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This Week in Texas Music History: Mickey Newbury

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This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about the first-and-only four-way-hit songwriter.

  • Afternoon Delight: Rappin’ Taylor Swift

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    Taylor Swift plays Cowboys Stadium on Saturday. But we’re still praying that T-Swizzle and T-Pain will finally end their beef and reunite.

  • Elledanceworks Finally Performs at Home

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    Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou reviews Collin College’s resident dance company in its first performance on home turf.

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  • Monday, noon: Think - How does Romare Bearden’s legacy live on in contemporary art? We’ll find out this hour with Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby, who credits Bearden as an important influence. The exhibition “Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey” is now on view at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. Huckaby’s oil painting Hidden in Plain Site is also on view in the museum’s atrium.
  • Tuesday, noon: Think - What makes political cartoons stick with us after the headlines fade? We’ll talk this hour with Victor Navasky, longtime editor of The Nation and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His new book is The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power.
  • Thursday, noon: Think - How does photography help us understand the human condition? We’ll talk this hour with Steve McCurry, a photographer for National Geographic Magazine.  His solo exhibition "Unguarded Moment" is on display at Laura Rathe Fine Art, and he’ll give a lecture at the gallery this evening.
  • Sunday, 6 p.m.: Studio 360
On KERA Television This Week
  • Monday, 8 p.m.: American Masters - Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
  • Monday, 9:30 p.m.: Pioneers of Television - Carol Burnett and the Funny Ladies
  • Tuesday, 10 p.m.: Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words
  • Wednesday, 11 p.m.: American Masters - The Doors: When You’re Strange
  • Thursday, 11 p.m.: Austin City Limits – Arcade Fire
  • Friday, 8 p.m.: Live From Lincoln Center - Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home
  • Sunday, 7 p.m.: The National Memorial Day Concert 2013
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