Mimir for 10 Years
For the world, 1997 brought the Spice Girls and the death of Princess Diana, but here in Fort Worth it gave birth to something...
Road Shows
With the summer heat going at full blast, now’s a good time for the two special movie events going on this week. Movie houses...
The Next Oscar Winner?
If the Lone Star International Film Festival is like Fort Worth’s version of Sundance, Christopher Kelly’s Modern Cinema: Great Movies You Haven’t Heard of...
Unheard Classics
Last week, we wrote about Tan Dun’s Water Concerto in this space, and this week Fort Worth music lovers with a taste for the...
Three Solos
Concertos were conceived as a showpiece for one instrument backed by an orchestra, but in 1803 Beethoven came up with the idea of highlighting...
Documentary Matters
The quarterly film series Movies That Matter comes to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth this weekend, screening socially conscious documentaries free of...
A Horse With Wings
One of America’s great songwriters, Ricky Ian Gordon composes theatrical songs in the accessible style of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and he’s written...
Livin’ La Paz Loca
As we’re learning from the Middle East, trying to implant American-style democracy overseas is a much harder job than it looks. For an example...
Unfamiliar Strains
Well-regarded in his usual job as associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, guest conductor Rossen Milanov takes the podium for this weekend’s Fort Worth...
Essential Art House
The death last week of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman triggered a day of mourning for lovers of international cinema.
Many people know his movies...