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Are you and the family opting to stick close to home this Spring Break? Don’t worry that you’ll be bored. There’s plenty to do here in our own backyard without taking to the road or the air in search of greener spring break pastures.
Here are a few note-worthy adventures you and your spring breakers should definitely try during your time off.
FESTIVALS AND PARADES
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TEXAS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
Where: Denton Civic Center – 321 East McKinney St., Denton
When: March 7-10
Cost: $15-$10
Experience the power of live storytelling at the 39th Annual Texas Storytelling Festival. Enjoy story and poetry slams, story swaps, kid’s activities, music, workshops and a liars contest. The festivities start today and run through Sunday at the Denton Civic Center.
DALLAS BLOOMS
Where: Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Rd., Dallas
When: Through April 8
Cost: $13-22
The Dallas Arboretum’s annual festival is a popular Spring Break destination for those wanting to celebrate the season. Besides the garden being filled with more than 500,000 blooming bulbs, there are also numerous activities planned for the week including music, a petting zoo and cooking demos, tastings, and a kitchen take over in honor of Pi Day at A Tasteful Place pavilion. Also, be sure to make time to visit the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden while you’re there.
TULIPALOOZA
Where: Getzendaner Memorial Park, 400 S. Grand Ave., Waxahachie
When: March 15-24, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Cost: $5-$15
Another flora festival you won’t want to miss is the 5th annual Tulipalooza in Waxahachie. Enjoy fields of blooming tulips that started as bulbs imported from Holland and then were planted at Getzendaner Park. You’ll also find a you-pick-em field so you can take the tulips home with you and plenty of colorful photo ops.
MANSFIELD PICKLE PARADE AND PALOOZA
Where: Downtown Mansfield – 1200 East Broad St., Mansfield
When: March 16, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Cost: Free
The World’s Only Pickle Parade and Palooza returns to historic downtown in Mansfield for its 13th year. The parade portion of the event is a two-parter that kicks off at 10 a.m. with a baby parade for little gherkins ages 6 months to 4 years, followed by the headliner parade at noon. It features dozens of floats and the World-Famous Mansfield Pickle Queens. The Palooza portion includes pickle eating and pickle juice drinking contests, a community stage with local acts, a pickle playground for the kids and a free concert with country artist Cody Morrow.
TEXAS PINBALL FESTIVAL
Where: Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco Hotel and Convention Center, 7600 John Q Hammons Drive, Frisco
When: March 15-17
Cost: $15-$85
Pinball Wizards should head to Frisco next week for the 2024 Texas Pinball Festival. More than 400 pinball machines, classic video games and more will be free to play for everyone during the weekend.
ART EXPERIENCES
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AT&T FAMILY ARTS WEEKEND
Where: Sammons Park – 403 Flora St.
When: March 9, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Kick off Spring Break this weekend with some creativity in Sammons Park. Take a free cyanotype workshop; that’s a photography process that uses sunlight and paper coated with a photo sensitive solution to create prints with a variety of blue tones. The daylong event also includes a Rhythm and Movement African Drums dance and workshop, a petting zoo, face painting and a caricaturist offering free drawings.
SPRING BREAK FAMILY FUN AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Where: Dallas Museum of Arts – 1717 North Harwood St., Dallas
When: March 15-17
Cost: Free
The DMA celebrates Spring Break with activities inspired by nature and the current exhibition The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse. Drop by the Art Studio and “paint with scissors” to create a paper cut-out collage inspired by artist Henri Matisse, head to the outdoor courtyard for a en plein air sketching experience like the French Impressionist artists, or listen to a story-time themed around artworks in the Museum’s collection.
ART BREAK! SPRING BREAK AT THE MODERN
Where: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth
When: March 11-15
Cost: Free for children under 18, $16 for adults, free for everyone on March 11 and 15
Learn about works from the Modern’s permanent collection and the special exhibition, Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940. Each ART Break station includes a conversation with a community artist and Modern docent and a gallery project focusing on selected works in the galleries. On free days, Monday and Friday, join your family and others in helping build collaborative works.
NATURE
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OWL PROWL NIGHT HIKE
Where: Heard Museum, 1 Nature Place, McKinney
Hours: March 16, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20, pre-registration required.
Join screech owls, Pudge & Poe for the Heard’s annual owl prowl. Learn which owls call North Texas home and how to identify them. You’ll also have all of your pressing owl questions answered, like, “Can owls really turn their head all around?” and “Are owls like cats and cough up furballs?” After the live owl presentation, it’s off on a guided night hike on the sanctuary and to discover if any owls are out and about.
ECOMON ADVENTURE DAYS AT TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER
Where: Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas
When: March 16, 10 – 11 a.m.
Cost: Free
Are your kids obsessed with Pokémon? Join Professor Pecan and his team of Ecomon Trainers to explore and study the amazing creatures of the Trinity River Audubon Center. On March 16, learn about bugs and help find a special specimen for Professor Pecan’s ‘Eco-Dex.’
MUSIC
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‘TIL MIDNIGHT AT THE NASHER
Where: Nasher Sculpture Center – 2001 Flora St., Dallas
When: March 15, 6 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Cost: Free
Stay up late with the Nasher with its ‘Til Midnight event. The evening kicks off with music from the Manhattan Band by Jordan Kahn Music Company. The concert will be followed by an outdoor screening of the Oscar nominated film, Barbie. In addition to the concert and the movie, you can also enjoy the the outdoor art at the Center and purchase food from Wolfgang Puck Catering and grab & go snacks.
LOVER-TAYLOR SWIFT TRIBUTE BAND
Where: The Monument Realty PGA District – 3255 PGA Parkway, Frisco
When: March 16, 6 – 10 p.m.
Cost: Free
North Texas Swifties won’t want to miss this concert from the Taylor Swift tribute band, Lover. Hear all your favorite songs from all 10 of Swift’s albums, as well as 10 unique “Taylor-made” outfits and choreography that will make you feel like you’re right in the middle of the Eras Tour. Be sure to bring a blanket to relax on as lawn chairs will not be permitted. No outside food or beverages, but Ice House, Lounge by Topgolf and Ryder Cup Grille will be open before and during the event.
Visit Go See DFW to find even more events.
The Go See DFW calendar is a partnership between KERA and The Dallas Morning News.
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First Shift 🏒
For the past four regular seasons, the Stars have the best road record in the NHL.
Through 164 games, Dallas tops the league with a .655 points percentage away from home. It also leads in goals per game at 3.40 and in GAA at 2.70. That spans two different head coaches and several different players, but there is a culture that the team hopes to tap into Wednesday when the best-of-seven playoff series moves to Minnesota for Game 3.
“You have to be able to play on the road,” said Stars coach Glen Gulutzan. “Since my time here, our guys feel really comfortable.”
The Stars were tied for second in road points percentage this season at .683, so an actual improvement over their previous average. They were third in GAA at 2.73 and sixth in scoring at 3.41, so the league has improved. That said, the new coaching staff has also embraced a sound road strategy.
Like Pete DeBoer before him, Gulutzan doesn’t worry too much about matching lines – at home or on the road. The road matching can create some real gymnastics, as the home team gets second change. But the fact that a team chooses not to chase that part of the game.
“That’s why you program your guys to play in those situations and not yank them off every time something happens,” Gulutzan said. “That way they have the confidence to play in all of those situations.”
The Stars coach did make some tweaks after a disappointing team performance in Game 1. Arttu Hyry jumped in for Adam Erne and played center on a line with Jamie Benn and Sam Steel. The right-handed Hyry was a solid complement to lefties Steel and Benn. That allowed Hryckowian to move up to the top line in place of Steel. The left-handed Hryckowian is good balance to right-handed center Johnston.
Again, when you have those options, you are comfortable with whatever line is on the ice.
“I like our combinations right now,” Gulutzan said. “One of the things you worry about is the hands of your centermen, and on each line we have a righty and a lefty that are more than capable. Plus, all of the guys know their systems and their jobs, and they’ve been doing it all year.”
The Stars have had several injuries this season to key players, and that means everyone has played everywhere with everyone else. That’s big this time of year.
“I definitely think that helps,” said Colin Blackwell. “It just makes everything flow. If the coaches shuffle things up, you usually land with someone you have played with before.”
And that means playing on the road isn’t as difficult. The biggest challenge might be fact that Minnesota will be fired up by its home crowd and will be looking to make a point about grievances they perceived in Game 2.
“I don’t know if we need a bulletin board,” Gulutzan said when asked about the Wild making “bulletin board” statements Monday. “We’re just going to keep doing what we’re doing and grind this thing to where we need it to go.”
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Johnston gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 8:58 of the first period. His slap shot from above the right face-off circle deflected off Wild forward Danila Yurov and then bounced off the end boards and in off Wallstedt’s left arm.
“I’ve had a goal like that go in on me, too, that’s a tough bounce,” Oettinger said. “Like I said in Game 1, we got some bad bounces. We got a nice bounce there. We had one where I was behind the net, and the guy was shooting it in the net and our (defense) stopped it, so we got some good bounces. The way we played the last 40 minutes of the game, I think, didn’t give up much, had a ton of good chances offensively. The power play, we got looks and our (penalty kill) was great. If we kind of build off the game that we played the last 40 minutes, I think we should feel very good for the next few games.”
Faber tied it 1-1 at 11:33. He took a pass from Hughes, skated around Robertson in the left circle and cut to the slot, where his wrist shot ramped up and in off Oettinger.
Duchene put the Stars back up 2-1 with a power-play goal at 4:02 of the second period. Mikko Rantanen gained the offensive zone along the right boards and sent a backhand pass to Duchene, who snapped the puck between Wallstedt’s pads from in front.
Robertson made it 3-1 at 7:09 of the third period when he tipped Lundkvist’s wrist shot from the blue line past the right pad of Wallstedt.
“I think we got to do a better job, I mean, the odd-man’s, right? I thought we played a really good game. Probably their best game, you know, meaningful game. And, yeah, we didn’t get fazed by it. Was really good by us. Just got to be smarter in some areas, and we get to go back home and in front of our crowd,” Minnesota forward Marcus Foligno said. “They want (penalties). I mean, they’re looking to play 5-on-4. I mean, that’s their game. They can’t hang with us 5-on-5. We got to just be smarter, and myself included. But it’s a heated game out there. You’re gonna have emotional swings and learn from it. We got a split series.”
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