Abracadabra! The Brinker International Forum brings magician David Blaine for an evening of conversation at the Winspear Opera House. Five Big Deal winners can check it out.

And the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth is ranked second among ‘top new museums.’ The two buildings also appear among the 60 “most visited landmarks” chosen by the readers of Travel & Leisure.

It involves some 200 area artists from groups such as the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Texas Ballet Theatre and the Dallas Theater Center. They had only four months to bring A Gathering together, but deciding what this gala benefit should say about 30 years of AIDS history was the hurdle.

He’s got a Quentin Tarrantino movie to film.

It’s a guitar and fiddle, big buckle and big hat kind of Christmas with Charlie Daniels.

It’s the 30th year since the discovery of AIDS, and in an unprecedented collaboration, some 200 Dallas-area artists will perform Dec. 6 at the Winspear in a benefit for area AIDS service organizations.

… and it’s a “retrograde cocoon,” says LATimes architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.

Congratulations to Stephen Haal for his backstage-at-the-Dallas-Opera photo. It’s won our latest Flickr Photo of the Week contest.

The tour of ‘Billy Elliot’ is at the Winspear. The affecting film about a mining-town boy defying his father to dance has become a big, Tony-winning Broadway musical — with all the advantages and disadvantages.

The Dallas Opera Guild awarded $20,500 in prizes to talented young singers Saturday at the Winspear Opera House.