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Art&Seek Jr: We’re Goin’ to the Zoo!

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We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo; How about you, you, you? You can come too, too, too. We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

This Week in Texas Music History: Robert Shaw

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a pioneer of barrelhouse piano who started his career underneath the house.

Review: The Undermain’s Happy, Happy ‘Birthday Party’

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We’ve come to accept so much of what Harold Pinter pioneered in The Birthday Party. From Monty Python to David Mamet, we’ve found his menace, his puzzles, his great, off-the-wall humor. It takes the Undermain and director Patrick Kelly to find the old-fashioned, theatrical delight.

This Week in Texas Music History: The Chuck Wagon Gang

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet the “other Carter Family” of American roots music.

Afternoon Delight: Speed Limit Light Painting

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Combine a helicopter, colored lights and the night sky and you end up with some pretty sweet images.

Remember that New ‘Advanced Auto-tune’ We Told You About?

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The one that would permit you to perfect your vocals – live? Or harmonize with yourself as you sing? Well, it’s here.

This Week in Texas Music History: Carl Gardner

This Week in Texas Music History, we meet a singer who was itching to make it in the music business.

Exploding Glass at the Arboretum

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One reason the Dallas Arboretum wants the expanded parking space that’s gotten people riled up is what’s opening there: its first major art exhibition. The show has so many exuberantly colorful glass doodads by Dale Chihuly, you wonder the sunlight doesn’t fry some plants like Museum Tower.

This Week in Texas Music History: Sacred Harp

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about one of the oldest and most distinctive musical traditions in Texas.

This Week in Texas Music History: Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown

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This Week in Texas Music History, we honor a man who helped inspire the creation of one of the state’s most popular record labels.

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