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It's a familiar sight: activist Quanell X standing in front of a row of television news cameras, waiting for his close-up.
As always, the man looks sharp. For today's event,...
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Is graphic design more about graphics or design? What part does typography play? And what about branding? Get some answers during today’s Transparency: Exposing Graphic...
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Leave the self-help books and pyramid schemes at the door — Malcolm Gladwell can simply tell you if you’re headed for success. The author/New Yorker staff writer is...
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Cinema Bomar’s latest vintage filmstrips encourage women to find a career path…that stops at the secretary’s desk. The local 16mm film collective is loading...
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The Japanese passionately care about their works of art, even those that are no longer in Japan. In 2007, Hie Sann Sairei-Zu, two six-paneled screens, left the Museum of Fine...
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This year’s 15th Annual MLK Grande Parade will take on a bit more significance than in years past, as it comes just one day before the inauguration of the first black...
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How can you resist a $15,000 diamond necklace that’s up for grabs? Somebody’s going to win it this weekend at the International Gem and Jewelry Show, and everyone...
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The official holiday isn’t until Monday, but you can get a head start on celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during today’s 3rd Annual MLK Youth...
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The roof of the Houston Museum of Natural Science is turned into a launching pad for the International Year of Astronomy Mars Festival. Visitors to the museum’s...
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Life in a trailer park isn’t all about bingo and lite beer — at least not in the new comedic mystery novel Leftover Dead by Jimmie Ruth Evans. In Leftover, the ink...
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Most people would get excited if a TV crew came to their neighborhood. Even though he’s in show business, comic Rodney Laney is no exception, although even he has to...
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Gordon Parks picked up a camera as his weapon of choice against poverty, intolerance and racism. Forty-five of his most iconic images make up the exhibit “Gordon Parks:...
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Back Road Diner teaches us the quickest way to a man’s heart is not through his stomach — it’s through his chest…with a knife. The masterminds behind...
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Conceptual artist Lisa Qualls explores what happens when one group of people rubs up against another in her new exhibit Lisa Qualls: “Paris Is Burning.” A frequent...
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Get a glimpse of a couple of Olympians as you cheer on the 18,000 athletes running in today’s 2009 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon....
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Put in with conservationist Don Greene during today’s Buffalo Bayou Canoe Trip for a half-day flotilla. Greene will play tour guide and explain the urban ecosystem that...
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Radio Music Theatre presents the drop-dead-funny show Grandpa Hasn’t Moved in Days. Grandpa Ned Fertle has passed away, and an assortment of outrageous Fertle family...
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With childhood obesity a nationwide problem, it’s high time to cut out the cheeseburgers, turn off the video games and push your progeny outside to exercise in 2009....
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Hedwige Jacobs was drawing houses long before the current realty crisis, but her works take on new meaning in these days of economic upheaval. Addressing themes of...
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Journalist and conservationist John Frederick Walker has an ugly story about one of the most beautiful things in the world to tell in today’s talk Ivory’s Ghosts:...
