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Night & Day
24th Annual Heights Fun Run
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Kids can take their parents along for the children's part of the 24th Annual Heights Fun Run, but adults will have to make the 5K run/walk segment on their own. Everyone's...
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Night & Day
Attention Deficit Improv
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Attention Deficit Improv, "where it pays to think fast," is comedy aimed at teens. Kids can expect improv games, offbeat characters, impersonations and even an impromptu song...
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Night & Day
Fifth Element
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Bruce Willis still had a little hair on his head when he made the 1990s flick Fifth Element. In it, Willis is Korben Dallas, a cab driver living in a futuristic world. He...
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Night & Day
Surf Nazis Must Die
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Beware of grandmas with guns. Once you piss them off, there's no turning back. Just ask the dead guys in Surf Nazis Must Die, today's installment in the Tromatic Thursday...
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Night & Day
Gallery One Three Seven: Victoria Whitaker
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
See the tiniest art gallery in town at the opening of Gallery One Three Seven: Victoria Whitaker. "It's 1.37 square feet. It's a miniature gallery within the museum, inside the...
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Night & Day
3rd Annual KBR Kids Day on Buffalo Bayou
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
The preteen crowd will enjoy the 3rd Annual KBR Kids Day on Buffalo Bayou. More than two dozen nonprofit organizations will have activity stations set up on the bayouís...
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Night & Day
Glenn Beck
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
You have three chances to see political pundit/social commentator Glenn Beck this week. There's his live appearance at Verizon Wireless Theater, and then there are two...
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Night & Day
Urinetown, The Musical
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Mark Hollman's comedy, Urinetown, the Musical, uses pee to poke fun at Broadway, capitalism, bureaucracy and small-town politics, among other topics. The play is set in a...
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Night & Day
A Day at the Races
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 4, 2009
Poor Mrs. Upjohn. Those pesky Marx Brothers tormented the uptight society dame every chance they got, and their treatment of her in A Day at the Races is no different. The 1937...
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Night & Day
Disney’s Aladdin: Dual Language Edition
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By Lee Williams
Published: June 4, 2009
In 1992, the Disney version of Aladdin charmed young fans into dreaming of magic carpets and genies (oh, and it sold millions in ticket sales and related products). Today kids...
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Night & Day
Houston 48 Hour Film Project
See what beat-the-clock Hitchcocks produced in a two-day filmmaking contest
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: June 4, 2009
It’s a race to the big screen at the Houston 48 Hour Film Project. The annual contest challenges local filmmaking teams to conceptualize, write, film and edit a...
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Hair Balls
Here's to you, John Cramer: Misanthrope cracks the case of amnesia victim.
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: June 4, 2009
Spaced City World's Crustiest Hero Misanthrope cracks the case of amnesia victim by John Nova Lomax If you work on loading docks long enough, you develop an eye for the...
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Downing
Let the Record Reflect
This isn't the first time T.H. Rogers Principal Cathryn White has been accused of intimidating disregard for teachers and parents.
By Margaret Downing
Published: June 4, 2009
Dr. Cathryn White came to T.H. Rogers two years ago, and whatever good will she initially generated, what with being the new principal and then having to take maternity leave...
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Letters
How Classic Is Classic Rock?
Published: June 4, 2009
Father Tucker Ludicrous: If Carol Barnwell is the official spokeswoman of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, why did Craig Malisow not bother to publish anything she had to say...
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Music
Good Manners
Passion Pit's improbable journey from laptop love notes to live band.
By Reyan Ali
Published: June 4, 2009
Valentine's Day 2007 was responsible for two strains of viral phenomena. The first, appearing in January, was a Valentine's Day-themed Trojan horse that automatically...
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Noise
Fight for Your Right
Does the U.S. belong with the Axis of Evil?
By Chris Gray
Published: June 4, 2009
It's not every day you can flip on C-SPAN and see chrome-dome Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, an image reminiscent of...
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Nightfly
Armadillo World Headquarters
The Goode family's shrine to all things Texas could use a shootout or two.
By Shea Serrano
Published: June 4, 2009
Texas Renegade is onstage at Goode's Armadillo Palace (5015 Kirby), but the most renegade thing about the San Marcos country-rockers is a solo by harmonica stud Kasey...
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Chatter
Personality Crisis
The New York Dolls aren't too long in the tooth to sing "Jet Boy."
By Daniel Siwek
Published: June 4, 2009
If you've been keeping up with rock and roll current events, you may have heard that the New York Dolls are back with a new record, Cause I Sez So (Atco), the puckering...
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Local Rotation
Glasnost: Great Divide EP
By Chris Gray
Published: June 4, 2009
Since the '80s, bands that have dared to cross-breed rock and dance music have been all too happy to let their synthesizers do the songwriting for them — even the most...
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Rotation
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Beware
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: June 4, 2009
Beware isn't nearly as ominous as Will Oldham might want you to believe. Although its 13 tracks do gravitate toward themes of disappointment and disillusionment, it's with...
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