This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a musician whose legacy quite literally helped leave a trail for others to follow.

Arts education has been a ‘victim’ of standardized testing and No Child Left Behind (the arts pretty much don’t exist). But Sir Ken Robinson argues that our basic education set-up discourages the aesthetic and inventive thinking.

The Dallas Bach Society will perform Bach’s St. John Passion, while the Dallas Symphony will perform his St. Matthew for the first time in 50 years. The one concert is church-ensemble small, the other’s symphonic-big. The one’s aiming for early-music authentic … and so’s the other one?

The stars are the stars of this time-lapse video captured from the International Space Station.

Today in the roundup: Theatre Three’s debut, Shatner comes to town and quirky museums around the state.

The late David Dillon, longtime architecture critic of The Dallas Morning News, has been honored with the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture at UT-Arlington. Its inaugural symposium will have New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger as the keynote speaker.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll recall a special evening when the “Boss” showed up early for work.

NPR has the incredible story of how 800-year-old frescoes came to Texas and why they’re going back to Cyprus.

A new chair, an old mural and a busload of books — quite the interesting roundup for this Friday morning.

Often called the “female Indiana Jones,” Mireya Mayor is a primatologist, anthropologist, wildlife expert, conservationist, and an explorer.