'Lost JFK Tapes’ brings assassination home to North Texans

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A new documentary about President Kennedy’s assassination relies heavily on rarely seen coverage from Dallas-Fort Worth TV and radio stations.Read more

Guitarist shows her Latin flair

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

FORT WORTH —The collaboration this week between the TCU Latin American Music Festival and conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Caminos del Inka project came to a close Thursday in PepsiCo Recital Hall when Maria Luisa Harth-Bedoya — the maestro’s sister — played a guitar recital.Read more

Contemporary composer Jennifer Higdon talks about her art

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Composer Jennifer Higdon is a local star of this classical music season.Read more

Kimbell exhibit offers glimpse of what decorates the walls of Texas estates

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Alien art has taken over the walls of the Kimbell Art Museum.Read more

New and notable book: Look for a 'thinly veiled’ Fort Worth in 'Fixin’ Tyrone’

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

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Kati Marton tells a gripping true story of escape from Cold War Hungary

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The year is 1955; most of the world has taken sides in the Cold War. In Budapest, behind the Iron Curtain, a little girl, 6 years old, lives one of the more privileged lives in that city. In an apartment on a tree-lined street on one of Buda’s hills, she is adored by her attractive parents, prominent journalists; she wears pink sweaters and cute shoes — patent-leather Mary Janes — from America; she loves going to school; she loves her playmates. But then, on an icy February night at 2 in the morning, the light goes on in the room she shares with her sister, and life changes forever.Read more

Prized possessions: Richard Prince’s portrait of a cowboy at the Modern

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

What it is: Untitled (Cowboys #8) (1980-84) by Richard Prince, Ektacolor printRead more

Five questions with Logan Miller of Disney XD’s 'I’m in the Band’

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

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Lone Star film fest had excellent options. Now it needs less sprawl and a bigger audience

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Lone Star International Film Festival concluded its third edition last Sunday, and by most estimations it was a success. The organizers did a solid job with marketing and getting the word out, something they’ve struggled with in years past. (There were reports of sold-out screenings throughout the festival’s five days.) The film schedule offered a number of nice surprises — including the romantic comedy Spooner and the Irish ghost story The Eclipse — that have screened virtually nowhere else in the United States.Read more

Neko Case voice and her songs forces of nature

| |Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The singer-songwriter’s first CD debuted in 1997, but only recently has success come calling.Read more