There’s a media tour of the Perot Museum today, so you’ll be seeing lots of what’s inside the building, but we talk with architect Thom Mayne about, well, what’s up with the outside? Especially, that glassed-in escalator?

Everyone keeps saying it hasn’t got a chance to win the National Book Award, so maybe it doesn’t. But The Boy Kings of Texas is still the best memoir to come out of South Texas since … hmmm. Well. Forever, I guess.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a bandleader who made the grade, from the high schools of Houston to the concert halls of Japan.

Sony celebrates the last 125 years of making music with an impressive typographic timeline at its office.

Today in the roundup: How the Dallas Opera picks new works, ancient history in Fort Worth and Dallas’ “robo-painter.”

The Birth of Merlin is a 1622 drama once attributed to William Shakespeare. It’s probably NOT by him, but that hasn’t stopped the Stolen Shakespeare Guild from staging what may be the drama’s North American premiere

A new tribute to President John F. Kennedy will be unveiled Thursday in Fort Worth.The memorial reconnects the city with Kennedy’s trip there on Nov. 22, 1963.

Alice Murray will be leaving after three years of remarkable growth in attendance and revenue.

Take the opportunity this Veterans Day to introduce your kids to those who have served our country at these local events.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who was known as the “Sweetheart of the Americas.”