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Early Jump on Holidays
Big TicketBallet Frontier, the performing wing of Ballet Center of Fort Worth, will get a leg up on Christmas, performing The Nutcracker twice on Saturday at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Company director Chung-Lin Tseng, a former pri...
Third Reel
Big TicketThe third Lone Star International Film Festival kicks off this weekend, and festivalgoers will be seeking something to match the awards buzz of 2007′s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the crowd-pleasing tendency ...
Talk It Out
Big TicketThe most interesting events happening this week are all on the lecture and author appearances circuit. At UNT, Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir (and no, those aren’t pseudonyms) will discuss their work as founder...
Spooky Circus
Caroline CollierEveryone loves Halloween, but for arty types who don’t have children to take door to door or who find dressing up gauche, there’s not much doing. To help fill the cultural void, Denton composer and arranger David Pi...
Dark Color
Big TicketTwo important, nearly diametrically opposed exhibits are opening on Saturday. Both are well worth close inspection.
New York State of Mind
Big TicketBefore Dave Matthews and John Mayer, there was Billy Joel, a singer-songwriter who had the technical chops to satisfy progressive tastes and the ability to write the kind of simple, effective, no-nonsense lyrics that made mains...
Three Strings
Big TicketFort Worth Symphony Orchestra‘s commitment to new music continues this weekend. Oh, Dvorák’s “From the New World” Symphony will be played as a sop to the traditionalists in the crowd, but the rest of th...
TBT’s New Season
Leonard EurekaIt’s a time of anniversaries. Three of the ballets scheduled for Texas Ballet Theater’s season-opening program are celebrating milestone birthdays, including artistic director Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes, s...
Wednesday Matinees
Big TicketThis year marks the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest moviegoing years ever, and one of 1939′s biggest cinematic landmarks was The Wizard of Oz, an enduring classic but also a technological and artistic breakthrough...
Midori and Tsujii
KRISTIAN LINFresh from its recent all-Beethoven Festival, the Fort Worth Symphony begins its regular subscription series this weekend with Japanese violinist Midori as soloist. A one-time child prodigy (she debuted with the New York Philha...