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closeWednesday, Sep. 16, 2009
The Dirty Dozen
Your Dirty Dozen fun-pack: GrapeFest, Pink, Dallas Pride and a wild mustang makeover.
Pink brings opens up her Funhouse at American Airlines Center on Wednesday.
Dallas Pride Parade and Festival
Pull your rainbow togs right outta that closet, Sister: It’s time for pride. Big D has its big gay pride hoopla a few weeks before Cowtown does. (The Fort Worth parade is Oct. 4.) This is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which marked the beginning of the gay-rights movement. At the top of the luminaries list is honorary grand marshal, author, actor, AIDS activist and ACT UP founder Larry Kramer. The actual grand marshal is Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, the county’s first openly lesbian sheriff. Featured festival speaker is Cleve Jones, former Harvey Milk protégé and founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt project. But if you need more, there’s music, general outlandishness and drag queens. A perfect day.
When: Sunday. Festival starts at noon; parade at 2 p.m.; speakers at 5 p.m.
Where: Parade begins on Wycliffe Avenue between Maple Avenue and Cedar Springs Road. Festival in Lee Park.
Cost: free
Info:www.dallasprideparade.com
Blink-182 with Fall Out Boy and All-American Rejects
If you dig you some pop-punk, then we know . . . you’ll be . . . at this show. Watching, waiting, commiserating. Or maybe just pit dancing to the sounds of this awesome bill.
When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23
Where:Superpages.com Center, Dallas
Cost: $25-$69.50
Info:www.livenation.com
Cliburn gold medalist Nobuyuki Tsujii
And you thought Nobu fever was dying down. Ha! Nobuyuki Tsujii, the blind Japanese phenom — who shared the 2009 Cliburn gold medal with Haochen Zhang — returns to the Bass for an encore performance.
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Bass Hall, Fort Worth
Cost: $15-$90
Info:www.basshall.com
Me and My Monkey If you haven’t gotten your copy of The Beatles: Rock Band yet, here’s a killer-diller warmer-upper: Me and My Monkey — a great, Fort Worth-based Beatles tribute band. They’re fab enough to have played the Cavern Club during Liverpool’s Beatle Week, and now they’re playing for you — whether you have walrus gumboot or not.
When: 9:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Keys Lounge, 5677 Westcreek Drive, Fort Worth
Cost: $10
Info:www.keyslounge.com
GrapeFest
"Here’s to the corkscrew — a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship and the gate of pleasant folly." We couldn’t agree more with this quote’s author, the late U.S. Army Capt. W.E.P. French. But at the 23rd annual GrapeFest, we don’t even need the corkscrew. Just all our senses, to take in the wine, music, art and noshes. Cheers!
When: Thursday through Sunday
Where: historic downtown Grapevine.
Cost: free all day Thursday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; all other times: $5-$23
Info:www.grapevinetexasusa.com/GrapeFest
Black Cinematheque Film Festival
For fans of soul music, the Stax/Volt Revue: Live in Norway 1967 concert film is a treasure trove: Otis Redding doing Try a Little Tenderness, plus Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs, Eddie Floyd, Arthur Conley and the Mar-Keys. "One after another, [the singers] knock themselves out," New York Times critic John Pareles wrote of the film. The 75-minute concert includes 20 minutes of recently discovered performances lost in the vaults for 40 years.
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave., Dallas
Cost: $5
Info: 214-939-2787
It’s Britney! Then Pink! What a week at the AAC, with two pop goddesses in town: on Friday, it’s the re-emergence of Britney Spears, who brings her bombastic Circus tour back to the Big D. Sure, she reportedly lip-syncs through much of the show, but it’s Britney, not Beverly Sills. And we’ve heard the production is eye-popping. Then on Wednesday, it’s badass Pink’s turn. Normally, we’d insert a Pink joke here, but a) she’s just too effin’ cool to make fun of and b) we’re a teeny bit afraid of her.
When: Britney: 8 p.m. Friday; Pink: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: American Airlines Center
Cost: Britney, $39.50-$495; Pink, $39.50-$49.50
Info: www.americanairlinescenter.com
Cowtown Cruisin’ for a Cure
Hot rods, custom cars and all manner of vintage autos will infiltrate downtown Fort Worth on Saturday, all part of a benefit for prostate cancer research and treatment. The event also will be packed with food and music, and, best of all — free prostate screenings! Because it wouldn’t be a car show without them.
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
Where: Sundance Square, downtown Fort Worth
Cost: free
Info:www.cowtowncruisinforacure.org
A Sordid Comedy Affair
Fans of Sordid Lives — the play, the cult movie and the one-season Logo TV series about a wackadoodle white-trash Texas family — should start forming a line at the Majestic now. Several cast members, including Leslie Jordan (who was so devilishly adorable as Will & Grace’s Beverly Leslie that we still want to eat him with a spoon), Caroline Rhea, Rue McClanahan and others, along with creator Del Shores, will appear for a night of comedy . Let the over-the-top Southern stereotyping commence!
When: 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St., Dallas
Cost: $22.50-$100
Info:www.liveatthemajestic.com
Roundup for Autism Awareness Day Cowtown comes out in force at the Stockyards this weekend, with a parade of cowboys, saloon girls and flamenco dancers. The event, hosted by the Autism Treatment Center, also features a celebrity rodeo, where local luminaries (such as Barry Corbin) and big-name rodeo competitors will rope and bull-ride for your entertainment.
When: Friday; activities throughout the day; parade is at 6 p.m., Celebrity Rodeo is at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Fort Worth Stockyards
Cost: free
Extreme Mustang Makeover Western Stampede
We fought the urge to say "wild horses couldn’t keep us away from this event," but as you can see, we failed. This year’s performance and transformation of 125 formerly wild horses isn’t the event’s only attraction; Extreme Mustang Makeover has partnered with the Humane Society of North Texas for the Extreme Mutt Makeover. That’s where 10 shelter dogs from the Humane Society of North Texas are matched with 10 dog trainers. The pooches are then available for adoption.
When: 8 a.m. Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. Sunday
Where: Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth
Cost: $15-$22
Info: www.extrememustangmakeover.com
FenCon
For those not in the know — like us, until now — FenCon is the Fan-Operated Science Fiction and Fantasy Literary and Filk Convention. And it’s here, in all its costumed, sci-fi, geeked-out glory. Umm . . . "filk"? It’s fan music — the term may originate from a misspelling of "folk." FenCon starts Friday, but you can still register at the door. That’s all, filks.
When: Friday through Sunday
Where: Crowne Plaza North Dallas, Addison
Cost: $40 at the door
Info:www.fencon.org
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