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Night & Day
Murder by the Book: Walter Mosley
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
Mystery author Walter Mosley left mid-20th-century Los Angeles behind, exchanging it for contemporary New York City. The move brought a new sense of urgency to his work and a...
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Night & Day
“Ta Marmaruga”
Get a little help with your Plato from David Waddell and Kelly Ulcak
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 26, 2009
Reading Plato’s Republic is at once a pleasure and a pain; the sheer mental exertion of it is worthwhile once the message becomes clear. Still, it’s nice to have a...
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Night & Day
DiverseWorks 2009 Fire Sale! Gala
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
DiverseWorks is throwing a big bash, the DiverseWorks The 2009 Fire Sale! Gala. Because it’s a gala, it’s a little pricey (tables run from $2,500 to $10,000), but...
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Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park
See why this outdoor party got a Best Festival nod from the Houston Press Best of Awards
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
If it’s March, it’s time for the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park. With a slew of awards and titles to its credit including being ranked as the #3 art festival...
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Night & Day
Barbara Ras One Hidden Stuff
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
Author Barbara Ras’s career got off to a good start — her first book of poetry, Bite Every Sorrow, won the Walt Whitman Award. That was 12 years ago. Her latest...
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Night & Day
Bradford Gray Telford and Jericho Brown
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By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 26, 2009
In his book Please, poet Jericho Brown speaks for the dead, living and imagined. Brown uses his verses to interpret the tortured minds of Janis Joplin, the Scarecrow from The...
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Night & Day
Rice Theatre Program Stop Kiss
Move over Katy Perry, Diane Son’s Manhattan love story has come to town
By Lee Williams
Published: March 26, 2009
Katy Perry, who sings the much adored “I Kissed a Girl,” isn’t the only one who knows about girl-on-girl affection. It’s been over a decade since Diane Son...
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Night & Day
Maz Jobrani
The Iranian-American comic is explosively funny
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 26, 2009
Comic Maz Jobrani is an Iranian American, a group which — at least according to popular media — isn’t exactly known for their wacky sense of humor. So when...
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Night & Day
Falstaff
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
The folks behind this production of Falstaff say this is “opera unplugged,” and we believe them. Opera in the Heights is known for performing black-tie shows without...
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Night & Day
InPrint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: Edward Hirsch and Charles Simic
The JCC plays host to two familiar faces
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
Even without the National Book Critics Award or his current gig as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Edward Hirsch would be a familiar face to...
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Night & Day
DiverseWorks: “Solution”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
This is your last week to catch Jeffery Gibson, Nina Katchadourian, Michael Waugh, Jeanine Oleson and all the other artists participating in “Solution,” an exhibit...
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Night & Day
SPA Houston: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
We should all look this good at 50
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 26, 2009
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s signature work, Revelations, is one of the most well-known pieces in contemporary dance. Even the 1976 photo that captured the...
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Night & Day
Paint the Town
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By Lee Williams
Published: March 26, 2009
Okay, so there’s a high violence quotient in Paint the Town, but isn’t that the way with all anarchy? The play from Milwaukee-based Insurgent Theatre, performed...
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Hair Balls
Michael Berry vs. Bill White
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: March 26, 2009
Political Animals Berry V. White The Death match! No politeness allowed!! The folks at bloghouston listen to Michael Berry's talk show on KTRH, so they've become aware of...
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Letters
Military Deserters and Tycer's Textile
Published: March 26, 2009
Deserter Storm Learn to cope: Your article "Gimmie Shelter" [by Megan Feldman, March 12] seems to want people to have a "pity the poor girl" attitude towards Kim Rivera. From...
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Music
Hit the Evening Showcase and Keep Corporate Hands Off the Westheimer Block Party
Pony Up, Houston.
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 26, 2009
You could say the Westheimer Block Party has had its ups and downs. "The first one was this big cluster fuck," says Omar Afra. "'Cluster fuck' would be a really big...
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Noise
Aftermath: SXSW
By Chris Gray
Published: March 26, 2009
Well, thank God that's over. There's no bigger feeling of relief than watching Austin recede in the rearview mirror on that post-SXSW Sunday afternoon. Though some aspects of...
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Nightfly
Skybar's Saturday-Night R&B "Party With A View"
Up, Up and Away
By Shea Serrano
Published: March 26, 2009
On any given Saturday evening, even if you've never seen his face before, you can usually tell which of the 200 or so patrons inside of Scott Gertner's Skybar (3400 Montrose)...
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Chatter
Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.
Back in Black
By Cole Haddon
Published: March 26, 2009
Less than a year ago, most people expected Britney Spears would ultimately wind up the target of a massive, overly televised police-car chase that would, we all secretly hoped,...
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Playbill
Flamin' Hellcats
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: March 26, 2009
When you get right down to it, perfect rock and roll is a pretty simple thing. All too many people forget that, and cut pure rock with all kinds of additives in the name of...
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