THE YEAR IN ARCHITECTURE: With no full-time architecture critic at either of our major metros, the Dallas Center for Architecture is filling the void with a compilation of year-end lists from critics around the country. The DCA blog is less than a year old, so the bloggers there felt it was a bit too young to do a local list. But one is promised for next year.

THE YEAR IN LOCAL MUSIC: Quick has pieced together lists of the best local songs of ’09 and the best local albums of ’09. … DC9 at Night should wrap up its countdown of The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2009, today. Teenage Cool Kids’ “Foreign Lands” checked in at No. 2 on Wednesday. … Fort Worth Weekly widens its scope to look at the best 817 music of the decade. Lots of currently great bands and some no-longer-with-us bands on that list. … DFW.com’s Preston Jones calls Telegraph Canyon’s The Tide and the Current the best local album of the year.

QUOTABLE: “$100 a night. Actually, it has gone up because one of the makeup tubes used to be $4, and now it’s $9. So, it’s probably more like $170 a night.”

Kurt Kleinmann, to theaterjones.com, on how much he spends a night in makeup for the cast of one of his “Living Black and White” mystery plays. The current show, Death Express!, opened this week.