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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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) —...
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