Today in the roundup: Reviewing Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Three Decembers, local music bits and the DMA’s very Dallas-centric new show.

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

Heading into the weekend with the Friday Roundup, we get some pronunciation help on the 19th century’s master of the melodrama, jazzy stuff at the DMA, sharing sisters between Fort Worth and Dallas — and more!

Today in the roundup: DMA hires a curator, the ghost of Frank Zappa visits UNT and a very special DIFF screening you should know about.

A co-production of King Lear with Trinity Rep in Rhode Island, and, of course, A Christmas Carol — but other than those, everything will be brand-new to North Texan audiences, including several world premieres and a collaboration with The Second City in Chicago.

More from the DMA online, less from Europe, stats on the Texas film industry, a season announcement from the Lexus Broadway Series: healthy, fibrous things to chew on in this morning’s Roundup.

Checking the league stats on art museum visitors in the 2011 season. How many at-bats did North Texas manage?

How many books have been added to the Dallas Museum of Art’s library? What’s the downtime on the Wifi there? Don’t know, don’t care? Ah, but there are some deets in the DMA’s new dashboard site that can be very revealing.

The second significant hire and the third announcement of new positions/titles in less than a month, since Maxwell Anderson started as the museum’s new executive director.

Come give a mouse a cookie and look for the wild things this Friday as the Dallas Museum of Art hosts a variety of events as part of its Late Night at the Dallas Museum of Art event.