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In 2003, Danny the polar bear, a resident of the Cincinnati Zoo, was having severe skin problems.
The 800-lb. Arctic native's hide was itchy and inflamed; constant scratching...
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Ned Dodington's installation "Poly-Lawn-Dale" was inspired by social anthropologist Paul Rabinow's phrase "nature has never been natural." To create the piece, he filled nylon...
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Winning the Rachmaninoff Competition at just 19 was an auspicious start to what's been a stellar career for pianist Seymour Lipkin, who makes a rare stop in Houston today. He's...
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Talk about beginner's luck. Last summer, author David Wroblewski shook the literary world with his debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Featuring an unlikely plot about...
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Art collector and publisher Pierre Argillet met the famed surrealist Salvador Dalí in 1934. Argillet was just starting as a publisher and was hoping to convince...
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Dust off your afro, rearrange that Jheri curl and get your groove on, cause it's time for Soul Night 2. Brought to you by Aurora Picture Show, this funky flashback from the...
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There's a good chance Rebecca Wadlinger will try to win you over at today's installment of the Gulf Coast Reading Series. "My general rules for reading are to keep it short,...
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It's a good time to buy cars, houses and art - especially when buying said art helps an institution thrive. So bring your critical eye to the Houston Center for Photography's...
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Sometimes to get his Mexican documentaries screened in the U.S., and sometimes just to be provocative, filmmaker Greg Berger resorts to free rooftop screenings, such as the...
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While turbulent Iran struggles through its "worst of times," its film output celebrates a golden age. The beauty, depth and courage within that proud, ancient country is on...
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You've heard of outside the box. Clare Dyson wants you looking inside the box. That's where she's placed two dancers for today's performance of Voyeur. Audience members take...
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Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard have been at it for two decades -creating those dark and funny characters who make up the citizenry of Tuna, Texas, a place where old...
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A 1939 New York Times review of the play Thunder Rock said the show "bids the world cheer up." Sounds like good advice for the denizens of 2010 - maybe that's why Company...
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Talk about playing with the big boys: The Houston Symphony has joined forces with another major local institution, NASA, for "The Planets: An HD Odyssey." Around 2003, the...
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French artist Bernar Venet has transformed Hermann Park from a green space into an outdoor gallery with the exhibit "The Monumental Sculpture of Bernar Venet." More than a...
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While NYC hardcore is certainly not everyone's genre of choice, it represents what might eventually be seen as the watershed moment when metal started to, just maybe, be cool....
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There's opera, and then there's opera: those epic, lavish dramas filled with seductions and betrayals, murders and suicides, heart-wrenching ballads and wailing arias - all of...
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There have been lots of WWII films, but Harris Done's documentary War Dogs of the Pacific may be one of a kind. The canines seen in the film were retrained family dogs that...
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The Rice University Players have a busy day ahead of them. The group is presenting a 24-Hour Play cycle. Small groups of students get together and, during one 24-hour period,...
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Think of Suicide Notes as the little film that could. Producers snagged Lou Martini Jr. (from The Sopranos and As the World Turns), Sammy Kershaw (a Grammy Award-winning...
