As Dallas VideoFest gears up for its 25th Anniversary, we celebrate with a special feature. Bart Weiss tells all about it.

Echo Theatre dives into the life of the first female playwright in Or, by Liz Duffy Adams. Or, gives us a glimpse of Aphra Behn’s sordid life as a poet and a spy – all in the style of a Restoration Comedy.

‘Slump’ premiered in Dallas in June in the Bruce Wood Dance Project’s second season. Now associate choreographer Joshua Peugh is taking it to Seoul – with six of the Dallas dancers.

Enter for a chance to win tickets to Art&Seek’s Pecha Kucha night on September 19!

Enter for a chance to win tickets to Pinkalicious the Musical at the Dallas Children’s Theater!

Today in the roundup: Reviewing Kitchen Dog’s ‘Becky Shaw,’ the Undermain’s new blog and a big donation for the Perot Museum.

Don’t be a scurvy dog! Come celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day at the Davis and Harrington branches of the Plano Public Library.

There are now 600 movies in the Criterion Collection. See how many of them you can pick out in this 2:30 compilation.

Ironic. The best-selling novelist couldn’t sell novels worth a darn.

Guest blogger Gail Sachson writes that art and commercialism once again intersect through Andy.