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Getting Schooled
A group of former condo owners say SMU defrauded them of their homes to make way for the new Bush library.
By Matt Pulle
Published: July 2, 2009
Even though Leslie Davenport is not a party to the litigation, nothing can keep her away from the Dallas County district court next October. That's when Southern Methodist...
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“Body Language”
The WIVLA puts the human form on display
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 2, 2009
Talk about a loaded subject: Earlier this year, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WIVLA) asked local artists to submit prints and photographs that explore the theme of...
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Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo's film turned anime on its poorly animated head
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: July 2, 2009
In America there was anime, and then there was Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo revolutionized Japanese animation with the 1988 film adaptation of his most popular manga. The comic...
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"Facing Mars: Would You Survive the Journey"
Experience what it would be like to walk on the red planet
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 2, 2009
Humankind has often looked to the Red Planet, curious about what it might be like to walk its surface. But one serious moment spent thinking about how much it would actually...
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Target Free First Sunday: Surf's Up
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston becomes the site of a super beach party during today's Target Free First Sunday: Surf's Up. Besides activities that include drawing and...
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Ps and Qs: The ABCs of Manners
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By Lee Williams
Published: July 2, 2009
As Rebecca Udden, artistic director of Main Street Theater, says, "Rudeness can be hurtful." So if you've got a kiddo at home who could use a gentle shove in the "say thank...
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Made in the USA
Jean-Luc Godard's film is - and isn't - a tribute to The Big Sleep
By D.L. Groover
Published: July 2, 2009
Although French cinemaster/provocateur Jean-Luc Godard always hinted that Made in the USA, his 1966 gangster movie, was an homage to Howard Hawks's 1946 The Big Sleep (playing...
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The Big Sleep
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By D.L. Groover
Published: July 2, 2009
If you can't make sense out of Raymond Chandler's whodunit novel The Big Sleep, join the club. Nobel Prize laureate/screenwriter William Faulkner, along with co-screenwriters...
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Germán Herrera: "Book of Mirrors"
This Mexican-born photographer shows us what isn't there
By KEARA CORMIER-HILL
Published: July 2, 2009
Explore the thin line between the metaphysical and the physical in Germán Herrera's "Book of Mirrors," the newest exhibit at De Santos Gallery. Mexican-born photographer...
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Gallery One Three Seven: "David McGee"
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
Curator Sharon Engelstein opens the new mini-show Gallery One Three Seven: "David McGee" today as part of the exhibit "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston." The gallery's total...
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Luis Tomasello: "Recent Work"
After 60 years in the business, this kinetic artist is still moving along
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
Kinetic artist Luis Tomasello is currently enjoying a celebration of his art from the 1960s and '70s by collectors and critics alike. Work from earlier in his career could...
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Cafe Reads: Denise Hazen
An author shares personal stories about triumph over adversity
By JILL KRASNY
Published: July 2, 2009
Denise Hazen isn't afraid of the "C" word. She allowed CNN to tape her battle against breast cancer in the recent documentary Taming the Beast: Inside the War on Cancer, and...
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Star Spangled Salute
The Houston Symphony brings out the big guns
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 2, 2009
Detest Mozart? Cringe at Copland? Keel over at the sound of Strauss? Even you can't help but enjoy the exuberant sounds of a symphony orchestra on the Fourth of July. Today,...
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Ridley Pearson
The author of Undercurrents signs the latest in his Killer series
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
Author Ridley Pearson has left the usual gritty urban setting of most thriller novels behind. Instead, his newest release, Killer Summer (the third so far in the Killer series)...
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Phantom of the Opera
Get your swoon on at one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most popular musicals
By Lee Williams
Published: July 2, 2009
The Phantom of the Opera will be haunting theaters for many, many years to come. It's been two decades since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on the Gaston Leroux novel,...
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Independence: A Tour of America
MECA's 4th of July party is a multicultural affair
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: July 2, 2009
Independence: A Tour of America, MECA's Fourth of July celebration, has plenty to aid your pursuit of holiday happiness. Saint Arnold's beer, hot dogs, music, dancing, a great...
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
In 1946 Vivien Spitz was a young court reporter working for the U.S. War Department. Her assignment? The history-making Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. During today’s Doctors...
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Washington-on-the-Brazos Fireworks
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
How better to celebrate the 4th of July than at the historic Washington-on-the-Brazos Fireworks display? (Yeah, yeah, Texas independence, American independence, not quite the...
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Steel Magnolias
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
If you’ve got tickets to the A.D. Players’ production You Can’t Take It with You, you’re out of luck. And you’re in luck, too. The show has been...
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Talley’s Folly
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 2, 2009
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley’s Folly, Matt and Sally face lots of obstacles as a couple. For one thing, she lives in rural Missouri, while he calls St. Louis...
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