Arts
Culture 2012
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFF Solo Dance Performances Critic’s choice: (tie) Leticia Oliveira, Carolyn Judson, and Michele Gifford Oliveira and Judson alternated in the title role of Texas Ballet Theater’s Giselle, bringing different views of the...
Who Not to Call: Ghostbreakers
Finally, this Fort Worth-fueled paranormal satire will see the light of day.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s been almost four years since actor Gabriel Horn, a former Fort Worthian who now lives in Los Angeles, first conceived the idea for Ghostbreakers, a TV show that spoofs the “paranormal reality” genre. He and his buddy...
Gallery
UNT on the SquareGALLERY
Famous for their bright colors and geometric patterns, Kente cloths are woven or printed to embody concepts such as healing, royalty, wealth, peace, purity, and fertility. These dazzling pieces are on display through this month...
Gallery
TCC Southeast CampusGALLERY
With school back in session, the colleges all have art shows up for September. Among them is the biennial at TCC’s Southeast Campus, which includes sculptures by Elizabeth Hurtado and video art by John Neal Phillips. A...
Bass Master
There may be more to this arts-funding fiasco than meets the eye.ANTHONY MARIANI
So Fall Gallery Night happened last Saturday. Masses of people packed Fort Worth’s multiple galleries and impromptu art spaces, sipping on boxed wine, noshing on cheese cubes, and, of course, admiring the art on display. Ther...
More Funny Brits
Circle Theatre’s latest is the brightest in a string of door-slamming farces.JIMMY FOWLER
Are Fort Worth audiences farced out? Apparently not, judging by the prolonged and hearty laughter that greeted a recent performance of Circle Theatre’s current British comedy See How They Run. Philip King’s 1944 script, set...
Gallery
Milan GalleryGALLERY
With so much to choose from on Gallery Night (see Night & Day sidebar), we’re giving this space to the new show at Milan Gallery, which includes mixed-media works by Jeanette Korab based on her travels in France. The gall...
Local Artist Scores River Phoenix’s Last Movie
ANTHONY MARIANIJames Michael Taylor is not “going Hollywood,” as the old saying goes –– he’s much too cantankerous and outspoken for anyplace other than Fort Worth –– but his music might be. A movie for which the blue-col...
Arts Are Big Business in Fort Worth
ANTHONY MARIANIOn Tuesday, Sept. 18, Fort Worth City Council will vote on a new budget, one that includes a 25 percent cut in funding for the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. A nonprofit agency that disperses taxpayer money to m...
FWSO’s America
Inspiring music rang through Bass Hall last weekend.LEONARD EUREKA
Last weekend in Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presented its second American Festival, but if the company was expecting an attendance repeat of last year’s successful, inaugural festival, maestro Miguel ...