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Night & Day
Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
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By D. L. Groover
Published: February 26, 2009
If you think you know all about extreme survival, think again. Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, the 2008 prize-winning French documentary...
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Night & Day
“Unite and Untie”
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
Published: February 26, 2009
The pictures in Houston Center for Photography’s “Unite and Untie” deal with war in the Middle East, but you won’t find any depictions of chaotic...
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Night & Day
Jonny Lang
The artist behind Lie to Me and Turn Around brings his special brand of blues to Houston
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Cool Brains! Inprint Reading Series: Jacqueline Woodson
The Newbery Award-winning writer looks at life after Tupac Shakur
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
In her latest title, After Tupac and D Foster, children’s author Jacqueline Woodson writes: “We’d just gone from being eleven to being thirteen. Three girls....
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Night & Day
“Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul”
Much of the art in this exhibit was saved by brave individuals who risked their lives to protect it
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Marie
The Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch creates a new work about the woman who went from child bride to controversial queen
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 26, 2009
It seems as though Marie Antoinette finally will be getting some sympathy — though unfortunately, it’s come hundreds of years too late — when the Houston Ballet...
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Feature
Guantánamo's Final Days: Profile in Cojones
Top Pentagon lawyer Alberto Mora risked his career arguing against Guantánamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Battle of the Big Crosses
Dick-measuring, Christian style
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: February 26, 2009
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
A Pleasure Cruiser and The Worst Song in the World
On the Trailer
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Houston-Born TV-Theme Composer W.G. "Snuffy" Walden Enjoys His Wonder Years
Up to Snuff
By William Michael Smith
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Could Alternative Country Work at the Rodeo?
By Chris Gray
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Valentine's Night at Ernie's on Banks
Sports Lovers
By Shea Serrano
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Young Mammals Chow Down on First LP Carrots
Dynamically Yours
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Arthur Yoria: 281
By David A. Cobb
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Morrissey: Years of Refusal
By Gdula, Steven
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete
By Chris Gray
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Steve Forbert: The Place And The Time
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By William Michael Smith
Published: February 26, 2009
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
A Cursive Memory
By Shae Moseley
Published: February 26, 2009
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
Gene Loves Jezebel
By Chris Gray
Published: February 26, 2009
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
The Mighty Stef
By Chris Gray
Published: February 26, 2009
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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