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By D. L. Groover
If you think you know all about extreme survival, think again. Stranded: Ive Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, the 2008 prize-winning French documentary...
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Night & Day
The new exhibit at the Houston Center for Photography sees the war in the Middle East in terms of people, not policies
By BLAKE WHITAKER
The pictures in Houston Center for Photographys Unite and Untie deal with war in the Middle East, but you wont find any depictions of chaotic...
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Night & Day
The artist behind Lie to Me and Turn Around brings his special brand of blues to Houston
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The last time blues singer/guitarist Jonny Lang played Houston, he walked on stage, strapped on his guitar and was about to hit his first note before the audience realized he...
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Night & Day
The Newbery Award-winning writer looks at life after Tupac Shakur
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
In her latest title, After Tupac and D Foster, childrens author Jacqueline Woodson writes: Wed just gone from being eleven to being thirteen. Three girls....
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Night & Day
Much of the art in this exhibit was saved by brave individuals who risked their lives to protect it
By Julia Ramey
The image of the Taliban destroying two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001 shocked the world. Fortunately, many other artifacts from the storied country have...
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Night & Day
The Houston Ballets Stanton Welch creates a new work about the woman who went from child bride to controversial queen
By Julia Ramey
It seems as though Marie Antoinette finally will be getting some sympathy though unfortunately, its come hundreds of years too late when the Houston Ballet...
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Feature
Top Pentagon lawyer Alberto Mora risked his career arguing against Guantánamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Though he now lives in a red-brick minimansion down a silent, frostbitten cul-de-sac in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Alberto Mora is at heart a Miami Cuban....
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Hair Balls
Dick-measuring, Christian style
As told to Richard Connelly
There amid the regiment of high-tension, high-voltage power lines that line the South Beltway, Sagemont Church's brand-new 170-foot cross does not look as impressive as it...
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Letters
On the Trailer
Online readers respond to "Pleasure Cruiser," by Troy Schulze, February 12:
Art: As an artist living in New Orleans, I still see FEMA trailers and am sensitive to their...
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Music
Up to Snuff
By William Michael Smith
The stories pour out of W.G. "Snuffy" Walden like a broken water main. There's no point trying to structure an interview.
Walden tells it his way, one memory triggering...
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Noise
By Chris Gray
RodeoHouston starts up again Tuesday, with a sure-to-be sold-out show by a group that makes critics cringe worse than about any other, megaplatinum Nashville country-pop...
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Nightfly
Sports Lovers
By Shea Serrano
Few places are less romantic than a sports bar. If we had to guess, we'd say The Bog of Eternal Stench from Labyrinth is probably one. And that torture room in Hostel where the...
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Chatter
Dynamically Yours
By Dusti Rhodes
The day a lot of local indie-watchers have been waiting for has finally arrived: Houston Press Music Award winners (Best New Band; Best Indie Rock, 2007) Young Mammals'...
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Local Rotation
By David A. Cobb
On 2004's I'll Be Here Awake, Arthur Yoria quickly established himself as one of the Houston area's most interesting musicians. His tales of lovelorn angst set against melodic...
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Rotation
By Gdula, Steven
Although the singer who once famously clutched Oscar Wilde to his chest might seem misplaced among the roster of distinctly American artists like Willie Nelson and Lucinda...
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Rotation
By Chris Gray
Old punk rockers — or, in this case, post-punks — never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely registering Loose Screw,...
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Rotation
By William Michael Smith
Steve Forbert just gets better with age. On The Place And The Time, he proves yet again he's a consummate Southern philosopher-poet who can turn everything from Labor Day to...
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Playbill
By Shae Moseley
A Cursive Memory made huge waves last year with the video for its single "Everything," a clip centered around the idea that the L.A. band is a guerrilla-style "bandarazzi"...
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Playbill
By Chris Gray
Anyone bummed Echo & the Bunnymen is skipping Houston on their way to SXSW can officially cheer up. (Relatively, of course.) Gene Loves Jezebel may not have the same...
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Playbill
By Chris Gray
Born Stefan Murphy, Dublin-based The Mighty Stef is the latest in the long line of wayward Irish poet-rockers that stretches back to Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and the Pogues'...
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