Asking foundations or other grant-making organizations to help fund your movie can be an intimidating, mystifying process. The criteria tends to be slippery, and feedback about why you got rejected is rare. The Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund is a refreshing exception.
The Austin-based program, which has awarded $800,000 since 1996, sends artist services director Bryan Poyser [...]

The conventional wisdom is that rock ‘n’ roll is dead, nostalgia for fogeys, passe. At least for one night, a group of grade-school girls rockin’ out down front at Bruce Springsteen’s Dallas concert Sunday — and later pulled onstage by Boss Broooose, a la Courtney Cox in that music video made before they were born [...]

CNN is reporting that Hillary Clinton will make an appearance on Saturday Night Live, which starts in a few minutes on NBC. 

It’s a Tuesday in mid-February, so that means it’s time for the live singing to begin on American Idol. What does that have to do with arts and culture, you ask? As the most popular program on television, plenty of artsy types must be watching even if it makes them feel a little guilty. (Not [...]

Most Dylan acolytes probably rushed out to see I’m Not There — Todd Haynes’ unconventional meditation on the life and times of the elusive rock legend — when it opened a few weeks ago. Before it leaves town, movie buffs should check out it too.
An almost anti-biopic, with six actors representing different stages of [...]