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Issue: May 7, 2009
Page: 2
52 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Night & Day

    SWAMP: Who Does She Think She Is?

    Pamela Tanner Boll examines the mommy track for women artists

    By D. L. Groover
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It’s career vs. personal choice, mom vs. artist in Who Does She Think She Is?, director Pamela Tanner Boll’s in-depth look at how women nurture themselves and stay...

  2. Night & Day

    The Best of the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It’s Mecca for local animation fans — the Best of the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Seventy-five minutes of the best, brightest and most...

  3. Night & Day

    Houston Ballet: Classically Contemporary

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Fresh from a winning tour of Spain, the Houston Ballet presents new interpretations of classical dance in Classically Contemporary. Included in the mix are George...

  4. Night & Day

    22nd Annual Houston Art Car Parade and Weekend

    This is art rated by the MPH

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 7, 2009

    A bead-encrusted dragon, a mobile porta-potty (driven from Waco!) and the “Swamp Mutha,” a Cadillac covered in bronzed ducks and skulls were just a few of the...

  5. Night & Day

    Bloodsoaked

    By Craig Hlavat y
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The third best thing we love about death metal and grind, besides how it scares the elderly and is used by the military to antagonize prisoners of war, are the awesome fonts...

  6. Night & Day

    “The Nature of Diamonds”

    Bring on the bling

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 7, 2009

    “A crystalline form of carbon.” That’s all a diamond is, really. But in its latest show, “The Nature of Diamonds,” the Houston Museum of Natural...

  7. Night & Day

    La Cenerentola LIVE

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The Metropolitan Opera continues its series of live broadcasts with La Cenerentola. Elina Garanca, fresh from an outstanding performance in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, sings the...

  8. Night & Day

    Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

    Go from Twyla to Moses during this program of über-relevant dance

    By JILL KRASNY
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Even reluctant boyfriends will spring for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, a company that takes classical dance and makes it relevant to the iPod generation. Globally renowned for...

  9. Letters

    Car Trouble

    Readers respond to "Wild Ride"

    Published: May 7, 2009

    Car Trouble Online readers comment on "Wild Rides," by Paul Knight, April 23: Design flaw: First of all, I'm glad that Toyota actually had a representative talk to the...

  10. Feature

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

    Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Editor's Note: This story has been updated. In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in...

  11. Music

    Tennessee Pushers

    Old Crow Medicine Show's new CD of original material as rough-edged as their traditional covers

    By Jewly Hight
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Consider Old Crow Medicine Show's big source of inspiration (prewar blues and string-band music) and business model (a leap from busker to recording artist that brought the...

  12. Noise

    Dear Sy~3nc3

    By Chris Gray
    Published: May 7, 2009

    First things first. Peekaboo Theory is not TV on the Radio. Granted, some people might notice a similarity or two between the Houston and Brooklyn bands. Both play an intense,...

  13. Nightfly

    Shake a "Legg"

    An odd Dallas dance has completely taken over Main Street.

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It seems natural to assume that having a foul-smelling appendage would be the pits, but if the popularity of the GS Boyz' quirky, dance-along smash single "Stanky Legg" on...

  14. Chatter

    Return to Radartown

    "Credibility Scare" alumnus Mark Germino plugs in after seven years.

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Mark Germino was part of the vaunted Nashville Class of '84, termed "The Great Credibility Scare" when major labels suddenly signed unknowns Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Nanci...

  15. Local Rotation

    Slim Thug: Boss of all Bosses

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The chief criticism of Slim Thug's 2005 debut LP, Already Platinum, was that with a majority of the tracks' production credits going to the Neptunes, he had wandered too far...

  16. Rotation

    Slaid Cleaves: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Slaid Cleaves has always had an interesting musical niche. Folkies and the Texas music crowd alike swoon over the laconic Yankee-turned-Texan whose music always seems like it...

  17. Rotation

    Dustin Welch: Whisky Priest

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Odds are most people familiar with Dustin Welch's background — his dad is acclaimed writer/performer Kevin Welch — probably thought Welch's debut album would aim...

  18. Playbill

    Lucero

    By Reyan Ali
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It's difficult not to be charmed by Lucero. If the works by and about this Tennessee quartet have been painting a true-to-life portrait, the amicable bunch is likely to both...

  19. Playbill

    Ghostland Observatory

    By Rodgers, D. Patrick
    Published: May 7, 2009

    The story of Ghostland Observatory is of one man who knows his way around a synthesizer and another who is a natural showman. Sequencer-obsessed beat wizard Thomas Turner...

  20. Playbill

    Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 7, 2009

    That Robin Thicke could become a top name in R&B is proof anything's possible in the magical world of pop music. A clean-cut white boy with a pop-culture family tree (he's...

Issue: May 7, 2009
Page: 2
52 stories found - 21 through 40
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