Open house at Dallas's raddest performing arts high school

Booker T. Washington student perform for guests in an open rehearsal during Flyinghorse 2011, a performance festival benefiting Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, in downtown Dallas on March 25, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)


Students at Booker T. Washington High School watch former student and Grammy winner Erykah Badu perform in the Montgomery Arts Theatre during Flyinghorse 2011 in downtown Dallas on March 25, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)




Freshman Mykal Stromile and sophomore Brianna Bryant observe an open dance rehearsal during Flyinghorse 2011 at Booker T. Washington in downtown Dallas on March 25, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

Mr. Megalodon Dentist

Dinner bird in Seagoville, Texas

Dinner for the community

Food Creates Community chef Jordan Swim grabs desserts from the service window to serve to guests at Legal Grounds coffee shop in Dallas for the group's 6 p.m. dinner seating. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

Heavy lifting where downtown meets uptown

I spent Sunday morning photographing the task of placing 140,000-pound beams across Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas. The beams that now span the north and south side of the freeway will be the foundation of the Woodall Rodger Deck Park, and will connect downtown Dallas with uptown.

Misael Jr. and Sr.

Out at White Rock

Dallas Can! Academy

While tutor Michel Osornio (foreground) assists student Carlos Quintanilla (not shown) with a mapping assignment in Aubrey Leveridge's world history class, students (left to right) Daisy Garcia, Johnny Hernandez, Jose Ventura and Carlos Salazar prepare to work on their maps during a school day the Carrollton/Farmers Branch campus of Dallas Can! Academy on February 18, 2011. Osornio, a student at Briarwood College in Dallas, returned to Dallas Can! after graduating from the academy to tutor the academy’s students. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)


Carlos Quintanilla, left, passes a world history book to Stevens Diaz during a class taught by Aubrey Leveridge at the Carrollton/Farmers Branch campus of Dallas Can! Academy on February 18, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)


Stevens Diaz, a student at Dallas Can! Academy, looks away while receiving instruction from tutor and former Dallas Can! student Michel Osornio on an essay during a school day the Carrollton/Farmers Branch campus of Dallas Can! Academy on February 18, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)


Student Weldon James has his mohawk cut off by school security officer Alex Okolo in the main hallway of the Carrollton/Farmers Branch campus of Dallas Can! Academy during the school day on February 18, 2011. School Principal Melissa Groetsch would not allow James to walk that night at winter graduation if he wore his mohawk. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

Libyan Rally in Dealey Plaza (2.20)

I sat on "sex fabric" today...

Before leaving the site of my first interior architecture assignment, interior designer Rick Rozas asked that I sit on the living room lounge chairs he fitted with the fabric he calls "sex fabric." According to Rozas, this faux fur tends drives otherwise conservative clients to unsuspectingly drop their draws.

I left the Dallas high rise apartment without missing any articles of clothing, but with a new appreciation for luxurious textiles.