Email Author LEIGH BELL

2008 Stories by LEIGH BELL

• Madama Butterfly

  published September 11, 2008

  Catch Madama Butterfly performed by Opera in the Heights in the intimate Lambert Hall. One of Giacomo Puccini’s most famous and woeful... More >>

• Opera Jawa

  published September 4, 2008

  Three’s certainly a crowd in Opera Jawa, the acclaimed Indonesian film. Based on The Abduction of Sita, Opera is a musical... More >>

• Happy Birthday, Houston

  published August 28, 2008

  Happy Birthday, Houston — you don’t look a day over 150! Not that anyone’s counting candles (it’s 172, for those who are). The... More >>

• Indie Filmmaking: From Texas to Los Angeles and Back

  published August 7, 2008

  Really into movies? As filmmaker or as an audience member? Oh, well, it doesn’t matter because today writer/director/editor Chris Eska has... More >>

• “The Glass Half-Full”

  published July 17, 2008

  It’s anybody’s guess which is the handle and which is the spout at “The Glass Half-Full,” a whimsical collection of ceramic... More >>

• Free Kick Masters 2008

  published July 3, 2008

  Who needs David Beckham? Not us; we’ve got more than 30 world-class soccer players coming into town to vie for a $1.5 million pot in the Free... More >>

• “Chen Changfen: The Historic Wall” and “Fernando Castro: Reasons of State”

  published April 3, 2008

  Imagine looking at the same damn wall for 40 years. Boring, right? Well, not if you’re Chen Changfen and the wall in question is the Great... More >>

• Houston Children’s Festival

  published April 3, 2008

  Corbin Bleu, the hot young star of High School Musical, will be at the Houston Children’s Festival, the largest children’s... More >>

• Tosca

  published March 27, 2008

  It’s the strangest career change ever. Ta’u Pupu’a, a native of the South Pacific, went from pro football player to opera singer,... More >>

• Chapel/Chapter

  published March 27, 2008

  In the mood for a warm-fuzzy, feel-good kind of night? Skip the Chapel/Chapter dance performance. But if you want a provocative, engrossing... More >>