GET YOUR LEARN ON: The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History officially opens today. DFW.com has covered the museum extensively in the past week or so, with reports on the museum’s design, must-see attractions, the Cattle Raisers Museum located in the new building, the technology behind the exhibits and the cool temporary exhibit,  CSI: [...]

Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is executive director of La Reunion TX.
The third annual Art Chicas Unidas work day was this past Saturday at the La Reunion TX forest.  The reception for this program will be Saturday, from 2-4 p.m. Please RSVP by e-mailing me (sarah@LaReunionTX.org) or for directions and more info.  Four adult artists [...]

LOOKING SOUTH OUT WEST: Fort Worth is about to get its Latin Music fix with a pair of festivals specializing in the music of Central and South America. TCU’s Latin American Music Festival begins on Friday, which will be followed by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Caminos del Inka series the following [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a University of North Texas professor who teaches classes on blues, jazz and American literature. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philosophical Pragmatism.
Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. That’s not a problem, except that Jarreau’s set at the Winspear [...]

You’ve read her writing about dance on the Art&Seek blog (most recently here and here). And now you can hear her talk about her passion in the flesh. Danielle Georgiou will lead a gallery walk on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art titled “Discovering the Other Through Movement and the Visual Arts.”

IN MEMORY OF: Wednesday night, Texas Woman’s University will put on a benefit for the Brian Leavell Endowed Scholarship. Brave Combo will play, as well as a slew of other respected Denton musicians. But who was Brian Leavell, and why is half of Denton gathering on Wednesday to celebrate his life? The Denton Record Chronicle [...]

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: A compromise spending bill approved by Congressional negotiators on Tuesday sets the 2010 fiscal-year budgets for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts at $167.5-million each, a $25-million total increase over the appropriations for the two endowments in 2009. The National Endowment for [...]

Live theater is such an ephemeral thing, it’s hard to assess the real merit of performances and productions from even a few years ago — if you never saw them, if they were never recorded. Although I met him twice, I never saw a show directed by Paul Baker, the founder of the Dallas Theater [...]

Paul Baker, who founded the Dallas Theater Center in 1959 and was the first principal of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, died Sunday morning due to complications from pneumonia. He was 98.
The Baker Idea Institute’s Web site has a short biography that highlight’s Baker’s numerous achievements in the fields [...]

ONE LUCKY FLAT STANLEY: Parents around the country are now wishing they lived next door to photographer extraordinaire, Allison V. Smith. Allison’s neighbor, young master Gus, truly scored with his Flat Stanley project. Check out more photographs of Flat Stanley’s adventures on Allison’s fantastic blog. (For those who aren’t parents of young kids, Flat Stanley [...]