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Hill/Finger Lecture: Vince’s Bridge
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
The battle of San Jacinto determined the fate of the Texas Revolution, and Vince’s Bridge determined the fate of the battle of San Jacinto. During today’s...
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Yo Quiero Fresh Art
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!
By Melanie Pang
Published: March 19, 2009
The Fresh Arts Coalition wants to buy you a drink. Well, more like offer you a drink. The Coalition’s upcoming Yo Quiero Fresh Art spring mixer features free drinks...
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Fifth Annual Empty Bowls Houston
It’s art. No, it’s a fund-raiser. No, it’s art — hell, let’s eat.
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: March 19, 2009
You’ll get a meal, a piece of art and the satisfaction of contributing to a good cause at Houston Food Bank’s Fifth Annual Empty Bowls Houston, all for a donation of...
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Artists and Illness
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
The graphic and challenging art exhibit “Repository: Photographs and Videos by Sarah Sudhoff” documents Sudhoff’s journey through cancer. Today she’ll...
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Country Playhouse 2009 New Play Reading Series
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
The 2009 New Play Reading Series at Country Playhouse continues today with Katy resident Scott McWhirter’s Broke Poet, a look at our relationship with machines set in a...
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The 10th Muse
Divergence Vocal Theater joins forces with Sappho
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 19, 2009
From dance to opera to poetry to performance art, Divergence Vocal Theater combines an array of artistic mediums in its original productions. The company’s powerhouse...
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Barry Eisler
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
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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Lavell Crawford
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
We’re going to skip the usual “he’s a big man who gets big laughs” tag line that most people use to describe Lavell Crawford. Let’s just say,...
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Blue Willow Bookshop: Linda Olsson
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
The author of Astrid and Veronika discusses and signs her latest title, Sonata for Miriam, today. Linda Olsson’s debut novel, Astrid, was extremely well received, and...
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La Sonnambula — Live
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Jealousy, phantoms, sleepwalking and love converge in La Sonnambula, the latest performance to be broadcast live by Met Opera. Bellini’s story of a pair of lovers who are...
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BooTown’s Grown-Up Storytime XV
Local theater troupe returns to tell tales by you, about you and to you
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 19, 2009
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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I Hate Hamlet
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
Things aren’t exactly what they seem in the stage comedy I Hate Hamlet. Everyone thinks Andrew Rally has a perfect life — he’s rich and famous. He has a...
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Alice in Wonderland
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
It’s 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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Angel Street
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 19, 2009
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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Constant Star
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
Published: March 19, 2009
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
Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped by the Crashing Economy: Hardcore Homeless
Recycling in and out of shelters and programs, they always seem to land back on the streets.
By Mike Giglio
Published: March 19, 2009
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
Sondheim, Con Men and Certain Death
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: March 19, 2009
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
Design Haters and Soccer lovers
Published: March 19, 2009
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
Houston Punks Legionaire's Disease Band, Gone But Hardly Forgotten
Coffin Corner
By Lance Scott Walker
Published: March 19, 2009
"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
Houston's SXSW Strategy
Seeing the Elephant
By Chris Gray
Published: March 19, 2009
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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