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"Take Heart"
The Houston Potters Guild's latest exhibit keeps love alive
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 14, 2008
Did yesterday's Valentine's Day celebrations leave you in the mood for a little more romance? Stop by the Houston Potters Guild's latest exhibit, "Take Heart," and see love...
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Michael Winslow
The man with ten thousand noises comes to Houston
By FRANCISCA ORTEGA
Published: February 14, 2008
You haven't really heard the screeching wail of Jimi Hendrix's guitar in the Woodstock version of "Purple Haze" until you hear it come out of the mouth of comedian and human...
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"CSI: The Experience"
Exhibit inspired by CBS series puts you behind the evidence
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
You don't have to sing "Whooo are you? Who? Who? Who? Who?" in order to enjoy "CSI: The Experience," but it wouldn't hurt. The interactive exhibit inspired by the popular CBS...
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Theater for your mind
By Lee Williams
Published: February 14, 2008
Though it first opened on Broadway back in the mid-1970s, Brian Clark's Whose Life Is It Anyway? deals with questions we continue to puzzle over in the new millennium. At the...
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"Now Even Fresher"
Color meets fantasy meets mesquite trees in Jeff Wheeler's latest work
By Troy Schulze
Published: February 14, 2008
Texas artists have long rendered our fair state as an outrageous, ironic (and iconic) wonderland, and Lubbock-based Jeff Wheeler is no exception. In 1999, he started an annual...
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Manufactured Landscapes
This film by Jennifer Baichwal shows our impact on nature
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 14, 2008
The neon-green lakes, sky-high piles of tires and candy-like heaps of cell phones are beautiful — until you realize they’re not works of art but rather the physical...
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“Bill Brandt, A Sense of Wonder”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston shows the work of one of the 20th century’s most uncanny and unclassifiable photographers
By Nick Keppler
Published: February 14, 2008
Ansel Adams was a nature photographer. Dorothea Lange was a photojournalist. Julian Mandel was a fine photographer of nudes. Bill Brandt, the subject of the Museum of Fine...
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“Eye on Third Ward: Jack Yates High School Photography” at MFAH
The annual photo exhibit gives us a student’s view of their historic neighborhood
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 14, 2008
Ask photographer/high school student Tabatha Gabriel how she got the photo Overweight, and she’ll tell you. “We were walking through the Cuny Homes and there was this...
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Alamo Drafthouse Valentine Day’s screening
See Gwyneth Paltrow in the role that won her an Oscar
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 14, 2008
You and your sweetie can enjoy a yummo meal and snuggle in the dark while watching a romantic comedy when Alamo Drafthouse screens Shakespeare in Love for Valentine’s Day....
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The Endangered Sea Lions
Local trio mixes Tenacious D and Ween for humorous rock
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
Nothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like The Endangered Sea Lions: "Your camel toe is large / But I am still in charge / I'll grab you by your lips / And make you whistle...
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Bear Colony
This band borrows from Unwed Sailor, Postal Service and Minus the Bear for some light, but danceable rock
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
Vince Griffin penned most of Bear Colony's debut album, We Came Here to Die, in a hospital under the notion that he did go there to die. Misdiagnosed with Crohn's disease,...
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Tambersauro
Experimental trio defies categorization (except that one)
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
We agree with our friends at local music blog theskyline.net — there is no way to categorize Houston experimental rockers Tambersauro. (Well, unless you count the...
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"Death and Shit Like That"
Local artist YAR! showcases some of his favorite illustrators
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
"Death and Shit Like That" is really just a clever name meant to provoke laughter. "I'm not trying to woo everybody with how brilliant I am," says local artist and first-time...
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"Things Which Never Are, Nor Can Be, Nor Have Been"
Take a glimpse into the imagination of Zeus and the Olympians
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 14, 2008
Anyone with a passing knowledge of the ancient Roman gods knows that the Roman imagination liberally mixed the mythical with the real. The ornamental decoration of Roman...
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Little Cakes
Local pastry chef shows how simple it is to start from scratch
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
Ditch the box - you're not fooling anyone. "Duncan Hines is Duncan Hines - everybody knows!" says Rebecca Masson. The head pastry chef for downtown's Ibiza and the Heights's...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Masquerade Theatre brings audiences a story of intrigue and adventure
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 14, 2008
The Scarlet Pimpernel starts off at odds with itself. Outside the French Revolutionary war rages on, but inside, Englishman Sir Percival (Percy) Blakenely is getting married....
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Adrift in Manhattan
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston screens the newest by Alfredo De Villa, the next great American drama master
By Nick Keppler
Published: February 14, 2008
Fans of Paul Thomas Anderson or Atom Egoyan may want to take note of Alfredo De Villa. Like Anderson and Egoyan, the Mexican-born director is putting his own distinct stamp on...
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Harold and Maude
Cult-classic stars America's first GILF
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 14, 2008
Harold and Maude is the classic story of boy meets girl - only this time, the girl is old enough to be the boy's grandmother. It may sound creepy (or even illegal), but not in...
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George Lopez
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 14, 2008
Think you've had a rough life? Wait until you hear about G-Lo's childhood. Even some recent health issues haven't slowed down comedian George Lopez. His television show,...
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Cabaret Unkempt at DiverseWorks
Jennylin Duany is living Large
By Lee Williams
Published: February 14, 2008
A self-identified "Afro-Cuban American woman of size," actor/writer Jennylin Duany put together music, poetry, circus, performance art and projected media to create the show...
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