Publications are hardly immune to the economic forces that have been hurting the arts. The Christian Science Monitor has shut down its weekly print edition after a century of continuous publication. So has Canada’s National Post (in two provinces, anyway). The Dallas Morning News recently laid off newsroom (and production and Al Dia ) staff. [...]
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 [...]
… art museums. … art auctions. … classical music organizations, opera companies, orchestras. … social-shindig fundraisers for arts groups. But not cable TV. Image from unspun.shiftcomm.com
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 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 [...]
Kimberly Whalen and Curt Mega in The Light in the Piazza. Lawson Taitte, writing in The Dallas Morning News, says that Kimberly Whalen, the star of Theatre Three’s current production of The Light in the Piazza, “sings like an angel in one of those Florentine frescoes.” And I couldn’t agree more. She plays Clara, the [...]
