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The Rise and Fall of the Stanford Financial Group
Castles and corruption lead to criminal charges.
By Tim Elfrink
Published: April 9, 2009
On an overcast March day, Rosemary Mazor is saying goodbye to friends at the Stanford Financial Group in the Galleria area. This week, the doors are open for employees who...
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Disney on Ice
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Here’s how you can see the Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Simba and Lilo all in one sitting: Disney on Ice: Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey. Mickey and his girlfriend...
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“Retratos y Banderas”
Artist Stanley Bermúdez has a solo show at TBH
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: April 9, 2009
No identity is safe with painter Stanley Bermúdez. In the portraits of “Retratos y Banderas,” the Venezuela-raised artist uses vertical lines and bold,...
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The Future of Houston’s Former Suburbs: A View from Sharpstown — Infrastructure, Education, and Quality of Life
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
What’s Houston going to look like in 50 years? In a hundred? By then we might be a mega-metropolis stretching beyond Highway 6 to the outskirts of San Antonio. Can’t...
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Movies Houstonians Love: The Sound of Music
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Known as reality TV’s sexiest and most romantic couple, Joyce and Uchenna Agu were winners of the seventh season of The Amazing Race. Once they got back home to Houston...
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Easter in the Gardens
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Egg hunts are just one of the many activities planned for kids during Easter in the Gardens. There’s also a petting zoo (featuring lots of bunnies as well as other...
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Sordid Lives
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
It’s a jumble of crazy relatives, country music, drunks, cheaters, a female ex-con, a Vietnam vet with two wooden legs and a Tammy Wynette-look-alike transvestite...
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Bill Engvall
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
The man who made “here’s your sign” a catchphrase, blue collar comic Bill Engvall, might be the only nationally known funny man working today to come from...
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“Round 30: Home. Space. Place.”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Stephanie Diamond, Lance Flowers and Lisa Qualls are among the artists presenting their work at “Round 30: Home. Space. Place.” The Project Row Houses exhibit focuses...
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Hobson’s Choice
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s film division continues its centenary homage to director David Lean with the 1953 movie Hobson’s Choice. Set in 1890s England,...
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The Easter Orange Hunt
The Orange show puts its own spin on the holiday tradition
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 9, 2009
Leave it to the offbeat artistic visionaries at local treasure The Orange Show to put its own spin on an Easter tradition with the Easter Orange Hunt. Here, anxious kiddies...
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Two Star Symphony
Get a dose of Danny Elfman flavor at Discovery Green’s Sundays in the Park
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 9, 2009
Spend some time with Two Star Symphony during Discovery Green’s Sundays in the Park for a lovely, if eerie, afternoon. The local string quartet will be performing its...
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Life in 1860 Houston: the Civil War and Reconstruction
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
In the 1960s, Houston was concerned with civil rights and the antiwar movement. In the 1860s Houston was concerned with civil rights and the antiwar movement. At the "Life in...
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“Way Way Out West”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
What’s Asian Heritage Month without a little art? “Way Way Out West” guarantees that you won’t have to find out with a presentation of ceramic, photographic...
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — The Broadway Musical
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
There are two kinds of stars at today’s Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — The Broadway Musical. There’s the Big Dipper kind, and then there’s the...
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Jesse Lott and Javier de Villota
Two artists who split their time between Houston and Spain share a vision
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
The Station Museum of Contemporary Art paired Houstonians Jesse Lott: The Urban Frontier and Javier de Villota: DeHumanization Echo for a shared show not only because their...
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Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami
Which is worse - the storm or the helpful rescuers?
By Lee Williams
Published: April 9, 2009
When disaster strikes, there are the victims, and then there are all those well-meaning do-gooders who want to help those victims. Sujit Saraf's Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami,...
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Children of Eden
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Stephen Schwartz, the man behind Godspell and Wicked, tackles the conflict between fathers and sons, mothers and daughters in Children of Eden, presented here by Masquerade...
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Earth Day Houston
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 9, 2009
Say happy birthday to Discovery Green during today’s Earth Day festivities. There’s a Mothers for Clean Air Earth Day 5K, green transportation, green art, green...
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A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas
Writer Sasha West explores a painter’s verse-atility
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 9, 2009
What rhymes with art? We’re hoping the writers at A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas have more mature responses than ours. Sasha West, a poet and former managing editor of...
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