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• Film based on painting at Kimbell to debut at two festivals

  A film based on a distinctive Kimbell Art Museum painting, The Butcher’s Shop, will make its official debut at two of the world’s most prestigious international film festivals.

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  Lohan lashes out

• Film production working around feared actors' strike

  Moviegoers may not realize this, but actors have been working without a contract since June 30.

• Stars flock to Denver for Obama speech

  The Force is with Obama.

• Gold medalist Carly Patterson to headline at reopening of Founders Plaza at D/FW

  Carly Patterson, the 2004 Olympic champion gymnast, is becoming quite the regular at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.

• Petty serves up real rock 'n' roll

  The American Airlines Center performance makes one crave more.

• Paul McCartney gig revives Israel’s Beatles tale

  An upcoming concert in Jerusalem by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the nation’s youth. The episode is often fondly quoted as a relic of a long-lost Israel where the public’s innocence needed protecting.

• Drama already following new 'American Idol’ judge

  Is there trouble already brewing for the newly appointed fourth 'American Idol' judge Kara DioGuardi?

• An in-person highlight reel of 'American Idol'

  The top 10 finalists of the seventh season of 'American Idol' brought their glorified karaoke to the American Airlines Center on Monday.

• Olympians, TV stars set to go 'Dancing'

  What do a 300-pound former football player, beach volleyball queen and a daytime soap opera diva have in common?

• Stage West's 'Christmas Ride' is depressing yet still succeeds

  The production is quite good -- but will also try the audience's patience.

• Mahler festival ends on triumphant note

  The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has made me love concerts.

• Leno shows off stand-up roots at Casa Mañana fundraiser

  Jay Leno was seen commercial-free Saturday night in Fort Worth.

• Fort Worth Symphony gives spine-tingling performance of Mahler's No. 7

  At the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Mahler festival, I keep waiting to find a chink in the orchestra's musical armor. On Saturday at Bass Hall, while the orchestra was playing Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, none appeared.

• Review: Mahler's hero fails, but at Bass Hall, orchestra triumphs

  Hearing symphonies by Gustav Mahler is always a special occasion. Orchestras the size of the Fort Worth Symphony don't always tackle them because of their boundary-pushing lengths and the large musical forces required to play them.

• Crowley schools' policy won't rain on 'Dance' winner Allen's parade

  Part of a welcome-home celebration for Joshua Allen, winner of this season’s So You Think You Can Dance, has been canceled, an organizer says, because of the security requirements for using the North Crowley High School gym.

• Steely Dan shows that it is as vibrant as ever

  GRAND PRAIRIE — Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the men who comprise the core of Steely Dan, have grown from sour, sharp-tongued hipsters into irascible iconoclasts over the course of their 25-year, stop-and-start career.

• Mahler Cycle opener sets the stage

  A multimedia presentation about the composer Gustav Mahler, "The Man Behind the Music," presented Thursday at Bass Hall should rightly have been titled "The Man — and his Wife and Muse — Behind the Music."

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  Joshua Allen celebration

• Olympic TV profiles lighter, tighter, slighter

  NBC is getting up-close but not quite so personal in the canned profiles and features that appear each night during the Beijing Olympics.