WHAT TO DO IN DALLAS FORT WORTH THIS WEEKEND - JUNE 20 TO 22, 2014

Friday Night Drags Fort Worth

WHEN: Friday, 06/20/2014

Where:  Texas Motor Speedway       

Phone:  817-215-8500            

Description of Event:

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!

Way out Wineries

Summertime Cook-Off Road Trip June 20-22 Go Hog Wild!

June 20, 2014 (Fri) - June 22, 2014 (Sun) from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Thirteen Wineries in the Heart of Texas Wine Country 677 CR 430
Bend, Lampasas, Burleson, Comanche, San Saba, Granbury, TX 76824

Phone: 512-565-2718

Take a culinary tour to thirteen Way Out Wineries in the Heart of Texas Wine Country.  Winery "Chefs" will compete for the coveted winner's trophy and YOU are the judge!  Each ticket holder will pick up a souvenir tasting glass at the first winery stop.  Then get complimentary wine tastings at each winery and sample the winery's entry in the great Summertime Cook-Off.  The mystery ingredient for this year’s fierce competition is Pork Butt!  At your last winery stop vote for your favorite, then check facebook and twitter for the results.  Buy tickets early as this event sold out last year. Don't be disappointed! Tickets at www.wayoutwineries.org

New:  Win a guided wild hog hunt!  Enter the drawing at each winery for multiple chances to win this exciting wild hog hunt in San Saba County courtesy of Regan Kirk and Chris Turner, experienced hunt guides.  The more wineries you visit the more chances you have to win.  Winner announced after the event. Ticket holders only.

Participating wineries are: Alamosa Wine Cellars and Fiesta Winery, Bend; Barking Rocks and Pemberton** Winery, Granbury; Bluff Dale Winery, Bluff Dale, Brennan Vineyards, Comanche; Lost Oak and Sunset Winery, Burleson; Pillar Bluff and Texas Legato, Lampasas, Rising Star Vineyards, Salado*; and Wedding Oak Winery, San Saba and Red Wing Dove** Winery, Hamilton ** New to the Way Out Wineries *Rising Star location is not open

 Dallas Indie Festival Dallas

WHEN: Saturday, 06/21/2014 thru Sunday, 06/22/2014

Where:  Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E.Lawther Drive  

Description of Event:

Come experience the 2014 Dallas Indie Film Festival featuring the best of emerging and experienced filmmakers, fine artists, and musicians. In addition to a full schedule of short and feature-length films, live music, food trucks, and artist’s booths.

Dallas Indie Festival combines film, art and music during the stretch of the festival. Dallas Indie Festival will launch a huge multi-genre festival at White Rock Lake. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to submit. Some of the categories are: Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Jewelry, Metalwork, and Digital, Sculpture, Fashion and Wood. The event will be set against the backdrop of the beautiful shoreline of White Rock Lake.

Deep Ellum Spring Outdoor Market

Date of Event June 21, 2014 - June 21, 2014

Event Location: Downtown Dallas

2800 block of Main St. between Malcolm X and Crowdus

Dallas, TX 75226

Description of Event: Shop local! All vendors are from within 150 miles from DFW. Features live music and food trucks! Hours: 11:00AM - 5:00PM

Dallas Antique and Coll. Show

Date of Event: June 21, 2014 - June 22, 2014

Event Location: Dallas Fair Park, Dallas, TX 75210

Description of Event:

Dallas Antiques and Collectibles Market will be held on June 21-22, 2014. This monthly market originated in January 1995 and has grown to be one of the finest and most respected antique and collectible markets in the United States. Featuring more than 85,000 square feet filled with antiques and collectibles dealers from across the United States and Europe, this market is visited by thousands of eager-to-buy customers and collectors each month. Hours: Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Original Ft Worth Gun Show

Date of Event: June 21, 2014 - June 22, 2014

Event Location:  Amon Carter Exhibit Hall

3401 Burnett Tandy

Ft Worth, TX 76107

Description of Event:

Show will be held on June 21 - June 22, 2014. Come and see us at the Will Rogers center. With over 1,200 TABLES, this is one of Fort Worth's BIGGEST Gun Show! Public Invited to Buy, Sell, or Trade. Hours: Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Blue Moon Psychic and Holistic Fair Dallas, TX

Date of Event:  June 22, 2014

Event Location: Double Tree Hotel

4099 Valley View Lane

Dallas, TX 75244

Description of Event:

Psychic Fair will be held on June 22, 2014. Live entertainment. Featuring local artists. Entertainment services are: Harp, Native American flute and acoustic guitar performers. Hand embroidered scarves, shawls, shirts, tops, bags, evening purses, cell phone purses, coin purses, all very ethnic and very Indian, and colorful. Also, have ethnic Indian Jewelry, coasters, and fancy gift bags and much more. Hours: 12pm-6pm

WHAT TO DO IN DALLAS – FORT WORTH THIS WEEK END !!!

Beastro Fort Worth

Friday, 06/13/2014

WHERE: FORT WORTH ZOO

Beastro, the area’s premier tasting and music event, features the finest area restaurants stationed throughout the Zoo serving sample appetizers, entrées and desserts. The event also features open bars throughout the park and live musical entertainment.

Fair Park Sparks Dallas

Friday, 06/13/2014

Where:  Fair Park Dallas

Phone:  214-670-8400

           

Mark your calendar and plan to attend Fair Park Sparks! on Friday June 13th from 5:00pm-10:30 PM. 

Fair Park Sparks is a family-oriented outdoor festival to celebrate the addition of thousands of new decorative enhancement lights that will illuminate Fair Park’s historical buildings, grounds and the ever-popular Esplanade Fountain.

Nationally recognized pop/rock bands Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Sugar Ray will headline two performance stages along with a lineup of local artists who will be announced soon. 

Synchronized music shows will occur at Esplanade Fountain throughout the night and a fireworks display will conclude the evening. 

Other activities include: 
Children’s area
Special vendor booths
Concessions and food trucks
Roving entertainers
Artist gallery and Wine Bar
Lighting Automobile Building, Centennial Building, Hall of State, Women’s Museum, Parry Ave Gates, MLK and Grand Avenue gates, plus 120 trees. Over a million lights will be lit up!
Bike Share unveiling
Cell Phone Tours
Museum offerings

Admission is free and parking is $5. DART’s Green Line is also an option. Celebrate with us as we “Turn on the Lights” at Fair Park!

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Exhibit Fort Worth

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

Where:  Amon Carter Museum of American Art  

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.

Safari Nights at the Dallas Zoo Dallas

Saturday, 06/14/2014 thru Saturday, 08/02/2014

Where:  Dallas Zoo   

The Dallas Zoo comes alive after-hours every Saturday night this summer starting June 14 through August 2, 2014 with Safari Nights, featuring live music, kids activities, and animals!

The Zoo stays open until 9 p.m. and you’re invited to enjoy the festivities! Come early or come later – the animals will be ready to party with music ranging from rock-n-roll, country, folks, and more. Safari Nights hits just the right note with families for an evening of fun and entertainment.

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

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

Where:  Amon Carter Museum of American Art  

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is the first retrospective of the American artist’s paintings in two decades. Archibald John Motley Jr. (1891–1981) is one of the most significant yet least known twentieth-century artists, despite the continued broad appeal of his paintings. Many of his most important portraits and cultural scenes remain in private collections and few museums have had the opportunity to acquire his work.

Killis Melton Ice Cream Crank-Off and

Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival McKinney

Saturday, 06/14/2014

Where:  315 S. Chestnut Street/Chestnut Square Historic Village

Phone:  972-562-8790

           

Come on out for some home-made ice cream and old-fashioned fun! Crankers will compete with their favorite ice cream recipes in the annual Ice Cream Crank-Off. Henry’s Ice Cream will offer a variety of flavors. Play old-fashioned carnival games, ride a pony, go for a train ride and more! Tickets to taste the competition ice cream are $20. Ice cream, rides, hot dogs, etc. are $1-$5. Cranker registration starts at 8:00 a.m., Festivities start at 9:00 a.m., Tasting Tent opens at noon and winners are announced at 1:30 p.m.

Vans Warped Tour 2014 Dallas

Sunday, 06/15/2014                                                                                            

Where:  Fair Park - Gexa Energy Pavilion

A touring music festival, Dallas headliners include Falling In Reverse, The Ghost Inside … and many more.

From the Village to Vogue:

The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith Dallas

Sunday, 06/15/2014 thru Sunday, 12/07/2014

Where:  Dallas Museum of Art       

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith features 24 pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by African American artist, Art Smith, as well as select pieces by his contemporaries.