Dallas

A pair of Houston hard-rock scenesters has launched this line of tees that cerebrumize 1980s movie posters, such as The Terminator (half-alloy, Gargoyles-wearing, heat-packing Krang), and Major League, a quivering wad of sunglasses-rocking, mohawked gray matter -- a nod to Sheen's character, though everyone knows the brains behind that operation belonged to Jobu.

7p, Sat Jul 4; 2101 Greenville Ave, at Bell; Lower Greenville; 214.824.7900

The Lower Greenville watering hole's throwing an Independence Day bash with $2 Shiners & Lone Stars and an all-you-can-devour-in-15-minutes corndog contest, with a $100 bar tab going to the winner, $50 to 2nd place, and $25 in quarters to 3rd -- because in any contest involving unnatural consumption and fried stuff, the real winner's the laundromat.

Mon-Sat 11a-7p; 2804 Greenville Ave; Lower Greenville; 214.953.3067

Pushed by Victory/AAC from downtown to Lower Greenville, discount wine shop Stoney's is back to selling mostly highly rated, smaller-brand wines at 30%+ markdowns after an aborted foray into cheeses and kitchen linens -- ah, the mysteries of business.

4-11p, Sat Jul 4; Ferrari's Flight, 1200 William D. Tate Ave; Grapevine; 817.251.2525

The new drinks-in-a-series venture from Ferrari's Italian Villa marks July 4 w/ a killer deal: a medium wood-fired pizza plus three martinis (raspberry red/cloudy lemon white/blueberry blue) all for $15 -- briefly giving post-Lake Grapevine revelers the zip of an Enzo, before they crumple up like Eddie Griffin.

Partly to benefit the Carter Albrecht Foundation, a local therapist & artisan has started crafting unisex wristwear salvaged from the guitars & basses of local bands like Shibboleth and Chomsky -- whose libertarian-socialist namesake would totally say something profound pertaining to these bracelets.