Bright lights, building bling, a new center for Texas architecture named for a friend, Rick Santorum’s voting record on the NEA and Glenn Ligon in Fort Worth: Is this a roundup or what?

Today in the roundup: A local Oscar winner, a local dancer to know and a Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge blowout.

On Thursday night and again tonight, the Dallas Opera’s music director, Graeme Jenkins, is sandwiching a very different kind of work between performances of his company’s “Tristan und Isolde.” It’s Handel’s oratorio “Theodora,” which could hardly be different from Wagner’s masterpiece.

Three people down from illness — first the tenor, then the conductor, and now the star tenor-replacement, Ben Heppner, who originated Capt. Ahab in the Dallas Opera world premiere.

For the first time, the Theatre Communications Group’s national conference — the biggest nationwide gathering of non-profit theater professionals — is coming to Texas, to North Texas. We’ll teach ‘em what every artist learns here: how to do the fundraising two-step.

The DSO’s last record distribution deal ended in 2006. Since then, if you wanted a recording of the DSO with conductor van Zweden, you had a choice of two CDs on Amazon. That’s it. And no downloads. That’s going to change April 1.

What’s it like to be a million oar strokes from your destination, tossed alone in a tiny boat?

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.

Tuesday at the Meyerson, George Gershwin won’t be living and breathing – still. But he will be playing his Rhapsody in Blue with the Dallas Wind Symphony. Yes, it’ll take a couple of rehearsals. And some remarkable digital technology.