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Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted barbs about George Bush's opinion of black people on live TV. Since Galveston has...
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Forget about your weight in gold, what about in toasted bread? Linda Darke Swaynons took 2,400 pieces of toast, 150 pounds in all, and created an installation for “Toast...
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People always remember “firsts” — their first kiss, the first man on the moon, the first black president. But “lasts” are usually forgotten, so we...
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Motivational speakers are everyone’s favorite target. Just don’t put down 33-year-old Austin-based dynamo Kimberlie Dykeman, because she’s likely to think about...
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Gouache on paper — that’s what little girls are made of in the latest works by Mindy Kober. Baby Police is a simple beige-and-maroon painting of two little ladies at...
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Don’t you just hate it when that old, long-forgotten X-rated film you made years ago gets dragged up again? In J.T. Ellison’s The Judas Kiss, just released this week,...
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From the red carpet to the post-award show, you can see it all on a big screen at the Golden Globes Awards Party. There’ll be plenty of champagne (and quite a few pitchers...
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If the country’s financial woes are bringing you down, lighten your spirits by attending Rice Cinema’s screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The 1927 silent...
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A quartet of Houston artists have come together for “4 Scenarios” — Miguel Avila, Ryan Geiger, Lillian Warren and Gabriela Trzebinski. Avila lives and works in...
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You’ll find everything you need to become a well-equipped ski bunny at Snow Sports 101, a combination workshop-gear show. Snowboarding, ice skating, tubing, skiing and...
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Connect the dots between ethnic newspapers reduced to blocks of color, tourist photos taken from the Internet and re-formed into tiny 3-D scenes, and ordinary rocks...
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Here are a couple of questions we’d like to ask the scientists at Polar-Palooza: Exactly how much Arctic ice has to melt before Houston’s flooded over? Is it true...
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It’s hard to make the Great Depression funny, but playwright Nancy Kiefer manages to do to just that in Dryope and Iole. (Kiefer, theater fans will remember, wrote The...
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Elaine Bradford starts an evolution with her exhibit “Museum of Unnatural History.” Bradford has made a name for herself around town by giving taxidermy the crochet...
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See ice get artistically sliced at Houston’s First Annual Magnificent Seven All Out Ice Sculpting. “Seven blocks of ice, seven hours, seven sculptors,” says...
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See a performance of the New York Metropolitan Opera without having to take a flight to the Big Apple at today’s live broadcast of La Rondine. Part of the Met’s Opera...
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Anyone who’s driven through Amarillo and been a bit surprised to find ten upended Cadillacs, graffitied to the max and buried halfway in the ground, might want to head...
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Talk about an ex that just won’t let go. In David Lean’s Blithe Spirit, a happily married novelist is having trouble with his ex-wife who, oh yeah, just happens to be...
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Screenwriter and actor Noël Coward got co-directing credit, but most consider the 1942 In Which We Serve a David Lean film. Based loosely on the true adventures of Louis...
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Prepare to be wowed when you walk into the Canal Street Gallery’s exhibit Rafael Cauduro: “Sin Fronteras/Without Borders.” The Mexican muralist and painter is...
