You've seen the movie starring Tom Hanks. Now you'll get to see the real Charlie Wilson.
What: Charlie Wilson will be the featured speaker at the annual Jim Wright Symposium
When: Noon Sept. 3
Where: Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom
Other details: The event includes lunch and lecture on a limited basis by RSVP. Tickets include a showing of the documentary The True Story of Charlie Wilson on Sept. 2.
Information: www.pol.tcu.edu/events.htm
Fans of the Disney juggernaut High School Musical will love this. Fort Worth's Arlington Heights High School gets to be the first school in the country to stage a workshop production of High School Musical 2. You'll remember that Arlington Heights and Western Hills' co-production of the first High School Musical was the subject of a documentary on the Disney Channel that aired in January.
High School Musical 2 will be presented at 7 p.m. June 24-27, and 2 and 7 p.m. June 28 at Arlington Heights High School, 4501 West Freeway, Fort Worth. Tickets are $10. Call 817-377-7223. The school's Web site is www.ahhsonline.net.
-Mark Lowry
While channel surfing the other night, I caught a piece on PBS about the Montana Meth Project. It's a large-scale, research-based advertising effort aimed at reducing the meth problem, which is all around us.
I wish Texas had thought of this. But since it didn't, we should all use the tools on the Montana Web site and help spread the word about them. (By the way, the effort has already produced impressive results.)
This is just one of several ads that the project has created and had broadcast. You can see them all here.
This is certainly going to be good news in my home, where we've watched High School Musical 1 and 2, oh, about 5,000 times. This fine looking kid from Houston named Matt Prokop has been cast in the next ca-ching Disney franchise film, the Houston Chronicle reports. My 4-year-old is practicing for the next bseball scene.
If you don't know why this phenom is ingrained in kid culcha, listen here.
In today's Star-Telegram:
Katherine Cromer Brock gives the background on the State Board of Education's three-year internal fight to rewrite the state's English and language arts curriculum.
John Austin reveals what Oscar winner Forest Whitaker said during his stop at the University of Texas at Arlington on Wednesday.
And Sally Claunch and Shirley Jinkins report on what candidates for the Arlington school board said at a forum Wednesday night.
Read all this and much more at www.star-telegram.com
If you're looking for something to do as a family during chilly February, the sixth annual Arlington Reads communitywide event kicks off Friday and runs through March 6. It is put on by the city and UT-Arlington libraries and Arlington public schools. This year's theme is "Arlington Reads a Mystery," and all kinds of cool activities are planned
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The full schedule is here, and author bios and other information is here.
