1. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Dallas CityDesign Studio a $100,000 grant, one of 21 grants given through the endowment’s Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25^th Anniversary Initiative. The design studio was established with a grant from Deedie and Rusty Rose in 2009 to design and plan in the neighborhoods surrounding the Trinity River.

2. Tonight is the last night of the Asian Film Festival, and filmmaker Quentin Lee is in town with his film The People I’ve Slept With, the closing night feature. The Dallas Voice spoke with Lee about his movie and wrestling with the modifier “gay filmmaker.”

3. We mentioned some time back that the New York Times’ christening of Pitchfork as a mainstream media outlet could incite even further hipster backlash. Now the Chicago-based Pitchfork looks to be acting like a mainstream media giant, attempting to restrict the circulation of fan photos from its annual Pitchfork Music Festival.