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Bring Back the Babes and Bitches
Published: May 7, 2009
Texas, Hurricane Ike Bring Back the Babes Galveston goes retro for a beauty pageant From 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in...
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Children’s Museum of Houston: Kinetic Sculpture
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Kids can create a moving, swirling, spinning mobile during today’s Kinetic Sculptures play activity at the Children’s Museum of Houston. Using normal household items...
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World Affairs Council of Houston: Who Are We to the World?
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
The World Affairs Council of Houston hosts former Bush adviser and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes for the lecture Who Are We to the World?...
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DCI 2009: The Countdown
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
A field of 72 drum corps performances were narrowed down to just six for the film DCI 2009: The Countdown and you can see for yourself which is the best of all. Drum corps...
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Kid’s Play: The Musical
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Kid’s Play: The Musical makes its premiere today with a performance by Hope Stone Inc.’s Kid’s Play Ensemble accompanied by the boys band YouthSound. Hope Stone...
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No Sex Please, We’re British
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
At the opening of the comedy No Sex Please, We’re British, a young wife has just sent off for some mail-order Scandinavian glassware (brides do that sort of thing, you...
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“The Harmony of Mexico/Matizando Mexico”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
See what happens when American ideas meet Mexican techniques, and vice versa, in “The Harmony of Mexico/Matizando México,” an exhibit of works by a group known...
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
In the early 1940s, Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Auschwitz. He was seven years old. Fast-forward to the present, and he’s a member of the International Court of...
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Opera to Go: Romeo and Juliet
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Hormone-filled high-schoolers will identify with the tragic duo at the center of Opera to Go’s performance of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Far from the stuffy, boring...
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The SPCA: Kinky Friedman
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Depending on your point of view, Kinky Friedman is either the funniest or most unfunny guy in Texas. But one thing there’s no doubt about is that Friedman is an animal...
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“Retablos: Art for the Masses”
The Catholic faithful and art lovers alike will enjoy this look at folk tradition
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
There’s a double meaning to the title “Retablos: Art for the Masses.” The art exhibit, based on guest curator Bob Briddick’s private collection, includes...
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“Casual Encounters”
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By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 7, 2009
See who has become more-than-friends with Give Up in “Casual Encounters.” “The artists involved are people I’ve come to know and respect both artistically...
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Found Footage Festival
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Seeing the Found Footage Festival might make you a little more careful with the videos and DVDs you throw away. FFF is made up completely of footage found in dumpsters and at...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
You’d be pissed too if all you got was a little lump where your vagina should be
By Lee Williams
Published: May 7, 2009
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a quirky musical that enjoys a cult following, along with some pretty fabulous press. The New York Times called the rock musical about gender...
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“Amy Blakemore: Photographs from 1988 to 2008”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston looks at 20 years of work by a local photographer
By OLIVIA FLORES ALVAREZ
Published: May 7, 2009
Photographer Amy Blakemore considers her camera a tool for collecting bits and pieces of stories. “Instead of picking up stuff,” she’s said, “I leave with a...
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Deirdre Shaw
The first time novelist makes an old story new again
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Writer Deirdre Shaw’s Love or Something Like It: A Novel has been called “piercingly insightful,” “graceful” and “razor-sharp.” That’s...
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Houston Indie Book Festival
Literary event showcases underground authors, publishers, bookstores and more
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 7, 2009
The Houston Indie Book Festival is your once-a-year, one-stop-shop for all things local, literary and underground. The event brings together independent publishers,...
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Tchaikovsky Birthday Celebration
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Maestro Hans Graf and pianist James Dick join the Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas” for a Tchaikovsky Birthday Celebration. Before everyone sings “Happy...
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Chipp Kidd
Meet one of the “greatest living graphic designers” (according to Domy Books’ Russell Etchen)
By Lee Williams
Published: May 7, 2009
Calling all graphic design fans — Chipp Kidd, an “incredibly charming, dapper and funny” guy according to Russell Etchen, manager of Houston’s Domy Books,...
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“No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 7, 2009
Admit it, Houston looks like UPS just dropped it off. A tangle of residential, industrial and commercial properties (all next door to each other), the city’s lack of...
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