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Issue: May 28, 2009
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54 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. Feature

    For Their Own Good

    Harris County juveniles certified as adults are jailed in isolation 23 hours a day — without being convicted of a crime.

    By Chris Vogel
    Published: May 28, 2009

    George awakes scared and confused. He's had the dream again, the one where he is living back at home, where he can wander into the kitchen at any hour to down a glass of milk...

  2. Night & Day

    Defending the Caveman

    “Forget fire, let’s figure out this male/female thing”

    By Lee Williams
    Published: May 28, 2009

    It’s the longest solo play in Broadway history, and if you watch the clips on YouTube, it’s pretty easy to see why. Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman is a...

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    “Existed: Leonardo Drew”

    This Brooklyn-based artist takes recycling to the extreme

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    You certainly can’t accuse artist Leonardo Drew of neglecting his recycling responsibilities — his work frequently contains animal carcasses and hides, shoes,...

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    Inprint Summer 2009 Writers Workshops

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Most of us know Inprint for its reading series, but the nonprofit doesn’t just present writers — it trains them, too. During the Inprint Summer 2009 Writers...

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    “Washington Avenue: Forgotten to Gentrified”

    Photographer Robert Sennhauser documents the transformation a near-downtown neighborhood

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Washington Avenue’s been many things over the years. A market road, an immigrant enclave, low-rent bar row, club haven and, in the near future, townhouse alley near...

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    Tim Brown: “Generations”

    This artist sets up shop with items from his past

    By Dusti Rhodes
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Is Tim Brown a pack rat or a historian? For his installation “Generations,” the artist stocked a faux flea market booth with relics from his childhood. Glass cases...

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    East Meets West

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    For East Meets West, award-winning Chinese choreography represents the East, and works by a quartet of local companies represent the West. Dance of Asian America, a mix of...

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    “Louisiana’s Most Wanted: Charles Barbier and Hunter Roth”

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Mexican movie posters, skeletons and vintage pinups provide the aesthetics for “Louisiana’s Most Wanted: Charles Barbier and Hunter Roth,” a collection showing,...

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    Re-Birth-Day Celebration

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Galveston’s Re-Birth-Day Celebration is a party crawl with a purpose. After Hurricane Ike sent a ten-foot wave crashing through the island’s historic Strand...

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    Photo Day at the Zoo

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Houston Zoo residents spend their early morning hours being fed, bathed and entertained — activities visitors almost never see. But during Photo Day at the Zoo,...

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    2009 NWS Hurricane Workshop

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Water? Check. Batteries? Check. Personal meteorologist? Che…wait a minute, personal meteorologist? Well, if you attend the 2009 NWS Hurricane Workshop, you’ll be able...

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    21st Annual Young Inventors Showcase

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    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    A homework machine. A little-brother defense mechanism. A flying skateboard. Most of us spent time as children imagining the many gizmos we’d love to invent, but the...

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    Max Juren

    YouTube filmmaker takes his clips from computer screen to TV screen

    By Dusti Rhodes
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Max Juren is vying for YouTube stardom. Granted, this means he’s competing with sleep-running dogs, kids getting kicked by breakdancers and a guy named Old Gregg pursuing...

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    Slant 9: Bold Asian American Images

    Melissa Hung’s tiny film festival covers zombies, cowboys and…Lou Diamond Phillips?

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Slant 9: Bold Asian American Images, Aurora Picture Show’s ninth annual film festival, breaks a few stereotypes with 11 quirky shorts. There’s Waiting for a Train,...

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    2009 Big Range Dance Festival

    Local choreographers put together a mega-fest of movement

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Since most dance companies center their seasons around spring and fall productions, the summer can seem a little slim (even by dancers’ standards). But that’s not...

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    Jerry Seinfeld

    The “What’s the deal with…” comedian muses over Life (the cereal)

    By BLAKE WHITAKER
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Jerry Seinfeld is still the master of the observational stand-up domain. Creatively, he has nothing left to prove — he could spend an hour on stage reciting Seinfeld...

  17. Night & Day

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    By D.L. Groover
    Published: May 28, 2009

    8 1/2, Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece — and Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film — did more than just make actor Marcello Mastroianni an international movie...

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    Om Shanti Om

    This Bollywood comedy needs no translation

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    You’re sure to lose count of the Bollywood stars that appear in comedy Om Shanti Om (there are more than 40), but don’t let all those famous faces distract you...

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    Astrodome Cinema

    CAMH takes a look at the former 8th Wonder of the World

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Don’t get us wrong — Minute Maid is a lovely park. But Houstonians gazing at its polished scoreboards and high-tech sunroof might feel a twinge of longing for the...

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    “Light as Air”

    Discovery Green’s latest outdoor art show is up in the air

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Beach balls, inner tubes and kiddie pools: It seems that all of summer’s good things are inflatable. This includes “Light as Air,” the art exhibition at...

Issue: May 28, 2009
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54 stories found - 1 through 20
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