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Double Dose of Art

Jim J. Tommaney
Two Houston companies stage same play. More >>

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12:00 am
May. 17, 2012
Danny Lyon's Out of "This World"
By Kelly Klaasmeyer
Danny Lyon was the first photographer for the 1960s civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He documented and joined the... More >>

Artbeat

12:00 am
May. 17, 2012
Capsule Art reviews: "Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst," "Endearing the Line," "Five Houses," "The Graphic Arts of Hans Erni," "Round 36"
By Meredith Deliso
"Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst" Willem van Aelst made a career out of painting still-lifes of fine goods... More >>

Ask a Mexican

12:00 am
May. 17, 2012
College Dreams and The Name Game
By Gustavo Arellano
LAST CALL TO BUY TACO USA! Gentle cabrones, my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America has finally hit bookstores! Place your... More >>

Art Attack

12:00 pm
May. 16, 2012
Reality Bites: South Beach Tow
By Pete Vonder Haar
There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. You know, I don't ask for much. I'm happy to take this weekly bullet for the amusement an... More >>

Art Attack

11:00 am
May. 16, 2012
Top 5 Carrie Fisher Characters
By Abby Koenig
Check out our interview with Carrie Fisher. Now through Sunday, May 20, the lady who once famously donned a gold lamé bikini will make her way to the stage of the Hobby Center. Carrie Fisher, in... More >>

Art Attack

10:00 am
May. 16, 2012
Dear Hollywood, Get Some New Ideas: Little Shop, Carrie
By Abby Koenig
I will preface this with two facts. 1. I am quite fond of the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors movie/musical 2. I am madly in love with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Neither of these facts convinces me in an... More >>

Art Attack

9:00 am
May. 16, 2012
The Afrobeat of FELA!Makes its Way to Jones Hall
By Margaret Downing
Paulette Ivory didn't even know who Fela was when a friend of hers called her up and told her "There's a role with your name on it." The British actress who'd done Lion King and been living in ... More >>

Art Attack

8:00 am
May. 16, 2012
4 Most Ridiculous Moral Panics in Video Game History
By Jef With One F
In 2008 the NPD Group did a survey showing that 72 percent of Americans have played video games. It was up from 64 percent in 2006, and it's probably even higher now. Video games have gone from a ... More >>

Art Attack

7:00 am
May. 16, 2012
Brave New Waves Steps In For Binarium Sound Series
By Steve Jansen
Paul Connolly, a seven-year vet of Houston's improvised music community, hopes that his recently minted Brave New Waves Sound Series will be up to snuff with the other experimental-music happenin... More >>

Art Attack

11:00 am
May. 15, 2012
DVDs & Blu-rays: The Grey
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The Grey stars Liam Neeson and Dallas Roberts; Joe Carnahan directs, writes and produces. It was easy to like The Grey when it came out last January and its release now on DVD/Blu-ray is a brig... More >>

Art Attack

10:00 am
May. 15, 2012
Come to the Alley & Get to Find Out What We're Up Against
By Margaret Downing
What most intrigues director Scott Schwartz about audiences' reaction to What We're Up Against is whether they see a woman battling to get ahead in an architecture firm more as a comedy or as a ... More >>

Art Attack

9:00 am
May. 15, 2012
Next to Normal: Singing Through the Craziness
By Margaret Downing
Mom is bipolar and as she gets worse, it gets tougher and tougher to be part of her family. So what should we do? Sing about it, of course. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, nominated for 11... More >>

Art Attack

8:00 am
May. 15, 2012
Pop Rocks: How Season 2 of Game of Thrones Differs from the Books, and a Prediction
By Pete Vonder Haar
Season Two of Game of Thrones, HBO's rat's-eye-view of the struggle for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros (and beyond), is nearing conclusion. We already know the penultimate episode, "Bl... More >>

Art Attack

7:00 am
May. 15, 2012
Perry House Retrospective at Art Car Museum
By Steve Jansen
It's not often that an artist gets an opportunity to collect his or her work of the past quarter-century and hang the output on a gallery wall. Along with an art exhibit, there's another reward... More >>

Art Attack

6:00 am
May. 15, 2012
King Hedley II: August Wilson at His Most Operatic
By D.L. Groover
The setup: Of all contemporary American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner August Wilson, who died in 2005, is perhaps the most old-fashioned. Which is a splendid thing. He love... More >>

Art Attack

2:00 pm
May. 14, 2012
Houston's 4th Annual Product Runway Competition Makes Models & Fashion Designers Out of Interior Designers
By Samantha Cabrera
Houston's design industry turned out to Bayou Place for the 4th Annual Product Runway competition, in which interior designers turned their skills to fashion design. The event raised more than... More >>

Art Attack

1:00 pm
May. 14, 2012
Mad Men: Green-Eyed Monster & the Two Mrs. Drapers
By Abby Koenig
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock"; truer words were never spoken (by a fictional character in a Shakespeare play). Last night's episode of Mad Men... More >>

Art Attack

12:30 pm
May. 14, 2012
Art Car Parade Celebrated 25 Years (w/ VIDEO)
By Brittanie Shey
Check out more photos from the 25th Annual Art Car Parade in our slideshow. Ahh, the Art Car Parade. It's hard to believe Houston's been letting its freak flag fly like this for 25 years now. F... More >>

Art Attack

12:00 pm
May. 14, 2012
Entertaining Mr. Sloane: A Dark, Inky Farce
By D.L. Groover
The setup: Scrumptious is not an adjective often applied to the subversive work of playwright Joe Orton, but in Country Playhouse's delicious rendition of his first major hit, Entertaining Mr. ... More >>

Art Attack

11:00 am
May. 14, 2012
Boots Made for Walkin': Lucchese Trunk Show at Pinto Ranch
By Altamese Osborne
If Dr. Seuss had ever decided to pen a children's book about cowboys, cowgirls and their beloved cowboy boots, he might've gotten inspiration from the Lucchese-lined back wall at Pinto Ranch, Pos... More >>

Art Attack

10:00 am
May. 14, 2012
Game of Thrones: "A Man Without Honor"
By Pete Vonder Haar
Ned Stark can't catch a break. Executed last season, with his head stuck on a pike outside the Red Keep, the former Lord of Winterfell continues to get his name dragged through the mud. First th... More >>

Art Attack

9:00 am
May. 14, 2012
5X5X5 a Small-Scale Exhibition at Spring Street Studios
By Abby Koenig
This Saturday, Art Attack swung by Spring Street Studios for its monthly Second Saturday with the main purpose of checking out the inaugural exhibition of east2collective's 5X5X5. East2collecti... More >>

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Danny Lyon's Out of "This World" Danny Lyon's Out of "This World"
By Kelly Klaasmeyer

Danny Lyon was the first photographer for the 1960s civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He documented and joined the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club for his classic 1967… More >>

Capsule Art reviews: "Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst," "Endearing the Line," "Five Houses," "The Graphic Arts of Hans Erni," "Round 36"
By Meredith Deliso

"Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst" Willem van Aelst made a career out of painting still-lifes of fine goods — furs, precious metals, feathers. In other… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Foreigner, Magdalene, One Kiss: The Music of Sigmund Romberg, Travelsty
By D.L. Groover and Jim J. Tommaney

The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his life, is so full of drama that his story… More >>

College Dreams and The Name Game
By Gustavo Arellano

LAST CALL TO BUY TACO USA! Gentle cabrones, my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America has finally hit bookstores! Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your… More >>

Double Dose of Art Double Dose of Art
By Jim J. Tommaney

The Tony Award-winning international hit Art, by acclaimed playwright Yasmina Reza, has been staged several times in the Houston area, with one production closing recently at College of the Mainland,… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bridge 11: Lia Cook," "CTRL group two," "How I Will Die," "Members," "Pressing News," "Prints," "reverse of volume RG"
By Meredith Deliso

"Bridge 11: Lia Cook" There is a great illusion at work in Lia Cook's show at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her massive, black-and-white photographs of human faces —… More >>

Speaking English and Mother Love
By Gustavo Arellano

BUY TACO USA! Gentle cabrones, my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America has finally hit bookstores! Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your finer online retailers,… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, The Foreigner, Magdalene, The Unexpected Man
By D.L. Groover and Jim J. Tommaney

The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his life, is so full of drama that his story… More >>

Where to Party This Cinco de Mayo Where to Party This Cinco de Mayo
By Abby Downing-Beaver

No, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. That's September 16. Cinco de Mayo marks the defeat of the French army by Mexican forces in the Battle of Puebla… More >>

Main Street Theater's Richard III is punk-goth magnificence Main Street Theater's Richard III is punk-goth magnificence
By D.L. Groover

Shakespeare's magnificently malignant spider, the Duke of Gloucester, soon-to-be Richard III, as embodied by the equally magnificent Guy Roberts, scuttles gleefully across Main Street Theater's Chelsea Market stage spewing evil… More >>

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