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Fort Worth artist brings attention, compassion to plight of migrants seeking safe haven

Fort Worth artist Bernardo Vallarino shares the stories of migrants displaced by violence in his exhibit “Simpatía Sin Compasión”’ (Sympathy Without Compassion) at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943.

Other Voices

Stripping Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from literature award is censorship

The American Library Association is dropping Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the children’s literature award created in her honor in 1954 saying her books include offensive references to indigenous people.

The Giganotosaurus at the Perot Museum's 'Ultimate Dinosaurs' exhibition.

Entertainment

The 'summer of the dinosaur' continues with new exhibit at the Perot Museum

On the heels of the release of blockbuster-hopeful “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” comes “Ultimate Dinosaurs,” a new summer-long-plus exhibition at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Sports

Ranking the top 7 Texas sports movies of all time — and their best scenes

North Dallas Forty, Friday Night Lights and others have tackled subjects such as the Dallas Cowboys and Texas high school football. But how do the best Texas sports movies compare to one another?

Arts & Culture

Black-and-white photography master Dave Heath brings 'Solitude' to the Amon Carter

On view through September 16, 2018, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, is “Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath.” Heath was an American master of black and white photography in the 1950s and ’60s.

Arts & Culture

The Modern goes big and bright with international art star Murakami retrospective

Retrospective “Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” will be at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth June 10 through September 16, ,2018 and spans Japanese artist's earliest work to the big displays made with his assistants.

News

Now showing at The Modern: the "Andy Warhol of Japan"

Takashi Murakami introduces his "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg" exhibition in person to the media. The show runs June 10-September 16 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Jayden Goldberg on the stage of Bass Performance Hall.

Performing Arts

To get more kids to love opera, this high school soprano is putting on a benefit concert

Jayden Goldberg and five talented schoolmates will sing opera arias, classical “art songs” and musical-theater favorites to raise money for Fort Worth Opera’s Student Night at the Opera program.

Music

A modern take on jazz: 'I want my music to be the soundtrack to an imaginary film'

New Orleans native Thaddeus Ford jazz journey began in his hometown. This brilliant trumpet player had to move to North Texas and have a heart attack to find his true sound.

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conductor, has been the symphony's music director since 2000.

Arts & Culture

FWSO conductor Harth-Bedoya to step down as music director in 2020

After a 20-year run as music director, Harth-Bedoya will become "conductor laureate" and return to conduct in upcoming seasons.

The renovation of Casa Mañana in 2003 enlarged the lobby and left the dome intact.

Arts & Culture

At 60, this cultural district playhouse shows no signs of slowing down

Casa Mañana has had a few different personalities and has reached beyond its main stage over its long history. It has also helped actors have a career in live theater.

All of author's Julia Heaberlin's thrillers have been set in Texas:

Books

Julia Heaberlin takes readers on a dark ride in ‘Paper Ghosts’

The destinations in Julia Heaberlin’s new novel, “Paper Ghosts,” are grim, haunted places scarred by tragedy. The thriller, like her previous books, is set in Texas.

Scott Porter, seated in wheelchair, who plays Jason Street yells out to his teammates as they film a scene during the filming of the season finale for Friday Night Lights at Texas Stadium in Irving on March 10, 2007. To his right is Kyle Chandler who plays head coach Eric Taylor. The show titled

TV

New 'Friday Night Lights' movie in development at Universal, report says

Universal Studious is developing a new 'Friday Night Lights' film, according to Variety. It will reportedly be a fresh take on H.G. Bissinger's story about the 1988 Permian High School football team.

Students attend Fort Worth Opera dress rehearsal of

Bud Kennedy

Tango dancing and a TV star: How Fort Worth Opera fights the idea it's 'not cool'

Fort Worth's annual opera festival begins with Spanish TV's Gaby Natale on stage and a long-range plan for serving children and families in Fort Worth.

Composer-librettist Rachel Peters is bringing her opera 'Companionship' to the Fort Worth Opera's 'Frontiers' festival, May 2-3.

Music

Two women and 207,000 baguettes. Here's what else is new on the 'Frontiers' opera scene

Portions of six new operas will get a showing as part of the annual festival, and this year's crop of composers and librettists includes Nell Shaw Cohen, with "Mabel's Call," and Rachel Peters, with "Companionship," at Bass Hall in downtown Fort Worth.

Solange Merdinian and Luis Alejandro Orozco in

Arts & Culture

Tango-heavy 'Maria de Buenos Aires' brings a cabaretlike touch to Fort Worth Opera

The opera features tango dancers, in addition to a cast and chorus. “It is a really good icebreaker for opera. It’s a cabaret, it’s a tango ballet, it’s a poetic recitation,” said director-choreographer John de los Santos.

This is the cadenza, a vodka/cranberry juice/ginger beer cocktail that was served at Bass Hall during the 2017 Cliburn Competition. We don't expect this particular cocktail at the first Cliburn Cocktail Competition this May, but it does make us thirsty.

Food & Drink

Mixologists to go for the gold at 1st Cliburn Cocktail Competition

Ten teams are expected to mix it up at the inaugural event May 19 at Crockett Row on West 7th in Fort Worth. There also will be live music.

The city's Keller Reads! One Book, One City! program is back for a seventh year with its usual goal of getting the entire community inspired by a single book. The book chosen this year is

Keller Citizen

Opera singer's story of redemption is choice for this year's Keller Reads

The book chronicles the unlikely journey of opera singer Ryan Speedo Green from solitary confinement to stardom and the family, teachers and complex realities of race in America that impacted him along the way. It's an expansion of a profile piece Bergner wrote for the New York Times Magazine.

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