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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Dallas arts facilities are aging workhorses and need to be maintained - by funding in the new $1.1 billion bond issue
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The Interabang Books co-owner got the idea for an inmate-judged literary prize from France
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The Verdigris Ensemble has put on a show inspired by Lady Bird Johnson's efforts at highway beautification.
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Since 2009, Jeremy Strick has been a transformative leader of the Nasher Sculpture Center — particularly with the Nasher Sculpture Prize. He'll step down in June.
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Since the 1850s, Dallas and Fort Worth have had a testy relationship, like quarreling siblings. Did we ever grow out of it?
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The Von Erich family was famous in the '80s as top-tier professional wrestlers. Outside the ring, the family was beset with deaths. A new Hollywood film follows the Texas wrestling clan.
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The orchestra will perform 10 concerts over two weeks in June.
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More than 2000 unclaimed photos and negatives were found that covered the '40s through the early '60s. They provide a personal, ground-level view of Texas life - pre-disco, pre-cellphones, pre-cable TV.
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Printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada's work is one of two shows at the Arlington Museum of Art. They are the last before the museum moves to a new location next year.
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The World Doctors Orchestra has played in more than 20 countries and has 1,800 member-musicians around the world. The North Texas members worked to bring it here this week.