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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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....
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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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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...
