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Your Weekend February 26th - 28th PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:57 PM

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On-going

Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Robert Grame and Robert Hower: Prime Perception

When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday, From now until March 6
Where: The Gallery at UTA
Price: Free
This exhibition highlights two visual communication professors’ work. Hower’s pieces include site-specific temporary installations, digital prints, lenticular lens pieces and video projections. Grame’s work showcases typography through examples of his published work and three digital video projections.

Thursday

UT Arlington Wind Symphony Concert
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Irons Recital Hall
Price: $3 students and seniors, $5 adults
The concert will showcase music from the 17th-19th centuries re-imagined by contemporary composers.

Friday

$2 Movie — Terminator Salvation
When: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Planetarium
Price: $2
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard
Genres: science fiction, action
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and language
Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the eventual leader of mankind’s fight against the machines in the fourth installment of the series.

Dead Man Walking
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Mainstage Theatre
Price: $10 general public, $7 for students, seniors and UTA faculty and staff
The play, written by Tim Robbins based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, is a true story of a nun who becomes a spiritual adviser for a convicted murderer while also sympathizing with the victims’ families.

The Bash (Homecoming 2010)
When:
9 p.m.
Where: University Center
Price: free
A late-night party to celebrate in Homecoming.

Saturday

$2 Movie — Terminator Salvation
When: 2:30 p.m.
Where: Planetarium
Price: $2
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard
Genres: science fiction, action
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and language
Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the eventual leader of mankind’s fight against the machines in the fourth installment of the series.

Faculty Voice Recital
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Irons Recital Hall
Price: Free
A voice recital with faculty member David Grogan.

Dead Man Walking
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Mainstage Theatre
Price: $10 general public, $7 for students, seniors and UTA faculty and staff
The play, written by Tim Robbins based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, is a true story of a nun who becomes a spiritual adviser for a convicted murderer while also sympathizing with the victims’ families.

In Theaters

A Prophet
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Genres: Prison film, drama
Rated R for violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material.
A young Arab (Rahim) begins to build a criminal empire after falling in with his prison’s Corsican gang.

Cop Out
Starring: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak
Genres: comedy, police comedy
Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality.
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

The Yellow Handkerchief
Starring: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart
Genres: Road movie, drama, slice of life
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, some violence, language and thematic elements.
A recently released convict and a pair of disillusioned young people meet on a road trip through Louisiana.

The Crazies
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
Genres: Horror
Rated R for bloody violence and language.
Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh with insanity, turning them into depraved, blood-thirsty killers.

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Concerts

Friday

Dallas Groove Cartel, Vince Lujan Project, Dirk Quinn Band, The Effinays

Genre: Hip-hop
Where: Dreamworld Music Complex
When: 8 p.m.
Cost: $10

Saturday

Creeper, Earthrot, Under a Spell, Kin of Ettins, Vaste Burai

Genre: Metal
Where: Dreamworld Music Complex
When: 9 p.m.
Cost: $10

Comedy

Through the weekend

Josh Blue
Where: The Improv Comedy Club, Arlington
When: 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $20
Winner of NBC’s 2006 “Last Comic Standing.” Blue has also found Internet fame, with two of his videos receiving more than one million plays. He was also a regular guest on Comedy Central’s “Mind of Mencia.” Blue also maintains an active role on the U.S. Paralympic Soccer Team.


Sean Kent
Where: Hyena’s Comedy Night Club, Arlington
When: 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Cost: $10 with a two-item minimum purchase per person in the showroom.
Preferred seating is available on request for $15 per person.
Kent was a regular on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing 3” and has appeared on “The Bob and Tom Show,” “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” and “Yes, Dear.”

Improv.com

Art

“From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern”
When:
Now-March 21
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, noon-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday
Where: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Cost: Kimbell patron members free, adults $14, seniors age 60 and over $12, students with school ID $12, children ages 6-11 $10, children under 6 free. All day Tuesday and 5 p.m.-8 p.m. on Friday is half price.
This exhibition surveys the history of private art collecting in Texas. Roughly half the works in the exhibition currently hang in private residences, unknown to the public and little known even to specialists.


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