Today in the roundup: Rock stars old and new come to town, ranking the country’s museums and chilling out your dog with music.

This weekend is the sixth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Literary nonfiction includes everything from narrative features in magazines to full-length histories. But this conference will offer something different than helpful advice or big-name author confabs: a panel on ghostwriting.

After a week and a half of museums and mosques, we take a nature break.

Because we are, after all, in Turkey….

Visiting a little gem of a museum on the Mediterreanean.

If you’re a filmmaker with a film in the works, the Dallas International Film Festival would like to take a look.

Moviegoers – looking for a little art in your films? Well, The Second Program is just the ticket.

Unfair Park has posted a tres cool video by filmmaker Andrew Holzschuh, son of Landmark Sign Company’s Dan Holzschuh. Holzshuch pere collects ’signage’ and his son has assembled some of his vintage, Dallas-area ‘commercial folk art’ into an animated sculpture/video — “The Sign Tree” — that is definitely worth a looky.

Congratulations to Claudia A. De La Garza of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest.

Today in the roundup: Alice is the star of FIT, Anne writes again and the key to hitting the high notes.