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Joshua Paul Calhoun likes to take things...BIG things
By Paul Knight
Published: September 24, 2009
It's strange to jump-start an airplane off the battery in a pickup truck, but that's exactly what Joshua Paul Calhoun attempted to do on March 4 of this year when he couldn't...
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Society for the Performing Arts: Nobuyuki Tsujii
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
Classical pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has never seen his instrument. Despite being born blind, the Japanese 20-year-old is creating a name for himself as a virtuoso. Fresh off a...
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Harvest Moon Ball
Houston Swing Dance Society flips into fall with a ball
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 24, 2009
Swing into fall at the Harvest Moon Ball. The Houston Swing Dance Society's annual bash is a chance for hepcats to strut their stuff and newbies to get into the swing of...
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UH vs. Texas Tech
A promising UH football team looks to repel the Red Raiders
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
They grow up so fast. Head coach Kevin Sumlin, in his first year ever helming a team, led the UH Cougars last year to their first bowl victory since 1980. Now the football...
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Everything is Terrible:The Movie
Everything is Terrible: The Movie mashes years of video lowlights into an absurd gem
By Craig Hlavaty
Published: September 24, 2009
The found-art mavens from the blog Everything Is Terrible have spent years scouring the shelves of thrift stores and video-rental chains to find the worst that VHS has to...
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Strange Fruit: "Swoon!" and "Spheres"
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
Australian stage company Strange Fruit has no problem performing high - its fusion of dance, theater and circus is done atop ultra-flexible poles that are more than 13 feet...
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Il Tabarro and Pagliacci
Opera in the Heights presents the old school version of Cheaters
By D.L. Groover
Published: September 24, 2009
Giacomo Puccini's Il Tabarro and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are classics of Italian verismo. The style blew into the opera house near the turn of the 20th century, and the...
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Young Man's Song
Best Of Houston 2008 pick brings in the big guns for its third birthday
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 24, 2009
The Poison Pen Reading Series raises its glass to three years of bookish boozing with Dean Young. Our 2008 pick for the Best Local Reading Series isn't skimping on guests for...
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Houston Ballet: "Without Boundaries"
Houston Ballet's latest spread mixes classical and contemporary
By Lee Williams
Published: September 24, 2009
Houston Ballet's Artistic Director Stanton Welch sees his shows like meals, which means "Without Boundaries" features an appetizer, entrée and dessert. The program...
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Birthday Bash, Alt-Weekly Style
Epic Press bash will celebrate Best of Houston¨ 2009 issue and the paper's 21st birthday
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: September 24, 2009
It's a time-honored right of passage: Turn 21, get 'faced and do things your friends will rib you about until you hit retirement age. We know a certain alternative weekly...
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Artist Talk: Astronaut/Painter Alan Bean
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
Any aspiring artiste can set up a bowl of fruit to paint or set up an easel at the beach, but Alan Bean has much more impressive inspiration to draw on - his stroll on the...
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Seven's Heaven
Ensemble Theatre draws on an American icon for its latest production
By D.L. Groover
Published: September 24, 2009
Forget the Astros - look to the Ensemble Theatre's production of Seven Guitars for a guaranteed home run. Whenever Ensemble produces any part of August Wilson's monumental...
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Rob Mungle/Nick Graza
A local comedian stokes right-wing anger, but just for laughs
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 24, 2009
When local comedian Rob Mungle tackles topical issues, he goes after the right wing with liberal fire and brimstone. "I like making [my opinion] known with, shall I say,...
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Stages Repertory Theatre: Southern Rapture
Stages presents the funny side of the culture war in Southern Rapture
By Lee Williams
Published: September 24, 2009
Southern Rapture tells the story of a ruckus caused by a little angelic nudity. Eric Coble's 2009 play, which will make its regional premiere at Stages Repertory Theatre, is...
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"Flotsam and Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike"
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
Around the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Ike, The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake is presenting proof of its recovery in "Flotsam and Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike."...
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Progressive Forum: Brian Greene
Brian Greene knows how to make you stop worrying and love physics
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 24, 2009
The average American, thanks to the haunting memory of high school C's and D's, lives in abject terror of the terms "string theory," "Calabi-Yau manifolds" and "hidden...
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Bocón
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By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 24, 2009
The 12-year-old protagonist in Talento Bilingüe de Houston's production of Bocón has seen more trauma than most adults. When Miguel flees the military regime in his...
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Jill Moser: "Sixteen Street"
Artist Jill Moser speaks the language of simple abstraction
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 24, 2009
It may technically be fall, but it still feels summery inside Wade Wilson Gallery, currently home to "Sixteen Street," a collection of works on paper by Jill Moser. A painter...
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Hair Balls
Food Fight and Common Decency
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: September 24, 2009
Spaced City Food Fight! (Maybe) Houston foodies choose sides in radio war By Richard Connelly Cleverley Stone is a Houston food institution. Of sorts. For some, she's a...
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Don't Like the Conditions in Jail?
Then don't end up there, say readers.
Published: September 24, 2009
What Happens in Jail... Take a tour: In reading Randall Patterson's September 8 article "Jail Hell," one would think he's writing about a Soviet-era gulag. The unsanitary...
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