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Universal Hope
As a genre, gay fiction came into its own in the late ’80s/early 1990s, but the coming-out party felt more like a wake. The...
Narrow Focus
The title of Amon Carter Museum’s current archival exhibition is misleading. Instead of 100 Great American Photographs, it should say 100 Great Historical American...
Early Texas Art
Ain't it sad how art becomes more beautiful over time, even with crackling and soiling, while humans just get ... old. Bald heads and...
Turn of the Screw
Playwright, screenwriter, and tv scribe Richard Dresser once told an interviewer, “I’ve had occasion to work at a series of jobs ranging from a...
Good Twig Bunting
Author and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Bouton once wrote that statistics are “about as interesting as first-base coaches.” He has a point....
Travel and No Leisure
Interstate 35 might not have the hipster cachet of Route 66 or Ventura Highway, but the 1,568-mile road that stretches from Laredo to Duluth,...
Reds, Black, and Blue
George Gershwin got an unusual run through at the Fort Worth Symphony Concerts in the Garden last week.
Young German Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor...
Shall We Dance?
In his almost 10 years with Metropolitan Classical Ballet, co-artistic director Alexander Vetrov has staged a lot of productions, everything from Spartacus to a...
Foot Faddish
When Ben Stevenson left his long-time directing job with Houston Ballet four years ago to join Texas Ballet Theater, he brought along with him...
