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Night & Day
Shakespeare on the Green
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
See As You Like It Macbeth at…wait, we forgot an “and” in there somewhere…it’s As You Like It and Macbeth, there we go. Ahem, one more time: See As You...
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Night & Day
Impulse!
UH faculty gives us a future perfect
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 23, 2009
Dance can easily be weighed down by its past, but youth, novelty and spontaneity are front and center at “Impulse!” the annual faculty concert of the University of...
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Night & Day
The San Jacinto Day Festival
Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! And remember your sunscreen
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 23, 2009
It took just 18 minutes for General Sam Houston to lead his Texian soldiers to victory over the Mexican army during the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto. The win secured the...
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Night & Day
David Ray Vance and Anna Journey
Brazos Bookstore hosts a poet who likes to play doctor
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 23, 2009
Poet David Ray Vance is a fan of Gray’s Anatomy. (We’re talking Henry Gray.) In his poems, such as “Further Notes on Legerdemain,” Vance plays with...
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Night & Day
Orphans
Family is where you go when…what was that again?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 23, 2009
North Philly is home to brothers Treat and Phillip in the play Orphans, a black comedy. Treat rolls drunks for money, but one drunk, Harold, is a little more than the brothers...
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Night & Day
Two Tons Of Steel
By Darryl Smyers
Published: April 23, 2009
Uncle Tupelo made explicit how the roots of punk and hard-core honky-tonk intermingled: the rejection (often drunken) of instrumental competence, the politics of desire and its...
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Hair Balls
Racism Goes Unchecked at Regent University, Meanwhile the Melanin-Challenged Turn Out to Protest... Something.
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: April 23, 2009
Courts, Edumacation Pat Robertson's Racism Make fun of blacks, not Pat New evidence may help a Spring man prove the freedom of expression case he's filed in federal court...
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Letters
Tea Parties and Tex-Mex:
There's always someone offended over something these days
Published: April 23, 2009
On the Offensive Online readers respond to "Mexico Protests Tex-Mex Commercial," by Robb Walsh, Eating...Our Words blog, April 14: How rude: I am offended that the...
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Music
Hill Country Hoodoo
No record deal, no recordings — no problem for the South Memphis String Band.
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 23, 2009
In the mythology of both the Delta blues and Western religion, "Idle hands are the devil's tools." If that's the case, then Luther Dickinson must really want to stay away from...
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Chatter
Voodoo Healing
Stan Ridgway is still tuning in "Mexican Radio."
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 23, 2009
Stan Ridgway had the good fortune to arrive on the music scene in 1982, just as MTV blew up. As front man for Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway's "Mexican Radio" became one of the...
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Noise
Hello, Houston!
Noise breaks down the months of live music ahead
By Chris Gray
Published: April 23, 2009
"I remember you so clearly, the first one through the door...I return to find you drifting, too far from the shore" — Tom Petty, "Don't Fade on Me" (Wildflowers,...
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Music
Más y Más
Los Lobos leaves Disney to reembrace their Aztlán roots.
By John Nova Lomax
Published: April 23, 2009
Forgive Los Lobos guitarist, drummer and principal lyricist Louie Perez for not being all that excited about his band's upcoming album. It's a collection of classics from the...
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Local Rotation
Leela James: Let's Do It Again
By Chris Gray
Published: April 23, 2009
To understand what an arresting, puzzling record Leela James's Let's Do It Again really is, look no further than the L.A. native and adopted Houstonian's cover of Foreigner's...
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Rotation
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
By Linda Leseman
Published: April 23, 2009
When the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first two singles ("Zero," "Heads Will Roll") from It's Blitz! dropped in February, critical eyebrows rose dubiously at the possible...
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Rotation
Seth Walker: Leap of Faith
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: April 23, 2009
Taj Mahal called Seth Walker a "little white Ray Charles." And according to a prominently placed quote in the press kit for the Austin musician's new Leap of Faith, no less a...
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Rotation
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
By Chris Gray
Published: April 23, 2009
Jason Isbell just turned 30 this past February, so calling him an old soul might be soft-pedaling things a bit. You just can't be callow and pen a line like "She left me alone...
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Playbill
Rupa & the April Fishes
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 23, 2009
Despite the fact that leader Rupa Marya is of Indian descent, the April Fishes sound like a gypsy band lost somewhere on the wild borders between East and West. A San...
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Playbill
Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 23, 2009
It seems like a long time since Delta blues guitar-master Roy Rogers has graced a Houston stage. Rogers is such a monster slide guitar player, he's usually mentioned with the...
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Playbill
Seal
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: April 23, 2009
British-born singer-songwriter Seal is currently touring behind sixth studio LP Soul, featuring covers of timeless classics like Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," James...
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Playbill
Linus Pauling Quartet, Hearts of Animals
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: April 23, 2009
There's no denying the fact that polarity, whether in relationships or musical performances, generally makes things more interesting. If you let things get too out of sync, you...
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