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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Norton just had his play, "I Am Delivered't" presented by the DTC in February — his third play to premiere there.
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The composer has had commissions from the Dallas Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas new music ensemble, Voices of Change
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After ten years in England, the former Dallas Theater Center actor was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in "Guys and Dolls"
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It's an epic estate sale, but not without controversy. The city's park department is taking over and won't be maintaining the site as a history museum.
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Tune in or stream KXT 91.7 or WRR 101.1 for eclipse music on Monday. And check out this special playlist of eclipse-related songs.
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It all has to do with our feelings of "awe" — something psychologists have been studying for a while. It seems awe doesn't just make our jaws drop.
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Did you know a solar eclipse inspired Nat Turner that he should launch his slave rebellion? Or that predicting an eclipse arguably marks the start of modern science - in 586 B.C.?
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"What people know of the Arlington Museum of Art – basically, you can just throw that away because this is a whole new museum.”
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"We Were Once a Family," Roxanna Asgarian's expose of Texas' adoption system, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best work of non-fiction.
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In Dallas, more than 1,600 items of Hollywood history are now up for auction – everything from design sketches and prop swords to Arnold Schwarzenegger's leather jacket from Terminator 2.
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Planet Hollywood is selling more than 1,000 items of movie memorabilia - and Heritage Auctions is handling the sale.
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For centuries, people have viewed solar eclipses with alarm. Now we rent cruises and rooftops to see them.