This time last year, I wrote about the status of arts funding in Dallas, and it’s time again for the City Council to debate the future of arts organizations in the area. Keep reading to learn how you can help fight proposed budget cuts.

Cannon Flowers and Patricia Melton of Human Rights Initiative of North Texas discuss the contest and how you can enter.

The paper’s website got a colorful re-do this week but it hit enough broken links and loading snags that Robert Moore, the publisher, put up an explanation and apology.

Today in the roundup: Music odds and ends, a DMA painting is headed to Paris and a list of the top architectural marvels since 1980 is out. Did any North Texas designs make the list?