He re-introduced the City Council’s Arts, Culture and Libraries Committee. Now Mayor Rawlings is pushing to expand area businesses’ contributions to the city’s cultural life. Not only that, he wants them to become best friends forever.

Another one bites the dust. But another one rises up.

Last year, former Police drummer Stewart Copeland had a new composition premiere in Dallas, thanks to the world-percussion ensemble, D’Drum. This year, he came back to celebrate. Oh yeah, and to teach some SMU students.

It was going to be only a week of events to mark April as Jazz Appreciation Month — that’s all they could probably muster. But D’JAM put together a real, live calendar-month of stuff, and to start it off, they set out to recreate a legendary photo shoot.

The DSO suspends its search for a new CEO. They want to get their finances straight first.

This Easter season, First Presbyterian in downtown Dallas has had a little wooden chapel in its lobby — like a toolshed or a tabernacle. Or an art installation. It features twenty paintings by Austin artist John Cobb.

A co-production of King Lear with Trinity Rep in Rhode Island, and, of course, A Christmas Carol — but other than those, everything will be brand-new to North Texan audiences, including several world premieres and a collaboration with The Second City in Chicago.

Family issues prompted his surprise resignation — after less than a year on the job. His predecessor, Mark Nerenhausen, was forced out after less than two years as CEO.

Like a college grad who’s moved back in with his parents, the funny, foul-mouthed puppets of the Broadway hit Avenue Q will find a home downstairs at Theatre Three. And they may stay awhile.

“Five Feet High and Rising” is not Johnny Cash’s description of Big Bird. But on Sesame Street, the song about a flood becomes a lesson on stacking and counting.