On Golden Pond, which closes this weekend at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, is a naturalistic play so it needs a believable set. Set designer Rodney Dobbs has done a commendable job, creating a lived-in look for the summerhouse of an elderly couple spending their 48th year on the lake. We asked Dobbs about the set [...]

Composer John Adams says that he is on a security watch list and accuses the government of harassing cultural figures. Adams has written controversial operas, including “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer.” His opera “Doctor Atomic” recently opened at the Metropolitan Opera in a new production. All deal with actual events of modern [...]

It seems that British architect Norman Foster doesn’t have enough to do, now that his design for the Winspear Opera House is going up. He’s just been hired to re-do Manhattan’s great Beaux Arts landmark, the New York Public Library — as part of a $500 million renovation of the building, and a $1.2 billion [...]

Photographer Andy Hanson has died. If you’ve lived in Dallas, you’ve seen his work. A staff photographer with the Dallas Times Herald from 1960 until its demise in 1992, Hanson may well have photographed more Dallas people and Dallas events than anyone else — and then continued to work for the News and for plenty [...]

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in The Road. It looks as if we’ll have to wait another year for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The film, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron, was originally scheduled to debut later this fall as a definite Oscar contender, but the Los [...]

Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. Sewing in the Swap-O-Rama-Rama tent, participants refashion discarded clothing. AUSTIN — The movers and the shakers, do-ers and thinkers were at Maker Faire this past weekend in Austin. This was our chance to meet other [...]

Some kind soul with an undoubtedly large collection of VHS tapes recently posted to YouTube a segment from a late-1980s KERA program called “Art’s Eye”.  In the clip below, host Judy Kelly profiles Dallas’ Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, just as they were reaching stardom thanks to radio hit “What I Am”.  It’s great [...]

Congratulations to Sam Brown the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Not only is Sam a talented photographer, he’s also a painter of striking images, which he posts on his Web site. He follows last week’s winner, Wade Griffith. More from Sam in a bit. If you would like to participate, all [...]

If you’ve missed out on Free Night of Theater so far, it’s not too late. Today at 3 p.m., tickets to three shows will be available: Garland Civic Theater’s Heaven Can Wait, MBS Productions’ Dream Awake and Theater Three’s Look What Happened to Pixie DeCosta! All you have to do to pick up the tickets [...]

Here’s Robert Philpott in the Star-Telegram with a Q & A with producer/director Rob Tranchin. And here’s the Dallas Morning News. In case you haven’ t noticed (where have you been???), there’s a screening of the funk documentary, South Dallas Pop this Thursday evening at the Dallas Museum of Art. But if you can’t get [...]