Best things to do in Dallas this week, Sept. 21-27

It's the first Dolly Day since Dolly Parton died. Celebrate the way she'd want, surrounded by the drag queens who pay homage to her.
Summary by The Dallas Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: Cory Graves, as published by Dallas Observer · · 1 min read

It's the first Dolly Day since Dolly Parton died. Celebrate the way she'd want, surrounded by the drag queens who pay homage to her.

News
Slayyyter's Worst Girl in the World Tour set the stage for a rising artist quickly becoming one of the best live performers in pop music right now.
Dallas Observer · Sep 21, 2026

Local
New AI cameras on garbage trucks took over 20,000 photographs in four months. Less than 1% ended up with citations.
Dallas Observer · Sep 21, 2026

Local
Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. North Texas Giving Day, Dallas-based Communities Foundation of Texas’ biggest fundraiser of the year, set a record for giving. By the event’s official close at midnight Sept. 17, 94,700 donors had given more th...
Dallas Innovates · Sep 21, 2026

business
First came street tracking; now comes financial tracking. Third-party delivery services are using personal history to set custom prices and tack on dynamic fees simply because the data exists....
Dallas Observer · Sep 21, 2026

News
There’s been no public response to the increase in deaths as the federal government has drastically cut maternal health staffers and grant funding.
Dallas Observer · Sep 21, 2026

Local
For the Masc Gent Bosses , Pride is not confined to a parade route, a rainbow flag or one week on the calendar. The Dallas-based collective of Black queer professionals, entrepreneurs and creatives has built its identity around a different kind of visibility: creating spaces wher...
Dallas Weekly · Sep 21, 2026

Local
North Texas is enduring a severe dry spell, tying for the second-longest streak without measurable rainfall in local history even as isolated storms threaten the region with localized flash flooding, lightning, and gusty winds....
FOX 4 (KDFW) · Sep 21, 2026

safety
A woman is dead following a motorcycle crash in Addison late Sunday night, police said.
FOX 4 (KDFW) · Sep 21, 2026

Local
Dak Prescott threw four touchdown passes to break Tony Romo’s career franchise record, and the Dallas Cowboys beat Washington 37-20 on Sunday after the Commanders’ Jayden Daniels went down with another gruesome-looking dislocated left elbow. Prescott’s record-breaking 249th TD pa...
NBC5 DFW · Sep 20, 2026
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Dallas News · Sep 20, 2026