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12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Houston Art News
Eternal Egypt Lives on in the Hall of Ancient Egypt 'Mommy, look, that lady is naked." The little girl, standing no higher than the bottom of the black Plexiglas case into which she peered, saw her... More >>
Artbeat
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Houston Art News
Capsule Art Reviews: "Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know," "Celestial," "Late Surrealism," "The Ornamental Plumb Bob" "Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know" In our time, there may be no art form more divisive than street art. For decades,... More >>
Encore
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Houston Art News
Capsule Stage Reviews: Dracula, Macbeth, Malcolm and Teresa, MBTV, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club Dracula Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They... More >>
Ask a Mexican
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Houston Art News
Violence and Tattoos Dear Mexican, Recently, a coworker turned me on to a Web site that features many videos of unspeakable atrocities the drug cartels are committing... More >>
Art Attack
12:00 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Reality Bites: My Cat From Hell I'm not a cat person, but as with any pet (okay, maybe not fish), if you made the committment to buying/adopting/conjuring one as your familiar, you need to step and take responsibility for raisi... More >>
Art Attack
11:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Five Fashion-Themed Books for the Beach Summer reading lists are everywhere. Your favorite bookstore has probably compiled one or ten, and everyone from the New York Times Book Review to NPR Books is busily compiling a list of literary... More >>
Art Attack
10:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Water, Water Everywhere at Catherine Couturier Gallery In the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement, mizugiwa means the point where the water and plant meet. In English, that's better known as the shore or bank, but it doesn't seem nearly ... More >>
Art Attack
9:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Janet Evanovich Leaves Trenton, NJ and Takes Lee Goldberg With Her in New Book Collaboration (UPDATED) Author and TV producer Lee Goldberg (Monk series) and bestselling author Janet Evanovich (most famous for her Stephanie Plum series) met at a book signing about 18 years ago and have remained pal... More >>
Art Attack
8:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Soon the Rich Will Own Gaming and Going to the Movies Completely You might have heard recently that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg lamented that the blockbuster was killing the movie industry, which is funny because they, you know, invented it. The two elde... More >>
Art Attack
7:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
100 Creatives: Browncoat, Pin-Up Pop Artist What He Does: The man they call Browncoat, or alternatively, DJ Twinkle-Toes, is a graphic artists and DJ here in Houston. His work is pop art at its finest, mixing almost photorealistic faces wit... More >>
Art Attack
6:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Houston Art News
Test Driving the New Myspace So, Myspace is back. With a massive overhaul of content and a huge advertising campaign, plus backing from lots of "cool" people like Pharrell and Jimmy Kimmel, Myspace has relaunched and is tryin... More >>
Art Attack
11:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Improv at Station Theater: Nerves of Steel and a Boatload of Courage The set-up: Improvisational theater, usually shortened to "improv", is a theater performance where actors work without a prepared script, creating characters and situations spontaneously, oft... More >>
Art Attack
10:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Is Being a Couch Potato Now a Compliment? I have always considered myself something of a movie buff. My father is a cinephile, and I was raised on a healthy dose of the classics and indie films. I went to school with a concentration in f... More >>
Art Attack
9:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Open Channel Flow: What Happens When Public Art "Breaks"? In the fall of 2009, a piece of installation artwork called Open Channel Flow was installed just west of the Jamail Skate Park and Sabine Street Bridge, along Buffalo Bayou. The sculpture, which... More >>
Art Attack
8:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Thanks To Funny Or Die, Dave Chappelle Is Coming To Houston In August There was a period of time not that long ago when Dave Chappelle became an almost mythic figure in the entertainment world. He had done the impossible: not only had he walked away from a highly su... More >>
Art Attack
7:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Today's DVDs & Blu-rays: Rectify and An Insider's Look at Art Rectify, a Sundance Channel series that hits shelves as a DVD release today isn't easy to like. More importantly, it's impossible not to like. It's gritty and raw, often unpleasant ... and wonder... More >>
Art Attack
6:00 am
Jun. 18, 2013
Houston Art News
Does The Last of Us Prove Anita Sarkeesian Right About Video Game Violence and Women? Spoilers Ahead Before we get started, I want to set the tone of the article in the first paragraph to try real hard to head off the haters who are eyeing the comment section like a girl passed ou... More >>
Art Attack
2:00 pm
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Heights Yarn Installation Destroyed By Vandals On June 8, several knitters worked tirelessly to turn a black metal structure into a colorful installation to brighten up Heights Boulevard. Exactly a week later, someone destroyed it. All tha... More >>
Art Attack
12:00 pm
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Houston Ballet Flies High with Peter Pan The Setup: Houston Ballet brings to life J.M. Barrie's fairy tale, Peter Pan, the first time since the ballet's 2002 premiere. Choreographer Trey McIntyre's interpretation is filled with the s... More >>
Art Attack
10:00 am
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Falling Skies: "So Much For Talking." Last night's epsiode, "Badlands," offered the surviving humans (and us) a bit of a respite after the bang-zoom-pow of the two-part season premiere. That's not to say the highly anticipated alien ... More >>
Art Attack
9:00 am
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Cheyenne Jackson's I'm Blue, Skies is Fun and Entertaining Cheyenne Jackson is no stranger to a spotlight. His theater credits are extensive, including originating the roles of Chad in 2005's All Shook Up and Sonny Malone in 2007's Xanadu on Broadway. P... More >>
Art Attack
7:00 am
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Reviews for the Lazy Gamer: The Last Of Us Game: The Last of Us Platform: PS3 Publisher/Developer: Sony/Naughty Dog Genre: Survival horror Describe This Game in Three Words: This will hurt Plot Synopsis: Twenty years after the wor... More >>
Art Attack
6:00 am
Jun. 17, 2013
Houston Art News
Seeking Summer Skin: My mybody? Experience Skincare--it's just the sexiest possible topic, right? Who doesn't love thinking about clogged pores, wrinkles, and sloughing dead skin cells from their face and body? And then--being located in... More >>

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Eternal Egypt Lives on in the Hall of Ancient Egypt Eternal Egypt Lives on in the Hall of Ancient Egypt

'Mommy, look, that lady is naked." The little girl, standing no higher than the bottom of the black Plexiglas case into which she peered, saw her immediately. In the gloom that surrounds… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know," "Celestial," "Late Surrealism," "The Ornamental Plumb Bob"

"Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know" In our time, there may be no art form more divisive than street art. For decades, the… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dracula, Macbeth, Malcolm and Teresa, MBTV, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club

Dracula Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with… More >>

Violence and Tattoos

Dear Mexican, Recently, a coworker turned me on to a Web site that features many videos of unspeakable atrocities the drug cartels are committing in Mexico, many graphically displaying murders and… More >>

Macbeth: Real Life Couple Tackle Shakespeare's Most Murderous Married Tag-Team Macbeth: Real Life Couple Tackle Shakespeare's Most Murderous Married Tag-Team

In Stark Naked Theatre Company's season finale, Macbeth, real-life couple and the troupe's co-directors Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin tackle Shakespeare's most murderous married tag-team. I'm not sure who wins. Any… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know", "Halls without walls, room to feel in. The door awaits you, your return within.", "Late Surrealism", "Maurice", "Salt House", "Unwoven Light"

"Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know" In our time, there may be no art form more divisive than street art. For decades, the… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dracula, Flashdance The Musical, Malcolm and Teresa, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club

Dracula Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with… More >>

A Bloody Good Show:  Theatre Southwest Takes on Dracula A Bloody Good Show: Theatre Southwest Takes on Dracula

Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with hungry… More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Cocomirle: A Visual and Sound Environment by Adela Andea," "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia; A New Beginning," "Halls without walls, room to feel in. The door awaits you, your return within." "Maurice," "No Paint," "Sal

"Cocomirle: A Visual and Sound Environment by Adela Andea" Houston artist Adela Andea's light installations and sculptures are true crowd-pleasers, captivating artists at galleries, art fairs and, last winter, Art… More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Close Up Space, Malcolm and Teresa, Road Show, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club

Close Up Space The tyrannical senior editor of a publishing house keeps his rebellious teenage daughter in a boarding school, but, expelled for destruction of property, she returns to attack… More >>

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