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		<title>About Last Night: Portfolio Review at Kettle Art Gallery</title>
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We told you about the call for artists for Kettle Art Gallery&#8217;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&#8217;s works and last night was the unveiling.  We&#8217;ll let the video speak for the rest.
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		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/07/about-last-night-portfolio-review-at-kettle-art-gallery/</link>
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		<title>Stage Employment News Worth Noting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment, because performances of A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream and rehearsals for A Christmas Carol are overlapping, the Dallas Theater Center is currently employing 39 actors.
And all of them seem to be local.
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		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/stage-employment-news-worth-noting/</link>
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		<title>New Views of the Perot Museum</title>
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Back in September, a video and architectural renderings of the new Perot Museum of Nature &#38; 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 &#8211; prompted by lead architect Thom Mayne [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/new-views-of-the-perot-museum/</link>
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		<title>VideoFest: Weekend Picks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the best of what&#8217;s screening over the weekend at VideoFest:
Saturday
Animated Shorts – The highlight of this package of four films is Don Hertzfeldt’s I Am So Proud of You. The 21 minute film is the next in the animator’s “Everything Will be OK” series and follows a man learning about some family secrets. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/videofest-weekend-picks/</link>
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		<title>DSO, Van Zweden Climb Peak With Bruckner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 is one of the great peaks of classical music, but opportunities to hear it live are rare &#8212; at least around here. That makes this weekend’s concerts by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra doubly desirable. Or triply, if you consider the conductor, Jaap van Zweden.
Van Zweden led a magnificent performance Thursday night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/dso-van-zweden-climb-peak-with-bruckner/</link>
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		<title>The DSO Goes Hollywood &#8212; in a Big Film-Score Kinda Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; and Sir Anthony Hopkins.  &#8220;The Masters of Film Music&#8221; are James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight), George Fenton (Gandhi), Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), Michael Giacchino [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/the-dso-goes-hollywood-in-a-big-film-score-way/</link>
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		<title>Brief Notes on Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/brief-notes-on-jazz-roots-a-larry-rosen-jazz-series/</link>
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		<title>ART of Skateboarding is Upon Us</title>
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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, &#8220;the perfect conditions for skateboarding.&#8221; So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/art-of-skateboarding-is-upon-us/</link>
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		<title>Bucks Big Bash Rehash</title>
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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&#8217;s band.  The still photos in the video were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/bucks-big-bash-rehash/</link>
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		<title>VideoFest: Friday Picks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legend of the Dot Race – Of the area’s four major pro-sports franchises, the Rangers are by far the most family friendly. Part of that is just the laid-back nature of baseball, and part of it is Chuck Morgan. For most of the last 25 years, Morgan has been the team’s announcer and been in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/videofest-friday-picks/</link>
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		<title>Friday Morning Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THINK GLOBALLY, RECORD LOCALLY: &#8220;All I knew was that I wanted to be a musician, and I wanted to skip the step of paying other people to record,&#8221; Fort Worth musician and sound engineer Zaq Bell says in reference to using a home recording studio. That&#8217;s the approach that more and more Fort Worth musicians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/06/friday-morning-roundup-44/</link>
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		<title>Ticket Giveaway: (Untitled)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen (Untitled) yet, but the plot of the movie at least sounds like it would be up the alley of the rank-and-file Art&#38;Seek reader. From imdb.com:
&#8220;A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.&#8221;
Interested? Just click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/05/ticket-giveaway-untitled/</link>
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		<title>The Dallas Symphony Is All Set to Announce &#8212; Something</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will hold a major press conference, but so far, it has not revealed even the topic of discussion. At the same time, the DSO has been enticing (or taunting) us &#8212; we, the officially jaded skeptics in the media &#8212; with tidbits such as: The announcement will be &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/05/the-dallas-symphony-set-to-announce-something/</link>
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		<title>Thursday Morning Roundup</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/05/thursday-morning-roundup-42/</link>
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		<title>VideoFest: Thursday&#8217;s Picks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VideoFest kicks off today. I&#8217;ll be offering up my picks for each day of the festival here on the blog, beginning with Thursday&#8217;s choice cuts:
A Dallas Jewish Journey – Today, Dallas has a vibrant Jewish community. But how did it start? This 17 minute film turns back the clock 100 years or so to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/05/videofest-thursdays-picks/</link>
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		<title>KXT Countdown: The O&#8217;s Are In the House. And So Are the Media.</title>
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Maybe you&#8217;ve heard that KERA is launching KXT 91.7 on Monday. Ahem.
Well, today some fine members of the media  are here visiting KXT&#8217;s shiny sparkly studio, and listening to Gini Mascorro and Joe Kozera punch up a few tunes and get comfy behind their new board.   And we have special guests  making beautiful music upstairs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/04/kxt-countdown-the-os-are-in-the-house-and-the-media/</link>
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		<title>Ticket Giveaway: VideoFest Day Passes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VideoFest gets going on Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. The first 10 people who e-mail me (sbecker@kera.org) will receive a day pass good for the day of their choice. Check back in here on Thursday and Friday as I will be offering my daily picks for the festival.
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		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/04/ticket-giveaway-videofest-day-passes/</link>
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		<title>Free VideoFest Passes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d like a free all-festival pass to VideoFest, you can get one &#8211; so long as you&#8217;re willing to work a little for it. All you have to do is show up at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas today at 2 p.m. to help set up and the pass will be yours. Give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/04/free-videofest-passes/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE MAN AT THE MIC: Most actors playing the lead in Eric Bogosian&#8217;s Talk Radio would be content to just perfect the ungodly amount of dialogue they have to learn for the show. But Elias Taylorson wanted his experience with Upstart Productions&#8217; staging of the play to be more immersive. To that end, he also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/04/wednesday-morning-roundup-47/</link>
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		<title>Booker T. Junior and the DTC’s Midsummer: Draw the Curtain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger Josh Greenfield is a junior at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He plays Snug the Joiner in the Dallas Theater Center’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Read his previous post here.

Preview week was really crazy. The morning after the first preview, Paul Baker passed away, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/booker-t-junior-and-the-dtc%e2%80%99s-midsummer-draw-the-curtain/</link>
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		<title>Look Ma, No Hands: William Lamson at Marty Walker Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me about Art, offering lectures, tours and program planning. She is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee.
Just as we have personal and unique rhythms in our individual walks, writings and words, nature has its  rhythms as well. Brooklyn performance artist William [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/look-ma-no-hands-william-lamson-at-marty-walker-gallery/</link>
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		<title>ArtCon 5: Artists Get on Board At Noon Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to join this year&#8217;s Art Conspiracy, today&#8217;s the day and now&#8217;s *almost* the time. You&#8217;re committing to making an artwork on Dec. 11 that will be auctioned on Dec. 12. Here are your instructions:
Send an e-mail to art@artconspiracy.org at noon today. Put &#8220;I&#8217;m in!&#8221; in the subject line. Space is limited for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/artcon-5-artists-get-on-board-at-noon-today/</link>
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		<title>Danielle Talks Dance (and Art) at the DMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You've read her writing about dance on the Art&#038;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."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/danielle-talks-dance-and-art-at-the-dma/</link>
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		<title>Ticket Giveaway: The Men Who Stare At Goats</title>
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Will The Men Who Stare at Goats be funny? Since I haven&#8217;t seen it yet, I can&#8217;t say. But I have a good feeling about it, and it&#8217;s not based on the trailer or reviews I&#8217;ve read. It&#8217;s based on George Clooney&#8217;s moustache. If you&#8217;ve followed Clooney&#8217;s career, you know that when he wants to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/ticket-giveaway-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IN MEMORY OF: Wednesday night, Texas Woman&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/11/03/tuesday-morning-roundup-45/</link>
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