This is your chance to visit The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth for free every Sunday through January 3rd, 2009! Take your brother, mom, niece or enjoy an afternoon alone. Pack your camera because pictures are allowed inside the building (good architecture shots) and of the permanent museum collection. Currently on exhibit is Hubbard/Birchler’s […]

What: 6th Annual Cedars Open Studio When: Saturday, November 22nd, 10am-6pm; after party begins at 7pm and ends at midnight. Where: South of downtown Dallas – Cedars neighborhood (map it!) Price: FREE! This Saturday meet the artists and hang out in their studios for the 6th Annual Cedars Open Studio tour. Over 30 artists will […]

What: Art and Jewelery Show featuring Brenda Bogart and Whitney Williams When: Friday, November 21st from 2pm-8pm; Saturday, November 22nd from 10am-3pm Where: 3636 University Blvd, Dallas, TX (map it!) Admission Price: Free admission. Over 100 original pieces will be on display and the buyer names the price. Half of all art sales will be […]

Event: Rosine Smith Sammons Lecture in Media Ethics: Eugene Robinson When: Thursday, November 13th at 8:00pm Where: Caruth Auditorium – Owen Art Center | 6101 Bishop Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75205 $$$: Free but call for your ticket(s) 214-768-2787 Eugene Robinson, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, will deliver the ninth annual Sammons Lecture […]

When: Monday, November 17th at 12:00pm Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson will be discussing her new book, Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers, at the Barnes & Noble across from North Park Mall. Barnes & Noble – Lincoln Park 7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300 Dallas, TX 75225 214-739-1124 About: Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) is the first […]

Trying to stay consistent with literary authors can be tough, and it can be discouraging to buy a book and find out you’re not into it 30 pages in. Luckily, there’s a website for that. What Should I Read Next? has over 47,000 books in their database. The site is easy to use – submit […]

Shocking to go from Hemingway to Burroughs. This was evident on page 1 of Burroughs’ novel, Naked Lunch. Circling around junkies and “fezz”, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this new style of writing. Burroughs was all over the place. But it really didn’t matter. Because, either way, I wanted to keep going. […]

Tonight I finished reading The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. If I ever travel to Spain, this is the book I will want to read on the way over. If I ever see bullfights or drink absinthe, this is the book I will think about while doing it. Hemingway is so eloquent when describing […]

I picked up the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell after the Borders books clerk had been in disbelief that I hadn’t read it. She had approached me earlier when she saw I had a Vonnegut book in hand. She told me about her first Vonnegut (“Breakfast of Champions“, mine too) and proceeded to tell […]

Along with the book Choke, Jon Hall also let me borrow “Hell’s Angel’s” by Hunter S. Thompson. This guy had lived one crazy life and not to mention he also went out with quite a bang (really, I didn’t mean for that to be a pun). Thompson wrote about how the Hell’s Angels went from […]