Today in the roundup: John Leguizamo on Ghetto Klown, Bring It On’s very busy director and more money for the arts (maybe).

Today in the roundup: The fight for Las Colinas’ entertainment complex, Keith Cerny visits Bayreuth and last-minute love poem advice.

Today in the roundup: Dallas Art Fair’s exhibitor list, an Arts Center of North Texas update and the FWSO’s dueling Stradivari take center stage.

Last August, UNT announced it was creating an annual poetry prize worth ten grand. The Rilke Prize is to be awarded to a ‘mid-career poet’ who’s written a work the past year of “exceptional artistry.” And now they’ve found one.

Today in the roundup: Dallas Opera boosts Tristan and Isolde, local music bits and the smartest graffiti artist ever.

‘Giant’ means big, of course – as in the biggest world-premiere the Dallas Theater Center has ever attempted. And composer Michael John LaChiusa’s musical adaption of Gient certainly looks and sounds splendid. It’s the story that’s the trouble – always has been.

TACA will spend $300,000 to fund new work of its grant recipients in the next three years.

… which doesn’t really lead to a punchline because Thursday’s roundtable, sponsored by Art & Seek and the Dallas Museum of Art, actually led to a wide-ranging, intelligent conversation about the local contemporary arts scene.

There’s sixty years of history behind Giant,, the big-budget musical opening at the Dallas Theater Center. When it came out, Edna Ferber’s novel angered many Texans. Four years later, the movie version became Warner Brothers’ biggest hit. It always helps if you make us look like Elizabeth Taylor or James Dean.

Cowboys Stadium is already known for the contemporary art on its walls. Now it’ll have an opera on its massive video screen – Mozart’s The Magic Flute, live from the Dallas Opera’s production at the Winspear Opera House.