Today in the roundup: The Dallas Opera climbs Everest, Drafthouses will invade North Texas and an update on the Las Colinas entertainment complex.

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger on the Nasher’s slow-roasting by Museum Tower: “The Nasher was there first, it didn’t create the problem, and it is suffering from it.” Why, in heaven’s name, he asks, should it be asked to help remedy the problem?

Unlike Spring Awakening, American Idiot was built for big houses like the Winspear. The Broadway musical packs a visual wallop to match Green Day’s pop-punk thunder. Trouble is, wallop and thunder is mostly all we get.

Supersized performing forces and a high energy level sometimes threw the balance off in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio, but the excitement was there.

Nine – count ‘em NINE – shows I’d like to swing by this weekend, from Ernesto Neto at the Nasher and Chihuly at Tally Dunn to a very public retreat on the streets of Oak Cliff and diamonds made from the script of Superman III.

The Big Deal is giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see Jersey Boys at the Winspear Opera House on June 15. Learn how you could win!

Today in the roundup: The end of Jazz Under the Stars, how American Idiot began and parking problems in Bishop Arts.

That’s ‘public improvement district.’ And in this case, if it happens, that ‘district’ includes ‘cultural tourism.’

Jaap van Zweden produced some surprises Thursday night as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra went from music on a massive scale (Bruckner) to more modest masterpieces by Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Mozart.

Glass2012 is organizing a series of events highlighting the medium over the next several months. Spot some glass and you may win an Art&Seek t-shirt.