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Gay Panic in Cowtown
The police raid on the Rainbow Lounge rocked the calm world of Fort Worth gays.
By Thomas Korosec
Published: August 20, 2009
Benjamin Guttery and his partner were drinking on the patio when five officers showed up and started shining their flashlights in patrons' faces. Rainbow Lounge, the newest of...
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David Dow
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
Discuss liberty and equality during David Dow’s reading and signing session today. The author of American Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great, Dow says...
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"Annual HSPVA SHOW"
Houston's youngest artists make their mark in this juried show
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts started more than 30 years ago with little more than an idea and a strong-willed principle. Since then, thousands of student...
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Three Nights of Family Films
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
You'll have your choice of fun flicks during this week's Three Nights of Family Films. Monday night it's Stuart Little (an adventurous mouse faces off with his nemesis,...
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Pamela Walker & Linda Walsh
Author and photographer lead you to locally grown eats
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 20, 2009
Pamela Walker wants you to know you are where what you eat grows. Her book, Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, chronicles 11 Lone Star State farmers and ranchers through...
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HBO Boxing After Dark
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
Former lightweight World Champion Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz makes his welterweight debut against Paulie "Magic Man" Malignaggi in today's HBO Boxing After Dark bout. Also in the...
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Adult Wink
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
Have a sleepover with lions, bears, and great apes at the Houston Zoo's Adult Wink. After dinner, you'll get behind-the-scene tours, meet some touchable animals and see the zoo...
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"The Hosek Collection of American Art"
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts hadn't even opened its doors when Chip Hosek, a private collector, approached them and said he had some American art he was willing to...
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Madcap 24
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
Theater groups from across Houston will participate in the frenzied Madcap 24. Each group will write, cast, direct and stage a production in a single 24-hour period. From the...
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Rocky Horror Picture Show
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
You haven't really seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show until you've seen it with a live shadow cast. Members of The Beautiful Creatures troupe appear at today's screening,...
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The Music of the Night
Be there when David Gaschen brings the Phantom to life
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 20, 2009
If you love Broadway but hate to fly, you can drive over to Conroe tonight to catch a bona fide star of the Great White Way, as the Crighton Theatre welcomes David Gaschen, a...
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While You Have Time
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
The gospel play While You Have Time has a simple message: repent before it's too late. The uplifting production follows a woman and her brother as they struggle with personal...
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4th Annual Italian Retrospective
Holly Golightly didn't have an Italian accent, did she?
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 20, 2009
Film critic Gerhard Midding described the heroine in director Antonio Pietrangeli's 1965 film I Knew Her Well as a "lusty Mediterranean Holly Golightly." Sounds like a fine way...
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Scriabin and Kandinksy: Hearing Color, Seeing Sound
Pianist Jade Simmons blends music tones and color tones
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 20, 2009
At Scriabin and Kandinksy: Hearing Color, Seeing Sound, pianist Jade Simmons will explore the link between the visual and the auditory. While it's possible to achieve this with...
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2009 Mug Awards
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
The 2009 Mug Awards, sponsored by sports radio FM 1560 The Game and Warehouse Live, are billed as "the Oscars meets the Kids' Choice Awards, only with beer." Highlights (and a...
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Riff Trax Live: Plan 9 from Outer Space
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
During today's nationwide broadcast of Riff Trax Live: Plan 9 from Outer Space, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bell Corbett)...
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Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld's Katrina comic isn't kid stuff
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 20, 2009
In A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, artist Josh Neufeld shows how a graphic novel can tackle serious, real-life events - in this case, a city in the wake of a natural...
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Houston Museum of Natural Science Excursion: Waugh Bridge Bats
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
See hundreds of Mexican free-tail bats as they emerge at dusk during today's Houston Museum of Natural Science Excursion: Waugh Bridge Bats. Dan Brooks, curator of vertebrate...
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"Paper or Plastic?"
What's lighter? You or the bag? You? That's good. The bag? Not so much.
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 20, 2009
Some African-Americans once used a paper bag to determine attractiveness and worth. The practice involved taking a plain brown paper bag and holding it up to their faces. If...
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"Body in Fragments"
The Menil Collection is showing off its bodies of work, bit by bit
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 20, 2009
Given the national obsession with the "Body Worlds" exhibition - in which real bodies are plasticized and opened up so we can all look inside ourselves - the Menil Collection's...
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