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Wondering at the Fort Worth Museum of Science

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opens Nov. 20, and they're still getting the new Legorreta+Legorreta-designed building ready. But an early peek at the Noble Planetarium finds the first ZKP-4 in the Southwest fully functioning and traveling to galaxies far, far way. Forget your old grade-school visit to a planetarium to see some constellations. This baby is cosmic.

Audio/Video: Performing Arts Center Dedication

Art&Seek was on the ground for Monday's dedication of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Click through for KERA reporter BJ Austin's radio report and KERA videographer Ivey Suber's video of the day.

This Week in Texas Music History: Blind Lemon Jefferson

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll honor a Texan who performed in both churches and bordellos before becoming one of the most prolific and influential blues musicians of all time.

This Week in Texas Music History: Texas Punk

Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, we’ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it. For the week of Sept. 12, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks back at an event that pushed the Texas punk scene into the national spotlight.

Art&Seek Q&A: Emma Rodgers

Miss Emma was the force behind Black Images Book Bazaar for three decades and now devotes all of her time to a long list of lucky North Texas nonprofits. On Saturday, a grand bash will be held in honor of her 65th birthday. Meet Emma Rodgers in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.

This Week in Texas Music History: Milton Brown

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at Milton Brown, whose meeting with Bob Wills in Fort Worth led to the formation of one of the most distinguished acts in the history of western swing, the Light Crust Doughboys.

Art&Seek Q&A: Lupe Vargas

Back in eighth grade, Lupe Vargas won a music scholarship to honor Texs guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now all grown up, she has returned to teach music in the neighborhood where both she and S.R.V. began to play. Meet Lupe Vargas in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.

Art&Seek on Think TV: Author Walton Muyumba

Walton Muyumba joins us for this week's Art&Seek segment on Think TV. Muyumba is the author of the newly released The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism.

This Week in Texas Music History: Charline Arthur

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll look at a singer who was born in a railroad boxcar but went on to tour with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Saturday Spotlight: Tulisoma Book Fair And Arts Festival

In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re talking books at the 7th Annual Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival.

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