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    Weekend Event Planner

    These are the 14 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

    Alex Bentley
    Sep 19, 2019 | 6:00 am

    As we count down the days to the State Fair of Texas' return, this weekend in and around Dallas is absolutely packed with things to do. You can celebrate Oktoberfest, take in concerts that run the spectrum of genres, see one of four new local theater productions, bask in the glow of hot air balloons, and more.

     

    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, September 19

     

     Addison Oktoberfest
    Addison Oktoberfest features four days of family-oriented entertainment, including German entertainers in authentic costumes performing traditional Bavarian folk dances, schuhplatten, oompah music, sing-a-longs, yodels, carnival rides, midway games, children’s entertainment, and more. A special “Oktoberfest” Paulaner Bier is served along with several types of German sausage, sauerkraut, strudel, giant pretzels, and more. The festival will take place at Addison Circle Park through Sunday.

     

     Cake and Ben Folds in concert
    Cake and Ben Folds will co-headline this special concert at The Theatre at Grand Prairie. Cake is touring in support of its new album, Age of Aquarius, while Ben Folds' most recent album was 2015's So There, a chamber pop/classical collaboration with the Nashville Symphony. Folds will be sticking around a few days, as he'll also talk about his memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, as part of the Arts & Letters Live series at the Dallas Museum of Art on Saturday.

     

     Undermain Theatre presents Red Chariot
     Red Chariot is a world premiere science fiction thriller set amid the downfall of civilization after the Internet has created a mysterious tarot deck that, when read, can actually affect the past, present, and future. Playwright Gordon Dahlquist takes the audience on a journey though time as he explores the chaotic effects of new technological advancements and the role humans have, or haven’t, played in stopping that chaos. The play will run at Undermain Theatre through October 13.

     

     Jeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra in concert
    Jeff Goldblum has an acting career spanning four decades and film credits that include Jurassic Park and Independence Day, but this visit to Annette Strauss Square will showcase his musical talents. It will be an evening of jazz standards like "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Nostalgia in Times Square," "Cantaloupe Island," and more from Goldblum and his band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, who released their first album in 2018.

     

     Shakespeare Dallas presents Macbeth
    While keeping true to Shakespeare’s original bloody script, Shakespeare Dallas will move Macbeth, the classic tale of power, ambition, and tragic downfall, to an alternative near future Silicon Valley where tech companies bid for ultimate control in a dynamic and changing industry. Following a prophecy from three witches that he will be king, Macbeth — at the urging of his wife — plots King Duncan’s murder to secure the throne. The production will run through September 28 at Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre before moving to The Sound at Cypress Waters in Coppell from October 3-13.

     

     Friday, September 20

     

     InTouch Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival
    The InTouch Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival is a three-day weekend event that features a balloon glow, skydivers, hot air balloons, concerts, a fireworks show, a huge kids fun zone, merchandise vendors, corporate exhibitors, and variety of foods. There will also be a half marathon, relay, 5K run/walk and 1-mile fun run. The festival will take place through Sunday at Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve in Plano.

     

     Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival
    Rock legends will come together for a good cause at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, taking place on Friday and Saturday at American Airlines Center. Clapton will perform at both shows alongside an all-star lineup that includes Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Gary Clark Jr., and more. Proceeds will support The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by the guitarist for those struggling with drug or alcohol addictions.

     

     Lyric Stage presents Evita
    Lyric Stage kicks off its 2019/2020 season with Evita, the seven-time Tony Award-winning musical that tells the passionate and unforgettable story of Eva Duarte de Perón, and her meteoric climb from the slums of Argentina to one of the most powerful women in the world as the first lady of Argentina. The musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice features some of theatre's most well-known songs, including the unforgettable “Don't Cry for Me Argentina.” The production will play through Sunday at Majestic Theatre.

     

     TITAS/Dance Unbound: Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
    Ronald K. Brown's choreography is to be experienced, not watched. His stories and movement express traditional themes of community, ritual, and collective experience. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence’s return to Dallas, taking place at Winspear Opera House, will feature a mixed rep, including the extraordinary work, Grace, originally created for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

     

     Saturday, September 21

     

     Dallas Arboretum presents Autumn at the Arboretum
    For the 14th year, the Dallas Arboretum will present Autumn at the Arboretum, highlighting a Pumpkin Village that features pumpkin houses and creative displays utilizing more than 90,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash. This year's theme is "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," and there will be a variety of displays with all of the Peanuts characters. The festival, taking place through October 31, will also feature daily tastings, cooking demonstrations, and more.

     

     National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Weekend Concert featuring OneRepublic, The Fray, and Maelyn Jarmon
    Following a private ceremony inducting U.S. Women's soccer legend Abby Wambach and former U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati into the National Soccer Hall of Fame, the organization will open up its celebration to the masses with a concert featuring performances by OneRepublic, The Fray, and Maelyn Jarmon, the most recent winner of NBC's The Voice. The concert will take place at Toyota Stadium in Frisco.

     

     Dallas Theater Center presents In the Heights
     In the Heights, that "other" Tony Award-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. It's a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you and which ones you leave behind. The production will run through October 20 at Wyly Theatre.

     

     Sunday, September 22

     

     Peter Frampton in concert
    Legendary guitarist Peter Frampton will make his second appearance of the weekend for this concert at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, part of his Peter Frampton Finale — The Farewell Tour. Frampton has been making music for almost 50 years, and despite his heyday being in the 1970s, he's rarely slowed down when it comes to releasing new music. Frampton has released 17 albums in his career, including All Blues, which was released this past June. The concert will feature special guest Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening.

    Dallas Theater Center presents In the Heights at Wyly Theatre, September 21 through October 20.

    Xavier Cano and cast of Dallas Theater Center's In the Heights
      
    Photo by Karen Almond
    Dallas Theater Center presents In the Heights at Wyly Theatre, September 21 through October 20.
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    Movie Review

    Lazy 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' remake hooks nothing but nostalgia

    Alex Bentley
    Jul 17, 2025 | 1:45 pm
    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Photo by Brook Rushton
    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

    When the original I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1997, it was riding the coattails of Scream, which came out in 1996. Like that film, it featured hot young actors of the time, albeit with a story that was much more standard than the inventive Scream. Still, it made enough of an impact for some studio executive to think it was worth reviving nearly 30 years later with its own legacy-quel.

    In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of five high school friends - Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers), and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) - have reunited at the engagement party for Danica and Teddy on the 4th of July. While on an impromptu trip to watch fireworks on a twisty road in the nearby hills, Teddy goofs off in the middle of the road, causing a truck to swerve and drive off the cliff.

    A year later, having sworn to each other to not speak of the accident to anybody, they start getting stalked by a mysterious person in a fisherman’s slicker carrying a hook. With Teddy’s rich father, Grant (Billy Campbell), actively trying to cover up what his son did (as well as the fallout), it’s up to the group to figure out who is coming after them and how to stop that person.

    Written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and co-written by Sam Lansky, the film doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel; in fact, it barely builds something that can roll. It might just be the laziest and most incompetent attempt to capitalize on an existing piece of intellectual property. There is almost zero effort put into establishing a connection between the members of the friend group, making them feel like strangers for the entire film.

    It doesn’t help that the young male actors in the film - which grows to include Wyatt (Joshua Orpin), a new fiance for Danica - serve no purpose other than to be generically good-looking. The most impactful of the men in the film is the returning Freddie Prinze, Jr., who - along with Jennifer Love Hewitt - has his old character from the first two films shoehorned into the new story. The filmmakers undercut any good feelings from their return by giving them hardly anything to do and then having Hewitt deliver the line, “Nostalgia is overrated.”

    The film as a whole never has a sense of momentum. The inciting incident is so tame - they even attempt to save the driver before the truck goes off the cliff - that the guilt they feel and the anger of the person going after them doesn’t feel warranted. Once the attacks start, it is shocking at how low-energy the sequences are, providing no sense of suspense or thrills. The filmmakers resort to the lamest of horror movie tropes, turning the film into a paint-by-numbers affair.

    Cline (one of the stars of Netflix’s Outer Banks) and Wonders (The Studio on Apple TV+, Bodies Bodies Bodies) are the clear stars of the film, but their characters are made into inert scream queens, negating any acting talent they possess. Hauer-King, Withers, and Pidgeon don’t bring anything interesting to their characters, existing merely to have someone else for the killer to go after.

    Even the worst films can have some kind of redeeming value if you look hard enough, but the only thing I Know What You Did Last Summer has to offer is that it becomes so comically bad by the end that you can’t help but laugh at its ineptitude. Both fans of the original and fans of horror movies in general will feel cheated by the experience.

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    I Know What You Did Last Summer opens in theaters on July 18.

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