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Night & Day
Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapels human rights award had on their lives
By Julia Youssefnia
Sister Dianna Ortiz and El Salvadors 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
American composer Gabriela Lena Franks Inca Dances gets its Houston premiere
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
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
Persepolis author gets her Academy Award-nominated brain picked
By Dusti Rhodes
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
HGO stages Puccinis classic love story
By Julia Ramey
The blockbuster musical Rent is slated to leave the Great White Way soon, its 12year run a feat by anyones standards. But it pales in comparison to its inspiration,...
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Game On
Just Shy of Seaworthy
By Gary Hodges
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
An open-admissions university has become a national powerhouse in the collegiate game.
By Chris Vogel
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
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
By Margaret Downing
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
We get answers! Some make sense!
As told to Richard Connelly
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
Booked in Prison
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
By Daniel Kramer
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
Arguments for reconsidering the missteps on the Boss's otherwise impeccable track record
By Mike Seely, Hannah Levin and Brian J. Barr
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
By John Nova Lomax
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
Allons danser at Jax Grill's Zydeco Night
By Shea Serrano
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
By William Michael Smith
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
By Michael Gallucci
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
By Mark Keresman
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
By Nicholas L. Hall
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
By William Michael Smith
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
By Robb Walsh
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
By Paul Galvani
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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