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Think Video: Jacques Pepin's Speedy Eats

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Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. Krys Boyd talks to French chef Jacques Pepin, host of the TV series, Fast Food My Way.

Think Video: Kids, Cattle and the Food Chain at the State Fair

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Get the Flash Player to see this content. Krys Boyd talks to Darryl E. Real, vice president for agriculture/livestock for the State Fair, about the kids breeding and raising prizewinning livestock — and how those competitions work.

Think Audio: Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor has written a number of books centered on the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985), Leaving Home (1987) and Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007). His latest, Liberty, follows the town folk as they prepare for the Fourth of July and learn that one of their own has [...]

Think Video: Early American West at the Amon Carter Museum

Get the Flash Player to see this content. Sentimental Journey: The Art of Jacob Miller runs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth through Jan. 11. Think airs on KERA Television Friday night at 7:30 p.m.

Monday Round-Up and a Farewell

Author James Crumley The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts gets its third-largest donation, $15 million from Sammons Enterprises, for the outdoor spaces around the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theater. Some parents and DISD teachers have expressed fears about students seeing images in the PBS arts documentary series, art:21. The first three seasons [...]

Sam Baker Interviews Jazz Drummer Adonis Rose

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Among the performers at this weekend’s Jazz by the Boulevard festival in Fort Worth will be its new creative director, drummer Adonis Rose. The new job is one of several he’s acquired in North Texas since evacuating here from Hurricane Katrina: founder and leader of the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra, artist-in-residence at UT Arlington – [...]

Think Video: Allison V. Smith's Photos and Jaap van Zweden's Baton

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Get the Flash Player to see this content. Native Texan and award-winning photograther Allison V. Smith has a solo exhibition opening at Barry Whistler Gallery this weekend. Smith has photos displayed at the Dallas Museum of Art and has previously snapped a series on Marfa, Texas, as well as her life in Maine. Her new [...]

Dallas Video Festival: Poster Images

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. We are going to have an exhibit of the posters of our 21 years the day before the festival (new dates: Nov. 7-9) I really love our posters, all of them. There are many parts of doing [...]

Video: Remembering The Sportatorium and Big D Jamboree

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Get the Flash Player to see this content. The 4,000 seat Dallas Sportatorium made its debut as a wrestling arena, but beginning in the 1940s, it was home to the Big D Jamboree, a music show in the spirit of the Grand Old Opry. Watch this segment from Nowhere But Texas 2, first broadcast tonight [...]

Think Video: Kevin Moriarty from Dallas Theater Center

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Get the Flash Player to see this content. Kevin Moriarty, the new artistic director at the Dallas Theater Center, makes a loud and energetic debut with The Who’s Tommy, which runs through Sept. 28. Moriarty talks to Krys Boyd of Think about the new season, and how he hopes to keep the conversation about theater [...]

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