Did we mention that these tickets are GONE? That’s right. All 3,000 tickets or so were scooped up in about 40 minutes or so. Of course, area theaters generally offer various kinds of discounts, so if there’s a show you really wish to see, check out the possible low prices. And you can always wait [...]
The Houston Chronicle reports: The Houston Arts Alliance has created an “artist recovery blog” to facilitate communication between the city’s estimated 500 arts organizations and 14,000 working artists in the wake of Hurricane Ike [the blog is called haahelps.com.]… Of the 92 arts organizations that had responded by Friday, nearly 60 percent reported wind, water [...]
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has compiled a list of the ‘King Tut’ packages and attractions offered by Dallas’ fancier downtown hotels, including the “Bare Bones Package” at the Adolphus and the “Tutini” cocktail at the W Hotel.
The Swell Season, a.k.a. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, a.k.a. the two stars of the indie smash Once, finally hit town Monday night, playing to a capacity crowd at the Palladium Ballroom. After wearing grooves into the film’s soundtrack from playing it so much, I can’t say I was disappointed in the live incarnation. But [...]
… it’s the one we’ve had since 9/11. So says Michael Boehm in the Los Angeles Times. What many of them called “the perfect storm” hit in 2001. The tech-bubble burst, the World Trade Center was attacked, and economic recession ensued, discouraging donors and ticket buyers, curtailing government grants and leading to layoffs, cancellations, deferred [...]
Elizabeth Lunday is the author of The Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors, which includes intriguing, seamy and just plain curious trivia about the 35 artists whose lives she recounts. Some of the biographical facts are not so secret (Caravaggio murdered a man). Others, on [...]
Doug McLennan is the mind behind Artsjournal.com, one of the best arts-news websites and art blog collectives around. Confession: I blog there as book/daddy, but seeing as Doug has been doing this for nine years and Artsjournal.com gets 45,000 users per day, my estimation of his achievement has some basis. Amanda Neer of Life’s a [...]
It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in the male-dominated film industry. For every Sophia Coppola or Amy Talkington, there are dozens of men filling those director’s chairs. And the male-female ratio on film crews is even more out of whack. To that end, the Chick Flicks Film Festival, a fundraiser produced by Women in [...]
Daniel Pearl Judea Pearl KERA radio version: Extended online story: Musicians all over Denton will be dedicating concerts in October to the memory of the slain journalist Daniel Pearl. Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002. The October concerts are part of a global effort called [...]
Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and arts conservationist. When disaster hits, all links to normality disappear, this affects the actual collection of information. One organization has stepped in to fill in one of those information gaps. The Texas Association of Museums has posted a city-by-city list of museums, galleries and historic [...]
