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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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