APRIL EVENTS OPENERS

ART



Palsy and Raymond Nasher Collection at the DMA



Collecting sculpture is not like collecting prints or paintings: for one thing, it takes more room. Fortunately, Raymond and Patsy Nasher have plenty of that around their North Dallas home, and when they run out of room there, they always have NorthPark, the Nastier-developed shopping mall. And, starting April 5, they can also spread their treasures around the Dallas Museum of Art, where some one hundred works from the Nashers’ superb collection of modern sculpture will go on display. After Dallas, the collection will travel to Washington, D.C., for a sixmonth run at the National Gallery of Art. Almost every artist of importance from Rodin and Matisse to Oldenburg and David Smith is represented in the exhibit. often by more than one piece. In the course of assembling their collection of sculpture, the Nashers have also gathered a fine group of paintings by many of the same artists, and a number of these have been included in the show. All in all, “A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection” is an example of what can be accomplished when you have teamwork, intelligence, taste-and lots of room. April 5-May 31 at the DallasMuseum of Art, 1717 NHarwood. Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat10-5, Thur 10-9, Sun noon-5.922-0220. -Ken Barrow



SPROTS



Indoor Polo Rides Into Fair Park



Except for those Dallasites who regularly flit off to Palm Beach. Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club in Piano has for years been the closest haven for polo lovers, and it’s not much closer than Palm Beach. Now, professional arena polo comes to Dallas when the Dallas Dragoons kick off their first season this month at the State Fair Coliseum.

Last year was the first season for the National Polo League-and the Dallas Dragoons are the newest addition to the quickly growing indoor polo league. Unlike outdoor polo, indoor polo has only three players, who take the field to play four ten-minute chukkers, using fresh mounts for each chukker. The close-up action and higher scores make it a very exciting spectator sport.

After leading the Fort Worth Argonauts to last year’s league championship, leading scorer Bil Walton came to Dallas to start his own indoor polo franchise. The defection of Fort Worth’s top player will undoubtedly spark fierce competition between the Dragoons and the Argonauts. Along with the Argonauts and the Houston Cavalry, the Dragoons will make Texas the league’s best represented state.

Ticket prices are $8.75 per match. A season box seat goes for $150, a season balcony seat $40, and a season end zone seat for $30. Unless otherwise specified, all matches will be held at the State Fair

Coliseum: Saturday, April 18 vs New York Blues; Friday. April 24 vs Houston Cavalry; Friday, May 8 vs Los Angeles Gladiators; Saturday, May 16 vs Fort Worth Argonauts (in Fort Worth); Thursday. May 21 vs San Francisco Barons; Saturday. May 30 NPL

Championship Game in State Fair Coliseum. For more information, call 520-POLO.



sports



Breaking Away Cycling Action



Olympic-level cyclists from more than twenty countries will descend on downtown Dallas this month for the Nabisco Mayor’s Cup, part of the fourteen-city, $225,000 Nabisco Mayor’s Cup Series cycling extravaganza, the only world-class cycling series in the United States. Held in conjunction with the internationally known Tour of Texas, the Mayor’s Cup is designed with the spectator in mind. Unlike long-distance, point-to-point European races, the Mayor’s Cup will have short, half-mile laps, bringing the spectator ringside to watch the entire race unfold.

Two events are held in each series: a twenty-mile women’s race and a forty-mile men’s race. Within each race there are prime (pronounced “preem”) laps. Each half lap is divided into a prime, with prizes awarded to the cyclist who completes the half lap the fastest. Festivities for the all-day event will begin at noon, April 12, at City Hall Plaza.



BOOKS



Be True To Your< School: A Diary Of 1964



On November 3, 1964, a sixteen-year-old boy in Bexley, Ohio, sat down to write in his diary. The brief entry reveals, frozen in the aspic of memory, the proper order of priorities for teenage boys of any era:



After school I walked by Kayhy. She said “Hi.” It could have been a repulsed hi or it could have been like before we went together. President Johnson won the election tonight.



In the dictionary, under “youth,” print that as a definition. The Great Society and the agony of Vietnam hover on the horizon, but young Bob Greene is keenly attuned to the precise shade of get-lost or come-hither in his ex-girlfriend’s voice. So Kalhy gets more lines than LBJ.

During his junior year in high school, Greene, now a syndicated columnist in more than 200 newspapers and a regular contributor to Esquire, kept a diary as training for a reporter’s career. After finding the journal years later in a desk drawer, he put the fragments into narrative form (“like restoring a cracked and faded old photograph”), changed a few names to protect the randy, and turned out Be True To Your School: A Diary of 1964 (Atheneum, $18.95). It’s a pimples-and-all chronicle of the awkward passage through adolescence.

Some readers may think this book is too narrowly focused. No doubt baby boomers will love it merely for nostalgia’s sake, since 1964 brought the first hints of that generation’s coming power to shape taste and markets. The new hit songs are lovingly noted in the journal, as are the running skirmishes in the great Beatles versus Dave Clark Five debate, a hot topic for young rock fans in 1964. Journalists may smile at Greene’s budding love for the news business when he interviews campus big shots for the school paper:



Jeff is the star of the basketball team and Jennie is one of the most beautiful girls…But when I call up and say I’m from the Torch, all of a sudden she balance of power changes.



And young Greene’s world is constricted in other ways. It’s an enclave of upper-mid-dle-class Jews with moms in the kitchen and Mustangs in the driveway, pizza parlors and Putt-Putt. The only blacks he sees are servants. He is ruled by peer pressure like most adolescents, and spends a weekend on the brink of despair when he fails to win a second letter in tennis. (“Please. God. help me to get back to my old position. I need that letter, Without it. I’m nothing again.”)

But most readers, regardless of social andeconomic background, will feel a shock ofrecognition on reading these simple, honestsentences. Greene has done little to makehimself seem smarter, nobler, or morepopular than he was. (On March 14. heproudly sips his first beer; on November 7,he parties until the roof starts its ominousspinning and wakes up in a pool of vomit.)Above all. the boy’s passionate commitmentto people and things that must prove ephemeral gives this book a poignant tinge andrescues it from mere reportage. WhenGreene vows (January 3) that he and his fourbuddies will “remain best friends for the restof our lives,” he speaks for everyone whohad to learn otherwise. The centrifugal forceof time whirls us outward from home,school, the first friends and lovers whoshared those vulnerable years. “I wonder ifI’m going to regret all those nights of cruising and talking on the phone and listening toWCOL,” Greene writes. With this book toshow for it, he should have few regrets-well, except for the time Monica Curry’sgrandmother spoiled what should have beena perfect evening. -Chris Tucker

Art



Morris Louis, Pouring streams of acrylic paint down the surface of raw canvas. Louis produced some of the most beautiful, and radical, works of the Sixties, paintings that seem more like meteorological phenomena -storms and lightning bolls of pure color-1han art Through April 12 at the Fort Worth Art Museum 1309 Montgomery Tue 10-9, Wed Sat 10-5. Sun 1-5. (817) 738-9215.

Nineteenth-Century French Drawings. Every now and then Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum offers one of its choice exhibits of drawings selected from some great collection or another Those who have come to cherish these shows will especially enjoy “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings,” a display of about one hundred master drawings from Rotterdam’s Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum. The show is particularly rich in works by Ingres, Delacroix, Daumier, Cezanne, and Degas April 25-June 14 at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5. (817) 332-8451.

Marcia Myers. She fabricates her own paper, makes her own paints with dyes and metallic powders, applies them in multiple layers, and even adds painted cheesecloth to create rich textures and brilliant colors. April 16-May 16 at Adams-Middleton Gallery, 3000 Maple. Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-5. 871-7080.

Elizabeth Murray. Cups, palettes, figures, whole rooms explode across the wall in these sprawling, colorful, nearly abstract canvases. Through April 19 at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood. Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 10-5, Thur 10-9, Sun noon-5. 922-0220.

Kessaku: Masterpieces of Japanese Art. This show surveys sculpture, calligraphy, woodblock prints, textile arts, and works (or the tea ceremony. Through April 30 at the Crescent Gallery, third level at Maple and Cedar Springs. Mon-Sat 10-6, Thur 10-7. 871-3550.



Dr. Seuss From Then to Now



A comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of children’s books, will feature approximately 300 drawings, illustrations, and early political cartoons, books, and other material spanning Dr. Seuss’s sixty-year career. The exhibit’s two-year, national tour schedule includes the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the New York Public Library, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Its visit to Dallas is unique because it will be the only time that the proceeds will benefit a charity-the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. April 4-June 21 at the LTV Center Pavillion, 2001 Ross.



The American Watercolor. From early travel sketches to modern abstractions, American artists have had a special way with this most informal and delightful of media This selection of works is from the collection o1 Houston’s Transco Energy Corporation Through April 12 at the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie. Fort Worth Tue-Sat 10-5. Sun 1-5.30. (817) 738-1933.

The American Print. Drawn from the museums own extraordinary collection of etchings, lithographs, silk screens, and woodcuts, this exhibit demonstrates the breathtaking vitality of American print-making over the past century. Through April 19 at the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth. Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5:30. (817) 738-1933.

La Tauromaquia. The bullfight, the Spanish national pastime, is examined through the prints and other works of two Spanish masters, Goya and Picasso. Through May 16 in the Meadows Museum, Meadows School of the Arts. SMU. Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5. 692-3510.

Juergen Strunck. This veteran Dallas artist and teacher of artists combines delicately thin paper and saturated inks to produce prints that are as iridescent as rainbows, and as evanescent as oil upon water Through April 11 at Moss/Chumley Gallery, Suite 390, The Crescent, 2200 Cedar Springs Road. Mon-Sat 10-6, Thur 10-7. 871-3777.

Spanish Masterpieces. From Houston’s extraordinary museum without walls, the Sarah Campbell Blatter Foundation, come these two works on long-term loan: “St. Michael the Archangel’ by the 17th-century master Claudio Coello and “Portrait of Four Children” by the early 19th-century artist Augustin Esteve. Through summer 1987, at the Meadows Museum, Owen Arts Center, SMU. Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 15. 692-2740.



Video Releases



Sound Warehouse. Movies scheduled for release this month in all Sound Warehouse video stores: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The Fly. Room With a View, Sid and Nancy. True Stones. Soul Man

League of Women Voters. A videotape providing general voter information and featuring the candidates for two at-large Dallas City Council races on April 4 is being made available free of charge through a joint effort of Goals tor Dallas and the League of Women Voters. The seventeen-minute video is a readily available source of nonpartisan voter information for Dallas corporations, civic clubs, chambers of commerce and schools and colleges. Pick one up at the League of Women Voiers office at 2727 Inwood, at the Goals for Dallas office at 500 S Ervay, Suite 410-C, or at any Dallas Public Library. 351-4125.

Video Works. Movies scheduled for release this month at all Video Works locations: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The Fly. Soul Man.



Dance



Dancers Unlimited. The locally based contemporary dance company presents Lacy’s Sweet Exchanges, Jamison’s Urban Desert. Hotsas’s Aerospace, Jones’s Fever Swamp, and a new work TBA April 9, 10, & 11 at 8 15 pm and April 12 at 3 pm at the Plaza Theatre. 6719 Snider Plaza. Tickets $28-$10. 363-7000.

Fort Worth Ballet. The third repertory program of the season includes Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco (music by J.S. Bach). Martins’s Calcium Night Light (music by Ives). and Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, along with the world premiere of artistic director Michel Rahn’s Divertisement Royale, a showpiece emphasizing the male dancers set to a baroque score by Delalande. April 3 & 4 at 8 pm at Tarrant County Convention Center. 1101 Houston Tickets $24-$3. (Metro) 429-1181.

Houston Ballet. The International Theatrical Arts Society presents the Houston company in a performance featuring Stevenson’s Bartok’s Concerto. Petipas’s Don Quixote Pas de Deux (music by Minkus), and Stevenson’s Three Preludes (music by Verdi), April 10 & 11 at McFarlin Auditorium, SMU. Tickets $25-$5. 528 5576, (Metro) 429-1181.

Meadows School of the Arts. Graduate Dance Con-cert, April 23-25 at 8 pm and April 26 at 2:15 pm at the Margo Jones Theatre, Owen Arts Center, SMU. Tickets $1. 692-2573.

Texas Christian University. April 2-4: Spring dance concert, with guest choreographer James Truitte, Thur & Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 2 pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium, University at Cantey, TCU, Fort Worth. Tickets $4. (817) 921-7615. April 28 & 29: Senior studio performances at 7:30 pm at TCU Ballet Building. Free. (817)921-7601.



Music



Arius Chamber Players. The Austin-based chamber orchestra performs works of Boccherini, Riccotti. Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, and Mozart. April 14 at 8:15 pm at St. Michael and All Angels Church, 8011 Douglas. Tickets $14-$8 640-7500.

Cliburn Concerts. Pianist Philippe Bianconi. winner of the Silver Medal at the 1985 Cliburn competition, performs Mozart’s Sonata in F (K. 332), Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata, Brahms’s Fantasien, Opus 116, ana Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, April 21 at 8 pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium, University at Cantey, TCU, Fort Worth. Tickets $20-$15. (817) 738-6533.

Dallas Chamber Orchestra. April 12: A concert of 18th-century music includes Bach’s Brandenburg Con-certo No 2, Albinoni’s Concerto for two trumpets and strngs. Bach’s Suite No 2 in B minor for flute and strings, and Haydn’s Double Concerto for violin, harpsichord, and strings. April 26: A special joint presentation with the Dallas Classic Guitar Society features music (or guitar and orchestra. Both concerts are at 7 pm at Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center, SMU. Tickets $10 826-6974.

Dallas Civic Music Association. April 9: Pianist Bella Davidovich joinsher son, violinist Dmitri Sitkovetsky, in recital April 27. The Canadian Brass performs in concert Both events at 8:15 pm at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm. Tickets $25-55 954-0997.

Dallas Classic Guitar Society. April 25: Guitarist Paul LeBlanc appears in recital on the society’s museum series at 3 pm at the Dallas Museum of Art. 1717 N Har-wood Tickets$3.April 26: A joint presentation with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra features music for guitar and orchestra at 7 pm at Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center, SMU. Tickets $10 521-0844.

Dallas Opera. Soprano Ruth Welting stars as Fiorella in Rossini’s ll Turco in Italia, with Nicola Rescignoconducting and Paolo Montarsolo directing and playing the role of Geronio. April 8 & 10 at 8 pm and April 12 at 2pmattheMajestic Theatre, 1925 Elm. Tickets $45-58. 871-0090.

Dallas Symphony Subscription Concerts. April 2 & 4: Shlomo Mintz performs Ravel’s Tzigane and the new Violin Concerto of Neikrug in a concert also featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 and and Respighi’s Pines of Rome, with James Rives-Jones conducting. April 10 & 11: Eduardo Mata conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Texas Boys Choir, the Dallas Symphony Women’s Chorus, and mezzo-soprano Mariana Paunova. April 23, 25, & 26. Dimitris Sgouros performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 with Mata conducting a concert also including Rochberg’s “Music for the Magic Theatre’ and Martin’s Concerto for seven winds April 30 & May 2. Mata conducts Beethoven’s First Symphony, Suites 1 & 2 from Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat, and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Gidon Kremer All concerts at Fair Park Music Hall Thur, Fri, & Sat at 8:15 pm and Sun at 2:30 pm. Tickets $20-$7 50 692-0203.

Dallas Symphony Special Events. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax perform Schumann’s Fantasiestuecke for cello and piano and the Cello Sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich, April 6 at 8:15 pm at McFarlin Auditorium, SMU. Tickets $25-$10. 692-0203.

Dallas Symphony Superpops. April 3: The Pletka Spectacular features a multimedia presentation built around the paintings of Paul Pletka. April 17: Piano-playing comedian Victor Borge presents “Carmen for People Who Hale Opera.” All concerts at 8 pm at Fair Park Music Hall Tickets $23$10. 692-0203.

Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra. Jose-Luis Garcia conducts a concert featuring Boyce’s Symphony No. 7, Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, and Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, with soloist Murray Perahia, April 7 at 8 pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium. University at Cantey. TCU, Fort Worth. Tickets $14-$9. (817) 926-8831.

Fort Worth Symphony Pops. Peter Nero performs, April 24 & 25 at Tarrant County Convention Center Theatre, 1101 Houston, Fort Worth. Tickets $20-$12. (B17) 926-8831.

Richardson Chamber Music Society. Area professionals perform Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, Ravel’s Sonata lor violin and cello, and Brahms’s Sextet in B flat, Opus 18, April 12 at 3 pm at the Richardson High School Auditorium, Richardson Tickets $10 234-1195.

Richardson Symphony Orchestra. A pops concert features guitarist Chet Atkins. April 25 at 8 pm at Richardson High School Auditorium, Richardson. Tickets $12 234-4195.

Texas Baroque Ensemble. The Dallas-based ensemble performs early classical music on authentic 18th-century instruments and reproductions. April 18 at 8:15 pm at St. Stephen United Methodist Church, 2520 Dales Drive, Mesquite. Tickets $6. 278-2458.

Texas Christian University. April 6. TCU Concert Chorale April 11: Chester String Quartet. April 13 Contemporary music festival concert of chamber music of Donald White. April 14: Contemporary music festival concert of large ensemble music of Donald White. April 20:TamasUngar, faculty piano recital. April 24: TCU Mallet Ensemble. April 26: TCU Choral Union at 7 30 pm. April 27: TCU Symphony with student concerto performances. All performances are at Ed Landreth Auditorium, University at Cantey, TCU, Fort Worth at 8 pm unless otherwise noted Free. (817) 921-7601.

Voices of Change. Dallas’s contemporary chamber music ensemble presents Robert Davidovici, concert-master of the Fort Worth Symphony, and Emanuel Borok, concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony, in a duo violin recital, April 24 at 8:15 pm at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm Tickets $75-$20. 692-3189.



Theater



A Lie of the Mind. Hailed as the best play yet from Sam Shepard. A Lie of the Mind is a dark, mysterious play about the love that binds man and woman, father and son Jake and Beth are warring lovers-their violence drives them apart into their respective families where they are again enveloped by the familial madness that spawned them. Through April 23-May 17 at the Dallas Theater Center’s Arts District Theater, 2401 Flora at Fairmount. 526-8857.

The Miser. Written more than 300 years ago, this energetic farce by the father of modern French drama, Moliere, centers around an unbearably selfish and un-pardonably wealthy old skinflint whose obsessive behavior has set even his children scheming against him, right along with the servants and neighbors. Willing to marry his beautiful daughter off to an old man who won’t require a dowry, and intending to marry his own son’s beloved, the Miser is destined to be undone by his own stinginess Through April 12 at the Dallas Theater Center’s Kalita Humphreys Theater. 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. 526-8857.

The Couch. This is Stage # 1’s second production in its new, upscale home, across from the Crescent on Cedar Springs. The play is a comedy in which, on one tumultuous day, Carl Jung faces the possible loss of his mentor, Freud: his wife, Emma: and his lover, Toni While the two fathers of psychoanalysis struggle for dominance, the women work out their own surprising solution Cynthia White, who staged such Stage #1 successes as The Foreigner and Native Speech, will return to direct March 28 April 26 at Stage #1. 2215 Cedar Springs. 871-2277.

Black Comedy. Written by Peter Shaffer, author of Equus and Amadeus, Black Comedy is a last-paced and visually chaotic comedy set in a totally darkened room. Happily for the audience, the lights are off only to the unwitting actors on stage The audience is able to see all of the nocturnal shenanigans. March 27-May 9 at the Greenville Avenue Pocket Sandwich Theatre. 1611 Greenville. 821-1860.

Restoration. This new play by internationally respected playwright Edward Bond is set in England’s past with a special message for the modern world With music, song, and satire, Bond draws pointed contrasts between the landed gentry and the working class. This story of a servant, wrongfully accused of the murder of an aristocrat’s wife, is captivating For its broad and witty presentation of the many meanings of justice. April 30-May 23 at the Addison Centre Theatre. 934-3913.



Enlightenment



African-American Contributions to Texas Architecture. This exhibit provides a comprehensive treatment of black architecture in Texas from the 1800s to the early 20th century. The exhibit reviews African craft traditions, early black housing in Texas, slave-built plantations, and slave quarters. Additional focus will be on William Sidney Pittman, Dallas’s first black professional architect of the early 20th century Through May 10 in the Renner School Exhibit Hall in Old City Park. 1717 Gano. Tue-Sat 10 am-4 pm, Sun 1:30 pm-4:30 pm. 421-5141.

Looking at the Light. Developed by the world-famous Exploratorium in San Francisco. “Looking at the Light” is an interactive exhibit about light and shadows, mirrors and images, and how light waves give shape and color to the visible world Everything you see is actually light reflected off of something else before it enters your eyes. At this exhibit, you can create your own optical patterns at an optics table or touch a spring that appears to float in space, or duck into a kaleidoscope and see a crowd o1 yourself. On permanent display at The Science Place in Fair Park. Tue-Sun 9:30 am-5pm. $3 adults, $2 for children. Children under seven, free. 428-5555.

Walkfest ’87. People fifty-five and older are eligible for the fourth annual Walkfest and Healthfair at Bachman Lake. There will be one, two, three, and six-mile courses around the lake. Healthfair will focus on exercise, nutrition, preventive medicine, and aging Registration fee for both Walkfest and Healthfair is $5 and includes an event T-shirt, lunch, and entertainment Sat, April 11 at Bachman Lake. Deadline for pre-registration is April 1. On-site registration is also available. For registration forms and more information, call the downtown YMCA/Urban Services office at 954-0655.



Dallas Arboretum.



Dallas Arboretum. Located on the grounds of the DeGolyer and Camp estates on the southeast shore of White Rock Lake, the sixty-six-acre Dallas Botanical Garden is an excellent spot to view perennials and annuals in gardens indigenous to Texas. Tours are available of the DeGolyer House, designated as a Texas Historical Landmark. It’s a great place to picnic. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $2 adults, $1 children. 8525 Garland Road. Call 327-8263 for directions.

Dallas Zoo. Don’t forget to lake the kids to the zoo to see all kinds of exotic animals as well as an excellent reptile collection There are train rides and a picnic area. Open daily 9 am-5 pm. Take I-35 south past downtown (follow signs to Waco), take the Ewing exit. Adults $2, children $1.25, parking $2. 946-5154.

The Dallas Cowboys Headquarters and Practice Facility. The new Cowboys headquarters in Valley Ranch are available for public tours. Cowboys Center is located in Valley Ranch, 1 7 miles off of LBJ Freeway at MacArthur Boulevard. Tours are available by appointment only Monday through Saturday. Contact the tour director at 556-9900.

Heritage Farmstead. Since 1891, this Plano farmstead has withstood the test of time and today offers a rare visit into the past. Closed for the last six years for restoration, Heritage Farmstead is now open for daily tours. This four-acre museum tells a story of a way of life during the height of farm prosperity in our country. Only a few years ago. the museum’s Victorian home and twelve outbuildings were the hub of a 360-acre farm Take Central Expressway north to exit 29. |ust past Collin Creek Mall. Head west 1/2 mile on 15th Street. 1900 W 15th Street. Plano. 424-7874.

Shotgun House at Old City Park. As part of its con-tinumg effort to represent the cultural diversity of the history of North Central Texas, Old City Park has recently restored, and opened for tour, a shotgun house, originally built in 1906 on Guillot Street in the Stale-Thomas neighborhood of Dallas. The shotgun house is generally considered to be an African-Amer-ican architectural farm, that was introduced into New Orleans in the early 19th century by freed Haitian blacks. Old City Park, 1717 Gano. 421-5141.

Thanksgiving Square. Located at Pacific and Ervay in the middle of downtown, Thanksgiving Square is the perfect place lor a quiet moment in the middle of the hustle and bustle of downtown. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the watergardens or a quiet moment in the chapel. Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat & Sun 1 pm-5 pm. 969-1977.



Sports



Dallas Mavericks. Reunion Arena, Dallas Home game tickets available at Rainbow-Ticketmaster or at Reunion Arena box office. 658-7068.

April 3 Golden State Warriors

4 Utah Jazz

15 Houston Rockets

13 Sacramento Kings

Dallas Sidekicks. Indoor soccer at Reunion Arena. Tickets available through Rainbow-Ticketmaster 787-2000; group tickets 361 KICK.

April 2 Cleveland 7:05 pm

14 St. Louis 7:05 pm

17 Baltimore 7.35 pm

19 Minnesota 6:35 pm