24 things to do in North Texas this weekend: Cheer on the Wings in Arlington, enter the Videodrome in Oak Cliff and enjoy a Taste of Dallas

DALLAS — It is one more weekend — and summer season is simply across the nook. 

Fortunately, there’s lots to do that weekend to maintain cool, like going to help our native girls’s basketball workforce, going to the films, taking in a live performance or trying out a number of the native delicacies.

The Mavs could have been knocked out of the NBA playoffs, however Dallas’ girls’s basketball workforce has been holding their very own this season! The Dallas Wings at present sit in second place within the WNBA’s Western Convention standings with a 6-5 file. They play a pair of residence video games this weekend towards the third-place Seattle Storm — and their probabilities at profitable look fairly strong. The Wings simply pulled out a victory final Friday towards the Storm on their residence turf, so come out and cheer them on to see if they will do it once more. 

Have you ever not been in a position to cease fascinated about David Cronenberg’s newest movie, “Crimes of the Future”? Are you bored with strolling round in the identical outdated flesh you have been trapped in your whole life? Have I obtained a film for you then! This weekend, the Texas Theatre is displaying one among Cronenberg’s true classics, “Videodrome”. Though it was made greater than 30 years in the past, its messages and themes are nonetheless prevalent to today. Buckle up for an unsettling, thought-provoking expertise to remind you of how nothing ever adjustments and that Marshall McLuhan has at all times been proper. Lengthy dwell the brand new flesh!

DFW’s largest summer season meals pageant is again for its thirty sixth yr! The weekend-long expo options meals, drinks and native craft beers alongside indoor and outside actions with dozens of native distributors to browse. A number of new interactive sights will probably be obtainable this yr, too — together with issues referred to as Style Tour, Tacophoria and Baconland. Sounds tasty!