Art&Seek

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a University of North Texas professor who teaches classes on blues, jazz and American literature. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philosophical Pragmatism. Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. T...

Every time I enter the Belleview St. side of the Southside on Lamar building, I always wish I had a skateboard. That and I wish I knew how to skateboard. It looks like endless acres of smooth shiny concrete which seems to be, as my son says, “the perfect conditions for skateboarding.” So [...]

You may remember the Bucks Burnett exhibit we told you about last week, along with the video interview with Bucks himself. Thanks to our friend, local video-journalist extraordinaire Randy Eli Grothe, we bring you some rehash from that night. The band performing is The BBC, Barry Whistler’s band. ...

VideoFest kicks off today. I’ll be offering up my picks for each day of the festival here on the blog, beginning with Thursday’s choice cuts: A Dallas Jewish Journey – Today, Dallas has a vibrant Jewish community. But how did it start? This...

MINING THE PAST: “You learn more from reading than from reading books on writing.” That’s the strategy that Southlake author Suzanne Crowley says guided her to a successful career as a young-adult author. Her ...

This Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will hold a major press conference, but so far, it has not revealed even the topic of discussion...

THE MAN AT THE MIC: Most actors playing the lead in Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio would be content to just perfect the ungodly amount of dialogue they have to learn for the show. But Elias Taylorson wanted his experience with Upstart Productions’ staging of the play to be more immersive. To...

If you’d like a free all-festival pass to VideoFest, you can get one – so long as you’re willing to work a little for it. All you have to do is show up at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas today at 2 p.m. to help set up and the pass will be yours. Give [...]

The O’s in the KXT studio with Gini. Maybe you’ve heard that KERA is launching KXT 91.7 on Monday. Ahem. We...

Richard Rodzinski, the head of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition who retired in July after 23 years, has essentially gone over to the competition...

Just a few more weeks of 90.1@Night before I move to the new station, KXT 91.7, and the show becomes the Paul Slavens Show (I’m still getting used to the name change !) This is where you can join the live blog, a great place to make polite comments and give me suggestions of music or [...]

MERRY WIDOWS: Jubilee Theatre’s Dance on Widow’s Row finds that death can be quite a funny thing – especially if there is a lot of it. The setting for the show is a dinner party in which a group of widows play host to a few potential husbands/prey. “Given that the quartet of widows who [...]

Dallas author/literary agent James Donovan has won the 2009 nonfiction award from the Writers’ League of Texas for his book, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn. The award, which comes with a cash prize of $1,000, will be presented during the Texas Book Festival on Oct. ...

Set those DVRs for 10 p.m. tonight on KERA (Channel 13). That’s when St. Vincent and Andrew Bird perform on Austin City Limits. Each of them had sold-out shows at the Granada this year, so you obviously like ‘em. Drop a comment to this post tomorrow to let us know how the ACL performance was.