I did a project last year on the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, and I learned a lot about how it was supposed to help give Dallas a renewed interest in arts and culture. Because I had learned so much about it, I was surprised to hear the other day that it has now been renamed The AT&T Performing Arts Center. Is it just me, or does the corporate sponsorship seem to work against the whole artsy atmosphere thing? We have so many corporate sponsorships in Dallas, like the American Airlines Center, Superpages.com Center, and the Nokia Theatre. Do we really need another one? Yes, it will provide a lot of funds to the center, and it'll probably give us a lot of cool technological stuff, but is that worth compromising our integrity as a city? (Unless, of course, I can get some of the action. :-))
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