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Night & Day
Oscar Romero’s Legacy
Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapel’s human rights award had on their lives
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: April 10, 2008
Sister Dianna Ortiz and El Salvador’s Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto have more in common than just their Roman Catholic faith. Both have suffered unspeakable crimes in Latin...
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Night & Day
Manuel Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano
American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s Inca Dances gets its Houston premiere
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 10, 2008
Be there for the Houston premiere of Inca Dances today when Cuban guitarist Manuel Barrueco and Mexican string quartet Cuarteto Latinoamericano perform the work by American...
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Night & Day
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis author gets her Academy Award-nominated brain picked
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 10, 2008
Persepolis author/illustrator Marjane Satrapi stops in Houston fresh from the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. The graphic memoirist earned nominations for Best Animated...
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Night & Day
La Bohème
HGO stages Puccini’s classic love story
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 10, 2008
The blockbuster musical Rent is slated to leave the Great White Way soon, its 12–year run a feat by anyone’s standards. But it pales in comparison to its inspiration,...
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Game On
Viking: Battle for Asgard shows promise, but not much more
Just Shy of Seaworthy
By Gary Hodges
Published: April 10, 2008
It's nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those...
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Feature
Chess Masters at UT-Brownsville
An open-admissions university has become a national powerhouse in the collegiate game.
By Chris Vogel
Published: April 10, 2008
Nadya Ortiz's natural instinct is to attack. But for the moment, she must bide her time. Ortiz briskly taps her finger against her lip as she studies the chessboard. She...
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Downing
So Much for No Child Left Behind
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
By Margaret Downing
Published: April 10, 2008
A few years ago, I signed on as a volunteer tutor at my local elementary. I was matched with a student — I'll call him Eddie — who was failing miserably at both the...
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Hair Balls
More Banned Books in Texas Prisons, and Cactus Jack Gets Sued
We get answers! Some make sense!
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: April 10, 2008
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has finally come through with some answers for the bizarre-seeming list of books that were banned from inmates in 2007 (see Hair Balls,...
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Letters
Banned Books in Prison; Best Movies of the 1980s
Booked in Prison
Published: April 10, 2008
Our online readers responded to Richard Connelly's Hair Balls item ["Book Learning, April 3] on the books the Texas prison system is banning for its inmates. Brilliance:...
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BayouSphere
Bayousphere
By Daniel Kramer
Published: April 10, 2008
Little Parker Bryant gives his belly some air while wondering just how close his grandpa has to get to enjoy Texas wildflowers. Somewhere under grandpa Rich Hammons is a...
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Music
Should Bruce Springsteen Be Forgiven?
Arguments for reconsidering the missteps on the Boss's otherwise impeccable track record
By Mike Seely, Hannah Levin and Brian J. Barr
Published: April 10, 2008
Tunnel of Love (Columbia, 1987) The gelled hair, black suit and bolo tie on the album cover, flanked by a hot white coupe on a sunny beach that bears no resemblance to the...
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Racket
Sitting Down with La Porte's Buxton
By John Nova Lomax
Published: April 10, 2008
La Porte quartet Buxton are fresh off their most successful tour to date, a weeklong all-Texas jaunt that took them as far west as Marfa, as far north as Lubbock and as close...
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Nightfly
Zydecowboys
Allons danser at Jax Grill's Zydeco Night
By Shea Serrano
Published: April 10, 2008
Are you an old man? Do you fancy dancing with attractive younger women? Well, Mister Inappropriately-Dances-With-Girls-Half-His-Age-Guy, Jax Grill (1613 Shepherd) is where...
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Playbill
Hayes Carll
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 10, 2008
I suspect there is a contingent that will howl long and loud that Hayes Carll's third album (and first on the Lost Highway label) is too slick, too Nashville, not raw enough....
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Playbill
British Sea Power, with Film School, Colour Music and the Watermarks
By Michael Gallucci
Published: April 10, 2008
UK indie-rockers British Sea Power were Ivy League smarty-pants way before Vampire Weekend came on the scene. On their 2003 debut, The Decline of British Sea Power, they penned...
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Playbill
Dionne Warwick
By Mark Keresman
Published: April 10, 2008
Dionne Warwick has disproved that old "no second acts in American lives" saw famously. With a voice both honeyed and dusky, Warwick was frontwoman for one of the greatest...
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Playbill
Streetlight Manifesto, with Dan Potthast and Zox
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: April 10, 2008
Everybody indulges in a guilty pleasure or two. For some, it's eating mayonnaise with a spoon; for others, made-for-TV movies fit the bill. For my wife it's the emotional trash...
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Playbill
The Bobcat Benefit
By William Michael Smith
Published: April 10, 2008
Local bands love benefits. In fact, like the kid in class who needs to pee, they'll hold up their hands and scream "me, me" until they are booked onto the thing. The reason is...
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Cafe
Jackie Tan Thinks Big
By Robb Walsh
Published: April 10, 2008
The sensational seafood salad at Jackie Tan Restaurant on Bellaire featured cold shrimp and crunchy jellyfish slivers tossed with shredded pork, cilantro, fresh mint,...
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Hot Plate
Buncha bull At Mama Assumption's
By Paul Galvani
Published: April 10, 2008
At Mama Assumption's (6609 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. South #96, 713-777-6262), a deep, thick, rich roux is poured on top of the oven-roasted oxtails ($12.99), creating an...
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