Sep 24, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE
The 2024 Tyler Film Festival, presented by Dobbs & Porter, brought together a diverse array of filmmakers and cinephiles during the three-day event at Liberty Hall September 12-14. The festival premiered 25 short films from over eight countries with various...
Sep 18, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE
The Forney Arts Council (FAC) presents several events this fall featuring fine art and artisan products. The Downtown Forney Market takes place October 12 and again on November 9 on the grounds of Murray Cotton Gin, and The Autumn Art Show Pop Up & Sale is...
Sep 1, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE, LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
Give me a home, where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. The iconic lifestyle of the American cowboy is glamorized in books and film often depicting grueling work...
Sep 1, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE
By P.A. Geddie In the late 1800s, trains filled the air with melodic background noise for the families of railway laborers living among the piney woods of the Upper East Side of Texas. The rhythm of the Texas and Pacific Railroad steam engine trains — running parallel...
Sep 1, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE
Boogie Woogie Marshall 2024 takes place September 27-29 celebrating the influences of the music that got its start in the piney woods and railroad towns of East Texas. Scheduled are live performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Daryl Davis, Wes Jeans, Sarah Hobbs, Yogoman...
Sep 1, 2024 | ARTS + CULTURE
Pictured is “Jazmin” by Yasuyo Maruyama. See her work and three other Texas-based artists, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Guadalupe Hernandez, and Delita Martin, in Forward Facing — A Look at Contemporary Portraiture at Tyler Museum of Art through December 1. Tyler Museum of Art...
