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Club Dead
The Mansion has been shut down, but not before an 18-year-old stripper got drunk there and died in a highway wreck.
By Craig Malisow
Published: October 1, 2009
Esther Saenz didn't want to go to work the night she died. According to the April 2009 Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission report that outlined the last few hours of the...
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Halloween Guide
Get All Dressed Up
There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.
By Abby Downing-Beaver
Published: October 1, 2009
Michael Jackson. Trend spotters say his face will be everywhere you look this coming year, and why not? It certainly has a ghostly aspect, although one wonders how all the...
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You Gotta Stand Up: The Life and High Times of John Henry Faulk
Somebody should have told Joe McCarthy, "Don't mess with Texans"
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
The REEL Culture Film and Speaker Series continues with You Gotta Stand Up: The Life and High Times of John Henry Faulk, a reading and performance by Chris Drake. An author and...
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Alley Theatre: Our Town
With James Black as the stage manager, this production promises to shine
By Lee Williams
Published: October 1, 2009
Every high school drama club and community theater can claim a production of Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town. That's partly because of the enduring...
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"Paper & Ink"
It's a new group with a new show - and a new take on all things printmaking
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
The first annual exhibit of the new arts organization Print Matters, "Paper & Ink," features the work of the group's five founding members - Vivian Hordes, Ann Johnson, Cathie...
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"Texas Masters Series: Rachelle Thiewes"
It's an attack of the accessories
By Julia Ramey
Published: October 1, 2009
Jewelry artist Rachelle Thiewes has said that her creations are "designed to engage and challenge the wearer, making them an active participant; an initiator of sounds and body...
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Lone Star College: "Día de los Muertos"
The Mexican holiday gets translated onto canvas
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: October 1, 2009
Get an early start on your Day of the Dead celebrations with the art exhibit "Día de los Muertos." The show features works by Lisa Hernandez and Lizbeth Ortiz (the...
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"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition"
Can waterfalls really freeze?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Step into C.S. Lewis's fantasy world at "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition." The interactive displays transport visitors to the films' famed settings. Visitors enter the...
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Wineapalooza V
It's another party on Washington Avenue
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Of all the -palooza events out there, none taste better than today's Corkscrew's Wineapalooza V. The annual wine-tasting festival will feature more than 120 kinds of wine to...
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Target Free First Sunday: To the Moon and Beyond
Like sci-fi flicks? This 1902 film started it all
By D.L. Groover
Published: October 1, 2009
When professional magician and theater producer/director Georges Méliès saw a moving picture demonstration in 1895, he was thoroughly enraptured and dedicated the...
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Brazos Books: Rich Levy
Inprint’s executive director takes his turn on stage
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: October 1, 2009
Rich Levy, the executive director of local literary arts organization Inprint, explores his various real-life roles as husband, father, executive and artist in his debut poetry...
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Winter Street Studios' 5th Annual Artists Exhibition & Open Studios Reception
The yearly look-see at art is bigger than ever
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Talk to more than 50 artists, see their work and enjoy some music at today's Winter Street Studios' 5th Annual Artists Exhibition & Open Studios Reception. You'll see work in a...
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Da Camera: The Romantic Spirit
Happy birthday Mr. Mendelssohn, Mr. Schumann
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Da Camera Artistic Director and pianist Sarah Rothenberg joins the Juilliard String Quartet for The Romantic Spirit, a program that includes works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and...
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Bride of Frankenstein
I do, I do - kill you
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Love can be a bitch - just ask the monster in Bride of Frankenstein. A sequel to the 1931 horror film Frankenstein, the 1935 Bride features Boris Karloff in all his creepiness...
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Virsky Ukrainian National Dance
See what the dancers from the former Kyivska Rus are up to
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Seventy years ago, classical ballet master Pavlo Virsky took a group of traditional Ukrainian folk dancers, melded the two styles and created a professional dance company...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
There are movies, there are films and then there is cinema
By D.L. Groover
Published: October 1, 2009
Definitely one-of-a-kind, Robert Wiene's 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has always been listed near the top of filmdom's finest. At its release, Caligari was so bizarre in...
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Kate Cambor: Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque
Timing is everything
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 1, 2009
Kate Cambor's Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque centers on a trio of young celebrities, more famous for who they're related to than for anything they've done....
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Horse Head Theatre: Red Light Winter
Turning 30 is hard in Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter
By Lee Williams
Published: October 1, 2009
When twentysomethings hit 30, things can spin all out of whack. Such is the case in Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter, about a struggling playwright who can't quite fulfill his...
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First Thursdays at Dean's: Miguel Alvarez
The Austin-based filmmaker screens a trio of shorts
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: October 1, 2009
Give Miguel Alvarez a few minutes, and he'll give you a feature-length film's worth of feeling. The writer and director will screen two of his outstanding short films and a...
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Asian Film Festival: The World
Three Chinese filmmakers present an Eastern travelogue
By D.L. Groover
Published: October 1, 2009
With one fifth of the world's population, the People's Republic of China literally has billions of stories to tell. Rice University's Asian Film Festival investigates four of...
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