Last night's Texas Medal of Arts awards honored former First Lady Laura W. Bush for her work with the Texas Book Festival and the President’s Committee on the Arts in Humanities, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, and KLRU-TV's Austin City Limits program, among many others. more ›

This year's gala takes place on Tuesday, April 7th at the The Long Center for the Performing Arts, and includes a post-dinner dessert reception. Tickets, $75, can be purchased online, or for your chance to go for free, enter our contest after the jump. more ›