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Stirred and Shaken
By Debbylou Mountjoy
It was my turn to pick up brother-in-law Bruce from Kemah. Our designated meeting point was T-Bone Tom's (707 Hwy. 146, Kemah, 281-334-2133), a honky-tonk that's been amusing...
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Film
Sad Sack Extraordinaire
By Robert Wilonsky
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the...
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Film
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
By J. Hoberman
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns — this time...
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Film
Ridiculous Al Pacino stars in ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller 88 Minutes
By Ella Taylor
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller 88 Minutes is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it's worse...
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Theater
Nova Arts Project surprises with a wicked Victorian comedy-of-manners parody
By D.L. Groover
It takes a few minutes to become acclimated to Nova Arts Project's immaculate staging of Love Loves a Pornographer, Jeff Goode's wicked parody of a late Victorian comedy of...
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Artbeat
By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" For an exhibition about design, this show isn't very well designed. Organized by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National...
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Encore
By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
Gutenberg! The Musical! Pirate Queen, Dance of the Vampires and Kelly – these were rank bombs all, made legendary by their horridness. Billed as serious Broadway...
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Ask a Mexican
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican,
I work at a Seattle-based company, and our Customer Service Department uses a phone tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish and a...
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