Image from www.aapf.org Here’s a sampling of events honoring Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend, including Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Friday, January 16th – Citizen King at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 8 pm, $5 Saturday, January 17th – Black History Tribute Opening Reception at Art Hotel, 7 pm, Free Saturday, January 17th [...]
Crawford, the story of President Bush’s adopted hometown near Waco, was one of the best documentaries I saw last year (it screened at both South by Southwest and AFI Dallas). If you didn’t catch it at either of those festivals, the Video Association of Dallas is holding a free screening Monday night at 7:30 at [...]
Samuel Beckett hovers over Ubu.com. Do social networking sites distract you from your workday? Are you frustrated when friends aren’t tweeting constantly, filling you in on the mundane details of their lives? My friends, I give you the greatest indulgence on the World Wide Web: Ubu.com, a site for rare visual art, audio files, films [...]
Dallas actor Akin Babatunde as Blind Lemon Jefferson in the musical, Blind Lemon Blues by Babatunde and Alan Govenar First of a two-part series on North Texas Blues A select, mini-history of Dallas in the blues: 1926 – “I walked from Dallas, I walked to Wichita Falls” — excerpt from Long Lonesome Blues by Blind [...]
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: Google Earth and the Prado Museum in Madrid have partnered on a project that allows viewers around the world to view every minute detail of some of the museum’s masterpieces. Google brought its 14,000 megapixel cameras to the museum to capture each work in painstaking detail, and the result is like [...]
The South by Southwest Film Festival announced Tuesday that Observe and Report will screen in a Centerpiece slot on Monday, March 16. The comedy stars Seth Rogen as a mall cop who gets in a skirmish with the local police force. Sounds an awful lot like this movie coming out on Friday, but my bet [...]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss sends this report. Bart is the Artistic Director of the Dallas Video Festival. Last week I had a bad cold and was in bed for more time than I would like. My DVR (which is not as good at TiVo, no matter what DirecTV says) recorded one of those things you [...]
Angela Christine Abbott stressing out on the roof of the Mitchell Lofts building in East Dallas. Raised on a steady diet of television and movies, A.C. Abbott is living the dream of any film school disciple. After earning an M.F.A. in Film Studies at Boston University two years ago, A.C. returned to her native state [...]
Dan McGraw in the Fort Worth Weekly has a feature on the current practice of the Dallas Morning News and the Star-Telegram to share arts reviews and sports coverage (a story which, ahem, we broke, I modestly add). New wrinkle that he brings up I haven’t seen before: whether or not this violates federal anti-trust [...]
Sitting Tiger, 1777, by Maruyama Okyo, Ink and colors on silk; hanging scroll. Photo courtesy of the Crow Collection of Asian Art. Is it strange to note that Asian culture is having a moment in North Texas? Our area is home to a sizable Asian population, so it should come as no surprise that there [...]
