Jerome Weeks
Senior Arts Reporter/Producer, Art&SeekJerome Weeks is the Art&Seek producer-reporter for KERA. A professional critic for more than two decades, he was the book columnist for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines.
Mr. Weeks was an entertainment reporter for the Houston Post and an associate editor for Third Coast magazine. He has won five Katie Awards from the Dallas Press Club, a graduate journalism fellowship from Columbia University and a Knight Digital Media Fellowship to the University of California-Berkeley. He has appeared on Studio 360, C-SPAN’s Booknotes and the PBS documentary Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater. Mr. Weeks is a member of both the National Book Critics Circle and the American Theatre Critics Association, and was recently named a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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For centuries, people have viewed solar eclipses with alarm. Now we rent cruises and rooftops to see them.
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Marena Riyad taught herself the art of henna to open a shop in Oak Lawn. But stand-up, she said, came naturally.
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The rock drummer-turned-film composer has been to SMU before, in 2012. This time, Stewart Copeland gets the Meadows Award and will lead the Meadows Orchestra in his arrangement of Police songs.
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Cara Mia Theatre and Soul Rep present the English-language premiere of Yanga, a drama about a successful slave rebellion in Mexico — and the establishment of a free Black town.
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Only four years ago, what had been a long-empty dance hall — the wreck of a musical legend — was declared by Preservation Dallas one of the most endangered buildings in Dallas. The Longhorn Ballroom is now a federally protected heritage site.
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Five billboards by a Dallas artist are part of a project to increase awareness of April's total eclipse. That effort includes more than 100 events across 13 states.
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Playwright Jonathan Norton's new play, "I Am Deliverd'T," at the Dallas Theater Center was inspired in part by a viral video.
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Two childhood sweethearts reunite in middle age. Will the Dallas neighborhood's history pull them apart?
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Known for his coverage of the Kennedy assassination and serial killer Ted Bundy, Aynesworth used his soft-spoken charm to get officials, witnesses and criminals to talk with him.
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The new initiative comes two months after the DMA laid off 20 staffers and cut its Tuesday hours.
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Pierre Bonnard is not as famous as painters like Gauguin, but he remained unique, a brilliant outlier, well into the 20th century.
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Dallas arts facilities are aging workhorses and need to be maintained - by funding in the new $1.1 billion bond issue