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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...
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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...
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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...
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Night & Day
"Wendy Wagner Whimsies"
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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...
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Night & Day
"Wendy Wagner Whimsies"
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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