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Wild Rides
Between serious safety and environmental concerns, the Toyota Prius isn't the angel that everyone thinks it is.
By Paul Knight
Published: April 23, 2009
Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last year to shoot the bird at the oil companies. "I felt so...
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The Third Side Launch Party
Origin of a play
By Lee Williams
Published: April 23, 2009
It’s anniversary time! One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin shifted the cosmic order with his book On the Origin of the Species. Mildred’s Umbrella Theater...
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Rent
One of Broadway’s longest-running shows comes to town
By Thomas Rundle
Published: April 23, 2009
Poor Anthony. Poor Adam. Poor Gwen. The trio is still hungry and still can’t pay the Rent. You got it — the Tony award-winning musical about young starving artists in...
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Asia Society: Pico Iyer
The well-traveled writer discusses his friendship with the Dalai Lama
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 23, 2009
Pico Iyer has an enviable job: Magazines like The New Yorker, National Geographic and Time pay him to travel the world and write about distant places and fascinating people. As...
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Movies Houstonians Love: — For Whom the Bell Tolls
The former mayor faces down the fascists
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 23, 2009
“Let’s see — should I blow up a bridge or kiss you?” We’re sure Hemingway said it better, but that neatly sums up the dilemma Gary Cooper’s...
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SouthSide H-town Eye-opener Tour
Romp through one of Houston’s most artsy neighborhoods
By Melanie Pang
Published: April 23, 2009
Madeleine Crozat-Williams’s casa es su casa — if you’re traveling on the Orange Show’s SouthSide H-town Tour, one of the center’s quirky Eyeopener...
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“Who are the Homeless? – Photographs by Bob Levy”
City Hall plays host to Houston’s most needy
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
Look into the eyes of Houston’s most in need at “Who are the Homeless? — Photographs by Bob Levy” and you’ll see strength, determination, sass, fear...
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16th Annual Japan Festival
Are you ready for a gong karaoke contest?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
The gong karaoke contest at the 16th Annual Japan Festival is expected to be fierce this weekend. At stake — bragging rights until next year. The festival transforms...
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Sputnik Declassified
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
If you think politics are interesting nowadays, imagine what it was like when the prize was the moon. Sputnik Declassified details the 1950s race for space between America and...
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14th Annual 20th Century Modern Market
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
Shop at the only Texas show of its kind at the 14th Annual 20th Century Modern Market. Up for grabs is art, of course, along with vintage clothing and furniture from the last...
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Zomberina! The Movie
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
Zombie ballerinas — what the hell else do you need to know? Zomberina! The Movie sees usually graceful ballerinas turn into always clunky zombies at a dance competition....
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Megan Frazier Salch
Spending time with your kids might be priceless, but the book costs $14.95
By Melanie Pang
Published: April 23, 2009
Megan Frazier Salch is introducing her guidebook 100+ Activities for Houston Kids, 2009 edition at today’s signing. Organized by months, 100+ is comprehensive,...
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The Timekeepers
Theatre New West and Holocaust Museum Houston present Dan Clancy’s play about friendship and survival
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
Thrown together by circumstance, Benjamin, a Jewish watchmaker, and Hans, a larger-than-life homosexual, share quarters in a Nazi concentration camp. Both are considered...
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Houston Palestinian Film Festival
Can you say reductively politicized depictions?
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 23, 2009
For all the coverage Palestine gets in the media, it’s remarkably difficult to get a true sense of what its culture and people are really like. To fight what they call...
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Catastrophic Theatre’s Clown Town.
Grab your rainbow wig — it’s time for the wildest fund-raiser of the year
By D.L. Groover
Published: April 23, 2009
Have an itch to put on a big red rubber nose? Floppy feet? Or maybe you have an unquenchable desire to cram yourself, along with a score of strangers, into a Yugo? Burst out of...
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The Golden Dragon Acrobats
Human pyramid, anyone?
By Amina Rivera
Published: April 23, 2009
The Golden Dragon Acrobats return to the Miller Outdoor Theatre today to assume the pretzel positions for which they’re famous. The group has traveled around the world...
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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
This is one football game that made history on and off the field
By D.L. Groover
Published: April 23, 2009
The gridiron is a social microcosm in Kevin Rafferty’s (The Atomic Cafe) ultimate sports documentary, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which features a cast of characters who,...
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Graciela Limón: The River Flows North
The award-winning author explores the immigrant journey north
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
In her new novel The River Flows North, author Graciela Limón tells a story common to most immigrants crossing the dangerous Sonora desert into the U.S. While fiction,...
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This American Life - LIVE!
A National Public Radio favorite takes the big screen
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 23, 2009
Longtime listeners become first-time viewers at the screening of This American Life - LIVE! The rare theatrical experience allows fans of the popular National Public Radio...
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The Breakfast Club
Real-life detention was never this fun, but then again, Molly Ringwald wasn’t there
By James Holmes
Published: April 23, 2009
Remember that teen angst you thought you’d outgrown? It’s back with a vengeance at today’s midnight screening of The Breakfast Club. The 1985 John Hughes...
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