Scat Jazz Lounge | Map
Ricki Derek - Friday - 9:00 PM
Red Young and Silvie Rider - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Trio Cubano - Sunday - 9:00 PM

Bass Performance Hall | Map
Tuna Does Vegas - Friday - 8:00 PM
Tuna Does Vegas - Saturday - 2:00 PM
Tuna Does Vegas - Saturday - 8:00 PM
Tuna Does Vegas - Sunday - 2:00 PM
Tuna Does Vegas - Sunday - 7:00 PM

McDavid Studio | Map
The Mother Truckers - Friday - 8:00 PM

The Flying Saucer | Map
The Waltons - Friday - 9:30 PM
Radio Kaos - Saturday - 9:30 PM
Mike Richardson - Sunday

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Big news this week is that today’s Modern ’til Midnight at, naturally, the Modern Art Museum. 6:00 PM to midnight. I’ll be there - and I recommend that you come as well. Modern ’til Midnight is always great.

Also, for the metalheads out there, local rockers No Scope (my friend Bobby being one of the guitarists) are having a release party for their new album, Hindsight 2012, at the Ridglea Theater on Friday.

Scat Jazz Lounge | Map
Paul Unger and Friends - Friday - 9:00 PM
Carla Norris-Hopkins Jazz Quartett - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Trio Cubano - Sunday - 9:00 PM

Bass Performance Hall | Map
Texas Ballet Theater: Mozart’s Requiem - Friday - 8:00 PM
Texas Ballet Theater: Mozart’s Requiem - Saturday - 2:00 PM
Texas Ballet Theater: Mozart’s Requiem - Saturday - 8:00 PM
Texas Ballet Theater: Mozart’s Requiem - Sunday - 2:00 PM

McDavid Studio | Map
“Dreaming of Birdland” - The UNT One O’Clock Lab Band’s Tribute to Maynard Ferguson - Friday - 7:30 PM
“Dreaming of Birdland” - The UNT One O’Clock Lab Band’s Tribute to Maynard Ferguson - Friday - 10:00 PM

The Flying Saucer | Map
The Flavours - Friday - 9:30 PM
Villain Vanguard - Saturday - 9:30 PM
Mike Richardson - Sunday

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Some new additions this week - Curtain Call will now be listing events and exhibits at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

Scat Jazz Lounge | Map
Mack Goldsbury - Friday - 9:00 PM
Hildegunn Gjedrem - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Jam Session with Quamon Fowler - Sunday - 8:30 PM

Bass Performance Hall | Map
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor - Friday - 7:30 PM
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor - Saturday - 8:00 PM
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Season Opening featuring Andre Watts, piano, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor - Sunday - 2:00 PM

McDavid Studio | Map
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott - Friday - 8:00 PM

The Flying Saucer | Map
The Flavours - Friday - 9:30 PM
Radio Kaos - Saturday - 9:30 PM
Mike Richardson - Sunday

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Scat Jazz Lounge | Map
Ricki Derek & his Big Band - Friday - 9:00 PM
Shelley Carrol - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Trio Cubano - Sunday - 8:00 PM

Bass Performance Hall | Map
Delbert McClinton - Saturday - 8:00 PM

McDavid Studio | Map
John Nitzinger’s 60th Birthday Party - Friday - 8:00 PM

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Of note this week: the long-remodelling 7th Haven reopens today. Also the last weekend for the Marsden Hartley exhibit at the Carter Museum.

Scat Jazz Lounge | Map
Trio Cubano - Friday - 9:00 PM
Tatiana Mayfield Quintet - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Trio Cubano - Sunday - 8:00 PM

Bass Performance Hall | Map
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II - Friday - 7:30 PM
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II - Saturday - 7:30 PM
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Mahler Cycle, Part II - Sunday - 7:30 PM

The Flying Saucer | Map
Radio Chaos - Friday - 9:30 PM
Sittin’ Duck - Saturday - 9:30 PM
Mike Richardson - Sunday

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Taken in the Modern. I like the sort of surreal look this one has.

The new Fort Worth Museum Of Science And History is still under construction, but the renovated Omni Theater will reopen this weekend. The Omni has its own entrance now as a standalone building, so the construction on the new museum won’t interfere. Besides the new orange paint job, the Omni boasts a new digital sound system, enhanced lighting, and updated guest facilities. The theater will be showing three new IMAX films this weekend: Dinosaurs Alive!, Deep Sea, and Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs. Check Curtain Call below for show times.

No word just yet if the classic old pre-show helicopter flyover of Fort Worth will still be used. I’d like to see a newly recorded version of it to showcase the city as it stands now. Just as long as it still uses the same music it always has.

Ah, memories. I know I’ve got plenty of the Omni. I remember the many times I stood in that winding, descending ramp in line to the theater when I was a kid. I was there most often with my grandmother, back while I was growing up on a horse ranch out in Parker County. A trip to Fort Worth was always special, and doubly so when we’d go to the Omni. I remember seeing things like “Ring of Fire,” “The Living Sea,” and “Destiny In Space,” usually multiple times. Afterwards we’d go through the museum, and I always wanted to get some of that astronaut ice cream the gift shop sold (yes, I’ve always been a geek. I admit it.). Or alternately, sometimes we’d eat in the museum’s cafeteria, by those windows looking out into that courtyard that used to be there.

It’ll be good to have the Omni back in operation. I just hope they still sell astronaut ice cream.

Last Friday’s Modern ‘Til Midnight went off well, as always. Steph and I worked our way over a little after 7:30, which meant we got there just in time to enjoy the musical stylings of The Theater Fire. Having never heard these guys before, I must say I enjoyed their set very much. Their music is more or less unclassifiable, blending a wide variety of elements and instruments (mariachi horns, accordion, mandolin, etc.). They pretty much rock. I grabbed both their albums off iTunes the next day. (The dancing cowboy hippies that accompanied their set were entertaining, as well.)

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