Artscape at the Dallas Arboretum is a juried fine art show and sale featuring over 100 artists from around the country. Artists will fill Jonsson Color Garden and the Lakeside Exhibit Area selling paintings, jewelry, photography, woodwork and more. As you shop, enjoy some light bites from favorite local food trucks and restaurants. You may also grab a beer or wine from one of the on-site bars so you can happily sip and shop.

TCOG will be hosting an "Appointment Only" Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event on location at our main offices in Sherman on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The event is open to all residents of Cooke, Fannin and Grayson counties.

Savvy gardeners know they can find the best plants for North Texas gardens at the Collin County Master Gardeners' Plant Sale. The largest plant sale in Collin County will once again be held in the Show Barn at beautiful Myers Park & Event Center in McKinney. Come early for best selection!

Heart – Royal Flush Tour 2024 – 8:00 p.m., Friday, May 3. Heart is an American/Canadian rock band who formed in 1973 in Vancouver, BC. In 1975, their first album Dreamboat Annie had breakout global success. Heart effortlessly blends the sounds of 70s hard rock, acoustic rock, punk, and even at times symphonic. Defying all categories, Heart is a band like no other, having influenced a wide range of mainstream and underground artists in a career spanning nearly five decades. An Evening with Stevie Nicks is set for Friday, May 10.

Kick off spring with a colorful celebration of spirituality and Indian culture at the fifth annual Festival of Joy. The festival will take place at Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy., Dallas) on Saturday April 27, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and culminating with a live headline stage performance from 7:00 p.m. on. (photo credit: Arun Sharma, Your Lensman Photography)

1882 – death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo,[3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called him his "master." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist.