AISLE ECONOMICS: When going to a concert or play, most of us would just assume have an aisle seat, right? Sure, you have to constantly stand up to let those in the center of your row in (how many times can one person hit the concession stand during a performance?). But the ease of getting [...]
Photo: Allison V. Smith. Allison is a Dallas photographer whose work can be seen both on her Flickr page and her Web site, allisonvsmith.com. When I interviewed Kelly Brown for last week’s Artist Q&A, I had never seen her perform. We’d taken a class together in grad school a few years ago, and she was [...]
Art&Seek presents a stellar lineup of holiday programming on KERA (90.1 FM) beginning tonight. Leading off the festivities is Hanukkah Lights 2008 at 8 p.m. An NPR holiday tradition for nearly two decades, Hanukkah Lights presents new fiction to celebrate and illuminate the holiday season — moving tales of discovery and reconciliation, the persistence of [...]
Bloomberg News has released a story online that says George Steel, the newly hired general director of the Dallas Opera, is in talks with New York City Opera for a possible position there as general manager. It would be something of a “Hail Mary” pass for the NYCO because the seriously troubled company currently has [...]
Southern :Methodist University’s Bridwell Library will open an exhibition Feb. 2 on ancient and modern personal prayer books in the library’s special collection. The exhibition will feature 60 books from the 13th to the 20th centuries. These include medieval manuscripts of psalters, breviaries, and books of hours. As its name implies a psalter is the [...]
BROADWAY TO BIG D: Dallas Morning News theater critic Lawson Taitte has been in New York the past week or so compiling his semi-annual Broadway roundup. Among the shows he’s taken in are the movie-to-stage musicals Billy Elliot and Shrek and the soon-to-be-closed Thirteen. Before reading his reviews, can you guess which one of those [...]
At Art&Seek, we get in the holiday spirit as much as anyone. And to prove it, we’ve got a stellar lineup of holiday programming planned for the radio station (KERA 90.1 FM) beginning Dec. 23. Among the highlights is our very own Gini Mascorro’s Christmas Anthem — a genre-busting collection of artists performing holiday songs [...]
Photo by Can Turkyilmaz Kelly Brown has survived so many ebbs and flows in the Texas music scene that Kris Kristofferson should probably write a song about her. Frankly Scarlet, Kelly’s band with her sister Kim, was a staple of the Deep Ellum music scene in the 90s and seemed destined for the elusive national [...]
I was shocked to hear Monday that Douglas Balentine, the musical jack-of-all-trades behind a lot of the Hip Pocket Theater’s work, had died. But calls and e-mails produced no response. Then, the other day the Star-Telegram ran this bare-bones obit: Douglas Balentine, the former Fort Worth composer, musician and actor who helped create Hip Pocket [...]
The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: For many people, the holidays mean seasonal jobs or extra workloads – people like postal carriers or the crews who put up Christmas lights. And eggnog distributors, mustn’t forget them. For Richardson resident Jon Flaming [pronounced Fleming], the holidays mean work, too. It’s just that he had [...]
