Congratulations to Ian Aberle of Allen, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!

MUSIC BITS: Fort Worth Weekly has news of a very 817-centric day of music at SXSW called Fort Wizard Grab Bag. The Burning Hotels, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, The Orbans, Fate Lions and many others are on the bill. (fwweekly.com) … DC9 at Night continues its series of posts asking bands from outside of North Texas [...]

Did you miss the Oscar roundtable discussion featuring Chris Vognar, Chris Kelly and Yours Truly today on Think? Or did you tune in for it, and now you just want to replay it over and over and over again? Well, now you can. Click the audio player below to listen to the entire episode in [...]

A few days ago, rehearsals began in New York for Red-Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner (right) as the late Texas columnist-wit. The one-woman play, written by journalists and twin sisters Margaret and Allison Engel, opens March 19 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company – and is widely seen as a [...]

A few years ago, a fire took the old Arcadia Theatre on lower Greenville. And this morning, just up the avenue, a four-alarm fire apparently started in Terilli’s and took out the whole 2800 block of restaurants. These were some of the last, remaining 1930′s storefronts in the area. Terilli’s, the great old Greenville Avenue [...]

POETRY IN PRINT: You’ve heard the old adage, “those who can’t do, teach?” Well that’s not the case with University of North Texas creative writing professor Bruce Bond. His poem Blaze was published in the fall 2009 edition of The Southern Review. The journal receives about 15,000 entries and publishes just two percent. The Denton [...]

Getting some calls already on this one  because of the promos that have aired. You can see the story listed in our front-page “NPR Arts headlines.”  But you won’t be able to hear the story by John Burnett and Wade Goodwyn until — well, now — during All Things Considered. So here’s the summary from [...]

On Thursday night, a pretty interesting collection of people will come together to discuss the creative process as part of the Brinker International Forum. Participants include actor Bob Balaban, Mandalay Entertainment founder Peter Guber and director Brett Ratner. CNN anchor Campbell Brown will moderate the discussion, which will be held at the Winspear Opera House. [...]

. . .  it means an art organization might be able to get a good deal on a new home. After 25 years in the same office/rehearsal space in Fort Worth at 6845 Green Oaks, Texas Ballet Theater is moving to a new home at 1600 Green Oaks Road, right alongside Ridgmar Mall near I-30 [...]

PRAISES NOT SUNG: Were you like me on Sunday morning, reading your Dallas Morning News and rubbing your eyes after seeing the Dallas Opera taken to task by Scott Cantrell? Cantrell’s beef is that the DO was far too conservative in its programming for the 2010-11 season. Since Scott’s forgotten more about opera than I’ll [...]