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.

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.

We have seen the future and it looks like DEVO: The Undermain Theater opens its new season next week with Len Jenkin's surreal, sci-fi noir, Port Twilight. So we spoke to artistic director Katherine Owens about the future in Port Twilight and the Undermain's own Campaign for the Future.

Nick Prueher talks to Krys Boyd about the truly funny-awful tapes of the Found Footage Festival: training films, dating videos and, of course, the guy-dropping-his-pants furniture ad. Through such tapes, you, too, can learn to defend yourself against some really vicious short ribs.

In Cormac McCarthy's novels, the Texas-Mexico border is a major, dramatic life-changing event for young Anglos headed south. In Oscar Casares' writing, the border is a fact of life — to be negotiated, ignored, overcome. The Brownsville native talks to us about family legends, the border and his new novel, Amigoland.

The State Fair ends this weekend, but what can we enjoy there — year-round — that won't cost a penny and won't seriously endanger our arteries? Try the public art, the statues and murals. Dallas history author Steven Butler talks about some of the quirkier lessons Fair Park has to offer. Amaze your friends with your knowledge about why Davy Crockett looks so strange on the Alamo mural.

Richard Pilbrow may be the one designer who has worked on both the Wyly Theatre and the Winspear Opera House — he's been involved with the Arts District since even before the Meyerson opened in 1987. He's the founder of the leading theater consulting firm in America, and it was his innovative ideas about theater layouts and intimacy that helped shape both facilities in the AT&TPAC. The two halls may look extremely different, but Pilbrow says they're not.

They've been telling us the Wyly Theatre will be unlike any other theater ever built. But what does that mean? And why would anyone create such a thing? Follow our tour of the industrial insides of the Wyly with Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty and Theatre Projects Consultant project manager Benton Delinger — to learn how this remarkable facility will work. And why.

This week, Northern Ireland artist Willie Doherty joins us to discuss his new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Sheran Goodspeed Keyton has portrayed blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith on stage. In The Gospel Queen at Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth, she and writer-director Ed Smith loosely re-create a breakthrough concert by gospel great Mahalia Jackson — her landmark performance at Carnegie Hall in 1950.