Congratulations to Jacob Rasmussen, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Jacob is an amateur photographer who spends a lot of time taking pictures of interesting sites around Euless, where he lives. Jacob follows last week's winner, Teresa Rafidi.
If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload [...]

We've hit that time of year again – the time for lists. It's a fun way to look back at the year that was, and a good exercise to see how the current year stacks up against years past.
Lists of the top 10 movies of the year are the most prevalent each year, so Art&Seek [...]

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The choices artists make sometimes are as interesting as the work itself.
Take Doubt.
It follows a ruthless nun accusing a priest of an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy. It won a Pulitzer as a play before becoming a film. The movie stars Meryl Streep as the icy Sister Aloysius [...]

Doug Burr, left, and Jon Collins
If you ever have the opportunity to hang out with Doug Burr and Jon Collins at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, I highly recommend it. Jon, who lives in East Dallas, is a self-taught filmmaker with a penchant for the music video and a God-given gift for [...]

Gini Mascorro's Holiday Anthem airs Christmas day on KERA (90.1 FM) from noon to 2 p.m. (you can listen to a live stream here). We asked Gini to send us a setlist of the show, and she did us one better. Enjoy Gini's liner notes for the whole set below, and be sure to tune [...]

Congratulations to Teresa Rafidi, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Teresa earned a BFA from Southern Methodist University and is a professional photographer and photography teacher. If you like her photo, she's got a pair of nifty Web sites (rafidiphotography.com and teresarafidi.com) that feature more of her work. She [...]

The Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol from 2007 – with Chamblee Ferguson as Bob Cratchit (center)

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For musicians, actors and dancers, the holidays are filled with work, with extra shows. That's true for many people. But for performing artists, the real work comes in making their [...]

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 [...]

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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 to [...]