Plant yourself at the Dallas Arboretum for the May Flower Extravaganza or take in the songwriter showcase and open mic at the Fairmount in southside Fort Worth. Or listen up for other ideas from Gini:

As Rawlins Gilliland points out in his D Magazine piece, the idea of street food in Dallas is counterintuitive. The only time we walk for a meal is from the valet stand to the front door of the restaurant. Nonetheless, Gilliland found vendors selling food from carts, kiosks and walk-up windows in several North Texas [...]

Operating outside the mainstream can be a tough business. Just ask Chad Withers and Brendan Carroll, who are losing the west Denton space of their independent media store/music venue Strawberry Fields. They plan to move their subversive books, CDs, LPs, DVDs and other acronyms to the former offices of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios on E. [...]

Planning on putting down some serious change on some serious art? Here’s a really smart discussion about the current, globalized art market by Andras Szanto, former head of the Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University and current senior lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. According to Szanto, we’re watching a “new cultural universe” being born. If [...]

Former Denton, Texas native (and current New Yorker cartoonist) Matt Diffee is interviewed about the two volumes of The Rejection Collection that he edited of cartoons the New Yorker turned down — generally on grounds of bad taste: Can you foresee another era in which cartoonists are glittering celebrities and dating movie stars again, as in [...]

The Valley House hosts an exhibition of paintings by Valley House founder Donald Vogel; Theatre Too, the downstage space at Theatre Three, presents Mid-Life: The Crisis Musical and the Schola Cantorum of Texas sings at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Arlington. And Gini has more:  

Allow me to join the chorus of hosannas: Matt Zoller Seitz is coming home, at least for a little while. The journalist-critic-filmmaker is returning to Dallas, where he used to enlighten us about movies for the Observer, to make a film involving puppets. After leaving Dallas, Matt spent years as a TV critic at the [...]

_____________________________________________________________ To listen to the on-air report, click here: To listen to the interview with Dallas Museum of Art deputy director Bonnie Pitman, click here: The Dallas Museum of Art has free admission and extended hours Saturday and Sunday. The museum is open 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 on Sunday. In [...]

The Sun to Moon Gallery host the photo exhibition, “Cape Cod,” in Carrollton, there’s the Trinity Park Mayfest in Fort Worth and the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas has Profiles of Me, a stage show based on Nina Simone’s song, “Four Women.” And then there’s Gini with more.

Charley Pride recently turned 70 with no fanfare. D Magazine is out to right that wrong with a profile of the Dallas country-music legend. Lost and Found Dept.: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters lost his flying inflatable pig, one of the band’s longtime symbols, at a music festival Sunday. Frank Campagna to the rescue! The Dallas [...]