Most people remember her as Thelma, the daughter in the mid- to-late '70s show Good Times who played off her onscreen brother J.J. (actor Jimmie Walker ) and his dy-no-mite phrases. But when Bernadett...
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Kenn McLaughlin takes risks, which is no small thing when you're in charge of a community theater where some audiences may be more comfortable with, well, more comfortable fare. But McLauglin has also...
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Imagine a world with no Internet, no YouTube, no therapists or books willing to discuss what constitutes an orgasm, and think about how you would find out what was happening to you -- or not -- withou...
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Bill Berloni was going to be an actor. In 1976, he was offered a big break: find a sandy dog to play opposite Annie in a Broadway musical, train it and you'll get a part, too.
He went to an animal s...
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Proving once again that the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has room for all kinds of champions, HSLR picked its top two winners among student artists for this year's competition.
The title of Grand...
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One of those scavenger hunt competitions ought to set as a challenge the goal of attendance at all of the Houston Society for the Performing Arts' offerings in one year.
As its lineup for the 2012-1...
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Even though artist Mark Rothko was a difficult man to be around, had two failed marriages and committed suicide, director Jackson Gay finds his story inspiring.
Gay is back in Houston to direct the ...
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It was one of the greatest jam sessions in history. On December 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins arrived at Sun Records Studio in Memphis and Sam Phillips preside...
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How do you go about taking the helm of one of the most acclaimed dance companies in the United States, keep the good but still put your own mark on the proceedingsr
Houstonians will have a chance to ...
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A Harris County grand jury today indicted two former administrators from the 2010 scandal at Key Middle School/Kashmere High School on felony offenses of "tampering with a governmental record."
Dr. D...
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Superintendent Terry Grier is making another run at cutting Houston ISD expenses by standardizing school schedules throughout the district, after last year's narrow rejection of the measure by board t...
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There are some parts of the character of revolutionary Michael Bakunin that are so unlikeable, it was difficult at first to play him, actor Guy... More >>
Do you like to keep your ear to the groundr Are you able to overcome any shyness and ask people questionsr And equally wonderfully, write down their answers accurately and then turn it all into a fact...
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Jamie Francies, Jr. grew up in West Houston, for the most part flying under the radar of the local Ku Klux Klan operating in the middle of the 20th century. As a kid, he did see the victim of a lynchi...
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Imagine -- an English-language opera set in Houston that begins with the reunification of an Iranian family at Bush Intercontinental Airport. That's the starting point for The Bricklayer, which will p...
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When we first wrote about Veronica Bass in November 2011, the teacher's assistant had learned she'd been overpaying her union dues for years and been trying for months to get her money back from the H...
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Lauren Topek, who we wrote about three weeks ago in a column about the death of the school's custodian, Antonia Rivas, is out as principal of Shadowbriar Elementary, effective immediately, Houston IS...
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Billed as the season "From Camelot to Spamalot -- A Lot to Love," Theatre Under the Stars announced today its upcoming 2012-13 season featuring six musicals -- most of which have been here before.
Fi...
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Gird your loins. Main Street Theater, which has experienced great success with Voyage, the first part of its The Coast of Utopia trilogy, has decided to extend its run and bring back the Voyage for tw...
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Three abstentionsr Reallyr You're voting on extending the contract of the man who works for you and you opt outr Decide not to have an opinionr Decide not to share your opinionr Certainly it's unlike ...
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There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
