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closeWednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
This week's Dirty Dozen: Shakespeare, AC/DC, and Hanson
A shock of rock with AC/DC, a Shakespearean 'Dream,' a run for Hank, a walk with Hanson.
he Hanson brothers are going on a 1-mile walk before each show in order to raise awareness for poverty and AIDS in Africa. The band plays Monday night at the House of Blues in Dallas.
Día de los Muertos Parade
Music, dancing and very creepy puppets: If you ask us, that’s what Halloween is all about. The annual Día de los Muertos parade tends to be a big and boisterous celebration — and a perfect warm-up for your trick-or-treating kids looking to get a jump on the weekend festivities.
When: 7-9 p.m. Friday
Where: Begins at Rose Marine Theater, 1440 N. Main St., Fort Worth
Cost: Free
Info:www.rosemarinetheater.com
All Tchaikovsky
The Russian composer’s beloved Romeo and Juliet and his final work, Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique," are combined in a Fort Worth Symphony performance bound to make you feel infinitely more sophisticated than all your friends.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday
Where: Bass Hall, 525 Commerce St., Fort Worth
Cost: $9-$70
Info:www.fwsymphony.org; 817-665-6000
10-4 H.A.N.K. run
Not too many causes can get us up and running at 8 a.m. on a Saturday, but this third annual run (a 10-miler, 4-miler and 1-mile fun run) honors the memory of Fort Worth police officer Henry "Hank" Nava Jr., who was killed in the line of duty in 2005. And it benefits Tarrant County police officers and their next of kin.
When: 8 a.m. Saturday
Where: Start and finish at the Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial, 2300 W. Seventh St.
Cost: $15-$30 for runners
Info:www.h-a-n-k.org
Dallas Mavericks vs. Utah Jazz
Sure, we’re smack in the middle of football season but — surprise! — Dirk and the boys are already playing actual games. (We hate preseason.) The Mavs welcome Utah to the AAC. What else do you have to do on a Tuesday?
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: American Airlines Center
Cost: $6-$9 for nosebleed seats
AC/DC The legendary screech-rockers are back in black, literally. Their Black Ice Tour makes a return stop in Dallas. Don’t forget to gargle before Highway to Hell, fellas. (And how’s this for a ’70s time warp? The Doobie Brothers are at Bass Hall at 7 p.m. Monday, and Foreigner’s at the House of Blues on Tuesday.)
When: 7 p.m. Monday
Where: AAC
Cost: $89.50
Info:www.americanairlinescenter.com
Land of the Dead Bands
Everyone’s pretending to be someone else at 1919 Hemphill’s Halloween concert. The Dead Ramones will masquerade as the Subhumans, and Fakeshrine (the dudes from Caddis and Raging Boner) will play the role of Crimpshrine. . . . It’ll all make sense when you get there.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: 1919 Hemphill St., Fort Worth
Cost: $6
Info:www.1919hemphill.org
'Invisible’ by Paul Auster
The best novel we’ve read so far this year is this just-released tale of a college student in the 1960s who enters into a dangerous friendship with a young Columbia University professor. Auster (The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, the film Smoke) meditates on his familiar obsessions — authorship, identity, coincidence — but this new book is shot through with more intensity and feeling than he’s ever displayed before. Look for Hollywood to come calling soon.
When: In stores
Cost: $25
Info: http://us. macmillan.com/invisible-1#
'A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Talk about a no-brainer: You get to see one of the greatest plays ever written in the most exciting new performing-arts space in Dallas. To kick off its first season at the new Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Dallas Theater Center serves up a production of Shakespeare’s story of mismatched lovers, featuring a mixture of local actors and students from Southern Methodist University and the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
When: 7 p.m. Tuesdays to Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays ; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 7 p.m. Sundays. Through Nov. 22.
Where: AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2100 Ross Ave., Dallas
Cost: $15-$80
Info:www.dallastheatercenter.org
Go for a walk with Hanson For those of us who still can’t get MMMBop out of our heads, here’s a chance to hang with our favorite teen pop stars from the ’90s. As part of their tour to support the new album The Walk, the Hanson brothers — Isaac, Taylor and Zac — are going on a 1-mile walk before each show in order to raise awareness for poverty and AIDS in Africa. Good cause, cute blond-haired musicians: We’re all over it.
When and where: 2 p.m. Sunday at House of Blues in Dallas. www.hanson.net. The band plays 7 p.m. Sunday at House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St.
Cost: Walk is free; concert $25-$75
Info:www.hanson.net; www.ticketmaster.com
Paul Slavens and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ If you’ve never seen a silent film with live musical accompaniment, consider a trip to Grapevine for what’s likely to be an eye- and ear-opening experience. Local musician and KERA radio personality Paul Slavens will perform his own composition for the 1923 horror classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Cheney, at the historic Palace in Grapevine. An old-school way to celebrate Halloween.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Palace Theatre, 300 S. Main St., Grapevine
Cost: $15-$20
Info:www.palace-theatre.com; 817-410-3100
Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place The Buffalo-born artist is most famous for her series of equine-themed paintings in the 1970s, but this just-opened 25-painting exhibition, organized by the Modern, shows that there is a lot more to Rothenberg than pretty horses. (Psst. The Obamas recently borrowed one of her paintings to hang in the White House.)
When: Through Jan. 3
Where: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth
Cost: $4-$10 (Free on Wednesdays and the first Sunday of each month)
Info: 817-738-9215, www.themodern.org
Texas Book Festival
It requires a trip down I-35, but the annual Texas Book Festival — which brings together authors nationally famous (Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, Kurt Eichenwald, Jonathan Lethem) and regionally beloved (Kinky Friedman, Oscar Casares) — is more than worth the drive. This year, you can also cheer on a couple of Fort Worth authors, including our friends Bob Ray Sanders (author of Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White) and Jeff Guinn (Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde).
When: Saturday and Sunday
Where: State Capitol building, Austin
Cost: Most events are free
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