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Mind Games
Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.
By Megan Feldman
Published: May 14, 2009
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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“The Shell Prints of Jean Charles Chenu”
Museum of Printing History offers up historical engravings that are shore to interest you
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Bill Welling: Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex
See where the term “big screen” really came from
By Julia Ramey
Published: May 14, 2009
Perhaps it’s 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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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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“Conceal/Disclose”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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"FotoFence"
FotoFest goes back to school
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Pasadena Strawberry Festival
Roses are red…hey, wait a minute — you’re not a rose!
By JILL KRASNY
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Redbud Gallery: “Broken Brushes: Degenerate German Art 1930 - 1940”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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“Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama”
Is 166 the creepy factor?
By Julia Ramey
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Classical Theatre Company: Antigone
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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The Terminator
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Jon Ginoli: Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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“Reload”
premiumgoods takes another shot at outsider art
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
Take a look at Jeanette Degollado’s 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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National Black Book Festival
Readers, writers and wannabes all have a spot at the NBBF
By JILL KRASNY
Published: May 14, 2009
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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The Third Side
Three’s a crowd when it comes to Darwin
By Lee Williams
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Houston Fringe Festival
Check out the latest from local underground playwrights, filmmakers, improv and theater troupes
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 14, 2009
BooTown’s Houston Fringe Festival shows you things you’ve never seen before. For the annual presentation, local theater troupes, filmmakers, playwrights and...
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Collectors and Cocktails
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Grey Gardens
Jackie O’s poor relations sure were a spunky bunch
By D.L. Groover
Published: May 14, 2009
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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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
Author Louis Sachar’s series of hit children’s 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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“Recollections of Havana”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 14, 2009
The Russian Cultural Center’s 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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