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For the second time in too many years, Houston faces the worst kind of hurricane season — the kind that follows a serious hit.
The anxiety level leaps just a little bit...
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The main character in Brantly Martin's debut novel, Pillage, is named Cracula. Can you guess that addiction issues play a part in the plot? There's also sex, the possibility...
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We're pretty sure Amber Eagle, one of three participants in the Lawndale Artist Studio Program, isn't giving us the finger in the "Round 3" exhibit, but we could be wrong. The...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's newest exhibit, "North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection,"shows just how much the MFAH has become a gateway to Latin...
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This time of year, kids building sandcastles are everywhere on Galveston beaches, it's Rockwellesque charm turned up to 11, right? Well, the 23rd Annual American Institute of...
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Jack Heifner's 1976 play Vanities ran for five years, and his musical revue Leader of the Pack (he wrote the book) was nominated for a Tony Award in 1985, so while he's not as...
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The Houston dance scene is an unusually chummy one; it's routine to see several companies perform together or a handful of choreographers unite to make moves. But The Power of...
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Czech cinema came into its own, winning international acclaim, in the early '60s when the New Wave splashed all over everything. Loves of a Blonde is a 1965 film from Milos...
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Painter Danielle Frankenthal's 2008 exhibit at Wade Wilson Art was a casualty of Hurricane Ike. (The show was open only a week before the storm struck.) But lucky for us,...
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Ariane Roesch, assistant gallery director for Gallery Sonja Roesch, says visitors should expect to be surprised at the "Jan van der Ploeg"exhibit, the first-ever Houston show...
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Idiot box, boob tube, babysitter, best friend, however you regard your television, you should give a shout-out to boy genius Philo T. Farnsworth. He's the guy who created the...
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The title of Lincoln Hall's book describes him to a tee: Dead Lucky. That's because he narrowly escaped becoming a Mount Everest fatality three years ago. During a climb, the...
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Show Aurora Picture Show you care, by getting boozed up. At Drink for Aurora!, local bar Poison Girl will donate a portion of the day's sales to Houston's favorite little...
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It took tightrope walker Philippe Petit more than six years to plan his illegal high-wire walk between the then-newly constructed Twin Towers in New York. Petit snuck onto the...
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Feel like letting the good times roll? Head over to Bikes & Bugs II. There's live music by the Zydeco Dots and L.T. and the Zydeco Mob, a crawfish boil and a motorcycle wash...
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In 1961, Neil Simon was a nobody as far as Broadway was concerned. That all changed when his play Come Blow Your Horn opened. The family comedy follows a guy who moves into...
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Enjoy three comics who explore the "cultural disconnects" Asian Americans experience in the U.S. with Asian Comedy Night. Steve Byrne, who's returning after a successful stint...
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Kids will learn more than just which button does what during Beginning Photography for Teens with Sarah Sudhoff. The principles of composition and different creative...
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They didn't call it geopolitics back then, but Mexican Emperor Maximilian was playing international power games just the same. Set up as a puppet ruler by Napoleon, Maximilian...
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The main draw at the 5th Annual Tomato Fest is the tomato tasting. Offerings come from backyard gardeners who have just a handful of tomato plants, to family farmers who have...
