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Night & Day
GLBT Civil Rights Forum
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 16, 2009
During today’s 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
Jak Utopit Dr. Mracka
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 16, 2009
Mr. Wassermann isn’t very nice in the Czech comedic film Jak Utopit Dr. Mracka. He’s using his wife’s family, a group of water sprites, as servants. In order to...
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Night & Day
Texas Arab American Festival
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Gypsy Blood
Pola Negri was one of the first to bring the siren Carmen to the screen
By D. L. Groover
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Amanda Eyre Ward
The author of How to Be Lost maps out her new title, Love Stories in This Town
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 16, 2009
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
The 38th Annual Houston International Festival
Go to Ireland and back again, without leaving downtown Houston
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 16, 2009
Once you’ve been to a few St. Patrick’s 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
Zac Brown Band
By Chris Gray
Published: April 16, 2009
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
42nd WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival
Watch, learn, do at this worldwide indie competition
By D.L. Groover
Published: April 16, 2009
At the 42nd WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival, you won’t just watch films, you can learn how to make them, too. You’ll see movies from all over the...
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Night & Day
Houston Symphony: Leila Josefowicz Plus Brahms’s First
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 16, 2009
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
For Sale: the Remains of Burt Reynolds's Career, Plus: An Odd Couple of Entrepreneurs
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Hobby Bloggers at the Chronicle Spark Controversy
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Crash Into Me: Predicting the Economy's Impact on the Music Biz
GWAR more important than you might expect.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 16, 2009
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
iFest: This Is Our Party
Better music than ACL and fewer hippies
By Chris Gray
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Say It Again! at GrumBar
Spoken Word Fridays offer "something intelligent" on Main Street.
By Shea Serrano
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Merchant of Soul
Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.
By Chris Gray
Published: April 16, 2009
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
UGK: UGK 4 Life
By Shea Serrano
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Dan Deacon: Bromst
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Various Artists: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm
By Chris Gray
Published: April 16, 2009
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
Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: April 16, 2009
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
The Lee Boys
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 16, 2009
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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