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No Justice
We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?
By James Lieber
Published: October 29, 2009
When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential campaign, his Web-savvy campaign team created keatingeconomics.com. The main video showed Charles...
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Tricks, Treats & T. Rex
Mad scientists, dinosaurs and candy - what's not to like?
By Julia Ramey
Published: October 29, 2009
When it comes to entertaining little kids on Halloween, it can be tricky to strike a balance between inspiring giddy glee and total terror. Leave the spooking to the pros at...
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Itzhak Perlman
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto gets a workout by one of classical music's best
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
Even if you've never stepped inside a symphony hall, chances are you've heard Itzhak Perlman. The violin virtuoso performed on the soundtracks of The Color Purple, Scent of a...
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An Evening With Sarah Cortez and Lucha Corpi
First ladies of Mexican-American mystery
By Julia Ramey
Published: October 29, 2009
After stints as a high-school teacher and a tax accountant, Sarah Cortez decided to become a patrol cop, and it was this move that ignited her true calling: writer. "You see...
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"Viva la Vida"
Death doesn't drive a car, but if it did, we're pretty sure it would be a convertible
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
"Death is everywhere, so you have to stop worrying about it," says artist Armando Rodriguez in press materials. The end of life is among the subjects Rodriguez tackles in "Viva...
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Hal Niedzviecki
See and be seen tonight with the writer of The Peep Diaries
By Lee Williams
Published: October 29, 2009
According to Hal Niedzviecki’s book The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, "Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, Twitter,...
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"Spirits and Headhunters: Vanishing Worlds of the Amazon"
See rare ceremonial headdresses previously worn by tribe leaders and shamans
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
More than 150 masks, weapons, pottery pieces, costumes and intricate feathered headdresses make up the "Spirits and Headhunters: Vanishing Worlds of the Amazon" exhibit...
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"Halloween Monster Show 4"
Domy celebrates Halloween with a terrifyingly diverse art show
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: October 29, 2009
For Domy Books' "Halloween Monster Show 4," a simple call for entries leads to a diabolically diverse assortment of art. "I just ask my friends, and people that I like their...
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"Happyville"
Perry House's current exhibit is upbeat and optimistic
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
Houston artist Perry House, considered one of the city's early pioneers of abstraction, has a new exhibit at Nau-haus Art Space, "Happyville." House is described in press...
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Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen's special-effects groundbreaker had a little T&A mixed in between the fight scenes
By D.L. Groover
Published: October 29, 2009
When it first screened in 1963, Jason and the Argonauts was like nothing moviegoers had ever seen before. And even though today's audiences don't find special effects all that...
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Mr. Hell
May I offer you a glass of ice water?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
In the 2006 flick Mr. Hell, director Rob McKinnon circumvented one aspect of the typical horror film plot - no one has to kill the monster, because he's already dead. Larry...
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Young Frankenstein
Who knew they made tails and top hats in size giganto?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
We're pretty sure Mary Shelley didn't have Young Frankenstein in mind when she wrote her classic horror story. The Mel Brooks film written by Gene Wilder is a parody that...
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Kimberly Frost: Barely Bewitched
Magical misfires from a young witch
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
A young witch named Tammy Jo is at the center of Kimberly Frost's newest novel, Barely Bewitched. Seems Tammy Jo, who came late to the witching game, isn't a very good conjurer...
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"rock, scissors, paper"
Five artists use found paper to create new art
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
The new exhibit "rock, scissors, paper" features collages, installations, illustrations and even paper clothing created by a quintet of artists using commercially printed found...
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"L'heure bleue"
Michael Crowder gets ghostly with glass and paints the gallery blue
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: October 29, 2009
If the works in "L'heure bleue" could speak, they'd say "Boo!" "I'm sort of making a ghost of an object," says Michael Crowder. The artist works with molding glass to create...
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12th Annual Polish Film Festival
We're going to Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies today
By D.L. Groover
Published: October 29, 2009
Hip Poles have a word for the 12th Annual Polish Film Festival playing at the Angelika Film Center: spoko. It means cool, neat. You'll be saying it a lot during the festival,...
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The Montrose Crawl
Trick-or-treating: now, with alcohol!
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: October 29, 2009
Ah, The Montrose Crawl: It's like trick-or-treating on the rocks. The annual bar-to-bar tour allows you to don your scariest, cleverest and most scandalous apparel and hit up...
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Haunted Cemetery Tour
You don’t have to be the Ghost Whisperer to see these spooks
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: October 29, 2009
Maybe Lizzie is just a common mass-murderer name, because in addition to Lizzie Borden (she of “40 whacks” fame), there’s Lizzie Alberti. The mother of eight...
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Roky Moon & Bolt
By Craig Hlavaty
Published: October 29, 2009
Houston's own glam-baiting Roky Moon & Bolt sets up shop tonight at The Continental Club to play a free gig and to test out new tracks from their upcoming rock opera. Lead...
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Scream on the Green
Family-friendly Halloween fun waits for you at Houston's downtown park
By Julia Ramey
Published: October 29, 2009
Trick, treat, tired. That’s usually the order of events on Halloween. One minute you're out on the street; the next, your kids are in a candy coma and you sink into the...
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