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November 24, 2010, Washington D.C.: Using its emergency powers, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it will temporarily ban five synthetic marijuana...
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You might be able to spout most of the lines, and even sing the songs, during today’s Elf Quote-a-Long, but don’t expect to keep up with Buddy the Elf’s l-o-n-g...
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Most of the speakers in The Menil Collection’s Artist’s Eye lecture series select a painting or an artist to discuss. Photographer David Brown, who leads...
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The Human Helicopter, a.k.a. b-boy Joel Martinez, will be spinning at the H-Town Get Down dance concert. “The guy can go around [on his head] like 30 or 40 times,”...
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“Nacho Mama’s Fridge!” is a collection of art ideal for the gift-giving season. (Read: It’s affordable.) The group show, curated by Emily Sloan, features...
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The shooting schedule for master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard (1965), a period medical drama, stretched over two years, a then-unprecedented amount of time to...
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Author Salman Rushdie is known for a very bad thing that happened to him (a certain fatwa) and a number of very good things that have happened to him (The Man Booker Prize,...
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Galveston is 4,900 miles and 150 years removed from the Victorian London of Charles Dickens, but the first weekend of each December, the Gulf of Mexico might as well be the...
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Don't walk into the ComedySportz production of It's a Wonderful Life: Unscripted expecting a stage version of the Frank Capra movie by the same name. For one thing, Capra's...
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This is the season of all things sweet, and A.D. Players is offering Houston families one of the most sugary bonbons in the city with a children's theater musical production...
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The Ensemble Theatre is offering a jazzy take on a classic story with a fresh new musical version of Cinderella, coming to Houston from the African-American Shakespeare...
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It might not be all that chilly outside, but that shouldn't stop the kids from dreaming about snow, especially during a visit to Express Children's Theatre's production of...
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Welcome the winter holiday with your favorite politicos and a few hundred close friends at the Mayor’s 2010 Holiday Celebration. Local favorites Maria Todd and Brad...
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There are some things scientists can’t explain but that doesn’t stop them from trying. Take the planetarium film Star of Bethlehem. Million of Christians take it on...
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The current crop of wide-release children’s movies features a guy with a big blue head voiced by Will Ferrell and a guy with a pointy nose who sounds just like Steve...
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Can you say anything important or interesting in 12 minutes or less? Can you say it with style and visual flair? The documentary filmmakers spotlighted in the Tenth Annual...
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Three sisters and their father share an unspeakable family secret. It might have remained one but for their brother, who grew up to be a filmmaker. Chico Colvard’s 2010...
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Houston theater lovers know Philip Lehl from his astonishing work as an actor at both Stages Repertory Theatre and the Alley. Now they’ll be thrilled to know he’s...
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Spend this Christmas with Andrea Bocelli in his first Houston performance in almost ten years. He’ll be making his Houston Symphony debut while singing selections from...
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It’s an honored tradition for artists to take inspiration from — and reinterpret — other artists’ work. That’s what Maria Smits has done with the...
