Take the Keys
After 23 years as president of the Van Cliburn Foundation, the group that organizes and presents the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Richard...
Dull in the Heart
When I was younger, I used to hear folks refer to the intellectually disabled as “dull in the head.” Today, I contemplate that as...
Lost in thought and balletic reverie
To a lot of viewers and critics, the title Lost has become a bad pun on the show itself.
Over the course of the...
Travel and No Leisure
Interstate 35 might not have the hipster cachet of Route 66 or Ventura Highway, but the 1,568-mile road that stretches from Laredo to Duluth,...
Reds, Black, and Blue
George Gershwin got an unusual run through at the Fort Worth Symphony Concerts in the Garden last week.
Young German Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor...
Get Behind Your Ballet
To continue their heroic efforts, Texas Ballet Theater's dancers are putting on a benefit program tomorrow (Thursday) at the Scott Theater in the Fort...
Symbols, Meanings
Like a lot of establishmentistas in Texas - you know who they are - mixed-media artist Benito Huerta is above criticism. Not a discouraging...
Cheesy Humor
Misplaced phone calls will forever terrorize our homes. For normal people, it’s a nuisance. For Fort Worth’s Robert McKee, it’s manna from the comedy...
Arts Notes
Being born a sharecropper's son in 1915 on the outskirts of Fort Worth isn't the background you might expect from someone who'd eventually be...
Reindeer Games
It's that time of year again. Yuletide kvetches are being sung by a choir of folks worried about the Meaning of Christmas being lost....
