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Issue: April 30, 2009
Page: 2
49 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Night & Day

    Garbage Warrior

    Web exclusive!

    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...

  2. Night & Day

    The Gold: A New Musical

    Web exclusive!

    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...

  3. Night & Day

    Comicpalooza

    Web exclusive!

    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...

  4. Night & Day

    Dangerous Corner

    Web exclusive!

    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...

  5. 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”...

  6. 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,...

  7. 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...

  8. 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....

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

Issue: April 30, 2009
Page: 2
49 stories found - 21 through 40
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