Experience the fun of art, wine, and live music at the annual festival April 11-13. "The Arts and Bloom festival is a vibrant celebration of the intersection between art and nature. This annual event brings artists, musicians, and wine enthusiasts from around the region to showcase their talents in beautiful Downtown McKinney. The festival offers a wonderful opportunity for the community to come together and enjoy the beauty of the season while supporting local artists and Downtown McKinney businesses," said Cultural District Director Andrew Jones.

When the sun goes down at Rodeo Celina, the fun is just beginning. New this year, Collin County’s only PRCA-sanctioned rodeo is adding two nights of amazing country music with concerts in the beautifully renovated Oil Baron's Ballroom at Southfork Ranch. Josh Ward and Randall King will headline shows May 30-31.

Youth from Denton County 4-H participated in the 2025 Texas 4-H Day at the Capitol. The Texas 4-H Youth Development Program held 4-H Day at the Capitol on March 19, 2025, where 253 youth and their family members, alongside Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service employees spent the day at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. Attendees gathered to learn from speakers, explored the Capitol, and met with their representatives and senators.

Cory Morrow headlined the Fannin Agricultural Association's 3rd Annual Steaks on Main cook-off and free concert in historic downtown Bonham. Some of the region's best grilling teams competed for $5,000 of prize money in the cook-off but the biggest winners may be local FFA organizations and 4-H clubs that benefit from this event's proceeds and carry on the area's proud agricultural tradition.

The 44th Annual Scarborough Renaissance Festival® is interactive fun for everyone, 16th Century style! This North Texas tradition invites you to step back in time for the time of your life to enjoy the jousting (all-new for 2025), birds of prey exhibitions, Mermaid Lagoon, and 20+ stages of non-stop Renaissance entertainment.

April Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. In one famous prank in 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss spaghetti harvest. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs program Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree." The news report was produced as an April Fools' Day joke in 1957, and presented a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland gathering a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil." Footage of a traditional "Harvest Festival" was aired along with a discussion of the breeding necessary to develop a strain to produce the perfect length of spaghetti. Panorama cameraman Charles de Jaeger dreamed up the story after remembering how teachers at his school in Austria teased his classmates for being so stupid that if they were told that spaghetti grew on trees, they would believe it. At the time, 7 million of the 15.8 million homes (about 44%) in Britain had television receivers. Pasta was not an everyday food in 1950s Britain, and it was known mainly from tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce and considered by many to be an exotic delicacy. An estimated eight million people watched the program on 1 April 1957, and hundreds phoned in the following day to question the authenticity of the story or ask for more information about spaghetti cultivation and how they could grow their own spaghetti trees; the BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."