This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texas songwriter who helped re-write some of the country’s best-loved songs.

The second hour of Thursday’s episode of Think featured a panel of local movie writers discussing the highs and lows of the holiday movie schedule. Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News, Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Stephen Becker of Art&Seek and KERA picked apart Avatar, It’s Complicated, Crazy Heart, Sherlock Holmes and a slew of other titles:

At 1 p.m. today, yours truly will join Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News and Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star Telegram to talk movies on Think. It even says so right here. We’ll be discussing recent and upcoming releases that are positioning themselves for the upcoming awards season. Which means I’ve been [...]

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman remembers a Texan who could sing, dance and magically fly through the air.

How do today’s arts education programs prepare students to make a real living in the arts? Jose Antonio Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music at Southern Methodist University, discusses the topic on a recent episode of Think.

Cari Weinberg, Executive Director of Art Conspiracy, speaks with Jerome Weeks about this year’s event, which happens Saturday, Dec. 12.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texan who was born the son of a former slave but went on to become one of the most popular and influential songwriters in American history.

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinosaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: Living With the Trinity, a one-hour documentary that explores the river’s political past and present, airs tonight at 9 on KERA (Channel 13).  If that sounds familiar, you probably either checked out the project’s Web site, which launched in the spring, or heard the series of radio reports that ran [...]

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at a Texan who drew from Hispanic, Anglo and African-American influences to become one of the most well-respected jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s.