Twenty SMU communication and journalism students will travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Jan. 21 inauguration festivities and gain valuable experience inside the Beltway. Students will be tweeting about their Washington, D.C. experiences at @SMUHilltop1 and blogging about their experiences at smu.edu/adventures. SMU’s student newspaper The Daily Campus also will report from the inauguration. The students will gather at noon, Fri...

The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University has announced the recipients of its fourth annual Meadows Prize arts residency – violist Nadia Sirota and interdisciplinary artist Tania Bruguera. The Meadows Prize is awarded to pioneering artists and scholars with an emerging international profile, active in a discipline represented by one of the academic units within the Meadows School. “The aim of the Meadows Prize is to conne...

For the third consecutive day, a threatening note has been found in a Highland Park High School restroom. According to Park Cities People, one of the notes said, “Bomb hidden in building call 911... I made a homemade bomb and I have a pistol" in printed block lettering Highland Park is considering the notes "a continued hoax" and is "proceeding with the school day as usual," not realeasing students early or initiating a school lockdown. Aft...

The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture will present the Eighth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on January 21, 7 p.m.-8:45 p.m., at the City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. The theme for this year’s program is “The Role of the African American Church in the Civil Rights Movement.” Keynote speaker will be Ambassador Andrew Young, pastor, activist, politician, diplomat, seminal figure in the Civil Rights Movement and...

The fifth annual SOUP’S ON! Stewpot Alliance Luncheon and Art Sale will be held Tuesday, January 29 at the Omni Dallas featuring more than a dozen of the city’s finest chefs serving up signature soups to benefit The Stewpot and 508 Park. SOUP’S ON! includes an art sale of more than 50 original paintings and handmade jewelry from the artists of the Stewpot Open Art Programs, keynote speaker Wes Moore, emcee and Dallas Morning News columnist Ste...