With 212 artists and more than 125 live performances, the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival offers a variety of art, food and music. The festival started Thursday and will run all weekend. Admission is free and with music acts going on stage as early as 11 a.m., there's plenty to see all day. The festival also brings a number of big names to Cowtown for free shows. Here are a few can't-miss shows.Otis Day & The Knights

The studies of atomic nuclei and black holes are only a couple of the many research topics on display Friday as part of the Student Research Symposium.The fourth annual SRS will display about 87 research projects on posters in the hallways of the Tucker Technology Center that students of the College of Science and Engineering prepared to be judged by faculty from different departments according to topic.

The TCU women's soccer team will continue its spring schedule Saturday when it plays the North Texas Olympic Development Program, a team the players can honestly say they are not familiar with."Actually, I don't know (much about them)," said junior defender Casey Glass. "The coaches want us to treat everybody the same way. He doesn't want us coming in knowing too much about a team because we'll adjust how we play.

"We just have to be on the top of our game at all times ... not too much information."

Competing at home will be a rare and exhilarating experience for the TCU track and field team, which will play host to 13 teams from around the region Saturday at the TCU Invitational.The annual meet at Lowden Track and Field Complex is the first and only home competition on the Frogs' schedule, and head coach Darryl Anderson said he is eager to play host to it.

"It's exciting to perform in front of a home crowd," Anderson said. "It's exhilarating. That's the word to describe it."

A panel of professors discussed how the United States' current war and foreign policies relate to Jeffersonian ideas Thursday as part of the Thomas Jefferson for Today Conference.Samuel Watson, an associate professor of history at the United States Military Academy, said the most important lesson from Jefferson's time and from conflicts in the modern era is that the military needs to be flexible.

"When any nation faces antagonists," he said, it must either "fight, negotiate or withdraw."

When bad weather strikes, people run.Hurricanes, tornados, wildfires: All send the surrounding population scurrying for safety, desperate to find some shelter to escape the fury of nature.But what happens...

Complaints following a series of "sales to intoxicated person stings" in Irving have prompted the suspension of a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission program allowing officers to make arrests within bars, said a public information officer with the TABC.Carolyn Beck, a TABC public information officer, said the TABC is taking "a step back" in order to assess the program, as well as in response to complaints received regarding the March arrests. Beck could not say how many complaints have been received in total.