We told you about the call for artists for Kettle Art Gallery’s first juried art exhibit. Remember those 400+ artists who entered the Portfolio Review? The judges were asked to narrow the competition down to 55 artist’s works and last night was the unveiling. We’ll let the video speak for the rest.

Back in September, a video and architectural renderings of the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science were released. Groundbreaking on the $185 million building happens later this year with construction scheduled to be completed in 2013.
But a recent visit to the website of the design firm Morphosis – prompted by lead architect Thom Mayne [...]

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced today that it will present a two-year, pops concert series that will feature  DSO-commissioned world-premiere works plus multi-media retrospectives by five leading film composers — and Sir Anthony Hopkins.  “The Masters of Film Music” are James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight), George Fenton (Gandhi), Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), Michael Giacchino [...]

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 [...]

Every time I enter the Belleview St. side of the Southside on Lamar building, I always wish I had a skateboard. That and I wish I knew how to skateboard. It looks like endless acres of smooth shiny concrete which seems to be, as my son says, “the perfect conditions for skateboarding.” So [...]

You may remember the Bucks Burnett exhibit we told you about last week, along with the video interview with Bucks himself. Thanks to our friend, local video-journalist extraordinaire Randy Eli Grothe, we bring you some rehash from that night.
The band performing is The BBC, Barry Whistler’s band. The still photos in the video were [...]

I’ve never much liked this color. To tell you the truth, I never even liked it on Art&Seek. But who listens to me?
Turns out that all the people who didn’t listen to me at Upper Managment KERA were smart. In Dallas, this green has become Our Trendy New Shade of Light Summery Slime.
First, it [...]

Richard Rodzinski, the head of the Van  Cliburn Piano Competition who retired in July after 23 years, has essentially gone over to the competition. The Star-Telegram reports that Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who was appointed to revive the long-faded Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, asked Rodzinski for advice in June. What was a one-shot consultation has [...]

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. [...]

– it’s now online as one of Gary Cogill’s WFAA videos, all 20 breathless minutes of it (” “magnificent!” is pretty much how the prose starts). Mighty cool visuals, though. A first look at that rooftop logo, for instance, with a big aerial reverse zoom that makes Cogill look like a tiny bridegroom figure topping [...]