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Subjects Laid Bare
BIG TICKETThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth often has artists visit when their works are exhibited there, but that won’t be an option for Lucian Freud: Portraits. The painter (and grandson of Sigmund Freud) died last year at the age ...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 20 Also known as Chef DAT, David Anthony Temple brings his first pop-up restaurant to Fort Worth this evening with Dining in the Park. He’ll create a five-course meal with local seasonal ingredients. Cocktails by The ...
Park Passion
Big TicketBallet Concerto, the popular summer dance troupe, celebrates 30 years of open-air performances with a four-day run at Trinity Park Pavilion beginning Thursday. Founded by Margo Dean (who also founded the Fort Worth Ballet, no...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 13 Movie theaters all over America are offering entertainment besides their regular slate of new films. Cinemark is no exception with its Summer Classics Series, digitally restored vintage films being shown on Wednesday...
A Pound of Flesh
Big TicketThe Trinity Shakespeare Festival goes into full swing this week at TCU with a couple of Shakespeare plays that are grouped in with his comedies, though only one of them fits snugly into that category. That would be The Merry Wi...
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Kristian LinWED ▪ 6 Having brought Fats Waller and Bob Fosse to Broadway, Richard Maltby’s revue Ring of Fire didn’t hit the boards until after James Mangold’s Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line had played in theaters. Which work get...
Three Musketeers
Betty BrinkFor some reason, John D. Graham is never mentioned among the giants of the abstract expressionist movement. Born Ivan Gratianovich Dombrowsky in Kiev in 1886, he had been a lawyer and a decorated veteran of World War I before h...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 30 Having cooled off somewhat after an insanely hot start to the season, the Texas Rangers conclude their three-game series against the Seattle Mariners this evening. Take a good look at them; they’ll be off on a two-...
That’s Our Q
Big TicketThe Q Cinema festival has been going since 1998, and it’s a measure of just how much has changed since then that this year’s festival has an entire program of short films dedicated to the subject of gay marriage. Our nation...
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KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 23 The phrase “hard twist” refers both to a short knot that’s extremely difficult to break and to a short, compact person with the same durable qualities. You’ll find that in spades in Hard Twist: Western Ranch ...