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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The battle of San Jacinto determined the fate of the Texas Revolution, and Vinces Bridge determined the fate of the battle of San Jacinto. During todays...
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One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!
By Melanie Pang
The Fresh Arts Coalition wants to buy you a drink. Well, more like offer you a drink. The Coalitions upcoming Yo Quiero Fresh Art spring mixer features free drinks...
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Its art. No, its a fund-raiser. No, its art hell, lets eat.
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Youll get a meal, a piece of art and the satisfaction of contributing to a good cause at Houston Food Banks Fifth Annual Empty Bowls Houston, all for a donation of...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The graphic and challenging art exhibit Repository: Photographs and Videos by Sarah Sudhoff documents Sudhoffs journey through cancer. Today shell...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The 2009 New Play Reading Series at Country Playhouse continues today with Katy resident Scott McWhirters Broke Poet, a look at our relationship with machines set in a...
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Divergence Vocal Theater joins forces with Sappho
By Julia Ramey
From dance to opera to poetry to performance art, Divergence Vocal Theater combines an array of artistic mediums in its original productions. The companys powerhouse...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
A law degree, three years in the CIA, and a black belt in Judo probably come in handy for author Barry Eisler. His John Rain series of novels are noted for their realistic...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Were going to skip the usual hes a big man who gets big laughs tag line that most people use to describe Lavell Crawford. Lets just say,...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The author of Astrid and Veronika discusses and signs her latest title, Sonata for Miriam, today. Linda Olssons debut novel, Astrid, was extremely well received, and...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jealousy, phantoms, sleepwalking and love converge in La Sonnambula, the latest performance to be broadcast live by Met Opera. Bellinis story of a pair of lovers who are...
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Local theater troupe returns to tell tales by you, about you and to you
By Dusti Rhodes
BooTown returns in Grown-Up Storytime XV with tales by and for the audience. The monthly installment features members of the local theater troupe performing stories submitted...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Things arent exactly what they seem in the stage comedy I Hate Hamlet. Everyone thinks Andrew Rally has a perfect life hes rich and famous. He has a...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Its a different rabbit hole in this Alice in Wonderland. A troupe of performers is after Alice, hoping to take her back to Wonderland for another chance to tell her...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Before there was Dial M for Murder, before there was Wait Until Dark, there was Angel Street. A Victorian thriller that deals with decidedly modern issues, Angel Street opens...
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Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train
By D. L. Groover
The focus of Constant Star, Post-Reconstruction pioneer Ida B. Wells took on the United States railroad system, President McKinley and W.E.B. Du Bois. At the turn of the last...
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Feature
Recycling in and out of shelters and programs, they always seem to land back on the streets.
By Mike Giglio
The man I am,
is not the man I want to be.
And the man I was is not the man I am.
And the man I want to be is the man I'm going to be,
and it's not the man I am.
—...
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Hair Balls
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Spaced City
So Long, Sondheim
Houston's drought continues
by Richard Connelly
TUTS (Theatre Under The Stars) has announced its musical choices for the 2009-10 season; there...
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Letters
Our New Look
Not everyone was wild about our new design:
We're biblical: That's just it. You are supposed to be able to look at, and read, a paper! Journalism 101 teaches...
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Music
Coffin Corner
By Lance Scott Walker
"I've got a bum arm here," a gruff but cheerful-sounding Jerry Anomie says from the other end of the phone. "I've had two cervical operations, so my right arm ain't workin'...
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Noise
Seeing the Elephant
By Chris Gray
South by Southwest is less a music festival than a force of nature, a ravenous beast that for one week in March consumes everything in its path and the surrounding countryside....
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