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ID Theft
Someone gets your social, ruins your credit, upends your life. And gets away free and clear.
By Paul Knight
Published: June 25, 2009
It wasn't long after Brandon Sharp turned 30 that he proposed to his girlfriend. She said yes, and the plans for marriage made him "realize it was time to change my...
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Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts: “Six Figure Artists”
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
For the exhibit "Six Figure Artists," Tomball-area painters Liz Hill, Fred Hulser, Marty Hatcher, Lesley Humphrey, Dawn McKelvy and Howie Doyle painted the same model during...
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The Lone Star Symphonic Band: Salute to Freedom
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Get a jump start on your 4th of July celebrations with the Lone Star Symphonic Band's Salute to Freedom. The program includes "Stars and Stripes Forever," "The Star Spangled...
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"Entanglements" Dance Performance
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Painter donna e. perkins and dancer jhon stronks have a lot in common, as the exhibit "Entanglements" shows. Both work with lines, forms, shadows and movement. Enjoy an evening...
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“Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks!”
Art gets the deli treatment at DiverseWorks’ annual fund-raiser
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: June 25, 2009
Get art before it gets you at “Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks!” DiverseWorks’ annual fund-raiser features a raffle-style sale of works by more than 200...
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Greater Houston Partnership: Geraldo Rivera
Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker
By JULIA RAMEY
Published: June 25, 2009
How about a little Geraldo Rivera for lunch? The intrepid attorney, writer, talk-show host, war correspondent and world-renowned mustache-bearer will be in town today for a...
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4th Annual Debbie Allen Dance Institute Houston
So You Think You Can Dance?
By Julia Ramey
Published: June 25, 2009
Jazz hands are passé; you’ve got to learn the newest moves to be a dancer. Kicking, leaping, turning and twisting — all of it. Thankfully, you’ve got...
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“Extremely Shorts 12: Works 3 Minutes and Under”
Annual film festival exhibits the quick and the fresh
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: June 25, 2009
See a selection of works by 60-second Scorseses at “Extremely Shorts 12: Works 3 Minutes and Under.” Aurora Picture Show’s annual film festival highlights films...
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"Fragmento"
Carlos Runcie-Tanaka builds ‘em up to break ‘em down
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Get ready for a surprise at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art’s latest exhibit, “Fragmento,” by Peruvian sculptor Carlos Runcie-Tanaka. This time the tiny...
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Project Row Houses: Classified X
Even Lena Horne couldn’t make up for Mammy
By D.L. Groover
Published: June 25, 2009
Filmmaker, novelist, Air Force bombardier, Wall Street trader, composer, actor and provocateur, Melvin Van Peebles loves to kick white butt. He did it way before his 1971...
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Psophonia Dance Company: Squeeze
The group with the funny name doesn’t shy away from serious work
By Julia Ramey
Published: June 25, 2009
With a name like Psophonia, you’d think the dance company would stick with topics light and lilting, but Squeeze, its latest evening-length work, is all about the economic...
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Simon S.C. Tay
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Political adviser and environmental policy expert (read: really, really smart guy) Simon S.C. Tay comes to Asia Society Texas to discuss Obama’s Asian Report Card: What...
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I Travel Lite!
Ali presents The Good, the Bad & the Funny
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: June 25, 2009
When you’re as funny as Ali, a distinctively dapper style of dress is probably unnecessary. Nevertheless, at the I Travel Lite! show, the latest installment in The Good,...
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Focus on Houston
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Houston’s still regrouping after last year’s uninvited guest, Hurricane Ike. That includes the Oak Dad’s Club, which is trying to rebuild its damaged ballpark....
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Reckless
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Company OnStage’s latest production, Reckless, might be a little out of season (the story starts on Christmas Eve), but the message is timeless: It’s not why...
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Jilliane Hoffman
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
Some are born mad; some have madness thrust upon them…no, wait, that’s not the right quote. Mad is as mad does? No, that’s not it either. Anyway, madness, the...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Garden
South Central’s largest community garden grows vegetables — and controversies
By D.L. Groover
Published: June 25, 2009
The most fruitful gardens are filled with worms and shit. After the deadly 1992 L.A. riots, known ever after as the “Rodney King” riots, a 14-acre plot of land at the...
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Domy Movie Nights: Lemonade Joe
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: June 25, 2009
You don’t have to understand Czech to get the jokes in the cowboy musical Lemonade Joe. A parody of American westerns, Lemonade Joe features a teetotaling hero out to get...
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Funny Girl
Jokes of the Female Persuasion
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: June 25, 2009
Anjelah Johnson certainly doesn’t look like the average comedian. The sexy 27-year-old with a rockin’ bod more resembles an NFL cheerleader…which, in fact, she...
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DockDogs
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: June 25, 2009
How to train a dog to take a flying leap off a dock is beyond us. But that doesn’t matter — plenty of other owners have tapped their best friends’ athleticism,...
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