In the Saturday spotlight, we’re getting to know some local artists.

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at a Texan who drew from Hispanic, Anglo and African-American influences to become one of the most well-respected jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s.

Two area museums celebrated important milestones this week. The Museum of Nature & Science on Wednesday broke ground on a new building at Victory Park. And the new $80 million Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opens today. KERA’s Stephen Becker toured the new space:

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinsoaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.

Weird science, that is. In Port Twilight, playwright Len Jenkin creates a surreal city in which different visions of the future are being sought out and decoded: genetic, messianic and cinematic. The Undermain Theater's splendid world premiere is a dark, comic carnival where scientists dance, an alien speaks, a rabbi despairs and a shlocky filmmaker worries about getting the future right. Jerome Weeks reviews.

Stephanie "Tefi" Hindall is a Dallas-based jewelry designer who runs her own design studio, Tefi Designs. Not only does Stephanie create some really unusual and creative jewelry and accessories, she is also the founder of EtsyDallas.com, a cooperative craft collective of artists and designers living and working in Dallas. We took a peek inside Stephanie's creative and inventive mind as a part of this week's Art&Seek Q&A:

Five hundred people attended the groundbreaking Wednesday afternoon for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Victory Park. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on how the museum got its name.

Congratulations to Masako Fujinami of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!

It slices, it dices, it wants to have its splatter-film fun and mock it at the same time. But Slasher — written by former Dallasite Allison Moore and produced this year at the Humana Festival — ultimately muddles things. Given a full-scale, full-speed-ahead area premiere by Kitchen Dog Theater, Slasher never cuts to the heart: the horror film — thrill-ride psychodrama or sexist ragefest?

Inspired by cellist Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road recordings, Fort Worth Symphony music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya has begun a series of concerts and CDs, Caminos del Inka — "Trails of the Incas." They showcase three centuries of orchestral music from the Pacific Coast South American countries once part of the Incan Empire. The FWSO brings the project back for concerts in Bass Hall this week — after talking to us on Think.