If you are looking for events to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos (or Day of the Dead for the gringos out there), there are is a slew of them out there on Saturday. Among the highlights: Learn how to make sugar skull sculptures at the Bath House Cultural Center. Be sure and stop back by [...]
The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: Books and bookstores are supposed to be dying. But despite the internet and the dire economy, new bookstores have just opened in Plano and Oak Cliff. The new shops are not your typical booksellers, though. Not in North Texas. For one thing, Legacy Books in Plano is [...]
Did we mention Dave Isay of StoryCorps is coming to town Monday? Ok, we did. But I’m going to do it again. Because it gives me a chance to share one of my favorite StoryCorps pieces, in which Betty Jenkins, 94, recalls creating a bit of an international incident when she crossed continents in an [...]
Detail from Matthew Bourbon’s His Nature Do video games possess any artistic merit? Kyle Kondas and John Pomara have assembled an exhibition on the UT-Dallas campus that attempts to prove (or at least explore) that possibility. ON_game is really two shows in one. At last Friday night’s opening reception for ON_game and Tony Vincenti’s between, [...]
The AFI Dallas International Film Festival announced Wednesday night that Steven and Anne Stodghill will serve as co-chairs of the 2009 festival. Mr. Stodghill is a Dallas attorney with Fish & Richardson P.C. and an avid moviegoer (as you might have guessed). And lest you think that he’s just some local power player (which he [...]
The Visual Arts Building at UT-Dallas contains two exhibition spaces, a large downstairs space for group shows and a tiny upstairs mezzanine for discoveries. Running concurrently with ON_game in the main gallery below is between, a one-man show in the mezzanine gallery from multimedia artist Tony Vincenti. We asked this up-and-coming local talent about his [...]
Guest blogger James Faust is the Director of Programming for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. As the Director of Programming for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, my job is to curate an international film program … which means watching lots of movies. I love this. I love movies. This November is going to [...]
Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX. Collaboration. It’s not just a way to generate ideas and maximize resources… For La Reunion TX, it’s a way to create focus group! Please join us Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Creative Connections as we present to North [...]
Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON challenged you to identify this detail of the facade of an architectural delight last week. And the answer is … THE TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER, just 8 minutes South of Downtown Dallas. The new building, which seems to fly in the air and whose windows could be the eyes of a [...]
I’m a highly anecdotal person. If a story I’m telling gets big laughs from the listeners, I will tell it again with each new person who walks into the room. This means some people hear the story over and over and it stops being funny or even interesting. Sometimes the captives are busy working at [...]
