1. Medical developments are often soulless monoliths, writes Scott Cantrell in the Morning News, but Parkland’s new expansion is a welcome exertion of quality design:
The design is a bold essay in geometry, crisscrossing slabs alternately horizontal and vertical in thrust. A four-story base, including main and emergency entrances, will be capped by a nine-story tower oriented one way and a 17-story tower at a right angle. Imagine a big blowup of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, covered over in curtain walls.
Meanwhile, Crow Holdings, which has undertaken a wonderful restoration and expansion of the Old Parkland facility, is looking to acquire more property near the corner of Maple and Oak Lawn with their sights set on larger-scale neighborhood revitalization.
2. As we mentioned back in March, a “lost” painting by Henry Arthur McArdle, The Battle of San Jacinto (1898) turned up in an attic is West Virginia. Now the work will be auctioned by Dallas’ Heritage Auction Galleries on November 20. The opening bid is set for $50,000, with the sale price expected to come in closer to $100,000.
3. After the jump you can watch this short documentary about Alice Summer, an 106-year old pianist and the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world who still plays daily in her small London apartment. Music is not just dear to her life, it saved her life. While in a concentration camp during the Second World War, Summer shielded herself from the horror around her with music.
The Dictator
Dallas Opera Announces New Commission, Collaboration Between Composer Joby Talbot and Librettist Gene Scheer
The Birthday Party
Ticket Giveaway: Three Pairs of Movie Tickets (With Popcorn) For West Side Story
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