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21. Urban Experience

    Where's Harry?

    Nab the new Potter book at these parties around town

    Published: July 14, 2005

    FRI 7/15 Oh, Harry, how you've grown! When we met you in J.K. Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, you were an orphaned but magically delicious child....

22. Artbeat

    Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer

    Published: July 14, 2005

    "Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough act for any photographer to follow,...

23. Letters

    Letters

    Published: July 14, 2005

    Kitchen Stories The real world, Houston: I just wanted to thank you for your story ["Chefs Rule," by Brian McManus, July 7]. Until recently, I taught culinary arts at HCC, and...

24. Rotation

    Sufjan Stevens

    Illinoise

    By Sam Machkovech

    Published: July 14, 2005

    Say it with me: "SOOF-yahn." Last year, you could still get away with mispronouncing the symphonic-folk songwriter's first name; his previous two records, the sprawling...

25. Film

    Happy Surprise

    Tom Arnold leads a large ensemble cast. Yep, you read it right.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: July 14, 2005

    If for no other reason, Happy Endings deserves its soft spot in our collective hearts for rescuing Tom Arnold from the where-are-they-now? scrap heap. The former Mr. Roseanne...

26. Sports/Outdoors

    Ready for Some Fútbol?

    Reliant Stadium gets worldly with the 2005 Gold Cup games

    Published: July 14, 2005

    SUN 7/17 Half the fun of soccer is the rabid, flag-waving, chanting fans in multicolored face paint. And it's hard to get any wilder than the tens of thousands of bloodthirsty...

27. Rotation

    Can

    Future Days, Soon Over Babaluma, Landed and Unlimited Edition

    By Dave Segal

    Published: July 14, 2005

    With Can's second quartet of albums (remastered and reissued by Mute/ Spoon), hints of fallibility seep into its mighty sound. Not surprising: Few bands can maintain...

28. Film

    Glorious Sea

    Brosnan's narration can't mar Deep Blue's gorgeous ocean footage

    By Melissa Levine

    Published: July 14, 2005

    What Winged Migration was to birds, Deep Blue is to the ocean: a breathtaking nature documentary cheapened slightly by melodramatic voice-over. In an opening that swells with...

29. See/Be Seen

    Hip-hop Hoedown

    Bavu Blakes rides into town on Blazing Saddles

    Published: July 14, 2005

    THU 7/14 Most hip-hop MCs spit rhymes while their DJs spin vinyl -- and that's about it. Not so at a Bavu Blakes show. For the past five years, he's performed his brand of...

30. Rotation

    Fat Joe

    All or Nothing

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 14, 2005

    "Lean Back" gave Fat Joe a chance to make the really big money, and now he's embracing the mainstream. He came across as a genial glad-hander while working the red carpet at...

31. Performance

    Proud Marie

    A fiery poet shares her Home Grown flow

    Published: July 14, 2005

    FRI 7/15 Poet Marie Brown is a smooth, jazzy poet who scats with a Billie Holiday-esque grace. But behind her grace is a subtle fury. The San Antonio native started writing...

32. Playbill

    Macon Greyson

    Friday, July 15, at Dan Electro's, 1031 East 24th Street, 713-862-8707.

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: July 14, 2005

    We all do it -- have those little what-I-shoulda-said internal conversations where we think up the perfect retort and verbally body-slam some dimwit who's messing up our...

33. Playbill

    From Autumn to Ashes, with Poison the Well, All That Remains and Throwdown

    Sunday, July 17, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: July 14, 2005

    Many emocore groups alternate hefty and wimpy singers, but From Autumn to Ashes takes this approach to extremes. Grizzly shouter Benjamin Perri and comforting crooner Francis...

34. Playbill

    Reel Big Fish, with American Hi-Fi, El Pus, Punchline and Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer

    Monday, July 18, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: July 14, 2005

    Back in the day, Reel Big Fish was a real big deal. But folks don't care so much for its O.C.-blessed ska-punk anymore. That doesn't mean the Fish should be tossed back in the...

35. Playbill

    Cruiserweight, with the Letters Organize, My Epiphany and Blackout Pact

    Sunday, July 17, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-863-1875.

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: July 14, 2005

    Siblings always have the best harmony -- in music, at least. Cruiserweight is made up of three sibs and a friend, and the band tackles the peppy, ultraharmonic genre of...