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Night & Day
Garbage Warrior
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
Geopolitics, radical dreams, anti-bureaucracy sentiments and trash all make their way into the documentary film Garbage Warrior, the story of renegade architect Michael...
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Night & Day
The Gold: A New Musical
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
Going for the gold takes on new meaning in The Gold: A New Musical. The stage production tells the story of amateur boxer Joseph Cohen and his experiences as a Jewish athlete...
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Night & Day
Comicpalooza
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
If you’re not a Wolverine fan, go ahead and skip to the next event. If, however, like all other people with extremely good taste, you love the hairy, steel-implanted...
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Night & Day
Dangerous Corner
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
Don’t dismiss Dangerous Corner as a typical 1930s thriller; it has some jaw-dropping, unexpected twists and turns. Some friends are enjoying themselves at a party as the...
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Night & Day
“New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch”
Central Texas artists get the spotlight at DiverseWorks
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
Provocative and forward-thinking work — that’s what you’ll get at “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch.” Presented by DiverseWorks, “New Art”...
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Night & Day
Houston Grand Opera: Brief Encounter
André Previn’s newest work makes its world premiere
By Lee Williams
Published: April 30, 2009
The story starts in a train station, that most romantic of spaces, where possibilities seem infinite. Laura Jesson and Alec Harvey, a 1930s British housewife and doctor,...
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Night & Day
“Vulnerable Ecologies”
Susan Stockwell uses our furless friends to make art
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: April 30, 2009
Susan Stockwell transforms the remains of one of our closest companions into art. To create “Vulnerable Ecologies,” the British sculptor used recycled computer parts...
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Feature
You Want A Piece of Me? Let's Make A Deal
Kidney donation needs drive some complex trading maneuvers.
By Mike Giglio
Published: April 30, 2009
The worsening kidney shortage has pushed the transplant community to try and find new donors. But it also wants to become more efficient with the ones it already has. For Dr....
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Hair Balls
UH Gets the Brush-Off from Nike
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: April 30, 2009
Sports Phi Slama Jama Lives — But Not in Houston Nike's new sneaker not for sale here With a 31-3 record and slam-dunking skills like no other, the "dunking...
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Letters
Treating Themselves
Readers have second oponions about the high cost of health care and Generation DIY
Published: April 30, 2009
Thank you: I have never personally e-mailed an author of an article that I've read in the Houston Press, but this one took the cake because it is something that hits home for...
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Music
Live at Liberty Hall
The short but storied past of Houston's legendary live music venue.
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 30, 2009
As the bloom fell off hippiedom, Houston's musical landscape continued to evolve. Although clubs like Love Street Light Circus and the Catacombs became legendary, the fact of...
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Noise
Got Live If You Want It
Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux
By Chris Gray
Published: April 30, 2009
As promised, here's the second part of Noise's spring/summer concert preview. It's nice to know there are too many venues – and too many shows – in town to fit in...
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Nightfly
Fresh Fruit
Mango's attempts to resurrect Westheimer's bohemian past.
By Shea Serrano
Published: April 30, 2009
Nick Cooper, drummer for famed Houston genre-fusionists Free Radicals, may be the most entertaining near-motionless performer you've ever seen. By default, you'd expect...
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Chatter
Touring with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Get on the bus, it's a family affair.
By Steffen, Chris
Published: April 30, 2009
A band as bizarre, diverse and complicated as Sleepytime Gorilla Museum couldn't be expected to travel in any normal vehicle. So it's only proper that once the band pulls up to...
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Playbill
Dredg, Torche
By Mosley, Shae
Published: April 30, 2009
Dredg is a powerful live force that creates an unrelentingly heavy wall of guitar noise, but like a more metal-influenced Explosions in the Sky (or a less pop-centric Coheed...
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Playbill
Ximena Sariñana
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: April 30, 2009
Among the rising stars of the Latin Alternative movement — the growing trend of mostly Spanish-language performers who do not play traditional beats — Mexican-born...
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Playbill
Unwigged & Unplugged
By Gale, Ezra
Published: April 30, 2009
True story: Years ago, this writer ran smack into comedians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer in an East Village bar, holding court in character as Spinal...
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Playbill
Kristine Mills
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 30, 2009
Two things are surprising about Houston jazz singer Kristine Mills's latest release, bossanovafied. One, the bossa nova/samba beat lasts the entire album without growing...
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Playbill
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, the Smithereens
By Chris Gray
Published: April 30, 2009
If you're going practically all the way to Tomball for a retro bill, it might as well be one that can practically rock you right back to the Loop. Hell, Joan Jett might be able...
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Playbill
Jandek, MV + EE
By Chris Gray
Published: April 30, 2009
The last thing anyone who piled into Rudyard's upstairs Palm Sunday afternoon for the first-ever publicly advertised Houston performance by local "outsider musician" Jandek...
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