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Night & Day
The Wiz
Ease into summer with the Ensemble Theatre’s latest production
By Lee Williams
Published: June 25, 2009
Dorothy and all her pals from the land of Oz make their way to the Ensemble Theatre for the new production of The Wiz. Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown’s 1975 Tony...
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Night & Day
“Blow Up Houston”
These ain’t your little sister’s dolls — unless your little sister was an explosives expert
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Expect to hear a few booms at “Blow Up Houston,” a show of customized vinyl blow-up dolls. Wait, wait, these aren’t the plastic pretend sex-partners you buy off...
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Night & Day
KPRC Local 2 Summer Symphony Nights featuring Hee-Young Lim
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Cellist Hee-Young Lim won the silver medal during the recent Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. Part of her prize is a solo spot at today's KPRC Local 2 Summer Symphony Nights...
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Night & Day
Jeff Kass: Columbine: A True Crime Story
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
It's been ten years since the shootings at Columbine shocked the nation. Jeff Kass, a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News at the time, was one of the first reporters on the...
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Night & Day
El Hijo de la Novia (The Bride's Son)
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
In El Hijo de la Novia (The Bride's Son), Rafael is at a crossroads. He can continue to keep the family business going in Buenos Aires and live his life based on the needs and...
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Night & Day
Katherine Howe: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Houston author Katherine Howe is casting a spell over readers with her new book The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. The debut novelist didn't have to go far for a storyline -...
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Night & Day
Seth Harwood: Jack Wakes Up
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Jack Palms has been clean and sober for three years. Things have been going well enough, but when he takes a job showing some out-of-town big shots around, all hell breaks...
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Night & Day
Jamie Freveletti: Running from the Devil
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Colombian guerrillas, a hijacked plane that goes down in the jungle, dangerous biological weapons and a scientist with her own agenda make up the elements of Jamie Freveletti's...
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Hair Balls
Outed on the Internet: A Houston professor's plight becomes a web phenomenon
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: June 25, 2009
Courts, Environment Go to Jail Harris County sends polluter behind bars by Richard Connelly Here's something relatively new: A Harris County polluter is going to...
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Letters
Confined Youth
Reader weigh in on youths in state homes and behind bars.
Published: June 25, 2009
In the Group Heartbreaking: These dayhab places are the biggest scam on the planet ["The Recruit," by Paul Knight, June 11, 2009]. Having gone through three since my son...
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Music
Shacking Up
A brief oral history of legendary Houston garage-punks Sugar Shack.
By Lance Scott Walker
Published: June 25, 2009
It's been 20 years since Sugar Shack released "You're a Freak," a bona fide local anthem that perseveres to this day. The legendary Houston band's complex, 20-plus-year history...
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Music
Pay for Play
Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.
By Vickie Chang
Published: June 25, 2009
As the sun sets over the parking lot of the Long Beach Courthouse, one of the best and busiest session drummers in the industry is standing motionless, a pair of shearing...
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Noise
Burnin' for You
By Chris Gray
Published: June 25, 2009
Most of the milestones we use to measure our lives are pretty pedestrian. Friends come and go, relationships blossom and wilt, jobs appear and disappear. Children grow up,...
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Nightfly
Sippin' Sideways
Lower Washington wine bar Corkscrew is as mellow as a fine merlot.
By Shea Serrano
Published: June 25, 2009
Mike Warner is a protection specialist. In other words, he's in charge of protecting lots of important people, and laying a serious hurt on anyone who intends them...
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Chatter
Soul Power
Houston throwback singer Leela James does it again.
By Chris Gray
Published: June 25, 2009
They say they don't make 'em like they used to, but in one case they sure do: Leela James's new album Let's Do It Again (Shanachie) is a throwback to the gritty glory days of...
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Rotation
Rick Ross: Deeper Than Rap
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 25, 2009
Rick Ross is the Gorman Thomas of rappers. Forever swinging for the fences, he blasts a home run once in a while but strikes out much more frequently. On Deeper Than Rap, Ross...
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Rotation
Larry Jon Wilson: Larry Jon Wilson
By Doug Wallen
Published: June 25, 2009
>With a sonorous voice and brooding storytelling, Georgia country singer Larry Jon Wilson haunted the outskirts of 1970s Nashville, releasing four albums now considered...
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Rotation
Ear Pwr: Super Animal Brothers III
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: June 25, 2009
It's interesting to watch a scene coalesce in real time, taking on a personal musical identity heard and felt by its denizens and noted by the music community at large....
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Rotation
St. Vincent: Actor
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: June 25, 2009
In 2007, Dallas native Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, released Marry Me — a cute, promising debut that highlighted her sometimes dark, sometimes deep, optimistic voice...
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Playbill
Ben Kweller
By Mike Harris
Published: June 25, 2009
Ben Kweller's sound is constantly evolving. It's shifted from garage-band yelps to piano-ballad coos, from electric feedback to acoustic resonance. This time, to...
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