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    Weekend Event Planner

    These are the 10 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

    Alex Bentley
    Aug 8, 2019 | 6:00 am

    This weekend in and around Dallas will start with a lot of theater, and end with some unique events. Choices include one national theater tour and three local theater openings, an anniversary celebration for a great new gathering spot, two big-name concerts, a fun football game for charity, a new way to meditate, and YouTube trick shots in real life.

    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, August 8

    Dallas Summer Musicals presents Fiddler on the Roof
    Rich with musical hits you know and love, including “Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset," “If I Were A Rich Man," “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” and “To Life (L’Chaim!),” Fiddler on the Roof is the heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and life, love, and laughter. The classic musical will play at the Music Hall at Fair Park through August 18.

    Pegasus Theatre presents Broadway or Bust
    In a converted strip-mall carpet store, somewhere in Dallas, The Plush Pile Players are spitting tacks. They are primed to stage Dicky Steinberg’s off-off-Broadway flop Broadway Glitz when director Jan Flaggit trips on a toaster and breaks her ankle dashing all hopes. That is until a lifeline comes in the shape of bona fide Broadway director, Percy Scott. However, Jan's eccentric ensemble soon learn that their new messiah may not be all he seems. The production will run at Bath House Cultural Center through August 24.

    Friday, August 9

    Texas Live! First Anniversary Celebration
    Texas Live! in Arlington will celebrate its first birthday with a three-day birthday bash. The event, going on through Sunday, will feature several special guests, a surprise announcement, cash giveaways, live music from the Emerald City Band, Steve Helms, TX Red Dirt Roads, and Dr Pepper Kidd’s Day 2019. And with 10 venues under one roof, there’s a different party happening just around the corner.

    Theatre Arlington presents Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche and her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters, and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Neil Simon-style. The production will run at Theatre Arlington through August 31.

    Uptown Players presents The Cake
    To close its 18th season, Uptown Players will present the regional premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s new comedy, The Cake. Della’s North Carolina bakery is legendary. She is overjoyed when her best friend’s daughter returns from New York to get married and asks Della to make her wedding cake. Della, a sweet-natured Christian, is forced to re-examine her deeply-held beliefs and her own marriage when she realizes there is not one bride, but two. The production will run through August 25 at Kalita Humphreys Theater.

    Saturday, August 10

    moe. and Blues Traveler in concert
    Preeminent progressive rock band moe. and legendary platinum-selling band Blues Traveler will co-headline the All Roads Runaround Tour. The concert will showcase one set from each band plus a special collaborative set. moe.'s last album was 2014's No Guts, No Glory, while Blues Traveler's last album was 2018's Hurry Up & Hang Around. They will be joined by G. Love in this concert at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving.

    BvB Dallas Powder-Puff Football Game
    The ongoing rivalry between Team Blonde and Team Brunette continues as they battle it out off the field in fundraising, and on the field in an epic flag-football game at the Cotton Bowl. BvB Dallas is a young-professionals organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for Alzheimer’s Disease research and care. The game will be called by Donovan Lewis and Ty Walker from 1310-FM's The Ticket, and will include dances from the Mavs Maniaacs and more.

    Dierks Bentley in concert with Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes, and Hot Country Knights
    There are few country singers with a higher profile than Dierks Bentley. He has released nine albums since his debut in 2003, including 2018's The Mountain, with all but two of them reaching the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Country charts. Those albums have yielded 11 No. 1 songs, including "Come A Little Closer," "Free and Easy," and "Somewhere on a Beach." He'll play at Dos Equis Pavilion with support from opening acts Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes, and Hot Country Knights.

    Sunday, August 11

    MindTravel SilentWalk
    At MindTravel SilentWalk, guests can be carried away by the deep feeling of freedom and connection of the newest way to practice walking meditation. Led by MindTravel creator and composer, Murray Hidary, participants will explore the Dallas Arboretum while guided by music delivered through headphones. The evocative, improvisational piano music ignites freedom and expansiveness that amplifies the healing and inspirational power of being surrounded by beauty.

    The Dude Perfect Pound It Noggin Tour
    The guys of Dude Perfect have been wowing people on YouTube for years with their impressive trick shots, and now they'll come to Allen Event Center as part of their first-ever live tour. Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, Garrett Hilbert, and twins Coby and Cory Cotton, the five best friends from Frisco, will perform the ultimate variety show, highlighting fan favorites such as Overtime, Stereotypes, Battles, and stunts.

    Fiddler on the Roof will play at the Music Hall at Fair Park through August 18.

    Yehezkel Lazaro in Fiddler on the Roof tour
      
    Photo by Joan Marcus
    Fiddler on the Roof will play at the Music Hall at Fair Park through August 18.
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    Movie Review

    Zombie flick 28 Years Later revives franchise for new generation

    Alex Bentley
    Jun 20, 2025 | 1:45 pm
    Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later
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    Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later.

    The 2000s brought two of the best zombie movies ever made in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Both films, despite being made by different filmmakers, featured intense action with fast-moving zombies, harrowing sequences, and real emotional connections with their main characters. Now the original director and writer - Danny Boyle and Alex Garland - have returned with the first of a possible three sequels, 28 Years Later.

    The rage virus from the first two films that turns humans into insatiable monsters has successfully been contained to the United Kingdom, and one group of survivors has managed to band together on a small island off the coast of England. We’re introduced to the group through Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), his wife, Isla (Jodie Comer), and his son, Spike (Alfie Williams).

    Isla is sick with an unknown illness, while Jamie is set to take the 12-year-old Spike on his first trip to the mainland to hunt zombies. That trip not only gives Spike an education as to the different types of feral zombies that now populate England, but also a clue that other people have survived there. When he discovers that one of them may be a doctor, he makes plans to take his mother there in hopes of finding a cure for whatever ails her.

    While the first two films were notable for their brisk pace that kept the potency of the stories high, Boyle and Garland almost go in the opposite direction for much of this film. The first 90 minutes are relatively slow, with only a couple of sequences that raise the blood pressure. The final half hour or so go a long way toward filling that void, so it’s clear that the filmmakers were biding their time for the story to come in the sequel. A bit more balance in this film would have served them well, though.

    What they do show involves some weird, wild stuff that is objectively upsetting, even for fans of the genre. The zombies have evolved in strange ways, giving them a variety of body shapes and abilities to suit the environment in which they live. These storytelling choices may thrill some and have others scratching their heads. Another human character living on his own (played by Ralph Fiennes), appears to have gone the way of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, with a revelation that is bone-chilling.

    Boyle, who’s directed everything from Trainspotting to Slumdog Millionaire, doesn’t have a signature style, and he makes some choices in this film that test your patience. He occasionally employs an odd technique in which the film stutters, for a lack of better term. It’s a bit jarring, especially since it doesn’t seem to improve the storytelling. He also inserts scenes from older films involving medieval warfare that emulate the bow-and-arrow weaponry used by characters in this film, but the exact connection he’s trying to make is unclear.

    The young Williams has a lot put on his shoulders in the film, and he proves to be up to the task of carrying the story. He isn’t precocious or annoying, instead reacting almost exactly like you’d expect a boy of his age to do when faced with extreme situations. Taylor-Johnson and Comer are good complements for him, drawing him out with their polar opposite characters. Fiennes makes a huge impression in the final act of the film, while Jack O’Connell makes a very brief appearance, teasing a bigger role to come.

    It’s difficult to fully judge 28 Years Later because it’s designed to only give you part of the story; part 2, The Bone Temple, is due in 2026, while a third film will follow if the first two do well. This film has its moments and winds up on the positive side of the ledger, but it’s also a frustrating experience that could have used a more stand-alone story.

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    28 Years Later is now playing in theaters.

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