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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
During todays GLBT Civil Rights Forum, Los Angeles-based performance artist Monica Palacios leads a discussion regarding the obstacles the GLBT community, especially...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Mr. Wassermann isnt very nice in the Czech comedic film Jak Utopit Dr. Mracka. Hes using his wifes family, a group of water sprites, as servants. In order to...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
How many festivals can claim to be sponsored by CNN and the CIA? Well, according to their Web site, the Texas Arab American Festival can. But while those sponsorships may have...
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Night & Day
Pola Negri was one of the first to bring the siren Carmen to the screen
By D. L. Groover
At the height of her fame, Pola Negri rode around Hollywood in a blinding-white Rolls-Royce with dashboard and door handles made of ivory. There was a chauffeur in matching...
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Night & Day
The author of How to Be Lost maps out her new title, Love Stories in This Town
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
She loves me, she loves me
well, that depends on where you live. In Love Stories in This Town, Texas author Amanda Eyre Ward makes location a hugely important factor in...
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Night & Day
Go to Ireland and back again, without leaving downtown Houston
By Julia Ramey
Once youve been to a few St. Patricks Day celebrations, you may come to the conclusion that the Irish like to party (the green beer and those Kiss Me,...
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Night & Day
By Chris Gray
Compared to airbrushed, frosted-bang pretty boys like Rascal Flatts, Atlanta's Zac Brown Band looks like they came straight to Nashville from a bare-knuckled dust-up with the...
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Night & Day
Watch, learn, do at this worldwide indie competition
By D.L. Groover
At the 42nd WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival, you wont just watch films, you can learn how to make them, too. Youll see movies from all over the...
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Night & Day
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Think all classical music was written by a bunch of dead Europeans with names like Mozart and Bach? Meet John Adams. The Pulitzer Prize winner is not only living but American....
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Hair Balls
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Crime
From Hookers to Nannies
"Houston's Heidi Fleiss"
has a new gig
For years, Debbie Turbiville allegedly made a living knowing how to recruit prostitutes — or at...
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Letters
Love that Sparkle
Online readers respond to "Lord, Save Us From Amateur Chronicle Bloggers," by Richard Connelly, Hair Balls blog, April 8:
Pathetic: I've read...
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Music
GWAR more important than you might expect.
By Ben Westhoff
Richard Florida's March cover story in The Atlantic Monthly, "How the Crash Will Reshape America," offers bold predictions on how the financial meltdown will affect our...
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Noise
Better music than ACL and fewer hippies
By Chris Gray
This weekend, Noise will finally become a true Houstonian. Despite growing up in Friendswood and living here the past 21 months, it will be the very first time he attends the...
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Nightfly
Spoken Word Fridays offer "something intelligent" on Main Street.
By Shea Serrano
Jahnl Lofton is a slam poet — a spoken-word performer judged on her ability to make those within earshot think and feel. And if tonight's routine is
any indication,...
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Chatter
Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.
By Chris Gray
Over the past 15 years, Spoon has gone from being former Austinite Britt Daniel's bedroom brainchild to one of the most successful indie-rock bands out there: Saturday Night...
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Local Rotation
By Shea Serrano
Forthrightly, UGK 4 Life, the seventh official LP (and first official swan song) from the Port Arthur princes, is various levels of great. From the opening waves of Pimp C's...
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Rotation
By Ray Cummings
You either love or loathe Baltimore's Dan Deacon. You either thought the runaway yammerings-on of "Wham City," from 2007's reviewed-to-death Spiderman of the Rings, were...
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Rotation
By Chris Gray
As much as he deserves one, late San Antonio native Doug Sahm is a tricky subject for a tribute album. He was a true musical polymath, a master of just about every...
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Rotation
By Nicholas L. Hall
Neko Case has never been one to pull punches. Her unique, almost brash voice doesn't really lend itself to timidity, and her songwriting tends to follow suit. Even when her...
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Playbill
By Bob Ruggiero
Long an instrument associated mostly with Western swing groups, the horizontally placed pedal steel guitar has also had a long history in "sacred steel" bands — groups...
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