Darren Woods, Fort Worth Opera
Find out how the Fort Worth Opera has become one of the country’s premier opera festivals even as other opera companies fall on hard times.
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Painting Derived from Reality
May 27, 2010What happens to reality when it is transformed by the artist’s eye and brush? We’ll find out this hour with influential European painter Luc Tuymans whose first U.S. retrospective opens next week at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Samuel Mockbee & the Spirit of the Rural Studio
May 26, 2010Can architecture make the world a better place for the poor and under-privileged and do architects have a responsibility to try? We’ll talk this hour with Sam Wainwright Douglas whose film, “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio,” screens tonight at the Magnolia in Dallas.
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The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 26, 2010Who exactly was James Earl Ray and why did he kill Martin Luther King Jr.? We’ll spend this hour with acclaimed journalist and author Hampton Sides whose new book is “Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin” (Doubleday, 2010).
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Libertarianism
May 25, 2010With all the recent rancor, name-calling and demonstration, can a middle ground really be established in American politics? We’ll talk this hour with Jeffrey A. Miron, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and author of “Libertarianism, from A to Z” (Basic Books, 2010).
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The Science of a Good Marriage
May 25, 2010What’s the secret to a perfect relationship? We’ll talk this hour with New York Times columnist Tara Parker-Pope whose new book is “For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage” (Dutton Adult, 2010).
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One Name, Two Fates
May 24, 2010What’s in a name and how do our names and backgrounds influence our futures? We’ll spend this hour with Wes Moore who examines these questions and more in his new book “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” (Spiegel & Grau, 2010).
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The Systems that Make Our World Work
May 24, 2010What does it take to deliver the energy, water and other services we take for granted with the flip of a switch or turn of a dial? We’ll explore the unseen infrastructure of our lives this hour with Scott Huler whose new book is “On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and […]
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Employment in North Texas
May 21, 2010Is North Texas seeing signs of job growth? Or will we have more unemployment and underemployment problems in the coming months? We’ll talk with Jason Saving, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, about the employment sector and where Texas stands in the national economy. Jorge Martin, composer and librettist of “Before Night […]
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The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
May 20, 2010Who started the modern capitalist system that seems so normal to us today? We’ll talk this hour with T.J. Stiles, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt” (Vintage, paperback, 2010). It is now out in trade paperback.
