1. The Dallas Fort Worth Critics Association has announced the winners of their 2009-2010 awards. Some of the shows with the most nods include the Undermain’s Port Twilight and the Dallas Theater Center’s beauty plays. Actor Joey Folsom was given the Emerging Artist Award, and he got actor nods for his performances in Broken Gears Project Theatre’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, as well as Upstart Production’s Talk Radio and subUrbia.
2. Catching up with T Bone Burnett’s appearance opening this season’s Brinker International Forum at the Winspear, the Star-Telegram relates that the multi-talented musician and composer is not too fond of new methods of recording and listening to music:
Burnett became impassioned when speaking about the damage technology has done to music, both creatively and financially. His current project, of the seemingly endless array of jobs he has lined up, involves promoting a proprietary format known as CODE. Although he owns an iPhone and an iPad, Burnett was emphatic about that most prevalent of modern aural formats: “I don’t listen to MP3s.”
3. Tonight artist Eve Sussman will speak at Southern Methodist University‘s Meadows Museum, a great primer for Sussman’s show that opens this Saturday at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts. If you were wondering what a contemporary conceptual artist like Sussman was doing at the Meadows Museum, here’s a hint: her video, “88 Seconds at Alcázar.”
