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.

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!

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opens Nov. 20, and they're still getting the new Legorreta+Legorreta-designed building ready. But an early peek at the Noble Planetarium finds the first ZKP-4 in the Southwest fully functioning and traveling to galaxies far, far way. Forget your old grade-school visit to a planetarium to see some constellations. This baby is cosmic.

Ever since archaeologists found the remains of the Rose Theater in 1989 — where Christopher Marlowe's dramas were once enacted — there's been an explosion of research into the Elizabethan playhouses. Scholars still haven't answered many puzzles — they're not even certain how many sides the Globe had. But they've found some of the first concrete clues to what the theaters were like, what stage life was like. London archaeologist Julian Bowsher gave a lecture Thursday at the Dallas Museum of Art — and spoke to Think.

Big noisy fun but that's all: DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty opens the company's new home with A Midsummer Night's Dream that pumps up the volume and the dancefloor energy. It's got balloons, graffiti art and squirt guns. Forget about anything heartfelt, though.

Last in our series of one-on-one interviews with the architects behind the AT&T PAC. After their press conference, Norman Foster and Spencer de Grey talked with us about loving opera, traditions vs. popularity and the AT&T logo on the Winspear's roof.

Innovative architect Rem Koolhaas met with the media last week — and then sat down with us to answer questions about the Wyly Theatre, Dallas architecture ("very bland"), the courage of Dallas donors and the horizontal vs. the vertical in the Arts District.

We've heard a lot about the Winspear's red glass, its solar canopy, its chandelier. But none of that matters quite as much as something that's really going to get tested tonight — the hall's acoustics. Bill Zeeble reports on what we might hear at tonight's opening of the Dallas Opera's Otello.

Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus met with the media and the public last week — and then answered our questions about why the Wyly Theatre's interior has only one bright color, how "low-tech" the Wyly actually is and what happened to his relationship with his mentor, Rem Koolhaas.