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Everybody thought college would be a breeze for José Ramirez. A starter on his high school football team, he was voted most popular in his senior class of 1966, and he...
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Houston has seen several circus shows this summer. Each has its own flavor, but only UniverSoul Circus features an all-minority cast. There’s Trinity 3 (foot jugglers from...
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Barely four years old, White Linen Night is already double its original size. More than 30,000 visitors are expected for today’s street fair/art show/outdoor concert....
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You’ve heard of the Andrews Sisters? Now meet The Andrews Brothers, four brothers working as stagehands for a USO show in the South Pacific during WWII. When the Andrews...
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Lan Haggo, manager for Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery and curator of its most recent show, “One Must be Absolutely Modern,” gives a Curator Talk today about the...
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Lines like, “I don’t care what you do to me, Mike, just do it fast,” have kept audiences coming back for more Mickey Spillane for 60 years. Kiss Me Deadly,...
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You’ve seen comedian/actor Hal Sparks on E!’s Talk Soup and Showtime’s Queer as Folk. Now see him onstage at the Improv. Sparks’s routines are more a...
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Local kids get a chance to shine at today’s Roundwall Rumble Skateboard Contest, an open-call competition. “You can expect to see a lot of airs, carving, grinding and...
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Saying something new about an iconic piece of art is nearly impossible, but Tierney Malone succeeds in the Godfather-inspired exhibit “La Cosa Nostra.” Malone,...
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The New York Metropolitan Opera’s The Magic Flute is back — on screen, at least. This is an abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s masterpiece put...
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Writing a blockbuster movie that mixes baseball and Broadway ain't easy. Just ask dark, fatalistic postmodern author Don DeLillo (Underworld, Falling Man), who wrote Game 6....
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The exhibit "Friends" is brought to you by Tim Kerr and his, well, friends. "I have always liked their work, but that really doesn't matter," says Kerr, curator/participating...
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It's all about colors at today's Target Free First Sunday
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Comedian George Lopez has had to look for new material since George W. Bush left office ("Fuck that puto!"). He seems to have found some in white Americans: "While you were out...
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Sure, it doesn't have the special effects of, say, a Star Wars, and the plot's slightly thinner than your average David Mamet flick, but Ghostbusters is fun all the same. Bill...
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Ceremony is "very abstract and ambiguous," says Horse Head Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Holden. "I don't envy the task that you have to write a summary of it." We'll try....
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Montreal magicians Jean Saucier (juggler, cyclist, acrobat) and Patrick Côté (clown, drummer, roller skater) perform their signature mix of magic, comedy and...
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Westerns aren’t usual fare for the Aurora Picture Show, but for a classic like High Noon, Aurora will make an exception. Today’s screening is part of the Menil Summer...
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You’ve seen it hundreds of times - against all odds, adorable misfits make good. Let director Wei Te-Sheng convince you how such a tired plotline can be made fresh in the...
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Any play that works Irving Berlin, the incomparable Baroque painter Caravaggio and Judy Garland all into the plot needs to be seen. Such is the case with prolific English...
