RAISING THE ‘ROOF’: Local ears perked up when they heard that multi-Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein would join the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, currently taking up residence at Bass Hall. And the local reviews would suggest his addition is a welcome one. “Fierstein’s singing is a raspy croak and he can’t dance,” [...]

Did you miss the Oscar roundtable discussion featuring Chris Vognar, Chris Kelly and Yours Truly today on Think? Or did you tune in for it, and now you just want to replay it over and over and over again?
Well, now you can. Click the audio player below to listen to the entire episode in podcast [...]

POETRY IN PRINT: You’ve heard the old adage, “those who can’t do, teach?” Well that’s not the case with University of North Texas creative writing professor Bruce Bond. His poem Blaze was published in the fall 2009 edition of The Southern Review. The journal receives about 15,000 entries and publishes just two percent. The Denton [...]

Getting some calls already on this one  because of the promos that have aired.
You can see the story listed in our front-page “NPR Arts headlines.”  But you won’t be able to hear the story by John Burnett and Wade Goodwyn until — well, now — during All Things Considered.
So here’s the summary from NPR: “There’s [...]

If there’s an award, Marvin Hamlisch has won it. He’s on the very short list of people who have won an Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Emmy. And only he and Richard Rodgers have won those four plus the Pulitzer Prize. That’s pretty select company.
But Hamlisch, who was named the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s new Principal Pops [...]

You may recall that the new artspace, the Dallas Contemporary, was all set to open last month to a lot of attention. But then it didn’t. Talk about anticlimactic. When we spoke with Joan Davidow on Think TV, she explained that it was the last-minute delays in getting the building ready for inspection and certification [...]

Once the local B. Dalton closes, that is. Rallies have protested, children have written letters — but NPR asks the question, does a bookstore really matter anymore?

Hope you all are having a great holiday season.
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At 1 p.m. today, yours truly will join Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News and Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star Telegram to talk movies on Think. It even says so right here. We’ll be discussing recent and upcoming releases that are positioning themselves for the upcoming awards season. Which means I’ve been [...]

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: Living With the Trinity, a one-hour documentary that explores the river’s political past and present, airs tonight at 9 on KERA (Channel 13).  If that sounds familiar, you probably either checked out the project’s Web site, which launched in the spring, or heard the series of radio reports that ran [...]