Night & Day
Planet Destroyer
Kristian Lin“I got hate mail from third graders,” said Neil de Grasse Tyson (with no small amount of amusement) recently on The Daily Show. He was referring to his part in Pluto losing its status as a recognized planet three ye...
Vampyr
Kristian LinAttention Twilight fans: You really should check out Let the Right One In. This Swedish vampire flick appeared on a number of critics’ year-end lists of best films (including Fort Worth Weekly’s), and it electrified...
False Gods
KRISTIAN LINReading it today, you might not guess that Tartuffe was a play that got its author into trouble. Yet the 17th-century playwright Molière found a heap of it in 1664 when he first had it performed privately for King Louis XIV an...
From Rodolfo to Roberto
Leonard EurekaContinuing his rapid career rise after a stunning professional debut with the Fort Worth Opera three years ago as Rodolfo in La Bohème, tenor Stephen Costello takes on the title role of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux for t...
Riding Into Town
Kristian LinTuesday’s recital at Bass Hall actually won’t be the first time Li Yundi has played here in Fort Worth. The now-26-year-old native of Chongqing, China came to town in 2000 to perform as part of the TCU/Cliburn Piano...
Poetic Justice
Kristian LinLaRondine tends to be overlooked when it comes to Puccini operas. Indeed, some fans of La Bohème and Tosca regard it as a disaster, but it’s actually nothing of the kind. The opera (whose title translates as “The S...
New Year’s Eve
Kristian LinThere are so many open-to-the-public New Year’s Eve parties going on this evening that we gave them their own section in our Calendar listings. McDavid Studio is serving a late-night breakfast to accompany the festivities...
Air vs. Ground
Kristian LinThe name of the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl takes us back to a simpler time when Army and Navy were among the giants of college football. Of course, we don’t live in that time anymore. Instead, we’ve got a bow...
Joyeux Noël
Kristian LinOne thing Night & Day will remember 2008′s movies for is the year the French got themselves back on track. France’s once-great film culture looked to have gone stale, but this year they gave us the breathtaking ...
Princess of Egypt
Kristian LinA giant in his lifetime, the French composer Jules Massenet suffered a severe dwindling of his reputation in the decades following his death in 1912. The suave, sweet richness of his music was way out of step with 20th-century ...