How many of you have ridden the Dart train or the TRE? Even if you don't use either for your work transportation, it's an experience you shouldn't miss.

You can now take the train to points all over the Metroplex. I think most people know you can hop aboard to head to downtown or to the Dallas Zoo but you can also navigate to the Stars games - go, my beloved Stars, go!!!, the Mavs games (well, we'll have to wait until next year for that and don't get me started on that), all the AAC concerts and events, theater events at the WaterTower Theater, Theater Three, the Dallas Summer Musicals at the Fair Park Music Hall, & the Garland Civic Theater.

How about enriching your cultural side at museums? Take the TRE to Fort Worth and head over to the art museums, go to the J. M. W. Turner exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, or the exhibits at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Every Sunday, there are free tours of the European sculptures at the Trammel Crow Center in downtown Dallas. The first Saturday of the month offers no-cost walking tours through the Dallas Arts District.

Dallas Musuem of Art

European Sculpture at the Trammell Crow Center

Want to hear some music? Were you aware of this freebies? Thursday Night Live at the Dallas Museum of Art. Included is Jazz in the Atrium every Thursday from 6-8. There are different performers for the month of May (check it out at www.dallasmuseumofart.org.

It's also easy to ride the Dart down to the Morton Myerson and they have plenty of upcoming concerts.  www.dallassymphony.com

Morton Myerson

Take the Red Line to downtown Plano to see Downtown@Sundown, featuring live music, vendors, food and extended hours for the businesses in that area. It's every second Saturday thru Nov. 8th.

Upcoming festivals in May that you can get to by Dart are:
Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson, May 3-4
Taste Addison, May 9-11
Wildflower! Richardson's Art & Music Festival, May 16-18

The Dart website is full of information about all the things I've listed here, telling dates, times, how to get there, etc.  plus they have maps, schedules, fare info and tons more. Check it out at www.dart.org.

Weird Al Yancovic Another One Rides the Bus From the Tom Snider Show, 1981