This Week in Texas Music History: The Broken Spoke
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll look at a classic Texas dance hall that has become a world famous tourist destination.
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This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll look at a classic Texas dance hall that has become a world famous tourist destination.
In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re searching for talent in Grand Prairie.
Alec Jhangiani has one of the more enviable jobs in the North Texas arts scene. As Artistic Director of the Lone Star Film Festival – which runs through Sunday – he’s charged with watching the films that get submitted and picking the best ones to show. He discusses the process of programming the festival and its role in promoting film culture in his home town as part of this week’s Art&Seek Q&A:
Congratulations to Neff Conner of Bedford, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!
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.
Emmy Award-winning actor-director Charles Dutton has led a remarkable life. He's a twice-convicted felon who still managed to graduate from the Yale School of Drama. But on Saturday in Fort Worth, when he presented his one-man autobiographical show, From Jail to Yale – Serving Time on Stage, it wasn't his life story that was spellbinding. Jerome Weeks reviews.
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.
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, Paul talks with Denton duo RTB2 about its new EP, In the Fleshed.
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember an eclectic Texas musician who continues to defy categorization.