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Issue: May 28, 2009
Page: 2
54 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Night & Day

    Found Magazine’s Denim and Diamonds Tour

    Davy and Peter Rothbart share their latest trashy finds

    By JILL KRASNY
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Forrest Gump had it wrong. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates; it’s like a rancid trash heap of discarded junior high diaries, ‘80s prom photos, and scrawled-on...

  2. Night & Day

    The Beauty Queen of Leenane

    Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s characters dream small dreams

    By Lee Williams
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Martin McDonagh is the latest Anglo-Irish darling of the theater. His often gruesome plays are funny and real as they bring to life all sorts of monstrous and all-too-human...

  3. Night & Day

    “Of an Era”

    The Houston Ballet focuses on living choreographers

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    With “Of an Era,” its spring repertory program, the Houston Ballet focuses on a very important time in dance: today. The evening features three works by living...

  4. Night & Day

    "Wendy Wagner Whimsies"

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Hunting Prize-winner Wendy Wagner has been having a good year, with successful exhibits at the New Gallery and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Her latest show is "Wendy...

  5. Night & Day

    "Wendy Wagner Whimsies"

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Hunting Prize-winner Wendy Wagner has been having a good year, with successful exhibits at the New Gallery and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Her latest show is "Wendy...

  6. Night & Day

    "Painting the Cosmos: Science and the Art of Frederic Edwin Church"

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    In the mid-19th century, American artists were considered inferior to their European counterparts. Then 33-year-old Frederic Edwin Church came along with The Heart of the...

  7. Night & Day

    Nature Trekkers

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Kids will watch thousands of free-tailed bats fly through the sky at dusk, turn junk mail into art and learn how to identify hawks this month at the Houston Arboretum and...

  8. Night & Day

    Evenings on a Farm Near Dikaníka

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Filled with traditional Ukrainian characters and culture, director Alexander Rowís Evenings on a Farm Near Dikaníka mixes live action with animation. Sure, it's a...

  9. Night & Day

    Alan Bradley

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    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Houston is one of only three stops author Alan Bradleyís making during his publicity tour for his debut novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Set in an English...

  10. Feature

    For Their Own Good: A Chance at Rehabilitation

    Teens could go to TYC till they're 19, then have another hearing to determine parole or prison after that.

    By Chris Vogel
    Published: May 28, 2009

    If a juvenile who's been certified as an adult is found guilty of a crime, there is a procedure in Texas that would seem to give both the teen and the prosecutor the best of...

  11. Hair Balls

    Perverts, Beware

    Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Crime, Political Animals PERVERTS, BEWARE Senator's bill may or may not do something to you by Craig Malisow Sometimes legislative bills don't seem to be written in...

  12. Letters

    Kill Bill

    Readers respond to ill-defined proposed legislation.

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Kill Bill Online readers respond to "Bill Would Keep Sex Offenders From Doing Something, Maybe. It's Hard To Tell," Hair Balls blog, By Craig Malisow, May 18: SOP: More often...

  13. Music

    Her Way

    Singer-songwriter Elaine Greer learns how to play well with others.

    By Dusti Rhodes
    Published: May 28, 2009

    With her wide eyes, shy demeanor and devastatingly adorable giggle, you'd think Elaine Greer would welcome musical input with a warm smile and how-do-ya-do. "Oh, no, I'm not...

  14. Noise

    Running the Numbers

    By Chris Gray
    Published: May 28, 2009

    In the end, all you're left with is the numbers. Sifting through and counting up the nomination ballots for this year's Houston Press Music Awards, the raw material for the...

  15. Nightfly

    Where the Boys Are

    Guava Lamp is a good-natured gay bar in disguise.

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Guava Lamp (570 Waugh) is indeed a gay bar. Most of the time, informing someone the place they've just wandered into is a gay bar is about as necessary as letting them know...

  16. Chatter

    Phone Home Page

    Two Houston poets create a modern-day party line online.

    By Craig D. Lindsey
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Every Tuesday night, Jasper-born Houstonian Charles Forward, also known as poet and spoken-word artist SCEF (which stands for his full name, Shane Charles Edward Forward), gets...

  17. Local Rotation

    Low Man's Joe: Where I Stand

    By Chris Gray
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Before "Wanted Dead or Alive," before "It's My Life," before Jon Bon Jovi went off to Hollywood and took the Lost Highway through Nashville in 2007, Bon Jovi was a pretty...

  18. Rotation

    Lissy Trullie: Self-Taught Learner

    By Ray Cummings
    Published: May 28, 2009

    There's a dry, tomboyish cool to Lissy Trullie's brand of songwriting — the same quality she brings to her modeling work. She's emotional, but neither excessively or...

  19. Rotation

    Dale Watson: The Truckin' Sessions: Volume Two

    By Doug Wallen
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Rife with character-heavy narratives and big-sky imagery, country music has always been an ideal soundtrack for driving. We're reminded of that on Dale Watson's second album of...

  20. Rotation

    Cordero: De Donde Eres

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Ani Cordero and her band are all about mood. Forget all the clichés about Latin music, the spicy this, the fiery that, because none of that cuts it with this Brooklyn...

Issue: May 28, 2009
Page: 2
54 stories found - 21 through 40
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