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Life, Post-Ike
One year later, Galveston residents like Marie Creasy have dug in for the long haul
By John Nova Lomax
Published: September 10, 2009
Seated at her desk in what used to be the servants' quarters of the historic Moody Mansion on Broadway, Betty Massey, head of the Galveston Community Recovery Committee,...
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Myrtle, A Melodrama
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
It takes a hardcore cynic to resist a melodrama. When A.D. Players opens its 43rd season with Myrtle, A Melodrama, there will be plenty of the over-the-top comedy, villainy and...
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El Grito Festival de la Independencia
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
Newsflash for the gringos: Cinco de Mayo doesn’t mean much to most Mexicans. When it comes to national holidays, it’s all about September 16, known as El Grito, when...
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D Tour
Musician’s kidney failure threatens to derail dream
By Craig Hlavaty
Published: September 10, 2009
Rock documentary D Tour chronicles the experience of a touring musician trying to keep his dream alive, even though his body is dying. While on the road a few years back, the...
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Zoya Shuhatovich plays Shostakovich
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
If Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wasn’t going to be held back by Stalin’s regime, then by God, he wasn’t going to be held back by stylistic constraints,...
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story with Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Let the mother-daughter bonding begin
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 10, 2009
We’re a few months removed from Mother’s Day, but you can’t ask for a more perfect (or cringe-inducing, depending on your gender) girl-bonding event than the...
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Dharma Punx
Buddhism gets a weekly punking at the Zen Center
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 10, 2009
Spirituality is getting punked in Houston. Matt Brownlie — he of local band Bring Back the Guns, formerly The Groceries — recently started a chapter of Dharma Punx,...
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Sherlock’s Comedy Open Mike
Bringing comedy back to a familiar spot…sort of
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 10, 2009
Sherlock’s Comedy Open Mike brings laughter back to a familiar setting. “[Sherlock’s on West Gray] used to be the Laff Stop, and that’s where most of the...
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Museum District Day
Who cares about a free lunch — try some complimentary culture
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 10, 2009
Museum District Day is a field trip, free of charge and sans permission slip. Catch up on the latest offerings from 17 museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;...
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Mud
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
Doorman Actors Lab has picked an emotionally and physically intense script for its inaugural show. In Maria Irene Fornes’s Mud, protagonist Mae works valiantly to pull...
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"‘Now That I’m by Myself,’ she says, ‘I’m Not by Myself, Which is Good’"
Four artists want to let you in on their inner selves
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 10, 2009
For the season-opening DiverseWorks exhibition “‘Now That I’m by Myself,’ she says, ‘I’m Not by Myself, which is Good,’” independent...
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House of Yes
Play proves there can be humor in incest, assassinations
By Lee Williams
Published: September 10, 2009
Mentally trapped in the Camelot days of the Kennedys, the strange foursome that makes up the family at the center of Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes is having a hard day....
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Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
Artist Wayne White picked an impressive way to honor Texas-born country legend George Jones — with a 15-foot sculpture of Jones’s head called Big Lectric Fan to Keep...
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“Artist as Performer”
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 10, 2009
YouTube-style video seems to have penetrated high art, and if “Artist as Performer” is any indication, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The exhibit features a...
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he Lighter Side of the Recession
Radio Music Theatre is laughing all the way to the poorhouse
By D.L. Groover
Published: September 10, 2009
Sometimes, when a situation is really bad — like the state of the global economy — there’s nothing you can do but laugh. And what better in Houston to make that...
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Manon
Houston Ballet celebrates the big 4-0 with sex, lies and stylish leotards
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 10, 2009
Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40 (and still able to tastefully sport tights). The Houston Ballet rings in four decades of dancing en pointe with Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s...
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Bayou City Concert Musicals: On the Town
Sailors sing their way through the city that never sleeps
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: September 10, 2009
Three U.S. Navy sailors let loose on a 24-hour pass in the Big Apple — now what could go wrong? In the Bayou City Concert Musicals production of On the Town, high jinks...
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Ann Arbor Film Festival
One of the top indie cinema fests happens where?
By D.L. Groover
Published: September 10, 2009
Except for Wolverine football and American cars, what else comes out of wintry Michigan? Try the Ann Arbor Film Festival. For 47 years — since way before Sundance —...
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“Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea”
2,000 years worth of Vietnamese culture is on display at MFAH
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 10, 2009
Long before Vietnam was colonized by France, occupied by Japan and bombed by America, it was home to a flourishing artistic culture, thanks to its prominent position on...
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Life, Post-Ike: The Comeback Kid
Without as much to lose as Galveston, Bolivar surges ahead in its recovery.
By John Nova Lomax
Published: September 10, 2009
Three months after the storm, the Bolivar Peninsula still looked as if it had been strafed by B-52 bombers, or even like a Texas Gulf Coast version of post-tsunami Sri Lanka....
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