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You’ll usually find illustrator Wendell Minor’s artwork on book covers, but for the next several weeks, it will be hanging on the walls of the Children’s Museum...
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Tom Jones knows the moon, man. The author of Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir has been in the space business for nearly two decades. Not only has Jones ventured into...
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The Iris Project wants you to push its buttons. For its public art project “Listen Up!,” the local artist collective stuck 500 red sound buttons on buildings, signs,...
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Israeli artist Avraham Sapir, who was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, makes work dealing with genocide and torture. Artist/poet Saul Balagura is not a...
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The Latin Wave film festival is a mixed bag of comedies, thrillers, family dramas and documentaries, all making their Houston debut this weekend. Many of the filmmakers will...
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Those who missed This American Life host Ira Glass’s recent appearance in Houston can see him again via satellite. Sure, it’s not as good as face to face, but fans...
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The makers of We’re Going to Eat You were too busy cramming freakin’ awesomeness into the movie to worry about a plot. The multigenre flick features cannibals,...
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Success has given Norm MacDonald a vault of oldies-but-goodies. There are joke gems from the comedian’s years on the stand-up circuit and his time on Saturday Night Live...
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It is very difficult to see urban construction as anything less than an enormous pain in the ass, especially when you’re stuck for 45 minutes on a six-lane highway that...
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Cokie Roberts is giving it up for the ladies. The award-winning senior news analyst for National Public Radio and former co-anchor of ABC’s This Week with Sam Donaldson &...
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In 2002, the artist J. Antonio Farfan, who had spent much of his young life in our fair city (he was educated at the University of Houston), decamped for New York. Fortunately...
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Amber Benson is best known as the -second-hottest lesbian witch on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She continues acting, but what she really wants to do is direct. For her first...
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“Nothing to It (An evening of itty bitty witty ditties)” features reruns of The Art Guys’ best episodes. The Guys, also known as Jack Massing and Michael...
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When Frazier King isn’t raising orchids, he’s photographing them. Silky, sensual and delicate, the flowers in his photographs seem to be caught in mid-flight,...
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Houston Grand Opera’s “Opera to Go!” Company is presenting a 45-minute mini-opera version of Sleeping Beauty for kids today at the Miller Outdoor Theatre —...
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It’s a hometown lineup at the Cinco de Mayo Festival, the annual celebration of the Mexican victory at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Girl group Las Fenix (four teenaged...
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At this year’s Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, you can experience the meeting of East and West. One of the biggest draws this year will be Pakistani rock group...
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Comedian Chelsea Handler loves being on television, but hitting the road also means she gets to hit the bottle. “I can’t really drink on television,” says...
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Grandmothers can be so difficult. That’s what Marta Henderson finds out in Mark Clayton Southers’s Ashes to Africa, a family story about a nana’s dying wish to...
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When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer and then walked out —...
