Sunday 09.22
Perot Museum looks at Animals Inside Out
Anyone who remembers the Body Worlds exhibit at Fair Park many years ago will be familiar with the process that makes up Animals Inside Out, the first-ever traveling exhibition to be mounted by the nearly year-old Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Showing the skeletal structures, musculature, circulatory and nervous systems of everything from giant squids to reindeer to human beings, the exhibit is as informative and fascinating as it is unnerving at times. You’ll never be able to look at your cat the same way again.
DEETS:
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
2201 N. Field St.
Sept. 22–Feb. 17. $15–$27.
PerotMuseum.org.
Saturday 09.21
Deen and Deen at MetroCooking show
Paula Deen has had her P.R. problems lately, but that won’t stop the indomitable queen of butter and deep-frying from appearing onstage in Dallas this weekend … and since she’ll be doing a demo alongside her hunky son Bobby, pictured, we can forgive anything. The Deens are just some of the celebs to appear at the second annual MetroCooking Dallas show, a feast for those who feast.
DEETS:
Dallas Convention Center
650 S. Griffin St.
Sept. 21–22. $24.50 (VIP admissions extra).
MetroCookingDallas.com/tickets.
Saturday 09.21
Jaston Williams leaves Tuna for Twain and a ‘Big River’
Most folks know Jaston Williams, right, as co-creator of the Greater Tuna plays. Williams has retired from touring with the Tuna characters, but that doesn’t mean he’s given up acting. He’s leading a fine cast (including David Coffee, left) in Casa Manana’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical Big River, based on Huckleberry Finn. The tuneful, joyous show plays for two weekends at the House of Tomorrow.
DEETS:
Casa Manana
3101 W. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth.
Sept. 21–29.
CasaManana.org.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 20, 2013.