Today in the roundup: Extra cash for the OCA, Sarah Jaffe’s new CD (and DVD!) and the details of The Modern’s design.

Capturing one of Louis Kahn’s last film interviews, and remembering Patsy Swank: filmmaker Mark Birnbaum shares some thoughts on “The Kimbell: Year One,” which airs on KERA TV Friday at 7:30 p.m.

DMN classical music critic Scott Cantrell returns to his old home, the Kansas City Star, to write an extensive guest feature on the many new performing arts centers that cities have built — and the problems they’ve raised.

… and it’s a “retrograde cocoon,” says LATimes architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.

A new Audubon Center opens this weekend in Dogwood Canyon in Cedar Hill. This makes Dallas County the only one in the US with two Audubon Centers. The reason? The canyon has one of the most unusual ecosystems in the state.

North Texas’ loveliest skyscraper wins an award, a new arts complex is planned in Tarrant County, the Balcony Club could use some money while banjo-picker Steve Martin gives away some. All this and more in the Wednesday Roundup.

Remembering the Twin Towers in the way most of us saw them over the years — in the background of dozens of Hollywood films.

Charles Wyly’s cultural and community philanthropy may be his lasting legacy to North Texas. The $20 million he gave to the creation of the Arts District’s Wyly Theatre only capped several decades of extensive community involvement.

The rise of trendy 7th Street in Fort Worth hits some snags, SMU Press is back (kind of), Liz Mikel is looking at Broadway and UNT arts folks will benefit from a wealthy man’s will — all in this roundup.

It’s called the Smith Center, another multi-million-dollar, “world-class” performing arts complex, and the architect behind it is David M. Schwarz, whose retro red-brick-and-columns work should be very familiar to North Texans. In fact, the Smith Center seems to echo a particular Forth Worth complex.