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Film Buffs and Foodies
Big TicketThis is International Week at TCU, and for the second straight year, the KinoMonda film series will mark the occasion with a blowout event called TCU Food and Film.
Out of the Woodwork
Big TicketSince the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth moved into its current home, one of its most popular pieces has been Martin Puryear’s “Ladder for Booker T. Washington,” the sculpture of a small, crooked wooden ladde...
V-Day Roundup
Big TicketValentine’s Day may be a creation of the retail sector to drive up sales during a slow period, but it has given rise to no shortage of entertainment options in Tarrant County this year.
The Joint Is Jumpin’
Big TicketSpike Lee once behaved like a jackass to one of this paper’s interns, but that doesn’t diminish the artistry of the films made by this unruly, bristling, angry, risk-loving giant of American cinema.
Martyr and Man
Big TicketDr. Samuel Johnson once wrote that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrate his mind wonderfully.” The condemned character in Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying needs a bit of assi...
Domestic Troubles
Big TicketSarah Ruhl has told this story often, but it bears one more repetition: She came up with the idea for her comedy The Clean House after going to a party and overhearing a woman talk about her maid, who had stopped cleaning her h...
Musical Games
Big TicketHere’s to the local symphony orchestras doing weird things with their programming.
Big Art, Little Art
Big TicketIt’s too early in the year for the local museums to be launching major exhibits, but some of them are giving us new stuff to look at all the same.
Great Scot
Big TicketIt’s a great day for America, everybody, and we’ll tell you why: Craig Ferguson is at Bass Hall this Saturday.
Year-End Games
Big TicketThe new year is a great time to resolve to lose weight by playing more sports, but often that resolution quickly becomes “get out and watch more sports” and before long degenerates into “try to duplicate the r...