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In “Poem for California,” Matthew Zapruder starts with an ankle scar and ends up pondering how he went from academic nomad to soon-to-married settler. The author...
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“Nacho Mama’s Fridge!” is a collection of art ideal for the gift-giving season. (Read: It’s affordable.) The group show, curated by Emily Sloan, features...
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Comedian Louis C.K. is recently divorced, but he's not exactly looking forward to the single life. "I know too much about life to have any optimism," explains the star of the...
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The Orange Show Eyeopener Tour: Galveston Restored is an island-wide ride highlighting artists who are anything but watered down. "We'll be talking about the community itself...
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Art Palace was our Best of Houston¨ pick for Best Art Gallery, so there's lots of buzz about what's coming up. "It's better to regret something you have done" offers a...
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Poet Karyna McGlynn, appearing today at the Gulf Coast Reading series, earned legions of fans with her first collection of poetry, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl....
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David Eagleman took time away from running a neuroscience research laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine to write an international bestseller. “That’s probably...
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Peat Duggins created some alternative monks for "St. Boniface’s Last Days." The exhibit explores the life of fictitious holy men through artificial relics, paintings and...
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Mat Johnson and Simon Gane's graphic novel Dark Rain tells the story of a stormy sting. "Some ex-cons in Houston get the brilliant idea to go into New Orleans during the...
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Tobiah Mundt isn't here to make friends. "I don't want to make cutesy things. I don't want to make toys," says the artist behind the exhibition "Being." This statement may...
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Gift of Gift of Party and Vote Night adds a stroke of democracy to the art world. “[It’s] real people, like us, who are interested in having a say in what emerging...
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Gift of Gift of Party and Vote Night adds a stroke of democracy to the art world. “[It’s] real people, like us, who are interested in having a say in what emerging...
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“Dining In III: An Artful Experience” serves up plenty of reasons to set the table. The exhibition features handcrafted place settings and other tableware such as...
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A mother-daughter feud crosses continents in Irene Keliher’s soon-to-be-released novel What Secret Borders. After adopting Sophia in Guatemala as a baby, her mother...
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Jennifer West has some interesting editing techniques. The filmmaker/multimedia artist’s movies are stepped on, skated over and sprayed with everything from whiskey to...
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Local playwright Andrew Kozma’s Tuned to a Dead Channel finds a loose thread and just keeps pulling. “It’s a close-up of a slow unraveling of a person,”...
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Some new artists are hanging around the Aerosol Warfare Gallery. “We kind of wanted to open the doors and see who wanted to walk through it,” says co-founder/curator...
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The cult-classic Clue brings the best board game ever to life with more wordplay than you could shake a candlestick at. Tim Curry (as Wadsworth the Butler) serves up plenty of...
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Adam Vincent Clay, a pianist and the founder of Houston New Arts Movement, is out to right a wrong in Lost Voices: Passion & Perseverance, a concert that celebrates Russian...
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Vaud E. Ville's Shenanigans is perfect for easily distracted audiences, according to director Angelo La Pietra. "It's short-attention-span theater," he says. The original,...
