Guest blogger Danielle Georgiou on “Eight Women,” “Keep Dancing” and her own
dance, “Roam,” all at Video Fest.

Highlights from last night’s conversation with Jaap van Zweden and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

With a little help from Rent, enjoy Jurassic Park the Musical.

One lucky winner gets season tickets to Kitchen Dog Theater; another wins tickets to see dance, opera, architecture, movies and art PLUS a little North Park Gold. Sign up. We draw winners Friday at noon.

With Blockbuster in bankruptcy and the video rental business facing much the same digital and market forces that have caused an uproar in bookselling and the music biz, we swing by Premiere Video to ask, How’s our finest independent video retailer holding up?

VideoFest opens tonight at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. And one of the great things about VF is that it’s all about the day pass – buy one ticket, bounce in and out of whichever theater strikes your fancy. If you’re headed out tonight, might I recommend:

The 23rd annual Dallas Video Fest begins tonight at the Angelika Film Center. KERA’s Stephen Becker talked with artistic director Bart Weiss about how he programs the event.

Today in the roundup: Local music notes, assessing the last 25 years in local art dealing and secrets of the Fort Worth cultural district.

Dallas cultural programs have been spared funding cuts of more than 50% with passage of a tax hike today at City Hall.

The Dallas Children’s Theater is now being powered partly by the sun — the first theater in Texas, thanks to Green Mountain Energy.