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CRITICS’ CALENDAR
A ONCE-A-MONTH LOOK AHEAD AT SOME BIG MOMENTS IN THE ARTS
Darkytown
Rebellion
(2001) by
Kara Walker,
projection,
cut paper and
adhesive on
wall
MODERN ART
MUSEUM OF
FORT WORTH
July
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Avenue Q opens at
CAROL ROSEGG
Bass Hall
Wednesday
Thursday
MOVIES
CLASSICAL MUSIC
If it’s July 4th, it must be
time for a Will Smith
movie. This year’s entry:
Hancock.
The Mimir Chamber
Music Festival opens at
TCU; runs through July 11.
$25 for each concert.
817-257-5443; www.mimirfestival.org
MUSIC
Concerts in the Garden
continues with “Old
Fashioned Family
Fireworks Picnic.”
$15-$45. 817-665-6000;
www.fwsymphony.org
Friday
Saturday
VISUAL ART
“Kara Walker: My
Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My
Love,” the first full-scale
U.S. museum show devoted to Walker’s politically charged art, opens
at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. $4$10. 817-738-9215;
www.mamfw.org
ROCK
Brace for a day of loud,
hard and fast tunes as the
Vans Warped Tour sets
up at Superpages.com
Center. $32.48. 972-6475700; www.ticketmaster.com
Will Smith in Hancock
COLUMBIA PICTURES
COUNTRY MUSIC
Robert Plant and
Alison Krauss bring
their music — as well
as T Bone Burnett —
to Grand Prairie’s
Nokia Theatre.
8 p.m. $49.50$89.50. 972-6475700; www.ticketmaster.com
Wynton Marsalis
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
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POP MUSIC
JAZZ
Occasional Dallasite
George Michael brings
his farewell tour to Big
D’s American Airlines
Center. $45-$145. 972647-5700; www.ticketmaster.com
Bass Hall swings with the
classic sounds of the Jazz
at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis. $45-$75. 817212-4280; www.basshall.com
THEATER
TV
Dallas’ Theatre Three
opens its season with the
first of Alan Ayckbourn’s
two companion plays,
House. The other, Garden, opens July 14.
$10-$40. 214-871-3300;
www.theatre3dallas.com
The girls — er, the tough
women — are back in
town as Kyra Sedgwick’s
The Closer and Holly
Hunter’s Saving Grace
have their season premieres. 8 and 9 p.m., TNT
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THEATER
POP MUSIC
THEATER
MOVIES
RAP
Naughty puppets rule
Avenue Q, which runs
through July 13 at Bass
Hall. $27-$79. 817-3322272; www.casamanana.org
Hear that high-pitched
squeal? That means the
Jonas Brothers are rockin’ Superpages.com Center. 7 p.m. $25-$75. 972647-5700; www.ticketmaster.com
Lorca Simons brings her
play The Water Bearer’s
Dream to Hip Pocket
Theatre, through July 20.
$10-$15. 817-246-9775;
www.hippocket.org
It’s an action-movie weekend, with an update of
Journey to the Center of
the Earth and a muchanticipated sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Lil Wayne’s latest, Tha
Carter III, sold a million
copies in its first week,
and he’s headlining the
K104 Summer Jam at
Grand Prairie’s Nokia
Theatre. 4 p.m. $17.50$49.50. 972-647-5700;
www.ticketmaster.com
POP MUSIC
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TV
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis have collaborated on a new CD, Two
Men With the Blues, in
stores today.
THEATER
Betty Buckley sings songs
and tells the story behind
them, in Broadway By
Request. Through July 11
at the Irving Arts Center.
$35-$55. 972-252-2787;
www.lyricstage.org
DANCE
Jeffrey
Donovan
is back
playing
(ex-)spy
Buckley
games as
the second season of
Burn Notice begins. 9
p.m., USA
Contemporary Dance/Fort
Worth’s fifth annual Modern Dance Festival begins, running through July
26 at the Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth.
Free. 817-922-0944;
www.cdfw.org
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POP MUSIC
TV
TV
MOVIES
The Hold Steady, Nas
and John Mellencamp
have new albums in stores.
Make it work, people!
Project Runway begins
season five. 8 p.m., Bravo
Wake up early to find out
how the Emmy Award
nominations will baffle
TV fans this year.
Heath Ledger’s final completed-film appearance is
in the heavily anticipated
Batman sequel, The Dark
Knight, but for something
more uplifting, there’s the
ABBA-tastic Mamma Mia!
TV
THEATER
Benjamin Bratt intervenes
in other people’s lives in
The Cleaner, a new series
about a recovering addict
helping other addicts get
clean. 9 p.m., A&E
The Festival of Independent Theatres runs
through Aug. 9 at the Bath
House Cultural Center,
Dallas. $12-$16; passes
available. 214-528-5576;
www.bathhousecultural.com
Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum
BRAVO
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Heath Ledger in
The Dark Knight
WARNER BROS.
THEATER
The Fats Waller musical
Ain’t Misbehavin’ closes
Jubilee Theatre’s season.
Through Aug 10. $20-$25.
817-338-4411; www.jubileetheatre.org
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TV
POP MUSIC
TV
THEATER
MOVIES
COMEDY
It’s July 20: Do you know
where your kids are?
They’re probably glued
to the set, watching High
School Musical: Get in
the Picture, a casting
search for people ages
16 to 22 who want to be
in show biz. 7 p.m.,
WFAA/Channel 8
Brit-pop duo Yaz stops in
at Dallas’ Lakewood Theater. $59. 972-647-5700;
www.ticketmaster.com
It’s the play that became a
movie that became a TV
show: Native Texans’ smalltown comedy-drama
Sordid Lives becomes a
series. 9 p.m., Logo
Fort Worth’s Circle Theatre gets crazy with some
Unnecessary Farce.
Through Aug. 23. $18-$28.
817-877-3040; www.circletheatre.com
TV’s favorite duo of supernatural skullduggery,
Scully and Mulder, return
to the big screen for The
X-Files: I Want to Believe. If that’s too serious,
try the latest Will Ferrell
vehicle, Step Brothers.
The delightfully D-list
Kathy Griffin gets
campy at Nokia Theatre
in Grand Prairie. 8 p.m.
$45-$65. 972-647-5700;
www.ticketmaster.com
MUSIC
Miley Cyrus, the Black
Kids, CSS and Sugarland
all have shiny new albums
in stores today.
Jersey Boys runs
through Aug. 16
CHRIS BENNION
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TV
THEATER
MUSIC
Pour a martini, put on a
dark suit and a tie, and
settle back for the second-season premiere of
the ’60s ad-man drama
Mad Men. 9 p.m., AMC
Jubilee Theatre presents
The Lady and Their
Music, two nights of
Dallas singer Denise Lee
performing tunes made
famous by Billie Holiday,
Bette Midler, Etta James,
Bonnie Raitt and more.
$20. 817-338-4411;
www.jubileetheatre.org
Snag the latest albums
from Randy Travis and
Dr. Dog, in stores today.
COMEDY
Comedy Central favorite
loudmouth Lewis Black
returns to the area at
Bass Hall. 8 p.m. $45-$65.
817-212-4280;
www.basshall.com
THEATER
The tour of the Tonywinning hit Jersey Boys,
about Frankie Valli and the
Four Seasons, runs
through Aug. 16 at Fair
Park Music Hall. $30-$100.
817-467-2787; www.dallassummermusicals.org
THEATER
Maury Yeston’s brilliant
musical Nine, based on
Fellini’s 8 1/2, runs through
Aug. 9. ICT Mainstage at
the Irving Arts Center.
$13-$18. 972-252-2787;
www.irvingtheatre.org
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RAP
Music fests are omnipresent in July; the month
concludes with the “Unity
Tour” at Dallas’ Superpages.com Center, co-headlined by 311 and Snoop
Dogg. 7:30 p.m. $18.75$45. 972-647-5700;
www.ticketmaster.com
Snoop Dogg brings the
“Unity Tour” to Dallas.
AP/JASON DECROW
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Kathy Griffin graces
Nokia Theatre BRAVO
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