According to an AP report by Jamie Stengle, the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art was contacted by the friend of an Ohio vet, John Pistone, who picked up a photo album while he was in Hitler’s home near Berchtesgaden, Germany, at the end of WW II.
Turns out it was one of [...]

BACK IN THE DAY: While flipping through the December issue of Esquire, I came across an excerpt from Alex Lemon’s new memoir, Happy. Lemon is a professor in the English Department at TCU, and judging from the passage in the magazine, the book should be required reading for his rowdier students. Lemon was a legendary [...]

Arts management is often as exciting as an accounting lecture or — given our grim economic realities — a report on the great investment prospects the Hindenburg is offering. But Michael Kaiser is a different kettle of fiscal priorities. He’s actually rather inspiring.
President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kaiser has [...]

It’s news because it’s Cormac McCarthy’s portable Olivetti, which he used to write a dozen novels, several screenplays and short stories, plus countless letters. The New York Times reports that Christie’s will be auctioning the 46-year-old machine — now that a friend of McCarthy’s bought him a new one like it.

The former Texas poet laureate and SMU professor died Monday night at his Mesquite home. Jack Myers was the author of 18 books of poetry — and about poetry — including several that were awarded Texas Institute of Letters prizes, such as The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems

NORAH, IN REVIEW: She may not live in North Texas anymore, but Norah Jones is still one of the area’s most successful exports (36 million albums and counting). So when she puts out a new album, we take notice. The reviews for The Fall, called both her break-up album and her rock album, have been [...]

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced its 2010 NasherSALON Speaker Series. The series has previously featured such artists as authors John Updike and Larry McMurtry, choreographer Twyla Tharp, chef Wolfgang Puck and singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel.
This next year’s series will feature actor-director Robert Duvall (Jan. 21), actress-model Lauren Bacall (March 11), singer Gladys Knight (June 17), [...]

LOOKING SOUTH OUT WEST: Fort Worth is about to get its Latin Music fix with a pair of festivals specializing in the music of Central and South America. TCU’s Latin American Music Festival begins on Friday, which will be followed by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Caminos del Inka series the following [...]

When Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth in 1934, white newspapers wouldn’t run photos of African-Americans. Ironically, segregation gave Littlejohn his life’s work: chronicling Fort Worth’s middle-class black community. Bob Ray Sanders, author of a new book on Littlejohn, talks to Krys Boyd about growing up in Jim Crow North Texas.

Back in September, publisher Ken Villalovos abandoned THE magazine because, as he said at the time, the Santa Fe parent company hadn’t paid him or editor Scot Hart — even after they took pay cuts to keep the 11-month-old, North Texas arts publication going. “It was getting to the point where our reputations were on [...]