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Summer Film Series — 100 Years of Gay History
Step Aside, Dame Edna
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 21, 2008
Brokeback Mountain excluded, gays in mainstream film have mostly fallen into the category of the main gal’s silly best friend (see Sex and the City) or the over-the-top...
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Theater District Open House
Once again, the city’s performing arts groups are showing off their goods
By Nick Keppler
Published: August 21, 2008
You know the drill by now. Today, at the fifteenth annual Theater District Open House, a slew of the city’s performing arts companies and cultural promoters will show off...
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Baby with the Bathwater
Christopher Durang’s dark and funny play makes a splash
By Lee Williams
Published: August 21, 2008
Parenthood is terrifying, especially for the couple in Christopher Durang’s strange and delightfully absurd Baby with the Bathwater. First produced in 1983, the dark...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie the Cat heats up the night in Tennessee Williams’s classic Southern tale
By Lee Williams
Published: August 21, 2008
Tennessee Williams’s simmering Cat on a Hot Tin Roof explores family dysfunction, Southern-style. The Pulitzer Prize-winning gothic tale has at its center a nasty...
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Tom Piazza
The author of Why New Orleans Matters gives readers a fictionalized look at the Big Easy
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: August 21, 2008
Author Tom Piazza is one of many passionate advocates for rebuilding New Orleans (all of it, not just the tourist spots). His post-Katrina book Why New Orleans Matters implored...
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The Shape of Things
The National Repertory Theatre makes its Houston debut with a dark comedy
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 21, 2008
The National Repertory Theatre makes it Houston debut with the black comedy The Shape of Things. Set on a college campus in a small town, The Shape of Things is a modern...
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In the Middle of the Ocean
Melusine Theatre Company presents a rowdy rock and roll retelling of Orpheus
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 21, 2008
Written by Chris Alonzo, the rock musical In the Middle of the Ocean is a retelling of Orpheus. The story centers around Camila, a sweet and beautiful girl who gets her heart...
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Artful Thursday: Porgy and Bess
The Houston Ebony Opera explains its controversial pick
By Nick Keppler
Published: August 21, 2008
Porgy and Bess is perhaps the most controversial opera in the history of American music, and you can get the lowdown on it when cast members of the Houston Ebony Opera company...
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Ruthless, The Musical!
Generations Theater’s first production is a different kind of show
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 21, 2008
Take The Bad Seed and smush it together with All About Eve, add a little camp and some over-the-top musical numbers, and you have some idea of Ruthless, The Musical! In it...
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Kyle Cease
Comedian delivers jokes faster and furious…uh…er
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 21, 2008
You might recognize Kyle Cease from his comedy special, from his short-lived role on Comedy Central’s Reality Bites Back (he was the first comedian voted off the...
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Roger Creager
With a new CD release, this singer is strummin’ from his Texas soul.
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 21, 2008
Beer, babes and an undying love for all things Texan are the regular themes addressed in the music of country singer Roger Creager, who’s performing today at Cactus Music...
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Fly Me to the Moon
The newest 3-D animated film chronicles the first landing on the moon – from the point of view of a fly on the wall
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 21, 2008
Take a look at the first moon landing from the point of view of a fly on the wall in the 3-D animated feature Fly Me to the Moon. Actually, from the point of view of three...
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Klever, Fashen, The Knux
Nothing says back-to-school like a little corporate-sponsored rump shaking.
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 21, 2008
Scion crashes into Warehouse Live with a roster of DJs known for bringing it in their respective parts of the U.S. (and by “it,” we do mean “the party”)....
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“The Grand Tour, Texas”
Omar Vera illustrates his trek to the Texas-style Paris, Florence and Rome
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 21, 2008
For “The Grand Tour, Texas,” Omar Vera visited three iconic art meccas…sort of. The artist traveled to Paris, Florence and Rome’s Lone Star State namesakes...
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MC Chris
Hip-hop funny man hits Houston
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 21, 2008
MC Chris is dropping into Houston fresh off the Warped Tour. You might recognize the actor/comedian/producer/rhymesayer’s high-pitched hip-hop flows from earlier seasons...
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Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino puts a crazy stunt driver into his B-movie homage
By Nick Keppler
Published: August 21, 2008
After Quentin Tarantino finished his two-part epic Kill Bill, a tribute to every obscure film that inspired the geek god, he took it easy with Death Proof. All the...
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The Fish Fall in Love
The Global Lens Film Initiative screens two movies about women and destiny
By Amanda Mahmoudi
Published: August 21, 2008
The Global Lens Film Initiative brings Iran’s The Fish Fall in Love and the Philippines’ The Bet Collector to Rice Cinema. Both films’ central characters are...
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“Imaginary Spaces”
The Menil Collection presents places you may or may not wish were real
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 21, 2008
“Imaginary Spaces” takes viewers to places they have never seen — or, more correctly, could never see. The latest exhibit at the Menil Collection spans three...
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Game On
Order Up! Is Supersized Fun
To Diner For
By Chris Ward
Published: August 21, 2008
The term is "shovel-ware": a gaming phrase used to describe the heaps and heaps of worthless, quickly cranked out titles currently choking the Nintendo Wii. Even EA Games, a...
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Feature
Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail
Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.
By Paul Knight
Published: August 21, 2008
On December 19, 2006, Alexander Hatcher received about $15,000 in disability payments from Social Security. Diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic, Hatcher was off his meds and...
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