1. Dallas is ranked number five on this list of top U.S. art cities on away.com. The rankings are very museum-driven, so I’d hope we would make it high on the list (right behind New York, Sante Fe, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.). Fort Worth also makes the list at number 10, so it’s a good showing/plug for our art ecosystem (for what it’s worth).

2. Why all the fuss about the Dallas Theater Center’s It’s a Bird . . . It’s a Plane . . . It’s Superman revival/revisal, wonders Jerome Weeks. Rewriting and reworking Broadway musicals is nothing new: Irene, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, Grease, South Pacific – the list goes on.

3. Over on dallasnews.com, Michael Granberry offers some summer art options, and my favorite has to be the art camp at the Creative Arts Center in East Dallas called Camp MetalHead. The camp is directed towards helping “at-risk kids” obtain job skills and arts instruction, and teaches kids how to weld and make metal sculptures. I wonder if they take at-risk arts writers.