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		<title>Thursday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/19/thursday-morning-roundup-44/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORAH, IN REVIEW: She may not live in North Texas anymore, but Norah Jones is still one of the area&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duvall, Bacall, Knight, Sondheim and Lehrer &#8211; All at the Nasher</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/16/duvall-bacall-knight-sondheim-and-lehrer-all-at-the-nasher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s series will feature actor-director Robert Duvall (Jan. 21), actress-model Lauren Bacall (March 11), singer Gladys Knight (June 17), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/11/wednesday-morning-roundup-48/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Latin American Music Festival begins on Friday, which will be followed by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya&#8217;s Caminos del Inka series the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Magazine is Dead, Long Live Arts + Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/09/the-magazine-is-dead-long-live-arts-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, publisher Ken Villalovos abandoned THE magazine because, as he said at the time, the Santa Fe parent company hadn&#8217;t paid him or editor Scot Hart &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/05/thursday-morning-roundup-42/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINING THE PAST: &#8220;You learn more from reading than from reading books on writing.&#8221; That&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/10/30/friday-morning-roundup-43/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; League of Texas. Mike Merschel of the DMN&#8217;s Texas Pages books blog has the complete list. He&#8217;ll be in Austin covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dallasite Wins Writers&#8217; League of Texas Award</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/10/29/dallasite-wins-writers-league-of-texas-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dallas author/literary agent James Donovan has won the 2009 nonfiction award from the Writers&#8217; 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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meadows&#8217; Nazi Art</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/10/23/the-meadows-nazi-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfair Park has a very interesting, hot-off-the-presses-kind of story about Robert Edsel &#8212; 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&#8217;s found a pair of stolen paintings &#8212; at SMU&#8217;s Meadows Museum. They&#8217;re by Murillo, the Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/10/21/wednesday-morning-roundup-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOT STRICTLY SPEAKING ABOUT THE ARTS &#8211; except insofar as it appears in a magazine about politics and culture, but the cover story of the November issue of The Atlantic concerns &#8220;27 Brave Thinkers,&#8221; including such obvious choices as Steve Jobs and Barrack Obama. There are three Texans listed: (Houstonian) Matt Stone of South Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November is National Novel Writers Month</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/10/07/november-is-national-novel-writers-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lydia Regalado</dc:creator>
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Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things.
If you&#8217;ve been listening to NPR the past couple of weeks, maybe you&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/23/wednesday-morning-roundup-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DANCE, DANCE, DANCE: Wil McKnights&#8217; Texas Dance Theatre opens its inaugural season on Friday with considerable buzz. And in an era when dance companies come and go, he says he&#8217;s in it for the long run. &#8220;One day, I&#8217;m going to have my own building,&#8221; McKnight tells dallasnews.com. &#8220;I&#8217;m not playing around.&#8221; Part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D Magazine Devotes An Entire Issue to the Arts&#8230; District</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/21/d-magazine-devotes-an-entire-issue-to-the-arts-district/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month before the new double-barrelled AT&#38;T Performing Arts Center officially opens, D Magazine has released its October issue online and on the newstands. Think of it as the starter&#8217;s gun going off for Big, Anticipatory and Celebratory Ruminations and Evaluations on All Things AT&#38;T PAC-Related, Local Media Division.
Yes, we&#8217;re preparing our own gigantic parade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Magazine &#8230; Folding?</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/21/the-magazine-folding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re awaiting confirmation on this. THE magazine has not paid its writers for a couple months and has now lost both its editor and publisher. But we can&#8217;t get a message to the owner, Santa Fe Publishing Group, because the only voicemail listed for it is full.
A pity if THE does go under because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Morning Round-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/10/thursday-morning-round-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/10/thursday-morning-round-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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NEW JARGON FOR AN OLD TREND? Unfair Park has done a dogged job of tracking the city government&#8217;s treatment of historic landmarks (in particular, the fate of 508 Park Avenue, where bluesman Robert Johnson recorded his last great songs). Now the Observer blog has the latest on the city&#8217;s exploration of ways to get around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Literary Lioness Emma Rodgers to be Honored</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/03/local-literary-lioness-emma-rodgers-to-be-honored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 30 years, Emma Rodgers co-owned and ran Black Images Book Bazaar &#8212; the area&#8217;s oldest African-American bookstore &#8212; until she closed it in 2006. She was a testament to what a bookseller could mean to a community, making her store a real arts-and-literature center. She helped launch writing careers (J. California Cooper, the late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School Time (for Grownups, too)</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/03/back-to-school-time-for-grownups-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the kiddos are back in school, it&#8217;s time for you to think about how you&#8217;re going to exercise your brain this fall.
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture has released its fall course catalog. You can click here to thumb through your options.
I&#8217;m thinking hard about the Speaking of Movies class, led by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hands on a Hard Body&#8230; The Musical?</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/09/02/hands-on-a-hard-bodythe-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ninh</dc:creator>
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Longview, Texas will soon get its moment to shine on stage. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright (who wrote the book for the Grey Gardens musical and hails from Dallas) has teamed up with lyricist Amanda Green (High Fidelity) to adapt Hands on a Hard Body into a musical.


The 1997 cult doc follows residents of Longview as they compete for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Kinds of Puppetry</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/26/different-kinds-of-puppetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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Over on the feature side, of course, we have a story about Matt Posey&#8217;s decidedly low-tech, trash-talking puppets. And this next week will see the opening of the fifth annual Cowtown Puppetry Festival &#38; Pageant at the Hip Pocket Theatre (below), for a more poetic brand of puppetry. 
But the above, Casa de Maquinas (&#8221;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/25/tuesday-morning-roundup-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=9556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ON THE LEVEL: Did you know that Wednesday is National Women&#8217;s Equality Day? Until recently, I didn&#8217;t either. The Women&#8217;s Museum is trying to change all that with a luncheon tomorrow at the museum. Anyone care to wager a guess as to why the event is celebrated on Aug. 26? No one? OK, I&#8217;ll tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/18/tuesday-morning-roundup-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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TALKIN&#8217; OPERA: The Dallas Opera has posted the video (above) from its latest Cosi and Koozies summer panel series. This one is titled &#8220;Multiculturalism: At the Heart of Moby-Dick and Madam Butterfly&#8221; and is moderated by Chris Shull, who writes for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. If you like what you see, the next discussion &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books + Movies = Classics</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/05/books-movies-classics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, the Dallas Film Society continues its series of classic movies born of novels with The Grapes of Wrath. The event begins at 6:30 at the Nasher Sculpture Center with a movie chat with Gary Cogill before the film rolls at 7. After the movie, a discussion will take place.
Why should you care?
Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering E. Lynn Harris. In a Gucci Suit in Dallas.</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/03/remembering-e-lynn-harris-in-a-gucci-suit-in-dallas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clancy Martin &#8212; author of How to Sell, the hot, Fort Worth-based, debut novel about coke-snorting-jewelry-scamming brothers  &#8212; once sold jewelry to the late author E. Lynn Harris. In Harris&#8217; room at the Mansion on Turtle Creek. On a book tour.
Martin recalls the moment &#8212; an 18-k bracelet and a Rolex &#8212; for the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Points Section Points Away from Unpleasantries</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/03/the-points-section-points-away-from-unpleasantries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For its latest book club selection, Points &#8212; the Dallas Morning News&#8216; Sunday editorial section &#8212; chose Bryan Burrough&#8217;s vivid and worthwhile history of Texas oil families, The Big Rich. And on Sunday, a half-dozen writers &#8212; including Burrough himself &#8212; filled up more than two pages of the section with thoughts about the Hunt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/08/03/monday-morning-roundup-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEEKEND REVIEWS: Jubilee Theatre&#8217;s Sam Shade: A Detective Musical is a, &#8220; rollicking, intermittently entertaining mess,&#8221; according to Manuel Mendoza (dallasnews.com) &#8230; Chris Shull calls Contemporary Dance Fort Worth&#8217;s new piece at this weekend&#8217;s Modern Dance Festival, &#8220;a fascinating kaleidoscope of sound and movement.&#8221; (dfw.com) &#8230; Art&#38;Seek guest blogger Danielle Georgiou gets props for her, &#8220;wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Historian vs. Harvard and Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/07/30/texas-historian-vs-harvard-and-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that Texas State University history prof Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, is objecting to a recent book, The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded From the Confederacy, by Harvard prof John Stauffer and Washington Post writer Sally Jenkins. As [...]]]></description>
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