This week, we discuss the mammoth success of The Avengers, preview the Oak Cliff Film Festival and pay tribute to MCA’s contribution to the world of film.

Watch the stop-motion film that took home the BAFTA for best short.

Don Draper singing about Taxi with beats provided by Reggie Watts? Why not?

Today in the roundup: A local designer on HGTV, Mike Simpson’s new gig and an environmentally friendly music fest in Fort Worth.

Director Richard Linklater and stars Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey help us dissect their Carthage, Texas-set movie.

The Alamo comes to North Texas, Dallas’ black journalists give Beyonce some props and various hires and whatnot were announced: It’s the Friday arts news roundup.

Twitchy, hallucinatory cartoons in the air. Galloping balloon animals. Fun. Cool. Watch.

Oh, it’s nothing more than trying to make a provocative, sophisticated weekly icon — choosing the cover of The New Yorker. That’s what Francoise Mouly has done the past ten years.

Pure originality is a romantic illusion. Innovators steal and borrow and sample their predecessors. “All art is a remix” goes the new mantra. And one great example is The Matrix.

Running and gunning with muralist Jeff Soto — and his new, decked out, robotic art car. Grafitti art as drive-by.