Archive Search Results
-
Feature
Guantánamo's Final Days
As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?
By Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde
Published: February 26, 2009
The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses...
-
Night & Day
5th Annual Historically Black Colleges & Universities Film Festival
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
We’re willing to forgive the 5th Annual Historically Black Colleges & Universities Film Festival and Seminar its long moniker. After all, the festival is tasked with...
-
Night & Day
1968 with Tom Brokaw
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Port Arthur is known for two things — Janis Joplin and the Museum of the Gulf Coast. Joplin got the hell out of Port Arthur as soon as she could; the museum has decided...
-
Night & Day
The Edge Hip Hop Festival
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Second place isn’t so bad when it’s second place in the whole frigging country, so forgive us if we don’t bother feeling sorry for the dancers of the So Real...
-
Night & Day
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Everybody’s a cowboy this week
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: February 26, 2009
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never lassoed a horse — pull on your boots and dust off your Stetson, because everyone’s a cowboy or cowgirl during the Houston...
-
Night & Day
Music by Living American/Houston Composers
Enjoy new works by Paul English, Reynaldo Ochoa, Arthur Gottschalk and others
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 26, 2009
One of the greatest thrills for the serious music fan is to discover a new work, something that expands both your collection and your range as a listener. There are few better...
-
Night & Day
2nd Annual History Road Rally
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
If you wanted to see streets lined with bricks that were handmade by freed slaves, where would you go? Do you know that Houston has an island inside the 610 Loop? No? Well,...
-
Night & Day
Yigal Ozeri Art Exhibit
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri could easily sneak his hyperrealistic paintings into a photography exhibit. Most viewers wouldn’t notice any difference between what Ozeri does...
-
Night & Day
Massive Improv 24-Hour Show
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Massive Improv is out to prove that size — or at least length — really does matter as they attempt to set the world record for the longest continuous improvisational...
-
Night & Day
An Evening with Dick Gregory
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
We would say that activist/writer/comedian Dick Gregory is a chameleon, but he’s never been very good at blending into the background. Finding fame first as a comedian...
-
Night & Day
A Lesson Before Dying
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
It’s easy to see why Jefferson was convicted of murder in A Lesson Before Dying. His lawyer defended him by calling him “hardly more worthwhile than a hog,”...
-
Night & Day
“Perspectives 165”
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Teens do more at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston than just look at art — they exhibit art, too. The museum’s sixth exhibition of work by local teens,...
-
Night & Day
Joshua Beckman and Barbara Hamby
Poison Pen Reading Series keeps drinks, literary events fresh
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 26, 2009
Joshua Beckman stirs poetic craft with a modern sensibility. In true Poison Pen Reading fashion, his works, such as “Karate Chop of Love,” are sure to score with...
-
Night & Day
Deadbeat Club TV
The local troupe of “registered sketch offenders” releases their first DVD
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: February 26, 2009
The Deadbeat Club TV DVD premiere party celebrates the first release by a group of local comedians who decided to shape their own destinies. “This was mainly about taking...
-
Night & Day
22nd Annual ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Get up to speed at the 22nd Annual ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run. The 10K race and 5K fun run/walk is held just ahead of the Rodeo Parade, but there’s a costume contest before...
-
Night & Day
Junkyard Drive-In: Texas Oil on Film
Aurora Picture Show re-creates watching movies from your car
By D. L. Groover
Published: February 26, 2009
Watch a movie the way your grandparents did — from your car. At the screening of Junkyard Drive-In: Texas Oil on Film, Aurora Picture Show gives viewers a flashback to...
-
Night & Day
Eco-Friendly Wine
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Dan Forbes, a wine specialist for Whole Foods Market (is that a cool gig or what?) will lead you in a tasting of Eco-friendly Wines. He’ll quickly cover organic wine...
-
Night & Day
Tommy Davidson
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
Comedian Tommy Davidson could have made a career of imitating Sammy Davis Jr. Good thing for us he didn’t. You know Davidson as the skinny little guy on In Living Color,...
-
Night & Day
“Genghis Khan”
History’s bad boy goes on display
By BOB RUGGERIO
Published: February 26, 2009
Talk about a guy with an image problem — even the PR geniuses of Mad Men couldn’t overcome Genghis Khan’s rep. Mostly because the name Genghis Khan immediately...
-
Night & Day
Katherine Center
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 26, 2009
You get some idea of author Katherine Center’s outlook from the titles of her books: The Bright Side of Disaster and Everyone Is Beautiful. Of course, there has to be a...
Now Click This
