This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember an eclectic Texas musician who continues to defy categorization.

We have seen the future and it looks like DEVO: The Undermain Theater opens its new season next week with Len Jenkin's surreal, sci-fi noir, Port Twilight. So we spoke to artistic director Katherine Owens about the future in Port Twilight and the Undermain's own Campaign for the Future.

Nick Prueher talks to Krys Boyd about the truly funny-awful tapes of the Found Footage Festival: training films, dating videos and, of course, the guy-dropping-his-pants furniture ad. Through such tapes, you, too, can learn to defend yourself against some really vicious short ribs.

In Cormac McCarthy's novels, the Texas-Mexico border is a major, dramatic life-changing event for young Anglos headed south. In Oscar Casares' writing, the border is a fact of life — to be negotiated, ignored, overcome. The Brownsville native talks to us about family legends, the border and his new novel, Amigoland.

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at the life of Little Joe Hernández, the son of a sharecropper who began playing professionally at 16.

Richard Pilbrow may be the one designer who has worked on both the Wyly Theatre and the Winspear Opera House — he's been involved with the Arts District since even before the Meyerson opened in 1987. He's the founder of the leading theater consulting firm in America, and it was his innovative ideas about theater layouts and intimacy that helped shape both facilities in the AT&TPAC. The two halls may look extremely different, but Pilbrow says they're not.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll honor a popular artist who stopped making records in order to protest the unfair treatment of his fellow black musicians.

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at the life and career of Gene Autry, the owner of the first gold album in country music history.

They've been telling us the Wyly Theatre will be unlike any other theater ever built. But what does that mean? And why would anyone create such a thing? Follow our tour of the industrial insides of the Wyly with Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty and Theatre Projects Consultant project manager Benton Delinger — to learn how this remarkable facility will work. And why.

Tired of commercial radio? Ready for some local music? Then mark 7 a.m. Nov. 9 on your calendar. That's the day we launch KXT 91.7 – a new station devoted entirely to music. And with a commitment to local music programming — each and every day.