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Night & Day
Blew Notes Trio with Abiodun Oyewole
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Spoken-word artist Abiodun Oyewole appears today as part of The Blew Notes Trio's mixed-media performance at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. Blew Notes actually isn't always a...
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Night & Day
Beer Feast
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Take sides in the Beer Wars during today's Beer Feast, a special screening of the documentary accompanied by a gourmet dinner with each course paired with craft brews featured...
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Night & Day
Black Acre Theatre: Love Song
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
They're both under 25 years old, kinda young to be the heads of a theater troupe, but Ben Chai and Mary Black are exactly that. Founders of Houston's newest youth theater,...
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Night & Day
Loco Comedy Jam
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Emmy Award winner Mike Robles hosts an evening of Latino laughs at Loco Comedy Jam. The caustic comic has a bit of an edge to his humor: "My routine is ranting and raving. I...
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Night & Day
Urban Fiction Book Club: Angel by Teri Woods
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Like hard-edged fiction written by authors unafraid of looking at the grittier side of life? Drop by today's meeting of the Urban Fiction Book Club and discuss Angel by Teri...
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Night & Day
Gabriel Prusmack: "Street Tempted"
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Gabriel Prusmack's exhibit "Street Tempted" combines stencils, graffiti, installation and found art. Paintings on found material are adhered to the gallery's walls and...
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Night & Day
Museum of Dysfunction II: A Showcase of Shorts
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Check out a slew of new works by the members of Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company at Museum of Dysfunction II: A Showcase of Shorts. Included is Sara Patterson's play Turned,...
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Night & Day
Menil Movies: Cinematic Works from the Menil Archives
Art sampler from the movie vaults
By D.L. Groover
Published: June 11, 2009
When you think of an art film, you usually think of something with subtitles, directed by Bergman. How about an actual art film — you know, something about art and the...
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Night & Day
Throw Down Your Heart
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
American musician Bela Fleck, who has 20 Grammy nominations for his work, goes to Africa to trace the roots of the banjo in Sascha Paladino's new documentary Throw Down Your...
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Night & Day
Closely Watched Trains
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
One of Time's All-Time 100 Movies, Closely Watched Trains is a coming-of-age story set in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during WWII. Teenage Milos, a dispatch apprentice at a...
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Night & Day
Canal Street Gallery; "Par Avion"
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 11, 2009
Houston artist Gordon Phillipson grew up making model airplanes in his native Jamaica. Those childhood memories are the inspiration for his art exhibit "Par Avion," currently...
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Hair Balls
Mack Brown vs. Iraq & John Lomax vs. a Metro bus
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: June 11, 2009
Sports Mack Brown, Grumpy Old Man He travels to Iraq and complains and complains by Richard Connelly Mack Brown, along with a handful of other NCAA coaches, is making a...
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Letters
One-Woman Wrecking Crew
Readers weigh in on the principal at T.H. Rogers
Published: June 11, 2009
Teacher Conference Great article: My sister, who was a kindergarten Gifted and Talented teacher, was initially told her contract would not be renewed for the coming year ["Let...
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Music
Byrne's Eye View
The ex-Talking Heads front man takes stock of his homeland on his second Brian Eno collaboration.
By Brian J. Barr
Published: June 11, 2009
We can forgive the Presidential Inauguration Committee for leaving David Byrne out of January's Obama festivities. After all, when you're trying to reach millions of Americans,...
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Nightfly
That's the Spot
The self-proclaimed best live music venue in North Houston just might live up to the billing.
By Shea Serrano
Published: June 11, 2009
Each month during the summer and fall, testosterone-driven awesomeness takes over Gary's Spot (14083 FM 2920) in Tomball at "Blood, Sweat and Beers." Gary's Spot is a suburban...
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Chatter
Girl Star, Grown Up
Still proud of her family band, Susan Cowsill does her own thing now.
By William Michael Smith
Published: June 11, 2009
The Cowsills became a national bubblegum-rock sensation when MGM released "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" in 1967. Seven-year-old Susan Cowsill began her career in 1968...
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Local Rotation
O Pioneers!!!: Neon Creeps
By Doug Wallen
Published: June 11, 2009
Song titles can be misleading. In the case of Houston trio O Pioneers!!!, for example, "Saved by the Bell Was a Super Good Show" doesn't dwell on Zack Morris, and "The...
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Rotation
Crocodiles: Summer of Hate
By Ray Cummings
Published: June 11, 2009
New Wave pop glimmer, meet noisy, lo-fi reverb; you'll be working together closely on Summer of Hate, the debut from San Diego's Crocodiles. Intimately, one might say —...
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Rotation
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: June 11, 2009
It's still quite shocking that Grizzly Bear's debut, Yellow House, caused the commotion it did. The Brooklyn four-piece was clearly adept at exploring harmonies that...
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Playbill
Yo! MTV Rap Fest
By Craig D. Lindsey
Published: June 11, 2009
I can't help but approach the Yo! MTV Rap Fest, a show I'm just gonna assume MTV has nothing to do with, with both fond nostalgia and pity. Sure, the show features some of the...
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