If you are looking for the perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day this year with your significant other — or even all alone, for that matter — then you might want to head on down to the American Airlines Center for the Kasey Musgraves concert. Musgraves, a Texas native, has been an LGBTQ ally since her career first got started, and she has been an LGBTQ icon for just about that long, too. And while many in the community are big Musgraves fans, she is just as big a fan of the community, telling Billboard in 2019, that she wants LGBTQ fans to know that “you are invited to my party.” The show starts at 8 p.m. next Monday; tickets are still available at Ticketmaster.com, starting at $120, but they are going fast. (Photo ©Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com)
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Tie it up
Celebration on the Lake Church, located in Mabank near Cedar Creek Lake, holds its Red Tie Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 12, with dancing, a silent auction, raffles and a wine reveal, all benefitting the church. Tickets are $75, available online at RedTie.cotl.church. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and this is a bring your own beer or wine event.
Civic duty
Over the last five years we’ve learned very definitively (or at least, we should have) that who’s elected to public office at EVERY level of government — from city to county to state to federal — matters very, very much. We’ve also learned (or should have) that EVERY vote matters. Why else would some folks be trying so hard to keep some of us from voting? Early voting in the primaries for the 2022 mid-term election starts Monday, Feb. 14, and runs through Feb. 25, and you can cast your ballot at any early voting location in the county in which you are registered.
Ease on down
Stephanie Mills launched her career in 1975 as Dorothy in The Wiz on Broadway. Now you can ease on down the road to the Music Hall at Fair Park to catch Mills and The Whispers in concert on Valentine’s Day (Monday, Feb. 14). The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets, available at TicketNetwork.com, start at $108.
Pride happens
In 2018, the Dallas Pride organizing committee made the decision to move the 2019 Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade and Festival in the Park from the third weekend in September in Oak Lawn to the first weekend in June in Fair Park. The 2019 celebration was a qualified success, and organizers were looking forward to building a bigger, better event in 2020. But COVID-19 had other plans, and both the 2020 and 2021 celebrations had to be scaled way back. This year though, Pride returns to Fair Park, and registration for the festival on June 4 and parade on June 5 opens at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, at at DallasPride.org/registration.
