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In the third year of its MasterMind Awards, the Houston Press had a lot more work to review. Nominations poured in from readers willing to help us determine who we should...
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When’s the last time an artwork made you laugh? “Wit and humor are among the rarest and most precious aspects of creative expression in almost any field of...
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The Trinity Jazz Festival, now in its tenth year, has grown from a local jam to a much-respected event on the national music scene. Over this weekend, Houston audiences will...
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In “Poem for California,” Matthew Zapruder starts with an ankle scar and ends up pondering how he went from academic nomad to soon-to-married settler. The author...
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E. Patrick Johnson performs Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, based upon his book of the same name, today at Rice University. Pouring Tea is a...
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It was 1972 when the first Houston marathon took place, with just 113 runners racing over a five-mile loop. According to race organizers, “200 people, five dogs and three...
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There are three main reasons to attend the 3rd Annual Houston Press Artopia bash. One, to celebrate the MasterMind Awards winners (this year’s nods — and $2,000...
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Aren’t sure what contemporary dance is all about? Travesty Dance Group is here to help you figure it out with Framing Dance. The program moves from narrative to abstract...
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Tango Buenos Aires brings the exciting, sensual show The Fire and Passion of Tango to the Houston stage today, set to live music by South American composers such as the...
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In recordings of the Peking Acrobats’ performances on YouTube, the only audible sounds are the gasps of the audience over and over as the people onstage perform...
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A Stasi agent learns about life from the people he is spying on in Das Lebden der Anderen (The Lives of Others), writer Justin Cronin’s choice for today’s...
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The award-winning documentary Herb & Dorothy proves that you don’t have to have absurdly deep pockets to put together a world-class art collection. Herb and Dorothy...
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Funk-alicious! If there’s any musician from those hazy pharmaceutical days of the ‘60s who needs a documentary movie, it’s Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a....
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So you think animation is for kids? Maybe, but it might be a good idea to keep the kids away from Kelly Sears’s The Velvet Tigress, about a woman who chops up her lover...
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You don’t need experience in international relations in order to appreciate the films being screened at the four-day United Nations Association Film Festival. The movies...
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Alley Theatre fans will remember actor/playwright Herbert Siguenza. In 2003 he mesmerized audiences with his wonderfully funny ¡Cantinflas!, about one of Mexico’s...
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When Marilyn Monroe cooed her lovely lines in the 1956 film version of William Inge’s comedy Bus Stop, she made the playwright about as famous as a playwright can get. Of...
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Family drama is as bad as it gets in Giuseppe Verdi’s 1867 opera Don Carlos. The dark drama tells what happens in a royal household when a king marries the woman who was...
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The woman at the center of the George Bernard Shaw comedy Candida is a modern woman, according to the actress who plays her. “She is very forward-thinking for her time,...
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Get swept away to the dramatic Scottish landscape in the new Houston Grand Opera production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. A story of love, power and betrayal, the...
