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It was a worthy and fitting musical ode to a woman who fought for years to get a six-story mountain of shingles removed from her backyard. The gesture was the work of a trucking company owner with a propensity for opera. Crows cackled from the trees while Marsha Jackson and...
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Well, Pimp My Ride might be a wee bit misleading, but here we are. What actually is going down is The Concert Truck is rolling into town and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has sort of adopted it. Concert pianists Susan Zhang and Nick Luby installed a concert piano into a...
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It’s not uncommon for great pieces of journalism to be adapted into screenplays. Movies like A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Bernie and Almost Famous take stories off newsstands and put them on the big screen. But rarely has journalism crossed over into the world of music. Contemporary chamber trio HAVEN...
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The first iterations of the classic anime series DragonBall Z came to America's screens in the late 1990s, courtesy of Cartoon Network. It took a few seasons for the fantasy adventure cartoon to find an audience, but when it did, the show dropped a spirit bomb on its competition by...
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra may have suffered pandemic-sized losses like most local cultural institutions, but they’re not sitting around playing a sad violin — at least not for their own benefit. While the organization was forced to furlough 31 employees, the orchestra members remain on staff, says Kim Nolotemy, DSO...
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It’s been a bad few weeks to be a dead creep. As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the nation, many people are pointing to institutions that memorialize or legitimize racism and racists. Brands are changing their names. Confederate statues are crumbling. Sports teams are under fire. And some people...
