This evening the Dallas Symphony Orchestra premieres a new concerto featuring Emanuel Borok, the DSO's renowned concertmaster. The new work was commissioned for a special occasion. It celebrates the birthday — of Borok’s violin.

If it has strings and makes music, Garland's Gerald Jones can play it. A mainstay of the Texas music scene for almost four decades, Gerald teaches, too – Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks was once a student. Though the banjo is his main squeeze, Gerald will be a big player at this weekend's Lone Star Uke Fest, a celebration of acoustic music in general and the ukelele in particular. He talks about this weekend's big event as part of this week's Art&Seek Q&A

Congratulations to Sarah Philipson of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!

This week, Paul talks with Salim Nourallah about his latest album, Constellation.

This week's Saturday Spotlight focuses on the first Oak Cliff Art Crawl.

The University of Texas campus in Austin has never before featured a public statue of a woman until now. A new statue of former US Representative Barbara Jordan, will be unveiled there today. KERA's Ilan Goddard has more.
In the fall of 2002 an all female honors organization called the Orange Jackets noted that of all [...]

The Fort Worth Opera begins its season this weekend, with Carmen on Saturday and La Cenerentola on Sunday. But the third opera the company is presenting has inspired a public panel on art, social change and the death penalty.

Steve Steward, bassist for Fort Worth's Darth Vato, talks about life on the road, favorite gigs and why now is the right time for the band to come to an end as part of this week's Art&Seek Q&A.

Congratulations to Jared Eckstein of Grand Prairie, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!  The subject of brainstorming is a one-inch tall clown figurine that scares Jared's wife. She's not alone, Jared. She is not alone.
Jared follows last week's winner, JDAC.
If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload your photo [...]

Currently at the Water Tower Theatre, the comedy Based on a Totally True Story has an onstage narrator, a gay man named Ethan, who writes plays and comic books. Ethan relates how he met his domestic partner in New York and how he got into filmmaking in Los Angeles. In Hollywood-speak, the two men "meet cute." And the play pretty much stays cute.