Opening Friday: Pedro Almodovar loves spicy women, and Penelope Cruz most definitely qualifies for her critically acclaimed role in his latest, Volver. It runs for three weekends at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Eat here: A surefire way to heat up your palate is to take it on a spin through Spice International Cafe.
Lively dishes include lamb vindaloo, beef mole, Moroccan chicken with olives and lemon and shrimp with Thai curry. Flavors from across India, Asia, Africa, Spain and the Americas will keep you plenty warm on a chilly night. 2747 S.
Hulen St., Fort Worth; 817-922-0809.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra doubles the fun with pianists (and married couple) Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung performing Mozart's Double Piano Concerto.
8 p.m. (also 8 p.
m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday) at Bass Hall. $18-$76. 817-665-6000, .
Is your knowledge of woodpeckers limited to Woody Woodpecker? Check out "Woodpeckers: Nature's Drills," a seminar at the Fort Worth Nature Center. Learn their calls and discuss the peril of endangered woodpeckers.
And perhaps even spot a few. Free. 1 and 2 p.
m. Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, 9601 Fossil Ridge Road. 817-237-1111.
Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King at the 24th annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The concert features special guest vocalist Kelly Price, who has appeared on hit singles such as Mariah Carey's Fantasy and The Notorious B.
I.G.'s Mo Money Mo Problems.
7:30 p.m. at the Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St.
, Dallas. $10-$25. 972-647-5700.
The Stock Show rides into town Friday - why not round it out with an extra dose of Cowtown culture?
You already know there's plenty to do at the Fort Worth Stock Show, which opens Friday. But you have to figure that in a city nicknamed "Cowtown," there's always plenty of Western-themed things to do.
Here are a few options that don't include attending rodeos, bull sales or goat-milking. And, yes, we know some of these are a bit of a stretch. What, you think people can't be into both agriculture and high culture?
Don't forget about the recently reopened Sid Richardson Museum in downtown Fort Worth (309 Main St.), which houses Old West paintings by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell and others.
Free. 817-332-6554.
Folk singer Tom Rush plays McDavid Studio at 8 p.
m. Saturday. And, OK, his brand of contemporary folk is closer to James Taylor than, say, Joni Harms, but he does know how to tell a fine story.
Who doesn't love that? $27.50.
817-212-4280.
Tommy Lee Jones' acclaimed 2005 Western, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, gets a screening by the Latin Arts Association and Vistas Film Festival. The extra treat here is that Fort Worth's Julio Cedillo, who played the dead body of the title character, will hold a Q and A session afterward.
7:30 p.m. Friday at the Rose Marine Theater, 1440 N.
Main St., Fort Worth. Free, but reservation required.
817-624-8333.
The 1958 British film The Horse's Mouth is not a Western, but "horse" is in the title, so bear with us. Alec Guinness plays an eccentric starving artist.
The screening is by Lone Star Film Society and includes an introduction by the Cliburn Foundation's head honcho, Richard Rodzinski. 7 p.m.
Wednesday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. $7.50.
817-738-9215.
And the Fort Worth Herd, the Stockyards cattle drive, has a photo exhibit opening at the Fort Worth Central Library (500 W. Third St.
) Jan. 18 through Feb 22. 817-871-7701.
Friday through Feb. 4, Gates open 7 a.m.
daily and close between 10 and 11 p.m.
The sculptures created by Joan Mir o from 1981 until his death in 1983 are whimsical and profound.
The Spanish surrealist called the anthropomorphic forms his "living monsters." They are gathered together for the first time since 1987 at the Gerald Peters Gallery. "Joan Mir o : The Last Bronze Sculptures" runs through Feb.
24. 2913 Fairmount, Dallas. 214-969-9410.
This weekend, Frisco will be overrun with sports folk from the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation, competing in the AT T Winter Games of Texas. Events include figure skating, gymnastics, soccer, hockey, volleyball, wrestling, baseball, basketball and flag football. Venues all over town will host the events, from Pizza Hut Park to middle school gymnasiums.
Many games are free, some are $5. 877-463-7472 or .
Is it just us, or do there seem to be more house-and-garden shows than ever?
There's one in Dallas this weekend, but you're more interested in the Arlington House Garden Show, where the guests include Paul James of HGTV's Gardening by the Yard and Brian Santos, the "Wall Wizard." 2-7 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.
m. Saturday and 11 a.m.
-5 p.m. Sunday at the Arlington Convention Center, 1200 Ballpark Way.
$7.50 daily, which means $22.50 if you go all three days for the seminars.
817-459-5000.
Prepare yourself for a red-hot, gnarly time as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley take over American Airlines Center. It's gonna be crazy.
7:30 p.m. Saturday at American Airlines Center, Dallas.
$56.50. 972-647-5700.
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The beauty of the art exhibits at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center is that they are so democratic. Included in this month's mix is a group of works by Alice Reynolds, an accomplished artist from the Fort Worth Circle who also was the co-founder of the Fort Griffin Fandangle in Albany, Texas, where she multitasked the productions into existence for 45 years.
Her paintings will be on exhibit through Feb. 17 at the FWCAC, 1300 Gendy St. Free.
817- 738-1938.
It's sort of like dc Talk meets 'N Sync in the hit off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, which bows in Dallas this week. 8 p.
m., through Jan. 21 at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St.
, Dallas. $15-$60. 817-467-2787 or 214-631-2787.
Raymond Nasher, who built the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Dallasite Howard Rachofsky, one of the nation's most avid collectors of contemporary art, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who commissioned Tadao Ando to design the Pulitzer Foundation's headquarters in St. Louis, will speak at the Dallas Architecture Forum lecture series at 7 p.m.
The panel will be moderated by Robert Campbell, Pulitzer prize-winning architecture critic for The Boston Globe. Dallas Museum of Art, Horchow Auditorium. $5- $15, 214-764-2406.
Playwright James Sherman, best known for Beau Jest, has a newer comedy, From Door to Door, which has its area premiere at Circle Theatre. The play, about three generations of Jewish women, is at 7:30 p.m.
It runs through Feb. 17 at 230 W. Fourth St.
, Fort Worth. $18-$28. 817-877-3040.
Get ready for the quick-witted improv stylings of Colin Mochrie, below left, and Brad Sherwood of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame. 8 p.
m. Jan. 25.
Bass Hall. $43-$53. 817-212-4280.
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