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Forest "Dweller"

Kelly Klaasmeyer
Kent Dorn's paintings are kinda icky — and we love them. More >>

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9:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
Shadowlands at Texas Rep: Enthralling Theater
By Jim J. Tommaney
The set-up: The British writer and intellectual, C. S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, finds love can come late in life, as he befriends and falls in love with the American poet Joy Gresham. The... More >>

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8:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
The 4 Most Inappropriate Relationships in Children's Television
By Jef With One F
As mentioned before, we reproduced, and trust us when we say that we love our little girl with all of our hearts. However, we are getting to the end of our rope when it comes to all the children... More >>

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7:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
100 Creatives 2012: Mary Margaret Hansen
By Meredith Deliso
What She Does: Mary Margaret Hansen is one of those enviable hyphenates -- she identifies as an artist, a writer, a blogger, a photographer, and a collaborator. She's also a mother, a croche... More >>

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2:00 pm
Feb. 7, 2012
Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center Announces Its 2012-2013 Season
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center announces its 2012-2013 season and it's a bit of a yawner. The company is playing it safe with six familiar shows that are sure to provoke polite appla... More >>

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1:00 pm
Feb. 7, 2012
NBC's Smash Just Might Be a Hit
By Abby Koenig
Smash, the newest hopeful for an NBC success, premiered last night, and the Peacock network may have a potential hit on their hands. The show attempts to capitalize on America's latest (returne... More >>

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12:00 pm
Feb. 7, 2012
The Drunken City at Rice University: An Amusing Romp
By Jim J. Tommaney
The setup: Three gals and three guys, all late twenties, meet by chance on the streets of New York in the wee hours of the morning after a night of drinking, and seek to negotiate the shoals of... More >>

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11:00 am
Feb. 7, 2012
Jack Donaghy: Executive Superhero and Web Exclusive's General Lack of Appeal
By Nikki Metzgar
NBC recently debuted an animated Web tie-in series for 30 Rock called either The Jack Donaghy Files or Jack Donaghy: Executive Superhero. The titles appear to be interchangeable, which really hig... More >>

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10:00 am
Feb. 7, 2012
The Best Downton Abbey-Themed Tumblrs
By Nikki Metzgar
If you like him/her you should put a ring on it, and if you like a celebrity/TV show you should make a Tumblr about it. Officially four episodes into the second season of Downton Abbey, we Yanke... More >>

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9:00 am
Feb. 7, 2012
Riverdance Winds Down Its U.S. Tour With a Stop in Houston
By Margaret Downing
It was 1996 and Padraic Moyles was sitting in Radio City Music Hall when he got his first glimpse of Riverdance, which was just breaking out to world acclaim. An Irish dancer himself, he decide... More >>

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8:00 am
Feb. 7, 2012
Pop Rocks: So Who's Going to Perform at Next Year's Super Bowl Halftime Show?
By Pete Vonder Haar
If Janet Jackson's nip slip in 2004 threw ice water on the practice of using current entertainers for Super Bowl halftimes, M.I.A.'s middle finger salute dumped it in the Bering Sea. Finally, af... More >>

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7:00 am
Feb. 7, 2012
Top 5 Old School Video Game Adaptations of Modern Hollywood
By Jef With One F
We talk a lot about video games here because they'll pay us to do so and holy crap that sentence gets more awesome every single time we type it. Even though we've finally grown up and embraced t... More >>

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3:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2012
The 10 Most Iconic John Williams Scores Ever
By Craig Hlavaty
Today John Williams turns 80 years old, and the prolific composer has packed in a lot of work in the past five decades as one of the most iconic movie music makers to lead an orchestra. No doubt... More >>

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2:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2012
All the Wu's Down in Wu-ville
By Christina Uticone
We couldn't wait to see how the Jason Wu for Target event on Sunday stacked up against the insane frenzy of the Missoni event last October. We woke up bright and early on Sunday morning and wen... More >>

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1:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2012
Luck 1.2: "People Made Adjustments"
By Pete Vonder Haar
It's becoming apparent after a mere two episodes of David Milch's new series that "luck" is what ties this disparate group of characters together. The tagline may be, "Leave nothing to chance," b... More >>

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12:00 pm
Feb. 6, 2012
The Rape of Lucretia: A Timeless "Modern" Opera
By D.L. Groover
The setup: After the storm and fury of Peter Grimes (1945), whose sea-tossed music and psychologically truthful and damaged characters were heralded as a new era in English opera, composer Ben... More >>

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11:00 am
Feb. 6, 2012
Top 10 Films to Celebrate Black History Month
By Abby Koenig
In 1926 historian Carter G. Wilson began what was known as Negro History Week in an effort to make the African American story more prevalent in our culture's consciousnesses. The week evolved int... More >>

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10:00 am
Feb. 6, 2012
The Ballad of Emmett Till from Ensemble Theatre: A Staggering Work of Art
By Jim J. Tommaney
The setup: The brutal murder by two white men of 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American, was a pivotal moment in America's Civil Rights movement, and is here chronicled from the point of... More >>

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9:00 am
Feb. 6, 2012
Marlana Doyle Becomes the New Artistic Director of The Met
By Steve Jansen
Marlana Doyle, the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company's just-christened artistic director, should be a recognizable face to anyone familiar with the professional dance outfit. In 2001, Doyle s... More >>

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8:00 am
Feb. 6, 2012
Hellfire and Sweater Meat: In Defense of DC's Starfire Reboot
By Jef With One F
The reboot of the DC universe has had its share of controversies, such as the paraplegic Barbara Gordon regaining the ability to walk and resuming the mantle of Batgirl. Nothing seems to have got... More >>

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7:00 am
Feb. 6, 2012
Top 5 Celebrity TMIs
By Abby Koenig
In the usual fashion of our over-exposed culture, another celebrity has come down with the deadly "foot-in-mouth disease" and is spreading it all over town. This most recent affliction has ma... More >>

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Forest "Dweller" Forest "Dweller"
By Kelly Klaasmeyer

Kent Dorn's paintings give us a natural world that feels unnatural: It's as grungy as a back alley and kinda icky. "Dweller," his show at Bryan Miller Gallery, features cigarettes… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "A Crack in Everything," "John Sonsini: New Paintings," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Reconstruction," "Sherrie Levine: Selected Works, " "Since I've Been Away"
By Deliso, Meredith

"A Crack in Everything" The highly touted Seattle dance troupe zoe | juniper completely transforms DiverseWorks Art Space into its own dark, weird, womb-like dreamland. The artists create an entirely… More >>

Immigration Angst and Defining Color
By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican, My cousin had put a picture on Facebook that said, "I will not be forced to learn a foreign language to accommodate illegals in my country." He's Mexican-American. Our… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bolena, Bring It On, La Traviata, Mistakes Were Made
By D.L. Groover and Jim J. Tommaney

Anna Bolena Opera girl power is in full swing at Opera in the Heights as it mounts an exciting and dramatically sung production of Donizetti's first major work, from 1830.… More >>

MasterMinds 2012 MasterMinds 2012
By Steve Jansen

In its fourth year, the Houston Press MasterMind Awards process gathered in more of everything, as we continued to discover things about our area and its creative leaders. As before, some… More >>

A Nerd Is Forever A Nerd Is Forever
By Jim J. Tommaney

Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of The Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped somewhat and with additional songs, after its long Off-Broadway run. It… More >>

Real eState Real eState
By Kelly Klaasmeyer

In 21st century America, having kids means having a bunch of crap in your house. Stuffed animals start piling while they are still in utero; your kid still has gill… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion," "Peter Massing: Time After Time," "Sherrie Levine: Selected
By Deliso, Meredith and Kelly Klaasmeyer

"New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection" Avant-garde Czech erotica, anyone? "New Formations," an assemblage of early 20th-century Czech work collected by… More >>

Groveling and the Gentry
By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican, It's so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza. You're pathetic! No plan or desire to fix Mexico's problems. You're a… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Deadly Murder, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Motel Tropicana, The Temperamentals
By D.L. Groover and Jim J. Tommaney

Deadly Murder This murder mystery combines suspense, humor, attempts at drawing-room comedy, bizarre twists, violence and sturdy actors in an unlikely medley offering something for everyone. The play opens as… More >>

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