The placard next to a Rocky Fields painting always says "Rocky Fields," but that's not exactly the entire truth.
In 2007, the Houston-based artist began an insane stint of 30 months in and out of the...
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From status-seeking coaches to wheeling-and-dealing athletic directors, the post-season shake-up of college football head coaches has been a bit curious.
The top (lowestr) six moves are ranked here ...
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Think about it: Eliminate the Astros and Houston had a year worthy of holding down multiple spots on this list that encompasses athletic accomplishments both inside and outside of the best U.S. state....
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Out in Marfa, a sculpture that references Texas's military history is slowly turning to dust.
In 1991, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created an alt-art piece dubbed Monument to the Last Hor...
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Harris County assistant district attorney Rachel Ann Palmer will not be forced to testify during a grand jury hearing regarding Houston Police Department's controversial breath alcohol testing vans.
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Got electronic junkr Don't waste it in the Dumpster.
Art League Houston is currently looking for second-hand donations of old stuff -- ranging from computer monitors and laptops to clunky analog tele...
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"Ancestors of the Lake" has been dismantled, its pieces returned to worldwide museums and private collections.
If you didn't see the Menil Collection exhibit that gave visual props to rare and unusu...
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It's kind of, sort of impossible, in a single blog post, to discuss all 125 artists that will exhibit work in the Art Car Museum's thematic exhibition "RECONSTRUCTION."
Instead, Art Attack will focu...
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If The Bad Unicorn is indeed about bizarro moments, then its creator, Y.E. Torres, may have just been a part of the perfect experience.
On Tuesday, a scout for America's Got Talent reached Torres on...
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The Global Language Monitor has now recognized "Tebowing" -- "the act of taking a knee in prayer during an athletic contest" -- as an English language word.
Fucking hell.
Pretty sure we're not the...
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Derek "Boogeyman" Boogaard, a former Houston Aero enforcer who we got to know before his NHL career took off, has been found to have suffered with a neurodegenerative disease that medical experts have...
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The Menil Collection. Richard Serra. A wedding. Lee Bontecou. Civil Rights photography. Leslie Hewitt.
What a life.
Michelle White has a hand on everything listed above as a recently minted Menil c...
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At first, Christie Blizard's centerpiece installation from her "from the tipi project" exhibit at Lawndale Art Center seemed to be a fitting three-dimensional backdrop for Thursday night's Stuart Hind...
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Dare we say Houston -- and not New York City -- is the place to be for visual artr
Yesterday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced the selection of Gary Tinterow as MFAH director. Tinterow is t...
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Yesterday during an e-mail exchange, a coworker opined, in reference to this week's World AIDS Day, that there are "so many causes to care about that it's easy to lose track."
This may change her mi...
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Pals of and folks who did business with Jerry and Wynonne Hart, who once ran Houston's top fine art and antiques auction house, say there's no way the two ran a Ponzi scheme that left consignors more ...
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As Jerry and Wynonne Hart wait to hear back from the Court of Criminal Appeals, friends and business associates say that the couple did not concoct a $200,000 Ponzi scheme. The two once ran Houston's ...
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Have you heard that they've started to make USB ports for bicycles, which allows mobile devices to be charged while ridingr
Put technology to better use, we say, with these five inventions that sho...
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The truck has arrived, there will be a 6 p.m. pep rally at Cougar Village with University of Houston football players tonight, and, beginning tomorrow morning, GameDay will officially be in the house ...
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Art Attack cares a lot about classical and choral music. (The Houston Symphony as well as Cantare, for instance.) Sadly, it seems as if we're in the minority.
A similar interest/disinterest among the...
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The people who attend Clear Lake Shores's city council meetings get started early...and we're not talking about the recitation of the pledge of allegiance.
Last week, Hair Balls was copied on a lett...
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Pretty much everything has changed since Pauline Oliveros left Houston in 1949 to seek out a music that would later inspire her Deep Listening Institute. Everything except for latency, which, in the s...
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Hair Balls now has something in common with the local Fox and CBS affiliates. We're all suckers.
On Tuesday afternoon, in light of the recent shutdown of Occupy Oakland, Hair Balls did some recon by ...
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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.
