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    Weekend Event Planner

    These are the 13 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

    Alex Bentley
    May 16, 2019 | 6:00 am

    It's another big weekend in and around Dallas, with notable events happening at multiple venues. There will be three huge concerts, a music and arts festival, a Tony Award-winning musical, a ballet with a favorite children's character, a nationally known comedian, and historical airplanes on display, among other events.

     

    Below are the best ways to spend your free time this weekend. Want more options? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

     

     Thursday, May 16

     

     DFW South Asian Film Festival
    The 5th annual DFW South Asian Film Festival's lineup will include one world premiere, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere, 14 Texas premieres, and three Dallas premieres. The four-day movie event, taking place through Sunday in various locations around Dallas, boasts 21 shorts, documentaries, and feature films, Q&A sessions with attending filmmakers/actors, and nightly after-parties for festival-goers.

     

     Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents Symphonie Fantastique
    The penultimate concert in Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 2018-2019 season features the invigorating Violin Concerto by Brahms and the hallucinatory Symphonie Fantastique. The concert, taking place through Sunday at the Meyerson Symphony Center, will also feature the DSO debut of violinist Blake Pouliot under the direction of conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.

     

     Dallas Summer Musicals presents Miss Saigon
    This new production of the legendary musical Miss Saigon, celebrating its 30th anniversary, tells the epic story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim. In a bar run by a notorious character called The Engineer, Kim meets an American G.I., an encounter that will change their lives forever. The production, running through May 26 at the Music Hall at Fair Park, features a soaring score with songs like “Last Night of the World,” “The Movie in My Mind,” and “The Heat is On in Saigon."

     

     Friday, May 17

     

     Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival
    The Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival in Richardson boasts six performance stages, four outdoor and two inside the Eisemann Center, where more than 80 musical acts are showcased. Headlined by bands like Good Charlotte, Fitz and the Tantrums, and The Jacksons, the festival also features other national, regional, and local bands, the Singer Songwriter contest, the family friendly WF! Kids, the WF! Eats, the WF! Marketplace, and Performers Row featuring strolling entertainers, buskers and acrobats.

     

     Texas Ballet Theater presents Pinocchio
    The final production in Texas Ballet Theater's 2018-2019 season features the mischievous Pinocchio, a puppet that embarks on a whirlwind quest to become a real boy. Featuring phenomenal costuming and innovative choreography, the production will play at Winspear Opera House through Sunday before moving over to Fort Worth next weekend.

     

     Bishop Arts Theatre Center presents The Real James Bond Was Dominican
    What happens when a Dominican boy in Queens who is obsessed with James Bond finds out that the real James Bond was Dominican? This is a true story about Porfirio Rubirosa, Ian Fleming’s inspiration for Bond, and how this discovery set off a whole tragi-comic journey for a young, Dominican actor-to-be. The production will run at Bishop Arts Theatre Center through Sunday.

     

     Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time Tour
    Comedian Jim Gaffigan is as relatable a celebrity as you'll ever find. His popularity has stemmed from bits involving his struggles as the father of five kids, marriage in general, and his love/hate relationship with Hot Pockets. In advance of his latest special, Quality Time, premiering on Amazon Prime, he'll bring his stand-up tour to The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving.

     

     New Kids On The Block in concert with Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and Naughty by Nature
    Nostalgia for the '80s and '90s will be in full effect when New Kids On The Block, Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and Naughty by Nature get together for this concert at American Airlines Center. You may think all of these acts are stuck in a certain time, but headliners NKOTB released an EP, Thankful, in 2017, while Tiffany has been the most prolific musician of the group, releasing her 10th album, Pieces of Me, in 2018.

     

     Saturday, May 18

     

     Cavanaugh Flight Museum presents Warbirds Over Addison
    Cavanaugh Flight Museum will present its biggest weekend of the year, Warbirds Over Addison. Aviation buffs will have the chance to see, touch and even fly in many of the planes in the Cavanaugh collection, including the P­‐51 Mustang, AD-­5 Skyraider, FM2 Wildcat, and many more. The event, taking place on Saturday and Sunday, also showcases visiting aircraft brought in by warbird enthusiasts and museum collections around the country.

     

     Dave Matthews Band in concert
    If it's the third weekend in May, that means it's time for the annual visit from Dave Matthews Band. The group has consistently played the same venue, Dos Equis Pavilion, on virtually the same weekend in May every year since at least 2013. Though their days of delivering hits like "What Would You Say," "Crash Into Me," and "The Space Between" are behind them, they always score No. 1 albums, including their 2018 album, Come Tomorrow.

     

     Sunday, May 19

     

     Dallas Museum of Art presents "Dior: From Paris to the World"
    Dallas Museum of Art will present "Dior: From Paris to the World," an exhibition which surveys more than 70 years of the House of Dior’s legacy and global influence. The DMA is one of only two U.S. venues for this extensive retrospective of the celebrated fashion house. The exhibition, featuring a selection of more than 100 haute couture dresses, as well as accessories, photographs, original sketches, runway videos, and other archival material, will be on display through September 1.

     

     John Cusack with 30th anniversary screening of Say Anything...
    Hollywood icon John Cusack comes to Dallas for a live conversation and audience Q&A following a screening of the iconic 1989 film, Say Anything..., which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. With four decades’ worth of roles in over 70 films, Cusack will share stories from his career, answer audience questions, and give a behind-the-scenes look into his breakout role as Lloyd Dobler. The event will take place at Majestic Theatre.

     

     Ben Platt in concert
    Ben Platt has made quite the name for himself in the acting world, co-starring in two Pitch Perfect films, playing Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon, and winning a Tony Award for originating the title role in Dear Evan Hansen. That work in musicals inspired his next career move as a singer, and he'll perform at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving in support of his debut album, Sing to Me Instead.

     

    Dallas Summer Musicals will present Miss Saigon at the Music Hall at Fair Park through May 26.

    Dallas Summer Musicals presents Miss Saigon
      
    Photo by Matthew Murphy
    Dallas Summer Musicals will present Miss Saigon at the Music Hall at Fair Park through May 26.
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    Books News

    Indie Bird's Bookstore to open store & cafe at Preston Royal Dallas

    Alex Gonzalez
    Jul 9, 2025 | 3:55 pm
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    Brick-and-mortar bookstores continue their thrilling comeback, with a new one coming to a prominent North Dallas corner: Called Bird’s Bookstore, it's an independently-owned store opening in the Preston Royal shopping center at 6025 Royal Ln. #207, in a former massage place next to Eatzi's, where it will debut in August.

    Bird's Bookstore promises to be a unique retail destination incorporating elements of Scandinavian, Japanese, and mid-century modern design with books, magazines, and artisanal products.

    Owners Drew and Emily Dawson are a young couple inspired by design, history, and travel. Drew previously worked in the nonprofit sector to private equity before pursuing this decade-long dream. Emily is a former graphic designer who founded Emily by Design, a wardrobe consultation company in 2022.

    The couple first conceptualized the idea when they began dating 11 years ago while students at the University of Texas at Austin.

    “Initially, it was an idea that we wanted to execute towards retirement age,” Drew says. "But as I saw Emily follow her passion and open her own vintage clothing styling business a year and a half ago, I said, 'It's time for me too. I want to follow my passion and open this bookstore.' There's really no time like the present."

    Drew estimates that the shop will carry about 3500 adult fiction and nonfiction books at at time, along with 2500 kids and young adult books.

    “I like everything,” Drew says. “I like incredibly thick history books, memoirs, biographies, horror — all of it. We’ll be selling everything, including self-help and kids' books, since the area has a ton of families, and Emily and I have our own little one on the way."

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    While Drew handles the bulk of the book selection, Emily will oversee coffee table books, design books, and magazines.

    “We're going to have a strong selection of about 20 magazines covering the design and creative fashion industries, like Neptune, The Gentlewoman, and L’Etiquette," Emily says. "I'm anticipating there will be a draw for that because — other than certain shops in New York — there's not a place where you can buy these titles in person."

    Bird’s will also sell stationery and paper goods from European and Japanese vendors, as well as plates and bowls from Marcello Ortega of Marcello Andres Ceramics.

    The store will also house a small cafe serving coffee from Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters and baked goods from acclaimed Bresnan Bread and Pastry in McKinney.

    The couple keep their eyes on current reading trends, using sites like TikTok’s “BookTok” community, as well as literary social media outlets like Goodreads. Emily credits these platforms — as well as book clubs by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Jenna Bush Hager — for keeping bookstores alive.

    Dallas-Fort Worth is witnessing a small independent bookstore revival with Interabang Books nearby, plus Wild Detectives and Poets Bookshop, which just opened a second outpost in Deep Ellum.

    With the opening of Bird’s Bookstore, they hope to not only cultivate a space for those passionate about books, but also eliminate the burnout that comes from being attached to screens all day.

    “I think there's a fatigue of everything being online,” says Emily. “And I think there's a yearning for a community space that is beautiful, and feels like a second home — a place where you can get amazing customer service. We're excited to hopefully be that place for some people.”

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