NORAH, IN REVIEW: She may not live in North Texas anymore, but Norah Jones is still one of the area’s most successful exports (36 million albums and counting). So when she puts out a new album, we take notice. The reviews for The Fall, called both her break-up album and her rock album, have been [...]

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced its 2010 NasherSALON Speaker Series. The series has previously featured such artists as authors John Updike and Larry McMurtry, choreographer Twyla Tharp, chef Wolfgang Puck and singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel.
This next year’s series will feature actor-director Robert Duvall (Jan. 21), actress-model Lauren Bacall (March 11), singer Gladys Knight (June 17), [...]

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 [...]

Back in September, publisher Ken Villalovos abandoned THE magazine because, as he said at the time, the Santa Fe parent company hadn’t paid him or editor Scot Hart — even after they took pay cuts to keep the 11-month-old, North Texas arts publication going. “It was getting to the point where our reputations were on [...]

MINING THE PAST: “You learn more from reading than from reading books on writing.” That’s the strategy that Southlake author Suzanne Crowley says guided her to a successful career as a young-adult author. Her second book in the genre, The Stolen One, is set in Tudor England and was inspired by the many books she [...]

THE BEST IN BOOKS: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Last Great Battle of the American West, by Dallas author James Donovan, was named best non-fiction book by the Writers’ League of Texas. Mike Merschel of the DMN’s Texas Pages books blog has the complete list. He’ll be in Austin covering [...]

Dallas author/literary agent James Donovan has won the 2009 nonfiction award from the Writers’ League of Texas for his book, A Terrible Glory:  Custer and the Little Big Horn.
The award, which comes with a cash prize of $1,000, will be presented during the Texas Book Festival on Oct. 31 at the State Capitol in Austin. [...]

Unfair Park has a very interesting, hot-off-the-presses-kind of story about Robert Edsel — the author of Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men, both books about the Allied efforts to retrieve artworks that the Nazis looted. Edsel declares he’s found a pair of stolen paintings — at SMU’s Meadows Museum. They’re by Murillo, the Spanish [...]

NOT STRICTLY SPEAKING ABOUT THE ARTS – except insofar as it appears in a magazine about politics and culture, but the cover story of the November issue of The Atlantic concerns “27 Brave Thinkers,” including such obvious choices as Steve Jobs and Barrack Obama. There are three Texans listed: (Houstonian) Matt Stone of South Park [...]

Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things.
If you’ve been listening to NPR the past couple of weeks, maybe you’ve noticed the increasing number of author interviews that have been on the air? Last Monday, author A.S. Byatt was interviewed on Diane Rehm, just the [...]