Best bets for Monday
1 EIGHT-LEGGED WONDERS There's limited time left to see the spiders at Fort Worth Zoo's "Arachnitopia – Amazing Spiders, Man." The exhibit includes a mock "mad scientist" lab with spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites and pseudoscorpions. (Wonder if they give pseudo-stings?) 1989 Colonial Parkway, Fort Worth. $10.50; $8 children. 817-759-7555.
2 GET YOUR GRILL ON Red pepper shrimp and molasses-glazed duck are just two of the dishes Jim Severson, the executive chef at Sevy's Grill , will be demonstrating how to cook at Grilling on a Summer Night . The food and wine dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at Sevy's. Reservations are required. 8201 Preston Road. $59.95. 214-265-7389.
3 WARM UP YOUR PIPES Tryouts for the Plano Civic Chorus are tonight at 7 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church. The group will have parts available for a concert lineup that includes Brahms' Requiem and Handel's Messiah. Choral experience is preferred but not required. 5801 W. Plano Parkway. Free. 972-606-5220.
4 MMM ... MONDAY POPCORN Head out to your local movie theater and catch Homer and the gang in The Simpsons Movie without having to wade through the hordes of people watching it on opening weekend. In wide release. www.simpsonsmovie.com.
5 HANG OUT WITH THE BOYS Or stay home and catch the premiere of Season 2 of My Boys at 9 p.m. on TBS. PJ Franklin (played by the ever-so-cute Jordana Spiro) and her group of five "boys" (including funny man Jim Gaffigan) are a perfectly mismatched group on the Chicago scene. www.myspace.com/myboys.
