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Night & Day
KUHF Silent Film Concert: Destiny
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By D.L. Groover
Published: March 5, 2009
Firmly set in cinema’s pantheon for his masterpieces Die Nibelungen, Metropolis and M, iconographic filmmaker Fritz Lang had his first great success with the 1921...
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Night & Day
“Ike: Passages and Memories”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 5, 2009
Texas painter Albert Faggard Jr. was on Galveston’s High Island when Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast, and he was one of the first to see the extreme damage the storm...
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Night & Day
2009 Mutt Strut and Runway Race
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 5, 2009
Admit it — you kiss your dog. You rub noses, snuggle and then that big, sloppy, wet tongue slurps around and smacks you on the lips. Everyone else thinks it’s gross,...
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Night & Day
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Joel Orr/Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre Artist Talk and Performance for "The Puppet Show"
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By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 5, 2009
Puppetry helps Joel Orr get surreal. “It kind of suited my satirical approach [to writing] because I didn’t have to worry about realism,” says the founder of...
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Night & Day
Buffalo Bayou Regatta
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 5, 2009
The largest canoe and kayak race in the state, the Buffalo Bayou Regatta welcomes beginners and experts alike. The 15-mile course runs along a scenic stretch of bayou, so...
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Night & Day
Casseroles and Cocktails: A 1950s Themed Aurora House Party
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 5, 2009
The liquid elements of Casseroles and Cocktails: A 1950s Themed Aurora House Party seem to be well taken care of — Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Stockholm Vodka are...
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Night & Day
Gulf Reading Series: Kathy Elliott, Kasten Glover, David MacLean
Writer David MacLean believes in child abuse
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 5, 2009
Writer David MacLean goes back to childhood for his contribution to this month’s Gulf Coast Reading Series. “The story that I’m reading is about kids at a pool...
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Night & Day
Richard Price
The author of Lush Life constructs a guilty-until-proven-innocent story
By Thomas Rundle
Published: March 5, 2009
In Richard Price’s novel Lush Life, police scramble to solve a murder in modern-day New York City. Eric Cash, a 34-year-old bartender, becomes a suspect after an...
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Night & Day
Rabbit Hole
David Lindsay-Abaire’s drama sheds light on one family’s grief and guilt
By Lee Williams
Published: March 5, 2009
A child’s death clouds the atmosphere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole. Even so, the show shimmers with the very heartbeat of life as it focuses on Becca and...
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Feature
Is Casino Gambling in the Cards for Galveston?: Getting Up a Game
Bringing casinos to Texas would require a state constitutional amendment
By John Nova Lomax
Published: March 5, 2009
Bringing any casinos to Texas will require an amendment to the state constitution, which will require a two-thirds vote of both houses in the Legislature and a simple majority...
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Feature
Is Casino Gambling in the Cards for Galveston?: PLAN B
If gambling is coming back to Galveston, then a return to institutionalized illegal gambling might still be the way to go
By John Nova Lomax
Published: March 5, 2009
In the debate for and against casinos, might there not be a third way? Though he doesn't expressly say so, Bill Cherry would probably agree that the best thing for Galveston...
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Hair Balls
Random Rodeo and The End of NoTsuOh?
25 facts about Houston's biggest show
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: March 5, 2009
BY RICHARD CONNELLY The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is in town this week, the sign that spring can't be far behind. We've promised ourselves for weeks that we would...
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Letters
No Bacon or Shellfish?
Published: March 5, 2009
Online readers respond to "Depart From Me! I Never Knew You, Eaters of Bacon," Eating...Our Words blog, by Katharine Shilcutt, February 23. Oh, Katharine: Don't you know...
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St. Patrick's Day Guide
Find your Irish side at this year's festivities
By Abby Downing-Beaver
Published: March 5, 2009
This St. Patrick's Day, head into town for the annual parade and a visit to your favorite pub. The next day might bring a headache to those of us who can't hold our liquor as...
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News
Leon Hendrix Is a Voodoo Child
Being Jimi 's baby brother can be a tough row to hoe, especially if you play guitar
By Mike Seely
Published: March 5, 2009
On November 6, several famous guitarists — Buddy Guy, Mike McCready, Johnny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd among them — took the stage at the opulent Paramount...
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News
Voodoo Child: He Ain't Not Heavy
Exploring the phenomenon of the lesser showbiz brother
By Mike Seely
Published: March 5, 2009
It's not unusual for siblings to enter similar lines of work. They share the same genes, after all. But when siblings enter a field in the public eye — be it sports,...
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Music
Ex-13th Floor Elevator Tommy Hall Is Still Psychedelic
A Long, Strange Trip
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: March 5, 2009
Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at San Francisco's Hemlock Tavern. The guru of '60s psychedelic rock doesn't drink alcohol. Booze brings you down, and Hall...
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Noise
Spring Cleaning
By Chris Gray
Published: March 5, 2009
With the rodeo upon us and SXSW nearly so, there's no better time for Noise to set his house in order than right now. Actually, he probably should have done this awhile back,...
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Chatter
R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystique
Ankh-ology
By Chris Gray
Published: March 5, 2009
Mystical, mysterious Dallas native Erykah Badu was immediately pegged as one of the leading ladies of neo-soul — characterized by intimate songwriting and vintage jazz...
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Local Rotation
K-Rino: The Blood Doctrine
By Shea Serrano
Published: March 5, 2009
We say this without irony, sarcasm, hyperbole or qualifier: K-Rino is a genius — but not a rapper who happens to be a genius, a genius who happens to be a rapper....
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