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Night & Day
“Round 28: Otherwise Constricted”
Project Row Houses encourages its latest group of artists to un-keep house
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 29, 2008
The artists featured in “Round 28: Otherwise Constricted” display their innovation through renovation. Jeff Williams literally has built up and brought down his...
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Night & Day
Sounds Like Fun!
The Houston Symphony takes the show on the road
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 29, 2008
The Houston Symphony’s annual community concert series Sounds Like Fun! is already in full swing with more than a dozen free shows at area schools, churches and...
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Night & Day
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
This 1994 Sundance Filmmakers Trophy winner documents the life of one of Russia’s greatest inventors
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 29, 2008
What do the sci-fi movies of the ‘50s and the Rolling Stones have in common? They both owe something to Leon Theremin. An electronic genius, he invented the theremin, a...
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Game On
Super Cardio Bros. with Wii Fit
Helping the world forget we once loved Thigh Masters, too
By Chris Ward
Published: May 29, 2008
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that "strenuous indoor exercise" does not top anyone's summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are...
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Feature
Disney Channel fits Texan Demi Lovato for a glass slipper
Wishing Upon a Star
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 29, 2008
Demi Lovato was eight when she knew. Or in kindergarten. Hard to recall, precisely. That was a long time ago. Years ago. Demi's old now, all of 15, though sometimes she looks a...
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Hair Balls
Pop Quiz with UH President Renu Khator
New UH president, same commuter school
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: May 29, 2008
Since taking over as the new University of Houston president in January, Renu Khator has been on an extensive charm offensive. She's met with all types of groups and she's...
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Letters
Mental Anguish for West Oaks Hospital
West Oaks Story
Published: May 29, 2008
Wow: This packs quite a punch ["Mental Anguish," by Margaret Downing, May 8]. Is Downing "gunning" for West Oaks Hospital? I very well remember her other article, "Death in a...
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BayouSphere
Bayousphere
By Daniel Kramer
Published: May 29, 2008
Ted Williams's cryogenically frozen head is perhaps not being treated with all the dignity the last .400 hitter deserves. But at least he's batting clean-up! This...
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Music
Banda meets ska meets the Smiths in the sound of Pistolera
Pistolas y Corazón
By William Michael Smith
Published: May 29, 2008
Writers hear all kinds of reasons — some plausible, many contrived — why bands spring to life. Few match that of Pistolera, perhaps New York's only fusion of the...
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Racket
Bun B's II Trill
By John Nova Lomax
Published: May 29, 2008
Back in 1987, when Chad Butler and Bernard Freeman were first writing the rhymes that would become their debut cassette The Southern Way, neither one of them ever would have...
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Wack
The Science of Pop
Do we really need a formula for perfect music?
By Jason Ferguson
Published: May 29, 2008
A few years ago, a psychology lecturer at a British college came up with the formula for the "perfect" mood-lifting pop song. Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic posited a certain...
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Wack
Sizing up the summer's classic-rock scorecard
Season in the Sun
By Chris Gray
Published: May 29, 2008
Deciding which classic rock shows to attend this summer might be as frustrating as enduring a drum solo by Yes's Alan White, but Wack is here to help. So far, 13 are headed...
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Wack
Dr. Roger Wood's Matagorda Island Discs
Published: May 29, 2008
This week's installment comes courtesy of Dr. Roger Wood, a one-time Press contributor and the author of Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues and Texas Zydeco. Wood apologized for...
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Nightfly
Staying Cool at Joe Carmouche's Legends Jazz Cafe
Houston's new downtown jazz digs
By Shea Serrano
Published: May 29, 2008
On the official list of Things That Are Cool, playing a mean jazz guitar is right near the top. Specifically, it's directly above "catching a rattlesnake with your bare hands"...
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Rotation
Matt Costa: Unfamiliar Faces
By Mikael Wood
Published: May 29, 2008
Despite the name, the faces on this SoCal singer-songwriter's sophomore disc aren't exactly unfamiliar: There's the Shins, there's Josh Rouse and, perhaps most of all, there's...
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Rotation
Al Green: Lay It Down
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 29, 2008
Most producers who supervise reclamation projects for aging stars make the mistake of trying to contemporize the artist's sound — the equivalent of dressing your...
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Rotation
The Mother Truckers: Let's All Go to Bed
By Chris Gray
Published: May 29, 2008
A slight consonant shift in The Mother Truckers' name yields Them Other Truckers, and where the Austin quartet's 2006 debut Broke, Not Broken sagged in spots, Let's All Go to...
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Rotation
Robyn: Robyn
By Michael Gallucci
Published: May 29, 2008
Way back in 1996, Robyn reached the Top 10 with "Do You Know (What It Takes)." She followed it up a year later with another big hit, "Show Me Love." Then she disappeared. This...
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Playbill
Augustana, with Paddy Casey and Wild Sweet Orange
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 29, 2008
The growing number of television series that employ mid-tempo rock songs and plaintive ballads to pump up the emotion in major scenes has resulted in a proliferation of bands...
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Playbill
The Sword, with Torche and Stinking Lizaveta
By Daniel Siwek
Published: May 29, 2008
It doesn't happen very often that people who collect back issues of Heavy Metal and the hipsters at SXSW hype the same band, but that's exactly what transpired when Austin...
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