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Night & Day
Parlami d’amore (Let’s Talk about Love)
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
Silivio Muccino’s 2008 comedy Parlami d’amore (Let’s Talk about Love) features Sasha, a twentysomething man hopelessly in love with the young and beautiful...
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Night & Day
Happy Days — A New Musical
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
Talk about an odd couple — one’s a too-cool-for-words chick magnet, the other’s a hopeless innocent. But somehow the Fonz and Richie are best friends. And in...
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Hair Balls
Mature Strippers and Lottery Money:
Not coming to anywhere near you
Published: May 14, 2009
Courts Too Old To Demean Herself Feds file age-discrimination suit against strip club Now this is the kind of federal government you're getting now that Obama's in office...
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Letters
There Will Be Blood:
Kidneys for sale & METRO police shootings
Published: May 14, 2009
Kidney Money Heartbreaking work: These are just two of your stories I've read. Very seldom does an article move me to even wonder who wrote it "You Want a Piece of Me?" by...
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Music
Going Viral
The infestation of classic-rock threatens the cultural legacy of an entire generation and must be stopped.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 14, 2009
A virus is currently spreading among today's young people. Like swine flu, it has made life extremely unpleasant for many, but unlike the H1N1 strain, it is exclusively passed...
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Noise
Vinyl & Compilations
Alternatives to the full-Length CD are back with a vengeance.
By Chris Gray
Published: May 14, 2009
It seems like the last thing local guitar-type bands or musicians want to do these days is release a full-length CD. So far this year, the lion's share of notable Houston indie...
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Nightfly
Frat Friendly Fun
Relive those Greek glory days (if you had them) at Midtown's Vintage Lounge.
By Shea Serrano
Published: May 14, 2009
Half an hour isn't much time, but sometimes — in Night World, especially — it can mean a world of difference. Get to Vintage Lounge (2108 Kipling) around 11 p.m.,...
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Chatter
Creep Show
O Pioneers!!! turns growing up into unrelenting punk rock.
By Shea Serrano
Published: May 14, 2009
Minimalist Houston punk-rock trio O Pioneers!!! creates a pulsating, unrelenting, yet thoroughly engaging wall of sound. The trio tours throughout the southern U.S. pretty...
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Local Rotation
Mike Jones: The Voice
By Shea Serrano
Published: May 14, 2009
Here's the thing about The Voice, Mike Jones's follow-up to double-platinum debut Who Is Mike Jones?: People automatically want to hate it. Perhaps even more...
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Rotation
Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: May 14, 2009
Nearly as interesting as his musical progression is Bob Dylan's vocal progression: the nasal whine of Freewheelin'; warm tones of Nashville Skyline; full-throated roar of the...
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Rotation
Young Jeezy: The Recession
By Detrick, Ben
Published: May 14, 2009
Fuck Huey Long: Young Jeezy is the master of populism. Here's a self-made millionaire who empathizes with the day-to-day troubles of the working class, preaches distrust of the...
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Rotation
Steve Earle: Townes
By William Michael Smith
Published: May 14, 2009
Considered by many to be the best Americana songwriter, living or dead, Townes Van Zandt certainly never made it the way Steve Earle has. But on Townes, Earle mines Van Zandt's...
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Playbill
Live
By Craig Hlavaty
Published: May 14, 2009
In the beginning of its nearly three-decade career, the almost un-Googleable Live was hailed in late-'80s college rock circles as the second coming of U2, or at least a...
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Playbill
Olga Tañón
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
Early in her career, Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón was the queen of merengue, but with an expanded repertoire that includes ballads, pop and all types of...
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Playbill
Edgar Winter
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: May 14, 2009
If you have a thick skull, nimble feet and a proclivity toward violence, you become a prizefighter. If you have a bluesman's soul, a musical family and a tendency toward...
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Playbill
Jason Aldean
By Eddy, Chuck
Published: May 14, 2009
The riff in Jason Aldean's latest smash, "She's Country," as far as I can tell, comes from AC/DC. He's easily got the hackiest cowboy hat in today's crop of country hunks, but...
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Playbill
Fischerspooner
By Zaleski, Anne
Published: May 14, 2009
In hindsight, the idea that people once considered Fischerspooner an electroclash act is laughable. NYC duo Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner have always been a synth-pop band...
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Playbill
The Dears
By Levack, Chandler
Published: May 14, 2009
Montreal's The Dears have always been a curiosity. While front man Murray Lightburn ignored pesky "Black Morrissey" comparisons, the rest of the band was reshuffled in a...
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Playbill
The Vibrators
By David Ensminger
Published: May 14, 2009
The Vibrators are year-zero godfathers of singalong punk who shook the world in ten days; that's how long it took to record their iconic, hook-filled 1977 debut Pure Mania....
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Cafe
Pork and Beans on a Bun
Pick up a sack of inexpensive sandwiches at the laid-back Tortas El Angel on Shepherd.
By Robb Walsh
Published: May 14, 2009
The steak, onion and raw jalapeño sandwich called the "Pepito" at Tortas El Angel in the Heights was my unexpected favorite. The crunchy fire of the chiles sparked every...
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