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Poet Paul Otremba, who's appearing at today's installment of the Poison Pen Reading Series, is changing his tone. "Not to say I want to take it lighter, but I want to have...
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Ned Dodington's installation "Poly-Lawn-Dale" was inspired by social anthropologist Paul Rabinow's phrase "nature has never been natural." To create the piece, he filled nylon...
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You've heard of outside the box. Clare Dyson wants you looking inside the box. That's where she's placed two dancers for today's performance of Voyeur. Audience members take...
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The Bettie Page Tribute Night puts the tease back in striptease. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m about to take this off. You guys really want to see this? Are you...
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Austin transplant Arturo Palacios was putting the finishing touches on the new digs for his gallery, Art Palace, when we called to ask him about the opening show,...
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Fat Tony has seen the light.
"It's about money, it's about hoes and it's about being respected and being really cool and really, really fly," says the 21-year-old rapper born...
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Bobbindoctrin's 6th Annual Puppet Festival has lots of fist-up-the-rear-end action. (Puppets, people, puppets.) Along with tabletop hand puppetry, the local collective's...
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Mary Karr wasn't exactly itching to pen her latest memoir, Lit. The renowned Texas novelist/poet has voiced how frustrating the writing process can be in interviews with Salon...
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Night before Christmas? Nah, man. Night after Christmas. "It's a good time to get shit poppin' because all the kids got money from their parents...and they got nothing to do,"...
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As a newly single father (read: divorced), comedian Greg Giraldo is faced with a new challenge on the stage. "I'm at a crossroad for what I am going to talk about," he says....
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I Hate the Holidays Cabaret celebrates all the moments we most want to disassociate from the merrier memories. The group's sketch-comedy/cabaret revue rocks its way through...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's DIY-yuletide event December Artful Thursday: Starry Night - The Annual Ornament-Making Extravaganza puts a tasteful twist on tree trimming...
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East End X-Mas is the Orange Show's pre-hibernation celebration. "We close for three months every year, and so this is sort of our last hurrah," says spokesman Stephen...
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Wild Moccasins aren't the sort of band to wait around for a CD release or tour kickoff. "Why can't we just throw a really fun party?" says front man Cody Swann. The local...
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Voices Breaking Boundaries celebrates ten years of persistent, aesthetically pleasing protest with A Decade of Dissent. "We've been very politically clear where we stand,"...
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The Poison Pen Reading Series gets the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am treatment from the editors of Gulf Coast Magazine as each of the staffers from the University of Houston's...
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David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries is the world-renowned author/humorist's tale of working as an elf in the Christmas wonderland display at Macy's New York. So as you can...
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The Nutcracker is the classic Christmas story of a girl's journey through a winter wonderland - but it's not all sugar and spice. "We do the cannon fires and the big battle...
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No matter how many times we see Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, it always has a timely - and much needed - message. (Thanks, Black Friday.) Get your annual reminder about...
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It's nature vs. outdated technology in "Vicious Venue," in which artist Shawn Smith sics pixilated vulture sculptures on a 1940s-era office. "[They're] eating the obsolete...
