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Weekend Event Planner

These are the 9 best things to do in Fort Worth this weekend

Alex Bentley
Jan 11, 2018 | 6:00 am

For the third time in four weeks, many people will enjoy a long weekend thanks to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. Since Americans are encouraged to make that day "off" a day of service, take time to enjoy events over the regular weekend. There's the opening of an epic new waterpark, screenings of an Oscar-worthy movie, and more.

Below are the best ways to spend your free time this weekend. Want more options? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, January 11

The Cliburn presents Igor Levit
The Russian-born German pianist Igor Levit won Gramophone’s Recording of the Year 2016 award and has earned other accolades around the world. Levit is one of those forceful performers who makes an instant strong impression on audiences, with original, bracing takes on beloved repertoire. He will demonstrate that ability with this concert at the Kimbell Art Museum's Piano Pavilion.

Friday, January 12

2018 Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
The annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is a three-week long event that attracts fans of the Wild West both near and far. The main events are the daily rodeos at Will Rogers Coliseum, but there are also shows with pigeons, chickens, goats, and more; livestock auctions; an all-Western parade through downtown Fort Worth on January 13; a midway with carnival games and fair food; and multiple concerts. The event will go on through February 3.

Magnolia at the Modern presents Call Me By Your Name
​Call Me By Your Name​ is set in 1983, when the son of an American professor (Timothée Chalamet) is enamored of the graduate student (Armie Hammer) who comes to study and live with his family in their northern Italian home. Together, they share an unforgettable summer full of music, food, and romance that will forever change them. The soon-to-be Oscar-nominated film will screen seven times through Sunday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Epic Waters Grand Opening
Friday is the first day the general public will be able to get into Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, billed as a “cruise ship on land.” It features three “first-in- the-industry” water slides, a climate controlled-interior, 600-foot lazy river, children’s area, 10,000-square-foot outdoor wave pool, surfing simulator, 45-game arcade, and more. The water park will open at 5 pm on Friday.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the orchestra in a program celebrating the music of Spain. Beginning with Falla’s "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" with pianist Joaquin Achucarro, the concert will also include Albeniz’s "Rhapsodia Española" as arranged by Halfter, Granados’s "Intermezzo from Goyescas," and Debussy’s "Ibéria from Images." There will be three performances through Sunday at Bass Performance Hall.

Theatre Arlington presents Sylvia
Theatre Arlington is kicking off 2018 with a little love, laughter, and a dog named Sylvia. A.R. Gurney’s hit show takes a creative spin on the all-too familiar romantic triangle. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park, but while Sylvia offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his stagnate financial trading career, this cute and irresistible little pup becomes a rival for his affection where his wife, Kate, is concerned. The play will run through February 4.

Saturday, January 13

National Theatre Live presents Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Imelda Staunton, Conleth Hill, Luke Treadaway, and Imogen Poots star in this critically acclaimed production of Edward Albee’s landmark play, originally staged in London. The play is about a young professor and his wife who are drawn into an older couple's toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling. The screening will take place at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Charles Esten in concert
Prior to his current stint on Nashville, Charles Esten was best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and a string of other relatively short television roles. But playing Deacon on Nashville, with 109 episodes and counting, has become the role of his career, and has allowed him to showcase his great singing voice. He'll sing some of his original songs and more at Billy Bob's Texas.

Sunday, January 14

Final day for museum exhibits
Both the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Amon Carter Museum of American Art will bring exhibits to a close on Sunday. "FOCUS: Katherine Bradford" at the Modern features paintings featuring ships, swimmers, and other water-based activities, while Dornith Doherty's "Archiving Eden" at Amon Carter uses photography to intertwine science and art, showcasing the planet’s botanical diversity through 15 images from seed banks across the world.

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center, starts on January 12 and will run through February 3.

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Way out West

Texas' Big Bend named one of the world's must-see destinations for 2023

Hannah J. Frías
Nov 2, 2022 | 4:00 pm
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Big Bend made National Geographic's Best of the World 2023 list.

The pandemic took a toll on pretty much every industry, including travel. But some destinations suffered less than others: Big Bend National Park out in far west Texas became a hot spot for road trippers from Texas and beyond. To that end, National Geographic Travel included the vast natural wonder in its recent Best of the World 2023 list.

The annual list rounds up 25 global destinations "under the radar, ahead of the curve, and ready for you to start exploring," according to the article. National Geographic editors frame the list within five categories: Community, Nature, Culture, Family, and Adventure.

Big Bend landed in the Nature category, "5 wildly underrated natural escapes for 2023," and it's in good company: The list also includes the Azores, Botswana, Slovenia, and the Scottish Highlands.

According to a release, the list is themed around "travel destinations and experiences that leverage the benefits of tourism to strengthen their local communities, natural and built environments, and sense of place." Big Bend fits right into that criteria, attracting tourism to small-town communities near the park such as Marfa, Alpine, Presidio, Marathon, and Fort Davis, which all benefit from the influx of people passing through to Big Bend.

The park itself welcomed over 394,000 visitors in 2020, about 15 percent fewer than 2019. 2021 more than made up for that deficit, though: Big Bend welcomed a record 581,000 visitors as travelers continued to seek open spaces and natural wonders.

Apart from contributing to the local economy, the National Geographic article touts the park's locale in a "remote and arid part of west Texas," which "nurtures more cactus species than any other national park, as well as birds such as roadrunners and bright yellow Scott’s orioles, and mammals such as javelina."

So pack the car and plan your next trip out west, and don't forget some of our top tips for off-the-grid adventures in the area.

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Concert news

Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks join forces for iconic concert at AT&T Stadium

Alex Bentley
Nov 2, 2022 | 3:20 pm
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Billy Joel comes to Arlington for the first time since 2019.

Music legends Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks will co-headline a special concert at AT&T Stadium on April 8, 2023, the first time the two have ever performed on the same stage in Texas.

Two of the most loved and universally respected entertainers of all time, Joel and Nicks are responsible for some of the most iconic music of the 20th century.

Joel had a run from the late '70s to the early '90s that is rivaled by few, with all eight of his albums during that time going multi-platinum. Songs like "Piano Man," "Just the Way You Are," "My Life," "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," and "We Didn't Start the Fire" remain a big part of the American music lexicon.

Nicks accomplished something even more difficult, becoming a legend both as part of band and a solo singer. Her time with Fleetwood Mac yielded one of the best-selling albums of all time, Rumours, and classic songs like "Go Your Own Way," "Landslide," and more. She is the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Joel last played in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2019, while this Nicks' first appearance in the area since 2016.

AT&T Stadium is on a roll with the big concerts, as it was just announced that Taylor Swift will play back-to-back concerts there a week prior to this concert. Additionally, they have big shows from Luke Combs and Ed Sheeran on their schedule in the coming months.

Tickets for the concert, announced November 2, will go on sale to the general public beginning on Friday, November 11, at 10 am at LiveNation.com or SeatGeek.com.

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String fever

Fort Worth music group promises rock 'n' roll experience with weeklong Beethoven extravaganza

Cecilia Lenzen
Nov 2, 2022 | 10:15 am
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Miro Quartet will play the Beethoven quartets.

In a first for Dallas-Fort Worth, the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth will present all 16 of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets in a series called the Quartet Cycle.

The Miró Quartet, a classical string quartet based in Austin, will perform the Quartet Cycle with five concerts over seven days, November 7-13, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. (The Miró knows the pieces well, as they've released a recording of them; listen here.)

Gary Levinson, CMSFW artistic director, says the Quartet Cycle will resemble a resume of Beethoven’s life’s work as a musician, composer, and pianist. Throughout the concert series, the quartets will be divided into three distinct areas of Beethoven’s career: his early work, the middle of his career, and his late work up until he died.

All 16 quartets are rarely performed together as part of one event, Levinson says. Although the Quartet Cycle has been performed internationally, it has never been performed in its entirety in the DFW area, he adds. Performing all 16 quartets is an “enormous emotional commitment” for the performing musicians, which makes it hard to produce often.

“The actual physics of performing it is not such a big deal, but to perform and connect with audiences at such a high level of music, which requires so much emotionally, is a huge deal,” says Levinson, the Dallas Symphony senior principal associate concertmaster and a renowned violinist who has played chamber music all his life.

The Beethoven super-event was originally planned for 2020, in celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CMSFW has had to postpone the event three times.

Levinson says it’s hard to say whether the delays will have significantly impacted the performances. A year or two’s worth of delays won’t make the Miró Quartet’s performance better or worse — it’ll just be different because they will have evolved and grown as people and musicians since 2020, he explains.

“It’s just going to be a different interpretation than if the event had happened in 2020,” Levinson says.

Levinson says part of what makes the Quartet Cycle so special for listeners is the ability to connect with the music and the musicians on an emotional journey each night. That’s what sets the series apart from even the greatest concerts, he says.

“In many ways, this is much less like a concert and much more like a journey — much more like almost an evolution for the group and for the listener,” Levinson says. “You won’t be the same afterwards.”

Although audiences should attend every concert if they can, those who can only come to one or two will still experience great music and a great time, he says.

The concert series will be almost like a mini music festival within the society’s fall schedule, Levinson says. In addition to the concerts, Bill McGlaughlin, host of the public radio program Exploring Music, will give a 45-minute lecture about all the quartets before performances. Levinson says all are welcome to attend the lectures but especially encourages those who are not familiar with chamber music to consider attending.

The Quartet Cycle promises to excite and entertain chamber music fans, and those who are not classical or chamber music aficionados can expect a “rock 'n' roll” experience, Levinson says, adding that those who have not attended this kind of event before may be “blown away” by the power and energy that a four-person classical music group can produce.

“If I was inviting someone who has never been to a chamber music concert, I would say, ‘Get ready for a really exciting experience,’” Levinson says. “And the kind of energy that you feel from your fellow audience members is second to none. It’s really like being at a sporting event.”

The performance schedule includes concerts at 7 pm on November 7, 9, 10, and 11 and at 2 pm on November 13. The evening concerts will be preceded by a pre-concert lecture at 6 pm, and the afternoon concert’s lecture will be held at 1 pm. Tickets are $35 per person.

More information is available at the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth’s website.

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