DFW.com's Big Fat 2013 Events Calendar (print & save) Strike a pose as Heisman Trophy winner Johnny "Football" Manzeil comes to Arlington to lead the Aggies against the Sooners in the Cotton Bowl. And then saddle up for the Stock Show and Lady Gaga.
Jan. 2-3: Shen Yun, Winspear Opera House
Jan. 4: AT&T Cotton Bowl (Aggies vs. Sooners), Cowboys Stadium; Gregg Allman, John Hiatt with Leon Russell, Verizon Theatre
Jan. 5: Bernadette Peters with the FWSO, Bass Hall; TCU vs. Texas Tech, Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
Jan. 6: Season three of Downton Abbey begins on Masterpiece, PBS
Jan. 7: BCS National Championship Game, Notre Dame vs. Alabama (in Miami)
Jan. 8: Justified returns, FX
Jan. 10: Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas (through Jan. 26)
Jan. 11: FW Symphony, "Wagner & Strauss," Bass Hall (repeats Jan. 12-13); Reckless Kelly, House of Blues Dallas
Jan. 12: Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, AT&T PAC, Winspear Opera House; Gabriel, Stage West (through Feb. 12); B.B. King, House of Blues Dallas
Jan. 13: Golden Globe Awards, NBC; "Focus: Gary Simmons" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (through March 14)
Jan. 15: West Side Story begins, Bass Hall (through Jan. 20); Lucinda Williams, Kessler Theater, Dallas (also Jan. 18); "Ed Ruscha: Made in California" at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (through July 21)
Jan. 16: American Idol returns, Fox
Jan. 17: Archer fourth-season premiere, FX
Jan. 18: 117th Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo (through Feb. 9), Will Rogers Memorial Center; King Lear, Dallas Theater Center at Wyly Theatre (through Feb. 17); The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Theatre Arlington (through Feb. 3); The Joffrey Ballet, TITAS at Winspear, Dallas (through Jan. 19); Casey James, Billy Bob's Texas
Jan. 19: Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and parade, Fair Park; Cliburn Concerts presents "John Bucchino, composer," Modern Art Museum of FW; Los Lobos acoustic, Kessler Theater
Jan. 22: Calexico, Granada Theater, Dallas
Jan. 24: Pleasures and Palaces, Lyric Stage at Irving Arts Center (through Jan. 27)
Jan. 25: ZestFest 2013, Irving Convention Center and " Oz With Orchestra," FWSymphony, Bass Hall (through Jan. 27). Black Pearl Sings, Jubilee Theatre (through Feb. 24); Daughtry, 3 Doors Down, Verizon Theatre; The Gourds, Kessler Theater; Joe Ely, Granada Theater
Jan. 26: God of Carnage, Circle Theatre (through Feb. 23); Jack Hanna, House of Blues Dallas; Terry Allen with Carrie Rodriguez, Kessler Theater
Jan. 28: Dallas season premiere, TNT; Cliburn Concerts presents pianist Radu Lupu, Bass Hall
Jan. 29: Lady Gaga, American Airlines Center
Jan. 31: Drumline Live!, Winspear Opera House
