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Issue: September 4, 2008
Page: 2
47 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Night & Day

    Onegin

    The Houston Ballet pirouettes to Pushkin

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Dramatically speaking, the Houston Ballet is cutting no corners as it opens its 39th season with Onegin. It’s laden with passionate romance, violent duels and a heady dose...

  2. Night & Day

    Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    The Houston Symphony’s opening night features one of Mr. B’s most popular pieces

    By TAMMY PORTNOY
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with a repetitive four-note motif (that ominous da da da daaa), is Music Director Hans Graf’s choice for opening night of the Houston...

  3. Game On

    Want Quality New Games? Look to the Past

    Old School's in Session

    By Chris Ward
    Published: September 4, 2008

    When asked what new titles are worth buying right now, employees of big chain video game stores can barely muster a sales pitch. "You like sports games? There's another Madden...

  4. Feature

    Hope for the Houston Texans?

    Gary Kubiak and team search for their first winning season

    By Richard Connelly
    Published: September 4, 2008

    The Houston Texans are about to embark on their seventh NFL season. In only one of the previous six seasons did they finish anywhere but last in their division. That was in...

  5. Hair Balls

    That '70s Show: Memos reveal what the oil bidness was like

    As told to Richard Connelly
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Ah, the '70s in Houston. A time when men were men, oil companies had balls and political correctness was some distant dream (or nightmare). It was a time built for men like...

  6. Letters

    Spanish Only at Spring Branch Schools

    Published: September 4, 2008

    Online readers respond to "Spring Branch Mom Can't Register Her Kids for School — Because They Speak English," Hair Balls blog, by Paul Knight, August 27. Way weird:...

  7. BayouSphere

    Bayousphere

    By Daniel Kramer
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Just another caped, tattooed, cig-smoking tricycle rider? No — Wednesday Christie was a participant in the Tricycle Poker Run, which ran a gauntlet from Reserve 101 to...

  8. Music

    Houston's Nigerian-Born Battle-Rapper Godwon

    Balls and His Word

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Competition drives hip-hop culture. Whether it be reputation, jewelry, cars or whatever, it doesn't matter. Yours has to be the realest, shiniest, most candy-painted, or else...

  9. Music

    Superproducer Pharrell Williams is at Home in N.E.R.D.

    The Nose Knows

    By Dan Leroy
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and Madonna...

  10. Noise

    Houston's Jazz History

    By Chris Gray
    Published: September 4, 2008

    f you believe the Internet, which you really shouldn't, Houston has no jazz history to speak of. In fact, if you Google "Houston jazz history," you get a bunch of pages about...

  11. Local Rotation

    Solange: Sol-Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams

    By Michael Arceneaux
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Perhaps Solange knew the comparisons to big sister Beyoncé were unavoidable, which is why she asks, "Let my star light shine on its own / I'm no sister, I'm just my...

  12. Rotation

    Bruce Robison: The New World

    By Amanda Mahmoudi
    Published: September 4, 2008

    On The New World, Austin singer-­songwriter and Nashville ghostwriter Bruce Robison (George Strait, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw) maintains his nearly...

  13. Rotation

    The Verve: Forth

    By Michael Roberts
    Published: September 4, 2008

    After 1997's Urban Hymns proved to be a breakthrough for the Verve, frontman Richard Ashcroft went solo prematurely — and was punished by having quite a bit of strong...

  14. Rotation

    Johnny Flynn: A Larum

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: September 4, 2008

    The first time I heard Englishman Johnny Flynn's amazing A Larum, I thought it sounded like Ray Davies working with the Pogues. What puts Flynn in such brilliant company as...

  15. Playbill

    The Iguanas

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: September 4, 2008

    There was a time when the Iguanas seemed to be virtually in residence at Houston's Fabulous Satellite Lounge. The group's heady mixture of New Orleans funk, blues and Latin...

  16. Playbill

    Janiva Magness

    By Bob Ruggiero
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Blues has more than its fair share of femmes fatale, from old-school shouters like Etta James and Koko Taylor to the more nuanced Marcia Ball and Tracy Nelson. It's been awhile...

  17. Playbill

    Kate Voegele

    By Michael Gallucci
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Everywhere we look — USA Today, iTunes, the CW — we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele's face. There she is — singing songs from,...

  18. Playbill

    Eagles

    By Chris Gray
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Critical respect has been a long time coming for the Eagles, who didn't exactly help their cause much with last year's mediocre double disc Long Road Out of Eden — which,...

  19. Cafe

    Great Jellyfish at East Wall Chinese Restaurant

    In the trendy Dun Huang Plaza, there's a new pretender to the Cantonese crown

    By Robb Walsh
    Published: September 4, 2008

    We were planning to stay home and watch the Olympic gymnastics events on television, so I went out to pick up some thematically appropriate takeout. I had never eaten at East...

  20. Hot Plate

    Show of Hands at Alamo Tamale Factory

    By Paul Galvani
    Published: September 4, 2008

    Too many tamales are dry and lifeless, too stodgy and with little to no filling. Not the homemade ones at Alamo Tamale Factory (2310 Navigation Blvd., 713--223-1446) —...

Issue: September 4, 2008
Page: 2
47 stories found - 21 through 40
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