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Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped into Homelessness and Poverty by the Crashing Economy
An already strained system struggles to accommodate a new breed of homeless.
By Mike Giglio
Published: March 19, 2009
Lorenzo Timmons spent most of the ride home staring at the crisp piece of paper in his lap. He remembers thinking, "we won't have to worry about nothing no more," and,...
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2009 Art for the Hungry
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
At the 2009 Art for the Hungry exhibit, you might see Mickey Mouse made from soup cans, or Cinderella constructed with boxes of spaghetti. “Food architects” (yeah,...
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Tulia, Texas
How to go to jail without even trying
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
The Texas panhandle town of Tulia made the national news in 1999 when 46 of the 5,000 residents were arrested in a sweeping drug sting. Thomas Coleman, the officer who worked...
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Les Misérables
TUTS’s latest show is projecting on stage
By Margaret Downing
Published: March 19, 2009
In its new production of Les Misérables, Theatre Under The Stars has ditched the turntable stage of the original and added projected images to its lineup. Faced with...
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Nightbreed
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Clive Barker’s 1990 horror flick Nightbreed has been called “the greatest film you never saw,” because the box office flop was pulled out of theaters rather...
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Fifth Annual Houston Jewish Film Festival: Bloodlines
Cynthia Connop’s documentary asks the tough questions
By D. L. Groover
Published: March 19, 2009
If your brother and grandparents were killed in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, would you want to meet someone connected to their executioner? Australian...
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Domy: "Familiar Spirits" Art Exhibit
Austin-based artists build on each other’s drawings
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 19, 2009
The art exhibit “Familiar Spirits” is the result of the forced collaboration between artists Matt Furie and Aiyana Udesen. “The Empress of Minor Demons (Aiyana)...
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28th Annual Houston Humane Society K-9 Fun Run & Walk
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Sam Houston Park will become the biggest dog park in town today during the 28th Annual Houston Humane Society K-9 Fun Run & Walk. Four-legged animals and their human friends...
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2009 Art for the Hungry
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
At the 2009 Art for the Hungry exhibit, you might see Mickey Mouse made from soup cans, or Cinderella constructed with boxes of spaghetti. “Food architects” (yeah,...
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American Tableau
John Chamberlain joins The Menil Collection’s Contemporary Conversations
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 19, 2009
Museums spend a great deal of time and money staging grandiose, big-name traveling exhibitions, so it’s a relief, especially to frequent visitors, when they look within...
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5th Annual Guaranty Bank Tour de Houston
Web deck: See the city from the seat of your bike
By Thomas Rundle
Published: March 19, 2009
Take a ride with Mayor Bill White and State Senator Rodney Ellis in the 5th Annual Guaranty Bank Tour de Houston. The bike tour offers three increasingly ambitious routes....
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BooTown’s “Not So Gala” Gala
Charity event trades inflated egos for inflatable castle
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 19, 2009
BooTown’s “Not So Gala” Gala puts the fun back in fund-raiser. The event is more like a kid’s birthday party and less like a stuffy, grown-up moneymaker,...
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Babes on Boards
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
It’s strictly BYOBH at today’s Babes on Boards skating session — Bring Your Own Board and Helmet. The all-women morning features several top pro women skaters...
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The 1940 Air Terminal Museum’s Aviation History Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
There will be some big shots at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum’s Aviation History Day, including the Smithsonian’s R.E.G. Davies. But the real stars are the planes,...
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“Beyond the Walls: The Battle for Iraq’s Future”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Embedded U.S. journalists in Iraq told us one side of the story, now unembedded Rick Rowley tells us another. Rowley’s “Beyond the Walls: The Battle for Iraq’s...
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José Manuel Pellicer “Atlantic Diaspora”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Mexican photographer José Manuel Pellicer’s exhibit “Atlantic Diaspora” discusses “the aesthetic, the political and the economic questions of...
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Napoleon, Part 1
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
You gotta hand it to those Coppolas — they’re a hardworking bunch. This time it’s Carmine (Francis Ford Coppola’s dad) who’s in on the action. His...
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Tropa de Elite/The Elite Squad
See the film Brazilian police officers tried to stop from being screened
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Violence toward the police in Latin America isn’t a crime; it’s an art form. (Remember the new Nuevo Laredo police chief who was killed his first day on the job? And...
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Michelle Ellsworth: The Objectification of Things
Burger sex, burger sex, burger sex — that’s all you really need to know, isn’t it?
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: March 19, 2009
The lowly hamburger is the star in Michelle Ellsworth’s The Objectification of Things, a multimedia production that somehow makes a patty and bun compelling. In...
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HPL Book Clubs: Meyer Mystery Book Club
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
If Oprah’s book club doesn’t do it for you, try the Meyer Mystery Book Club (one of many hosted by HPL). The group meets monthly, and for March they’ll discuss...
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