JUST IN: TACA Just Provided $1.3M To 48 Performing Arts Groups Tonight
Santa may have ruled December, but the fundraisers are the gift givers in January from the past year’s efforts. And once again Bank of Texas is sponsoring the event to give the moola away. Tonight 48...
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JUST IN: New TACA Officers And Board Members Revealed
TACA made news last night with its grant presentation. Today TACA’s newest members of the board along with new officers were announced. With Donna Wilhelm staying at the “helm,” along with Gwen Echols...
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Annual AT&T PAC Chairman’s Dinner Has Guests ‘Feeling Groovy’
Matrice and Ron Kirk* At a reception just before the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s fourth annual Chairman’s Dinner on Thursday, January 14, about 100 people had gathered on the Shannon and Ted...
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With A Slight Change of Agenda, TACA Grant Presentation Went Off Without A...
With a full moon peeking through the clouds, the lovers of the performing arts gathered at the Wyly Theatre on Monday, January 25. The occasion was the handing over of the checks by TACA to area...
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2016 Dallas Summer Musicals’ High School Musical Awards Kick-Off Party...
As most were fighting traffic to head home from downtown Dallas homeward bound, the Dallas Summer Musicals supporters made their way to Neiman Marcus Downtown on Monday, February 8. Despite a Super...
View ArticleA Passing: Gladys Weatherby “Sis” Carr
The official records have her listed as “Gladys Weatherby Carr.” But everyone knew her as 96-year-old Sis Carr, who was way ahead of her time along with gals like Annette Strauss. Everyone seemed to...
View ArticleDallas Museum Of Art Junior Associates Replace Annual “Affair Of The Art”...
Whoopsie! A change is in the air over at the Dallas Museum of Art. No, a new director has not been named. Rather, those adorable Junior Associates have added some youthful, price-friendly splash to the...
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MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2016 TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon
James E. Wiley Jr. and Rebecca Fletcher The performing art crowd didn’t have to battle ice and snow this year to present TACA’s annual Silver Cup Awards on Friday, February 19. In fact the weather was...
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Weather Played Nicely For The 38th TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon Honoring...
Was it just a year ago that TACA Carlson President/Executive Director Becky Young was walking her pooch and questioning the future of the day’s Silver Cup luncheon? Sure, it was a knock-out, slippery,...
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MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 30th Annual Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano and the Monarch butterflies winging down to Mexico, 41 Dallas Symphony Orchestra League debs in their OMG white ball gowns were flocking like swans at the...
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Junior Leaguers’ Black Tie Gala Was “To Dallas With Love”
At the reception on Saturday, February 20, for the Junior League of Dallas’ 54th annual ball, titled “To Dallas With Love,” Hunter Sullivan was singing “Blue Spanish Eyes” for some 500 487 guests....
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Dallas Museum Of Art’s 2016 Art Ball: Art+Architecture Deets, Sponsors And...
David and Ann Sutherland (File photo) With the Dallas Museum of Art’s Art Ball 2016: Art+Architecture just a month away, Co-Chairs Ann and David Sutherland have just announced some of the deets and...
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JUST IN: Dwight Yoakam Signed Up To Appear On 2016 Cattle Baron’s Live...
Cara French and Andrea Weber (File photo) Well, howdy doo! 2016 Cattle Baron’s Ball Co-Chairs Cara French and Andrea Weber have come up with another reason to be “Texas Proud.” They’ve just revealed...
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What’s Up With The Early-Bird Tent At The Dallas Museum Of Art?
Walter Elcock Whoa! The Dallas Museum of Art’s Mark Di Suvero’s “Ave” is already keeping company with a gargantuan tent. Say what? The 2016 Art Ball is not until Saturday, April 23. So, what’s up? The...
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Grovel Alert: Recess!
If you were planning on having a second childhood at Dallas Afterschool‘s Recess!, you’d better not take a nap. There are only 25 tickets left for the Friday, April 29th event. Recess!* And don’t let...
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Ronald McDonald’s “Under The Moonlight” Had A Tail Wagging And A Tale To Hear...
At this year’s Ronald McDonald of Dallas‘ Under The Moonlight gala on Saturday, April 2, at sixty five hundred had a backstory that raised funds and spirits. Here is a report from the field: Pat...
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Lexus Party On The Green Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Something Old,...
Tierney Kaufman Hutchins was just 21 years old when Lynn and Allan McBee co-chaired the very first Party on the Green for TACA. Now, 10 years later she’s chairing the 10th anniversary of the fundraiser...
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JUST IN: Michael Jenkins Is No Longer At The Dallas Summer Musicals
Michael Jenkins (File photo) The Dallas Morning News is reporting that longtime Dallas Summer Musicals President/Managing Director Michael Jenkins “has been fired.” In the meantime, David Hyslop has...
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Despite Rain And Change Of Location, AWARE Affair Was Celebrating The Moment(s)
As if on cue, the unscheduled rains started falling as the AWARE Affair Celebrating the Moments guests started arriving at the Hilton Anatole on Saturday, April 9. The good news was that the valet...
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JUST IN: Terry Martin To Leave WaterTower Theatre To Head Up Greenhill...
And the changes in area non-profit leadership keep rolling in. WaterTower Theatre Board Chair Derek Blount just announced that WaterTower Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin has turned in his...
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