Mike Anderson's and other BBQ havens. Join the party! Includes bus transportation, water and soft drinks on the bus (you can bring your own beverages if you like), tour guide, samples, brewery and much more.

Website: http://www.dallasbitesfoodtours.com

Disco Ball 2014
When: September 20, 2014 | 6:30 PM
Where: 15201 Dallas Parkway Dallas, TX 75001

Description: You are invited to boogie for a wonderful cause! Leisure suits and platform shoes, mood rings and roller skates... it's all groovy. On Saturday, September 20, you can look forward to an amazing evening of celebration and community as we transform the InterContinental Dallas into a Disco extravaganza including cocktails, fine dining, entertainment, silent and live auctions, and of course… dancing! The night will be unforgettable as we’re excited to have the Emmy-award winning Jody Dean as our emcee for the evening.

Website: http://www.newbeginningcenter.org/disco-ball-2014

The Great Texas Food Truck Rally
When: September 21, 2014 | 12:00pm to 8:00pm
Where: Reverchon Park Dallas, TX

Description: The Great Texas Food Truck Rally is a gathering of the tastiest Dallas food trucks. The diverse patrons of the DFW area will undeniably bring their appetites to experience delicious gourmet dishes from a variety of food trucks. Attendees will enjoy live music, pouring out of speakers all day long from The Spazmatics and Hard Night’s Day! The Nodding Donkey is the rally’s Beer Garden sponsor, so be sure to check out what they’re brewing and pouring all day long!

Website: http://www.executivesinaction.org

To Have and To Hold Bridal Expo
When: September 21, 2014 | 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Where: Dallas Marriott Quorum by the Galleria Dallas, TX

Description: The To Have and To Hold Bridal Expo is an exciting and fun atmosphere for brides and their plus one (or two or three) to meet vendors and plan for their wedding all in one place. Each vendor has a passion for the wedding industry and enjoys meeting new brides and their families.

Website: http://www.2haveand2holdexpo.com

WHAT TO DO IN DALLAS FORT WORTH THIS WEEKEND JULY 11-13 2014

WHAT TO DO IN DALLAS FORT WORTH THIS WEEKEND JULY 11-13 2014

2014 Asian Film Festival of Dallas

PHONE: 214-841-4713

WHEN: Friday, July 11th, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 12th, 2014 atnoon 

Sunday, July 13th, 2014 at noon

WHERE: Angelika Film Center & Café at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.  Dallas, TX 75206

DESCRIPTION

The annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas is the South’s largest showcase of Asian and Asian American cinema. Now in its 13th year, the festival has provided opportunities for nearly 400 Asian and Asian American filmmakers and documentarians to share their vision, often providing the only venue for their films to be shown in Dallas. This year's edition will feature 54 screenings of features and short films over the course of eight days.

FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT THEATERS

WHEN: JULY 11 - 8 p.m. Friday, 

JULY 12 - 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 

JULY 13 - 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday.  

WHERE: Bath House Cultural Center

521 E. Lawther Drive Dallas, TX

214-670-8749

DESCRIPTION

Find a theater company without a theater to call its own is sort of like searching for a bathroom close to your departing gate in an airport terminal. You’re going to have to go out of your way to find it, but you’ll be so happy you did. Luckily, the folks of the Festival of Independent Theatres are a little more kindhearted than most airport architects. They make it easy to find what you’re looking for at least once a year during this annual four-week event that brings together the very best in Dallas-area drama. This year’s festival pulls together eight companies, each putting on a world premiere one-act play starting Friday and running through Saturday, August 2, at the gorgeous Bath House Cultural Center, 521 East Lawther Drive. This weekend’s offerings include Playtime, produced by Prism Co., Nouveau 47’s Metamorphosis II, Echo Theatre’s Mania/Gift, and Churchmouse Production’s The Watch. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, and at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. Single tickets to shows are $18, and festival passes are $60 for two-weeks admission and $80 for all four weeks of the festival. Visit festivalofindependenttheatres.org to purchase tickets and for a full schedule.

2014 DFW Summer Boat Expo

WHEN: Friday, July 11th, 2014 at 3 p.m.

Saturday, July 12th, 2014 at 10 a.m.

Sunday, July 13th, 2014 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Dallas Market Hall

2200 Stemmons Fwy.  Dallas, TX 75207

PHONE: 214-655-6100

http://www.dallasboatexpo.com/

DESCRIPTION

The DFW Summer Boat Expo is the largest boating event in North Texas, featuring more than 450 boat and watercraft models from over 20 North Texas boat dealers. It is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of dealers' incentives on 2014 models to make room for 2015 models.

2014 Taste of Dallas

WHEN: Friday, July 11th, 2014 at 4 p.m.

Saturday, July 12th, 2014 at 11 a.m.

Sunday, July 13th, 2014 at 11 a.m.

WHERE: Fair Park  3809 Grand Ave.  Dallas, TX 75210

PHONE: 214-421-8737 

http://www.tasteofdallas.org/

DESCRIPTION

Taste of Dallas, the largest tasting event in Dallas-Fort Worth, will feature an expanded indoor restaurant tasting experience to complement everyone's favorite restaurants along the esplanade.

The event will also include music from The Spazmatics and Vanilla Ice, plenty for the kids to do, and lots to eat, shop and see make for a great weekend for eaters of all ages.

Proceeds from Taste of Dallas will benefit the American Heart Association.

2014 White Rock Local Market

WHEN: Saturday, July 12th, 2014 at 8 a.m.

WHERE: Green Spot Market and Fuels

702 N. Buckner Blvd. Dallas, TX 75218

PHONE: 214-319-7768

http://whiterocklocalmarket.org/

DESCRIPTION

At White Rock Local Market, you can find the best local produce, meats and cheese, bread and pastries, pickles, jams, tamales and more. The market is at Lakeside Baptist Church on the first and third Saturday of the month and the Green Spot on the second and fourth Saturday (no markets on fifth Saturdays). On the first and second Saturday you can also find handmade furniture, toys, clothes, soaps and more, all made by North Texans.

FIFA World Cup Third Place Game Viewing Party

WHEN: Saturday, July 12th, 2014 at 3 p.m.

WHERE: Main Street Garden

1920 Main St. Dallas, TX 75201

PHONE: 214-744-1270

DESCRIPTION

Main Street Garden will host a free viewing party of the third place game from the FIFA World Cup on a 9x12 mobile LED screen. Food, beer & wine will be available for purchase onsite from City Park Café.

Friday Night Drags Fort Worth

WHEN: Friday, 07/11/2014

WHERE:  Texas Motor Speedway, FORT WORTH

PHONE: 817-215-8500

http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com/

DESCRIPTION

Your Friday nights just got hotter at Texas Motor Speedway! Friday Night Drags is heads up, street style drag racing. Racing is held on the one-eighth-mile pit road and the events are open to any automobile and any driver. Gates open nightly at 6:00 p.m. Drag Racing or Show-N-Shine entry fee is $20. Spectator entry is $7 at gate 6. Parking is free outside gate 6 in the PSL lot or $20 for infield parking. BYOC – bring your own cooler, just remember no glass!

Sunset Concert Series The Colony

WHEN: Friday, 07/11/2014

WHERE:  Stewart Creek Park

3700 Sparks Rd., The Colony, TX 75056

PHONE:  972-625-1106

http://www.visitthecolonytx.com/

DESCRIPTION

Come on out to Stewart Creek Park to enjoy a sunset concert. Relax to the sounds of the band as we enjoy the beautiful sun setting on Lake Lewisville. Free admission but regular vehicle rates apply to enter the park. For more information, please contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 972-625-1106.

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND IN DALLAS FORT WORTH TX JUNE 27 -29, 2014

CONCERTS IN THE GARDEN

FORT WORTH BOTANICAL GARDEN

MUSIC OF THE ROLLING STONES

JUNE 27, 2014

MUSIC OF THE EAGLES

JUNE 28, 2014

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

JUNE 29, 2014

MAGNOLIA MOTOR LOUNGE PRESENTS: BRANDON RHYDER

MAGNOLIA MOTOR LOUNGE – FORT WORTH

JUNE 29, 2014

Friday Night Drags Fort Worth

Friday, 06/27/2014

Where:  Texas Motor Speedway             

Phone:  817-215-8500    

http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com

DESCRIPTION

Your Friday nights just got hotter at Texas Motor Speedway! Friday Night Drags is heads up, street style drag racing. Racing is held on the one-eighth-mile pit road and the events are open to any automobile and any driver. Gates open nightly at 6:00 p.m. Drag Racing or Show-N-Shine entry fee is $20. Spectator entry is $7 at gate 6. Parking is free outside gate 6 in the PSL lot or $20 for infield parking. BYOC – bring your own cooler, just remember no glass!

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Exhibit Fort Worth

Saturday, 06/14/2014 thru Sunday, 09/07/2014

Where:  Amon Carter Museum of American Art               

http://www.cartermuseum.org/

DESCRIPTION

This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents the traveling exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of the artist’s paintings in two decades. Organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, this 40-year survey includes works from each period of Archibald John Motley Jr.’s (1891—1981) career. The exhibition is on view at the Amon Carter from June 14 through September 7, 2014; admission is free.

Motley’s scenes of life in the African-American community, often in his hometown of Chicago, depict a parallel universe of labor and leisure and are infused with the rhythms and colors of jazz. His portraits are voyeuristic examinations of race, gender and sexuality. Also included in the exhibition are his noteworthy canvases of Jazz Age Paris and 1950s Mexico, as well as works that address slavery and racial stereotypes.

The artist was born in New Orleans and lived and worked in the first half of the 20th century in a predominately white neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest side, a few miles from the city’s growing black community known as “Bronzeville.” At the onset of the Harlem Renaissance—a time of cultural efflorescence for African-Americans in the 1920s—Motley reveled in painting Chicago’s black community during the city’s own cultural renaissance. Motley carefully constructed portraits that depict Chicago’s African-American elites, but he also incorporated scenes of recently disembarked migrants from the South and other communities commonly overlooked.

The artist’s incisive portraits and energetic genre scenes garnered accolades from art critics, launching a productive career. In 1929, after studying at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago, Motley received a Guggenheim Fellowship, funding a year of study in France. During this time he created Blues, a colorful, rhythm-inflected painting of Jazz Age Paris and several canvases that vividly capture the pulse and tempo of “la vie bohème.” Similar in spirit to his Chicago paintings, these Parisian canvases thematically and pictorially extended the geographical boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance, depicting an African diaspora in Paris’s meandering streets and congested cabarets. His bold approach to painting also marked his visits to Mexico in the 1950s. Motley’s work from this period includes satirical, embellished scenes of country life.

LEGO® Castle Adventure Fort Worth

Saturday, 05/24/2014 thru Saturday, 09/13/2014

Where:  American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum 

http://www.crsmithmuseum.org/Exhibits.aspx

DESCRIPTION

Builders of all ages are invited to explore, build and play in LEGO® Castle Adventure! In this exhibit kids and their families are transported to a LEGO® kingdom where they too can become master castle builders, using one of the greatest building materials of all time – LEGO bricks.

Indiana Jones™ and the Adventure of Archaeology:

The Exhibition Fort Worth

Saturday, 03/08/2014 thru Sunday, 08/10/2014

Where:  Fort Worth Museum of Science & History          

http://fortworthmuseum.org/indiana-jones%E2%84%A2-and-adventure-archaeology-exhibition

DESCRIPTION

Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology, opening March 8, 2014, uses the Indiana Jones™ film series as both a starting point and a backdrop for an exciting and entertaining introduction to the real science of field archaeology. Showcasing items from four different collections, Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology is far more than a static display of movie props. Museum-goers learn how archaeology has changed from the mid-20th century, when Indy’s adventures took place, until the present day.