Congratulations to Jerome Weeks and Bill Zeeble, whose arts coverage has been recognized by Texas Associated Press Broadcasters!

The Dallas Opera quickly blew past the original limit of 7500 free tickets for its live simulcast of The Magic Flute in Cowboys Stadium. Even better, their devious plan is working: Most people will be seeing the Dallas Opera for the first time. So … what’s the record attendance for such a sports venue operacast, anyway?

A master Japanese calligrapher in North Texas may seem like a fish out of water. But Chaco Terada has found her own style here — and a little piece of Japan. The Crow Collection of Asian Art has a retrospective of her work, along with David Gibson’s photos of a Japanese Buddhist shrine.

A cause for celebration this weekend. Right. The bridge. Actually, we mean the big homecoming concert by the Relatives, a West Dallas acid-funk-gospel group that disbanded 30 years ago. The past two years, the reunited group has played France and Lincoln Center, performed on Austin City Limits. Now North Texans can catch up on what we’ve missed.

UT-Dallas lit prof Matt Bondurant is the author of three novels, most recently The Night Swimmer, a gothic tale set in a remote Irish town. But it’s his previous novel set in a secretive, Virginia hill town that may gain him a wide readership. Chalk it up to moonshine and the movies.

Steven Walters’ comedy Pluck the Day finds three and a half guys on a Texas porch with peyote and a cooler of beer. Been there, done that. But there are female complications. And there are laughs. Too much of some, not enough of the others.

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.

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.

What can be beautifully fluid yet randomly scattered? Choreographed human motion given an amazing edit job.