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1 week ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Eleanor Eggebrecht, 14, held her breath as she watched the Blue Origin NS-31 spaceflight mission prepare to launch on the 75-foot screen inside the Jane & John Justin Foundation Omni Theater at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. She had never witnessed a space launch before — and the experience felt a little scary. Those feelings quickly went away as a sense of awe came over her when the clock struck 8:30 a.m. April 14 and the rocket blasted off.
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2 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Happy Thursday, One of my favorite times of the year is back this weekend, when the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival and Fort Worth Art Fair flood downtown with hundreds of artist booths. As the largest arts festival in Texas, the Main Street event features over 200 exhibiting artists across 18 blocks of its namesake between the Fort Worth Convention Center and Tarrant County Courthouse.
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2 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Some of the world’s best young pianists will return to Fort Worth this spring in hopes of securing the gold in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. After holding live screening auditions at Texas Christian University in March, The Cliburn on Wednesday named 30 pianists who will move forward to the official competition in May. The advancing pianists range in age from 18 to 30 and span 17 countries, including those with dual representation.
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3 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
One of Fort Worth’s biggest culinary events of the year is ready to sizzle this weekend. The Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival, which comprises five events, runs April 3-6 at Heart of the Ranch at Clearfork. The event has become crucial to growing Fort Worth’s culinary community and supporting rising chefs, Antonio Votta, executive chef at Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection, told my Report colleague Bob Francis.
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3 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
While an investigation into allegations of child pornography at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth may be closed, the case has prompted a Tarrant County lawmaker to propose a law outlining the types of artworks that should be barred from museums.
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3 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Are you a Fort Worth business owner or resident who has struggled to connect with local artists for projects? A new digital platform is prepared to fill that gap. Arts Fort Worth, the nonprofit organization that manages the city’s public art and grant programs and serves as a resource for artists, has rolled out the free online network Culturalyst: Fort Worth. The digital directory was announced during the inaugural Arts Forward summit March 29 at Texas Wesleyan University.
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3 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Walking into the Kimbell Art Museum’s latest exhibition this weekend, visitors to the Fort Worth institution will experience much more than an immersion into a distinctive art collection. They’ll get a glimpse at how politics influences the arts.
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4 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
At a young age, Maricela Jimenez learned about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America’s fight for better wages and working conditions. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, she remembered the days her parents boycotted buying grapes out of solidarity with farm workers in California. Whenever there were marches in the city, her parents would take the entire family to join in, Jimenez recalled.
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4 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Happy Thursday,Some of my most prominent childhood memories relate to days spent scanning my family’s collection of Walt Disney VHS tapes and DVDs and picking a film to watch. I never got tired of replaying them over and over. Those films defined so much of my early years that I find myself rewatching most of them quite often — now on Disney+, of course.
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4 weeks ago | 
fortworthreport.org | David Moreno |David Moreno Arts
Some civil liberties groups are celebrating a Tarrant County grand jury declining to take action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth following allegations of child pornography. District Attorney Phil Sorrells confirmed his office will not move forward with the case against the museum following a Fort Worth Police Department investigation into images by Virginia-born photographer Sally Mann that were featured as part of the “Diaries of Home” exhibition, which closed Feb. 2.
