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This Week in Texas Music History: Ernie Caceres

This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at a Texan who drew from Hispanic, Anglo and African-American influences to become one of the most well-respected jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s.

Art&Seek on Think TV: The New Fort Worth Museum of Science & History

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinsoaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.

Art&Seek on Think TV: Fort Worth Symphony's Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Inspired by cellist Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road recordings, Fort Worth Symphony music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya has begun a series of concerts and CDs, Caminos del Inka — "Trails of the Incas." They showcase three centuries of orchestral music from the Pacific Coast South American countries once part of the Incan Empire. The FWSO brings the project back for concerts in Bass Hall this week — after talking to us on Think.

Think TV: A Photographer's History of Black Fort Worth

When Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth in 1934, white newspapers wouldn't run photos of African-Americans. Ironically, segregation gave Littlejohn his life's work: chronicling Fort Worth's middle-class black community. Bob Ray Sanders, author of a new book on Littlejohn, talks to Krys Boyd about growing up in Jim Crow North Texas.

KXT Hits the Air

Today, North Texas gets a new public radio station. KXT 91.7 FM will play an eclectic mix of indie rock, alt country and other styles. The station is owned by KERA. So what can you expect to hear on KXT? KERA’s Stephen Becker reports:

This Week in Texas Music History: Doug Sahm

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

Art&Seek on Think TV: The Undermain's Next 25

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.

Think TV: Finding Humor in Found Footage

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.

Art&Seek on Think TV: Author Oscar Casares

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 in Texas Music History: Little Joe y La Familia

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.

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