GET YOUR LEARN ON: The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History officially opens today. DFW.com has covered the museum extensively in the past week or so, with reports on the museum’s design, must-see attractions, the Cattle Raisers Museum located in the new building, the technology behind the exhibits and the cool temporary exhibit,  CSI: [...]

EARTHLY CONCERNS: Brooklyn artist William Lamson’s show “Automatic,” which closed this weekend at Marty Walker Gallery, earned praise for its simplicity and environmental consciousness. Lamson uses wind and other natural forces to power the tools that create his drawings. Whatever Mother Nature is in the mood to draw that day, that’s what we get. Earlier [...]

Did you catch Saturday night’s one-off performance of Hip-Hop Broadway at the Winspear Opera House? If you did, it’s a safe bet your still humming along to Jennifer Holliday’s rendition of her signature song, “And I’m Telling You,” from Dreamgirls.

We mentioned it last week in one of our morning roundups, but it’s worth repeating: Casting agents will be in Fort Worth tomorrow looking for the lead in the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit. If you are a white girl between the ages of 12-16 (or you know one), get thee to Billy Bob’s [...]

FWO VIDEOS: On Thursday, I got an e-mail with a link to a special video message from Fort Worth Opera General Director Darren K. Woods. It’s a nice enough video of Woods thanking fans of the opera for making this season a special one and letting us know that the organization finished the year with [...]

Wednesday night’s opening of the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth showed a festival delivering on its promise as it kicked off its third year. But along with that promise comes a few growing pains.
I suppose at this point I’ve gone to enough opening night and centerpiece festival screenings to know that they [...]

Trailer for Tattooed Under Fire
Back in March, the AFI Film Festival screened the documentary, Tattooed Under Fire, about the River City Tattoo Parlor in Killeen, Texas, home of Fort Hood. Filmmaker Nancy Schiesari became fascinated by the fact that American Army soldiers deploying to Iraq were getting “meat tag” tattoos — essentially, their ID [...]

The folks at the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth have kindly offered Art&Seek a pair of Movie and Panel passes for the event, which runs Wednesday through Sunday. Each pass includes access for one to all regular screenings, centerpiece screenings, showcase screenings and panels. Those passes run $175 a pop on the [...]

“Click Play: One Billion Times a Day” kicked off the final day of VideoFest yesterday. Since I featured the event in a radio story last week, I figured I should at least check out the finished product. And while I admit it was tough to leave my couch and the paper to get there by [...]

Here’s the best of what’s screening over the weekend at VideoFest:
Saturday
Animated Shorts – The highlight of this package of four films is Don Hertzfeldt’s I Am So Proud of You. The 21 minute film is the next in the animator’s “Everything Will be OK” series and follows a man learning about some family secrets. It’s [...]