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ZZ Top, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Have Worn Guitar Straps Crafted by Dallas' Christian Brooks

By Holly LaFon
Aug 14, 2018

Christian Brooks’ creativity seems to know no end. The leatherworker, musician and now author rattles off projects as fast as he mentions names of the famous people he’s worked with. Best known for his guitar straps, famously beloved by Stevie Ray Vaughan among many others, Brooks is now celebrating the...
McMansion Hell Is Taking on Dallas' Own McMansions

By Holly LaFon
Aug 7, 2018

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra's ReMix Series Aims To Bring in a Younger Audience — With Drinks!

By Holly LaFon
Mar 6, 2018

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s ReMix series mixes many things — drinks, musicians and patrons, electric-blue shoes and black outfits. It all comes together to create a colorful musical experience. The laid-back affair delivers refinement and fun, showcasing modern pieces amid some of the most recognizable works in the classical canon...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Jaap van Zweden Says Goodbye With No Replacement in Sight

By Holly LaFon
Feb 13, 2018

Hard to believe it was 10 years ago that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra heralded the arrival of a new conductor with billboards and banners implying the man only frowned and only stood in dark lighting. But in that time, talk about the orchestra evolved from “They’re playing Mozart this weekend?...
Nicola Benedetti Trades Wynton Marsalis for Beethoven With the DSO

By Holly LaFon
Jan 16, 2018

This weekend, superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti will perform a feat of musical versatility. Fresh off two years of performing Wynton Marsalis’ wild, polarizing Concerto in D, she will return to the classical canon and tackle a giant of the past: Beethoven’s revered violin concerto. Benedetti, 30, has been touring Marsalis’...

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