The Juicy Details on Grapevine’s 31st Annual GrapeFest
Raise a glass at Grapevine’s 31 st Annual GrapeFest, A Texas Wine Experience. Sip your way through a variety of delicious taste sensations with special emphasis on wines from Texas and guest wineries from the Finger Lakes Region of New York and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
SMOKED Dallas BBQ Festival Happens This Saturday + Confirmed List of Pitmasters & Chefs
Get the major list of confirmed pitmasters and restaurants for SMOKED BBQ festival this year.
Lone Star Film Festival Announces First 8 Films
The first wave of official selections has been announced, with the full film line-up scheduled to be released in late September. Roughly 50 blocks of screenings will take place in four movie auditoriums housed between Four Day Weekend and the AMC Palace 9. LSFF runs November 8-12 in Sundance Square, Fort Worth, TX. Â Â […]
Prost to Addison Oktoberfest!
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Addison’s Oktoberfest is the most authentic Oktoberfest celebration outside of Munich. This year, over 70,000 fans will come together September 14-17, 2017 to share a love of polka, German food and, of course, the same Paulaner Bier that will be served at Bavaria’s favorite festival. As a part of its award-winning […]
October Getaway Idea: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Picturesque autumn trails and one of the most renowned film festivals in the country are just a four and a half hour drive away from Dallas. This October, take the trek down I-30 to be among the thousands of film buffs attending the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (HSDFF).
Dia De Los Toadies All Day Festival Celebrates 10th Year
The the line-up for the upcoming Dia De Los Toadies Festival has been announced. The 10th installation of the fest takes place September 16th and will bring the band back to Possum Kingdom Lake at Possum Hollow in Texas. The bands participating are…
Something Succulent for September – Dallas Chocolate Festival 2017
We’ve added a new permanent listing to our evergreen Dallas festivals list. Thinking about all the truffles we’ve missed, discovering this festival’s existence has been bitter sweet. This annual festival has been in existence, at least on a larger scale, for the past four years (2013), and possibly on a smaller scale since 2009! Welp, you live and you learn.
Texas Monthly BBQ Fest, A Weekend of ‘Cue
Texas Monthly BBQ Fest, which sells out every year, celebrates the arrival of a new list of “Top 50 BBQ Joints in Texas†(in the June 2017 issue) with a full weekend of events this fall. On Saturday, November 4th, the second annual Brisket Brunch will be held at Juliet Italian Kitchen from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The special menu will feature a culinary collaboration between Juliet’s executive chef, Jacob Weaver, and pitmaster Leonard Botello IV of TRUTH Barbeque, ranked #10 on the Texas Monthly list from Brenham, Texas. Tickets are $85 per person for a meaty brunch menu with cocktails included.
Putting the Little in “Best Little Brewfest in Texasâ€
Some events in life tend to claim to be the biggest or the best of something and rarely live up to the hype. But this weekend in Old Town Lewisville, there was a festival claiming to be the “best†and the “littlest,†and it did not disappoint. As I perused the closed-off streets, the term […]
Time Traveling Through Scarborough Renaissance Festival
This year’s 37th annual Scarborough Renaissance Festival proved to be as timeless as the historical period that it represents. For those unfamiliar with the event, it is one of America’s top Renaissance festivals that happens to take place every spring in Waxahachie. There is something for everybody with over 200 shops, 24 stages of entertainment, wine tasting, jousting knights, manpowered rides, and much more. They also host an array of special events each weekend to keep things fresh.