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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
— Corey Ford
On a Sunday morning in February 2008, the owner of a two-month old Belgian Malinois mix decided the puppy...
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It’s all backstabbing, double crosses and catfights in Macbeth, the latest production by Opera in the Heights. Based on Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth the opera tells...
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Kids taking violin lessons are often daunted by the fact that you have to hold the damn thing with your chin. Apparently Joshua Bell didn’t mind. He’s called, by...
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Australian cuisine: Drop by the Taste of Australia event at Spec’s downtown today and you’ll find out it’s more than just koala steaks and the big bottle of...
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Write a haiku or learn origami at today’s Journey to Japan, this month’s installment of Target Free First Sunday. The family flick Totoro is on the schedule, along...
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She wants to get married, he doesn’t. Their solution? Dinner with both sets of future in-laws to talk things over. What they don’t know is that his mom is doing it...
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In the movies, penguins can sing and dance. In real life, it seems they can draw too. Moody Gardens’s 45-minute Penguin Encounter includes a biologist-led tour of the...
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Blood spatter’s abhorrent to most people, but not to authors/scientists Amy Welch and Jarrett Hallcox. For them, it’s a story waiting to be told. The pair train CSI...
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All of us have met an Evillene or two in our time, but Dorothy Gale met her first in The Wiz. Everybody knows the story, a sort of blaxploitation version of The Wizard of Oz....
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Playwright Thomas Meloncon’s new play is called The Man Who Saved New Orleans. It’s a misnomer, of course, because we all know nobody saved New Orleans. Meloncon...
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Fence, or no fence? See what two experts, Dr. Tony Payan, associate professor of political science, University of Texas-El Paso, and Raúl Salinas, mayor of Laredo,...
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Comedian Carl LaBove calls himself a “scene-ist,” performing scenes instead of jokes with punch lines, and one of his most popular scenes is about teaching...
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Comedian and actor David Alan Grier has plenty to say about new President Barack Obama, recently telling GQ, “My white friends say, ‘Ooh, this must be great for...
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Taste the love when Chef Martha Hopkins leads Texas Tastemakers: Sensual Foods. The author of Intercourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook, Hopkins will show you how to make a...
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The 1998 Austrian-Swiss documentary Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival, directed by Michael Glawogger, chronicles in 12 chapters life in the slums of Moscow, Mexico City,...
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If one thing is comforting during these times of economic distress, it’s the occasional dose of schadenfreude. Not to say that we love hearing about financial ruin or...
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It’s a shame that many people know Iran only as a country of foot-stomping dictators and uranium-enriching scientists. It’s a place of artistic ingenuity, social...
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The Spanish Inquisition isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Broadway musical, but Man of La Mancha manages to pull it off. The story’s hero,...
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Singer and poet Vladimir Vysotsky was in Russia; his wife actress Marina Vlady was in France. It was a hell of a way to run a marriage. The Last Kiss, a documentary about this...
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Go from wannabe to polished artist during a Spoken Word Workshop with professional poet and actor Bill Milligan. An ex-member of guerrilla troupe Sudan Arts Southwest, Milligan...
