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If you’re like us, you often wonder what to do on the weekend. There’s always something going on in the DFW area, but sometimes it’s hard to find different things to do on a whim. Of course movies are an easy choice, then there’s dining out and sporting events. Here are a few more suggestions.  For the latest weekend update, click here.

This report is updated at the beginning of every weekend with additional updates as needed so be sure to check in often for the latest. For “What To Do” for the current weekend, click here.

LOOOONNNNG WEEEEEEKEND!

It’s Labor Day weekend. For most, that means simply-a 3 day weekend. Inasmuch as our weekend posts are informative and educational, we thought you might be interested in Labor Day’s origin. It began in 1882 as a day off for the “working man” and became a national holiday in 1894! For many years it became a day of festivals and organized celebrations accompanied by political speeches and demonstrations. Today it’s still celebrated as a day of rest and the symbolic end of summer. Many of our activities involve family and friend gatherings, picnics, barbecues, and enjoying the water-in our pools or lakes where possible. Also associated with this holiday is often alcohol, so please be careful when you’re out and about.

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LEWISVILLE WESTERN DAYS FESTIVAL
Saturday, September 1, 2007
10am-8pm- Historic Old Town Lewisville

The City of Lewisville will host the Annual Western Day festival in Old Town Lewisville on Labor Day Weekend, Sept 1st. Bring your family to this western-based event, designed to showcase Lewisville’s rich history. Everyone will enjoy live music, arts and crafts vendors, gunfight re-enactments, trick ropers, dachshund races, petting zoo, car s how, and three nights of the annual Labor Day Rodeo.

This all day event will keep you, your family, friends and visitors entertained while enjoying the reminiscing of the Old West. Two festival stages which will include live entertainment from local, regional, and national performance groups. The Western Day Parade will be at 10 a.m. and there will be performances and entertainment throughout the day!

For more information click here.

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MESQUITE CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO

August 31-Sept 1, 2007 - How long has it been since you’ve been to a rodeo in air-conditioned comfort? Well here’s a great deal. On either night, if you drive a Dodge to the rodeo (borrow one if you have to, or pack in with your friends in that Durango SUV) and and all occupants receive FREE Grandstand Admission plus parking is FREE. Ok, no Dodge? Then check the Dallas News for the coupon for the same free promotion!
They have all the classic rodeo events: Bull Riding, Saddle Bronc Riding, Bareback Riding, Cowgirl Barrel Racing, Tie-Down Roping, Steer Wrestling, Team Roping, Chuck Wagon Races, Cowboy Poker, Kids Mutton Bustin’ and Calf Scramble. And you can enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of the rodeo in their indoor, air-conditioned arena!

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MEGA MILLION LOTTERY

The jackpot for this lottery is estimated to be over $330 Million for Friday Night’s drawing. It’s the 4th largest jackpot yet, but here’s your odds: 1 in 175 Million!

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Our advertising sponsor, Yoga Island is offering numerous FREE healthy opportunities throughout the Labor day weekend.

FREE Eat Like a Yogi & Detox Workshop
Friday August 31st 6:30pm

Have you ever been interested in a detox program? This is your chance! Sloane Park of yoga island will talk about the latest news regarding Nutrition, how to eat healthy in a toxic world, and teach you how to successfully complete a 21 DAY DETOX Program. The workshop is free!

FREE Beginner’s Workshop
Saturday, Sept 1st, 1:30-3:00pm

New to yoga? Here is the place to start, with easy poses and general yoga information. Or if you want to expand your yoga knowledge, here is the time to ask questions.

FREE Labor Day Yoga Classes
Monday, Sept 3, Labor Day

8:30am Vinyasa I
11:00am Gentle Yoga

This is a great, opportunity to try yoga for the first time, or to visit yoga island and discover the nurturing, supportive environment while working out through Yoga.
For more information visit their website at yogaisland.com or call 972-724-9642.

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Pickin for Preemies-Benefit Concert-Gaylord Texan-Sept 3 (4:00 pm)

Click for more information.

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Goo Goo Dolls
Smirnoff Music Centre
Dallas, TX

Known for their hits such as “Better Days”, “Give A Little Bit”, and “Stay With You”, the band has been playing since 1986.

Friday, 8/31/2007 7:00 PM.

We checked and tickets are still available through Ticketmaster as of Friday morning.

Goo Goo Dolls official website.

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MOVIES

The box office winners last weekend were:
1. Superbad - (1-prev week)
2. The Bourne Ultimatum - (3)
3. Rush Hour 3 - (2)
4. Mr. Bean’s Holiday (New)
5. War (New)

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NEW THIS WEEKEND

Balls of Fury brings together a pretty cool cast in what we expect to be a pretty corny spoof-type movie. Starring Dan Fogler as the down and out former professional Ping-Pong player who blew an olympic game event, and recruited by FBI Agent played George Lopez, Fogler enters the world of “Extreme” Ping Pong with life and death stakes in hopes of smoking out the evil villian played by Christopher Walken.

 

 

Halloween, yep, the movie studios are thinking of those scary days already! In this rework, director Rob Zombie re-imagines the 1978 horror slasher classic, with Tyler Mane starring as masked serial killer Michael Myers. After being committed for 17 years, Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, is mistakenly released from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger. We’re not excited.

 

As for new releases, our pick falls on Death Sentence. Kevin Bacon portrays Nick Hume, a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses the murder of his son and a threat to his whole family. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family. Kelly Preston plays his wife.

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The teen movie, Superbad, hitting it’s 3rd weekend in the theaters has continued mopping up in the box office. surprising even the moviemakers themselves. This is an example of teen buying power these days generating $33 Million in the first weekend! Actually, the critics and public give this movie an average B+ rating. In the story, two co-dependent high school guys want to hook up with girls before they graduate and go off to different colleges, but, after a calamitous night just trying to buy alcohol for a school party, overcoming their separation anxiety becomes a greater challenge than getting the girls. Note it is an R-Rated film.

We haven’t seen Superbad, but with the other new releases out not exciting us much, this may be our pick.

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The Bourne Ultimatum did even better than we predicted and moved up a notch from #3 to #2, and is a great movie in the Bourne series. With the lackluster releases this weekend, we expect it to hold its top 5 ranking. Matt Damon portrays a government-trained killer Jason Bourne, still a man without a past and on the run from the CIA. This time Bourne returns home to face head on those chasing him. The consequences are disastrous, but for whom?

Our Review: This may be the best IMHO of the Bourne series. The action is great, the stunts incredible and the sites shown around the world are awesome. Our favorite line in the movie: “Because if you were in your office right now, we would be having this conversation Face to Face”

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Coming into its second weekend, and by fortuitous timing with a slow movie weekend and something for the kids right before school starts, Mr Bean’s Holiday with Rowan Atkinson opened in the #4 slot. In this G rated misadventure, Mr. Bean–the nearly wordless misfit who seems to be followed by a trail of pratfalls and hijinks–goes on holiday to the French Riviera. Tired of the dreary, wet London weather, Bean packs up his suitcase and camcorder to head to Cannes for some sun on the beach. But his trip doesn’t go as smoothly as he had hoped when the bumbling Bean is wrongly thought to be both kidnapper and acclaimed filmmaker. He has some serious explaining to do after wreaking havoc across the French countryside and arriving at his vacation spot with a Romanian filmmaker’s precocious son and an aspiring actress in tow.

 

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The Nanny Diaries staring Scarlett Johansson is a movie version of the popular book. A 21 year old takes a job as a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell. It looks like it will be presented as more of a comedy than the book.

Our Review. While entertaining and we love Scarlett Johansson, the movie is not as good as the book. Laura Linney portrayed the mother perfectly and Paul Giamatti did make you believe he was the jerky father. Inciteful, humorous at times, heartfelt, but somewhat disappointing in that it didn’t follow the book very closely. You expect them to leave stuff out of the movie, but we wanted more than was there. In the end, it delivers the truth that mothers and fathers should get involved in raising their children and not leave the job to someone else-nannies, teachers, coaches, etc.

 

Resurrecting The Champ, starring Samuel L. Jackson, was lost in the weekend activity, coming in a distant 15th. A struggling reporter encounters a former boxing champion living on the streets, thus beginning his journey to uncover the truth and presenting him with the opportunity to reexamine his own life.

 

Rush Hour with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker continues to hold the public interest last week in spite of critics disapproval (shows how much we listen to critics), so it will likely stay in the top rankings this weekend as well.

Our Review: This was better than we expected, and had a lot of slap-stick kind of gags that are over the top, but overall, pretty average.

 

 

Among the top 5 last weekend, The Invasion, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig who learn the truth about a shocking extraterrestrial epidemic in this latest ‘Body Snatchers’ remake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. The movie has nothing to do with the ill-fated Invasion TV series, and is officially not a 3rd movie remake, but…

Our Review: We enjoyed The Invasion. It was ’scary’, and succeeds primarily on the skills of the actors. Kidman and Craig are outstanding in their roles.

Continuing this weekend is the Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Stardust starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, a young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village. On his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which has transformed into a striking girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes).

Our Review: This is a romantic fantasy, and we loved it. De Niro during his brief appearances, practically stole the scenes. Stardust has a magical story-book quality. Go see it!

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Hairspray With John Travolta playing a woman, how can you lose? Hairspray is a musical about a plus-sized girl with a big heart and a passion for dancing who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance party.

Our Review: The women go crazy for Hairspray. The men were skeptical, but ended up being surprised and entertained. Travolta stole the movie and brought it home for everyone in this flashback to the 60’s with a few modern twists. It has a serious theme but was still done well and ends up being funny. Thank goodness there wasn’t as much music as there was in Dreamgirls.

Becoming Jane, starring Anne Hathaway and James MacAvoy has moved into a few more theatres and has grown in popularity. In this 18th-century love story of emerging young writer Jane Austen, she is a feisty 20-year-old emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love.

Our Review: Well, this is one of those beautifully artistic movies with excellent acting. The movie was kinda slow and we saw a few people leaving the theater early on, but as we stuck through it, the story developed and was an enjoyable evening. Ms Austin’s vicarious living of her life through her characters is somewhat sad, and the movie doesn’t proclaim to be a factual biography.

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DVD RENTAL RECOMMENDATION

Our pick for new DVD release this week is Blades of Glory Will Ferrell and Jon Heder kick ice, kick each other, and leave us with split sides from laughing so much at their antics. The two Olympic rival ice skaters are stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men’s single competition. But, they find a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team and the lycra-clad insanity ensues.

 

And if you haven’t rented Wild Hogs, which was released last week, pick it up. Wild Hogs is one of those movies that the critics hated and the fans loved. Starring John Travolta, Tim Allen, William Macy and Martin Lawrence, a group of middle-aged friends decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip.

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Lewisville Farmers Market - Saturday 8am until sell-out. Every Saturday through Oct. 27, The Lewisville Old Town Business Association presents the Old Town Farmers Market for the second year, operating in Wayne Ferguson Plaza in Old Town near the City Hall.

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Bartonville Farmers Market - Saturday 8am until sell-out. Bartonville Town Center Northside. 2650 FM 407.And if you’ve never been, the Dallas Farmer’s Market is huge. Located in the southeastern corner of the central business district in downtown Dallas at 1010 South Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201, it provides a unique opportunity to shop for fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, specialty and international products.The Dallas Farmers Market is open Sunday thru Saturday 7am to 6pm. There are other Farmers Markets in the area, Grapevine, Coppell, etc. Let us know if we should add others.

 

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Gaylord Texan Summerfest Aerial Show and FireworksIN IT”S FINAL WEEKEND!Click here for details you won’t want to miss.

 

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Visit the Museum - The American Airlines C.R. Smith Aviation Museum, that is!

Experience the history of commercial aviation of American Airlines from its humble beginnings through five eras of flight.

This is much more than a museum. It’s a sight-and-sound, hands-on, window-seat look at the world of flight. It’s an adventure offering you a chance to hear, see, touch and be a part of the exciting aviation industry. Best of all, it’s a great place for the entire family and to take all your company visiting this weekend!

Open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-6pm. Unfortunately, Closed Sunday and Monday

Adult: $4
Senior Citizens Age 55+: $2
Students (with ID): $2
Children 2-12: $2
Children Under 2: Free

4601 Hwy. 360 at FAA Road, Fort Worth; (817) 967-1560.