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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Thousands of viewers thought Ralphie May gave the winning performance in the 2003 reality show Last Comic Standing unfortunately for May, the judges thought...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Catch up with Jane and Mike at todays Jurassic Jackpot: Massive Dinosaur Graveyards presentation. Jane is the dinosaur at the center of a heated scientific debate ...
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Night & Day
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By James Holmes
All the incredible singing, music and theatrics of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera are closer than you think. Grammy-winning conductor Patrick Summers, who has served as...
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Night & Day
Photographer Nina Berman and filmmaker Roel van Broekhoven show two takes on one story
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Nina Bermans Purple Hearts Back from Iraq project centers on powerful portraits of wounded Iraq veterans, each photograph providing insight into the...
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Night & Day
By Nicholas L. Hall
Everybody loves the sampler platter, right? It makes for a convivial atmosphere, a harbinger of good times to come. The Airborne Toxic Event is like that. The L.A. band leaves...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Boo Radley, Scout and Jem are among the most well-known characters in American fiction. See their story at the Montana Repertory Theatres performance of To Kill a...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Tennessee Williams wrote some of todays famous American plays A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Suddenly Last Summer. He also wrote some less...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The first line of Doubt: A Parable is, What do you do when youre not sure? Playwright John Patrick Shanley spends the rest of the show not answering the...
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Night & Day
HP presents three works in very different styles
By Julia Ramey
The Houston Ballet goes from the whimsical to the weighty with the three works its performing tonight in Masters of Movement, all of them new to the HB repertoire. First...
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Night & Day
Dont expect Dr. Huxtable today its all about his storytelling stand-up
By James Holmes
Break out your sweater and have a pudding pop, Bill Cosby is coming to the Bayou City. Dr. William H. Cosby Jr. is, of course, one of the biggest names in comedy. Today most...
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Hair Balls
Highlights From The Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
By Blake Whitaker, Paul Knight and Richard Connelly
COURTS
X Out The Uniform
No badges for Quanell critics
Some working stiffs would love to hear their boss tell them, "Hey, don't worry about those stuffy work clothes." But...
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Letters
The Ban and Business
Hair Balls blog readers respond to "City Says Smoking Ban Has Had No Impact On Bars," By John Nova Lomax, February 26:
An alternative to smoking bans: If the public was...
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Music
Conroe's Young Texas Artists competition puts youthful virtuosos on the fast track.
By William Michael Smith
Through its annual Sounds of Texas music series, Conroe has become known for top-notch Americana music, but the community also gets a cultural infusion of classical each March...
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Noise
By Chris Gray
The other morning, Noise heard a commercial on the radio for McDonald's, which is apparently selling espresso now. The spot was called "Confessions of an Ex-Hipster," and some...
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Music
Houston's SXSW class — and we mean class — of 2009
By Chris Gray and Craig Hlavaty
The overall number of Houston artists performing at SXSW may be a little down compared to the past few years — for official showcases, anyway; many, many more will be...
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Nightfly
Pandora's Box
By Shea Serrano
Let's be clear about one thing: If given the opportunity, we would absolutely punch Christian Audigier in the nose.
Audigier is a French fashion designer — let that sink...
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Chatter
Houston's genre-hopping indie darling eyes SXSW
By Shea Serrano
The first time Chatter heard Kam Franklin was about 11 months ago. She was then an emerging vocalist with a gift for traversing musical genres, but mostly known only in the...
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Playbill
By Nicholas L. Hall
Whether or not the association with origami is intended, Papermoons is nevertheless a fitting moniker for a band whose sound is a shapeshifting melange of fragile soundscapes...
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Playbill
By William Michael Smith
I never really understood how huge Texas music is in Italy until I reviewed a James Talley album recorded live in Italy a few years ago. Through corresponding with Talley, I...
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Playbill
By Craig Hlavaty
With smash single "Whatever You Like" racking up almost 140 million plays on T.I.'s MySpace page since last summer, one would think the Atlanta rapper would be planning a...
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