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U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War
Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.
By Megan Feldman
Published: March 12, 2009
Just five feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago she was a Texas private in the War...
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“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Festival and Visual Exhibit”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
A forward-thinking 16th-century Mexican poet, playwright and nun is at the center of “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Festival and Visual Exhibit,” opening today at...
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The Monster Among Us
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Filmmakers Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell document the anti-Semitism currently growing in Europe in their film The Monster Among Us. As the number of Holocaust...
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4th Annual Readers Theatre
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By Lee Williams
Published: March 12, 2009
Arriving from around the country, the brand-new scripts at Theatre Southwest’s 4th Annual Readers Theatre will be performed by actors today. Reader’s Theatre...
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Children’s Museum Grand Opening
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By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 12, 2009
There’s more to explore at the Children’s Museum of Houston, which has expanded and installed seven new permanent exhibits. The daylong Children’s Museum of...
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Closing Weekend of “Hot Glass, Cool Collections”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
It’s the Closing Weekend for the “Hot Glass, Cool Collections” exhibit at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. To mark the occasion, HCCC is hosting several...
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St. Patrick’s Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Go green with Ireland’s favorite patron saint with a slew of events including a festive St. Patrick’s Day Parade and a huge After Parade Party. This year, the 50th...
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Repository: Photographs and Videos by Sarah Sudhoff"
Sarah Sudhoff opens up
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 12, 2009
Illness, especially cancer, is never something you really want to think about, but it’s worth it in the case of “Repository,” a photo and video exhibition by...
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Dan Beachy-Quick
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Moby Dick has inspired dozens of books over the years, but none more inventive than the highly original A Whaler’s Dictionary by Dan Beachy-Quick. (Whaler’s...
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Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation
This is everything your parents never wanted you to see
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: March 12, 2009
If you’ve got a sick sense of humor and dig cartoons, Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation is your Sundance. Imagine everything parents never want a...
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Return to the Ancestors: Builders of New York
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
The speaker for today’s Return to the Ancestors: Builders of New York lecture has a pretty cool gig. As Director of the African Burial Ground Project, Dr. Michael...
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest: Mexican Enough
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Texas-born author Stephanie Elizondo Griest hasn’t had a normal life for a while now. Since 1997, she’s been living out of a backpack, hopping from one country to...
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“The Listening Post”
Installation artist Tim Brown is on the line and ready to take your calls
By Melanie Pang
Published: March 12, 2009
Want to bitch about your boss? Snitch on a two-timing girlfriend? Call Tim Brown, the artist behind “The Listening Post.” He has a free and anonymous say-anything...
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Artania
The Russians are Coming! (The Russian circus, that is.)
By D.L. Groover
Published: March 12, 2009
In a galaxy far, far away, there is a magic ring…no, wait a minute, wrong story — in a galaxy just down the road called Sam Houston Race Park, there is a magic...
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Emily Fox Gordon
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Considered a talented memoirist, Emily Fox Gordon has released her first novel, It Will Come to Me. Set on a large Southern university, the comedic and tart Come to Me pits...
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Cinema Bomar: Goodbye, Mr. Germ
Filmstrips from the past promise a better future
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 12, 2009
The vintage-filmstrip collective Cinema Bomar brings a promise of a better tomorrow…from yesterday. This round of 16mm Movie Night includes 1940s-era solutions for...
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Kindness and Courage on Death Row
Thomas Cahill tells Dominique Green’s story
By Amina Rivera
Published: March 12, 2009
Author Thomas Cahill will discuss one man’s experience with the Texas justice system at Kindness and Courage on Death Row today. Based on his newly released book, A Saint...
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Randy Wayne White
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Novelist Randy Wayne White’s thriller Dead Silence starts off with a failed assassination attempt against a U.S. senator. When that goes wrong, she’s kidnapped. Dead...
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Jeff Guinn: Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Warren Beatty made an entertaining movie when he starred in Bonnie and Clyde, but he wasn’t too concerned about telling the truth. On the other hand, when Jeff Guinn...
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Jon Lajoie
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 12, 2009
Canadian comedy is sometimes difficult for Americans to understand, so you’ll forgive us when we say we don’t know if we should believe Jon Lajoie’s claim that...
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