Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Entertainment

This Bay Area punk-rock trio is creeping up on its 25th anniversary, yet, paradoxically, Green Day seems more vital than ever. How else to explain the band's continued critical adoration (largely for a pair of dynamic concept albums, 2004's American Idiot and last year's 21st Century Breakdown), adaptation to the Broadway stage ( Idiot again) and easy appeal to the next generation (via the Green Day-branded version of Rock Band)?

Brave ComboMark your calendar now for the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2 appearance of Denton's own Brave Combo in Arlington. In what has become an annual gig, the show marks the kickoff of the Levitt Pavilion's fall lineup of free -- that's right, as in, no charge -- performances.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Bud Kennedy When the other cowboy chefs went to TV shows, Brian Olenjack went to Arlington.Now, he has the leading restaurant near the Rangers' and Cowboys' crowds: Olenjack's Grille in Lincoln Square."I've learned a lot," said Olenjack, once of Reata and the former chef at the Chisholm Club."For a while, it was all construction.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Anthony Andro Growing up in Port Arthur, former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson said he dreamed of traveling the Amazon and living in the wild.Johnson recently got a chance to live out that boyhood dream as one of the contestants on the upcoming season of Survivor: Nicaragua, which premieres Sept.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

-- Gaile Robinson The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week.1 El Greco: He is a special guest of honor at the Kimbell Art Museum for the next several months.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By David Martindale Laurie Moore, a Fort Worth-based novelist and attorney, is miffed that automated traffic enforcement cameras keep popping up across town."I remember the day I found out about these cameras," she says.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Heather Witherspoon At 51, Emma Thompson has won two Academy Awards, one Emmy and earlier this month received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She's also an avid activist and serves as chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation, a London-based philanthropic foundation.But next year, her plans are to slow down and enjoy life with her husband Greg Wise and her children, Gaia Romilly Wise, 10, and Tindyebwa Agaba, 23, whom Thompson and Wise adopted in 2003 when he was 16 and in the Rwanda army.

By David Bauder For years, executives at ABC, Fox and NBC essentially stopped caring about television viewers once they reached 50.You don't hear that much anymore.The median age for viewers at those networks and CBS is now 51.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Punch Shaw FORT WORTH -- Greek tragedy rubs elbows with Elizabethan comedy in the Condensed Shakespeare Festival: Toga Party Edition, an evening of three plays for the price of one offered by the Stolen Shakespeare Guild at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.The first act is devoted to a sort of Reader's Digest version of the Bard's The Comedy of Errors, wherein this comedy of brotherly confusion set in ancient Greece is reduced to less than one hour.

-- Cary Darling DVD Friday Night Lights: The Fourth Season: Now that the ratings-challenged Texas high-school football drama is finally getting some Emmy love, it's a good time to check out the recently completed fourth season, perhaps its strongest.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share