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A Darker Look at Che's Revolution
After Guevara destroyed his family and his fortune, Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader to his grave.
By Tim Elfrink
Published: August 6, 2009
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. Bushy eyebrows arch over his half-open eyes. As a Bolivian...
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Arte y Pureza
The Seville-based dance company presents flamenco in its purest form
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
Local flamenco dancer La Tempestad is used to being onstage, but she says she’ll gladly relinquish the spotlight in favor of today’s performance by Arte y Pureza....
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Dear Mr. Waldman
The Summer Israeli Film Series closes with a family drama
By D.L. Groover
Published: August 6, 2009
In Hanan Peled’s richly evocative world, the past is never truly in the past, nor is it ever easily forgotten. As the final movie of the Jewish Community Center’s...
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"Paramilitary Show"
Find an artistic commonality between fighting fires and fighting wars
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 6, 2009
Apama Mackey Gallery’s “Paramilitary Show” at the Houston Fire Museum features contemporary art sharing space with the museum’s impressive collection of...
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Shauna Glenn
Pinot Grigio and midget porn — somehow she fits it all in
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 6, 2009
On her Web site, author Shauna Glenn writes, “If you stick around long enough, you’ll probably hear me say the word vagina (but only really positive things about it)...
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Joan Rivers
The old broad’s got plenty of panache — the Botox helps keep it in place
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 6, 2009
You can call her brash and make as much fun of her facelifts as you’d like — but you can’t deny that Joan Rivers is one-of-a-kind. The stand-up comedian,...
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Pablo Francisco
Watch this Latino funnyman sound out his humor
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 6, 2009
You could say Pablo Francisco is a sound man. The comedian buzzes, zings, rings, thumps, toots, hoots and hollers his way through a vault of pop culture musings. In a style...
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Beckett Times Two
Ornery Theatre gives us a double dose of the B-man
By Lee Williams
Published: August 6, 2009
It’s cool enough that two Samuel Beckett shows are on the program. But Ornery Theatre is actually producing two “very rarely produced” fragments not published...
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Laila’s Birthday
Masharawi’s characters live through a day from hell in this comedy
By D.L. Groover
Published: August 6, 2009
In writer/director Rashid Masharawi’s light-hearted Palestinian romp Laila’s Birthday — yes, Palestinians actually laugh and have fun — proud Dad (Mohammed...
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2nd Annual Frenetic Fringe Festival
Next up on stage is…hopefully something you like…
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 6, 2009
The 2nd Annual Frenetic Fringe Festival is all about timing. “It’s a very concentrated type of festival that requires absolutely no patience,” says co-creator...
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Tuna Does Vegas
Sodomites Beware: Vera and her pals are on the road to Sin City
By Lee Williams
Published: August 6, 2009
What happens when Vera Carp, a proud member of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order, ends up in Las Vegas? A whole lot of laughing, at least that’s what Jaston Williams,...
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Oliver!
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
Oliver Twist may be one of the luckiest characters ever to step on the stage. The star of the musical Oliver!, Twist goes from rough times at an orphanage to a cushy life with...
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Ken Rogerson
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
H-town has made its way into one of comedian Ken Rogerson's bits: "I was in Houston, Texas, in January. I thought, 'January, Houston. It's near the Gulf of Mexico, it's gonna...
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First Thursdays at Dean's
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
See the ones that almost got away at today's First Thursdays at Dean's. Sponsored by the Houston Film Commission, the program features shorts that didn't make the cut the first...
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Big, Loud & Live! 6
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
The Concord Blue Devils marching band bested a field of 22 a couple of weeks ago to earn their spot in today's 2009 Drums Corps International World Championship Quarterfinals...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
The Red Door Theatre Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream isn't exactly what Shakespeare had in mind. This Dream, written by local playwright Louis B. Moore...
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Jacuzzi Movies
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
Curator Andrea Grover selected Touched by Water for today's edition of Jacuzzi Movies at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. It's an exploration of our connection to water...
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Day for Night
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 6, 2009
Seeing the ever beautiful Jacqueline Bisset would be reason enough to watch Day for Night. But seeing her in the first film that she says ever used her properly, makes it...
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Hair Balls
The Baby Boom That Wasn't and Allen Stanford Deserves a Break, Right?
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: August 6, 2009
Hurricane Ike Nine months later, no flood of "Ike Babies" BY RICHARD CONNELLY Whenever a city suffers a blackout for any extended period of time, you can be sure that...
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Minority Report
Discussion continues around Ask A Mexican and the Bronx Bar.
Published: August 6, 2009
The Mexican Not a fan: I am writing in regards to the recent Ask a Mexican debacle in hopes of shedding some light on the subject. I am what is considered a "Latino writer,"...
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