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Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.
By Megan Feldman
Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few strangers...
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Museum of Printing History offers up historical engravings that are shore to interest you
By Dusti Rhodes
See some serious seashells in The Shell Prints of Jean Charles Chenu. The exhibit features a shellection (err, we mean selection) of original hand-painted,...
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See where the term big screen really came from
By Julia Ramey
Perhaps its due to a desire to just stay out of the heat, but Houstonians seem to have a particularly strong attachment to the movie theater. Today, as part of their...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
In the film Crips and Bloods: Made in America, street philosophers recount how the Watts riots in the mid 1960s eventually led to the birth of the Crips and Bloods a generation...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Two women from the Middle East examine concealment and disclosure in an exhibit cleverly called Conceal/Disclose. Israeli painter Hagit Barkai and Iranian...
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FotoFest goes back to school
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Over the last year, the Literacy Through Photography program put hundreds of students together with dozens of teachers and artists. LTP gave the kids just one mandate: Show us...
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Roses are red
hey, wait a minute youre not a rose!
By JILL KRASNY
Pasadena is the Strawberry Capital of Texas the tiny town once shipped freight-loads of the sweet treats to Chicago and Kansas every day. A blast for adults and kids...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
This is one time that being called a degenerate is a good thing: German artists from the 1930s and 1940s whom Hitler found objectionable were labeled degenerate....
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Is 166 the creepy factor?
By Julia Ramey
We dare you to try to look away from the works in Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston. The art might make you uncomfortable...
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Actress Bree Welch plays Antigone, the woman at the center of a struggle that will forever change not only her family but her nation as well. After her uncle, the King of...
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Back in 1984, nobody knew we were watching the future governor of Cali on screen in the sci-fi thriller The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the ultimate cyborg assassin...
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The founding member of the first openly gay punk rock band Pansy Division, Jon Ginoli, is in town today for a reading and singing of his book Deflowered: My Life in Pansy...
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premiumgoods takes another shot at outsider art
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Take a look at Jeanette Degollados For Cassie and you might get the wrong idea about the new premiumgoods exhibit Reload. The painting shows a young woman...
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Readers, writers and wannabes all have a spot at the NBBF
By JILL KRASNY
If you live by the pen (or just pretend you do to impress chicks), hit the George R. Brown Convention Center for the National Black Book Festival this weekend. Hosted by...
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Threes a crowd when it comes to Darwin
By Lee Williams
Chances are Darwin had no idea that his theory of evolution would still be causing such a controversy 150 years after he published Origin of the Species. As the debate in...
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Check out the latest from local underground playwrights, filmmakers, improv and theater troupes
By Dusti Rhodes
BooTowns Houston Fringe Festival shows you things youve never seen before. For the annual presentation, local theater troupes, filmmakers, playwrights and...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Become one while you enjoy the other at Collectors and Cocktails, a fund-raiser for Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. You can bid on artworks donated by Houston collectors...
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Jackie Os poor relations sure were a spunky bunch
By D.L. Groover
While mother and daughter Big Edie and Little Edie Beale are, respectively, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, it is their personal...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Author Louis Sachars series of hit childrens novels is the basis for Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Set in a school that was built with all the classrooms...
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
The Russian Cultural Centers latest exhibit, Recollection of Havana: The Art of Vladimir Frumin, is a collection of photographs of the Cuban capital by St....
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