Klezmer Tango
Fort Worth’s cultural institutions continue to do their part to show us classical music as a vibrant, growing contemporary thing.
The Cliburn at the...
The Next Wave
The Lois Weber Film Festival in Grand Prairie is devoted to movies directed by women. Looking over the selections on offer, you might be...
Big Art, Little Art
It's too early in the year for the local museums to be launching major exhibits, but some of them are giving us new stuff...
Theater Roundup
A bumper crop of theater shows represents your best bet for entertainment this week. For younger audiences, Theatre Arlington puts on an adaptation of...
Old Believers
In the centuries immediately following Jesus’ death, European civilization was fairly nonexistent and Christianity was just one of a number of religions vying for...
Sit-Down Strings
In his day job as a music critic, George Bernard Shaw once dismissed the cello as “a bee buzzing in a stone jug,” but...
Bourbon Street Blues
For all of Spike Lee’s considerable achievements as a fiction filmmaker, he may be even better as a documentarian.
Following 4 Little Girls, his...
Moods of Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a talented but tyrannical orchestra conductor, a believer in numerological superstitions and a man whose workaholic habits so wrecked his marriage...
Bicentennials
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the births of both Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, two composers who traveled in different social circles...
Stella!
It has been almost 30 years since an American museum mounted a major retrospective of Frank Stella. The Boston-born artist has been making art...
