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Michael Gates Gill
The author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else tells all
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 4, 2008
You can bet that the champagne flowed freely in the Starbucks corporate offices the day it was announced that Michael Gates Gill was publishing a book called How Starbucks...
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Houston Texans Pancakes & Pigskins Rookie Breakfast
Football fans enjoy a little elbow-rubbing with the team’s newest players
By BOB RUGGIERO AND MARK LECLAIR
Published: September 4, 2008
It’s a day that Houston Texans superfans look forward to every year — the chance to stuff their gullets and mingle with freshman footballers at the Pancakes &...
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Paris Falls
This group makes killer ‘60s/’70s rock
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 4, 2008
Paris Falls continues to please us with its fuzzy ‘60s/’70s rock. Married couple Jennifer and Ray Brown (who collectively handle the Rhodes organ, guitar and vocals)...
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Megafest 2008
Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Fernandez lead an all-star blow-out
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: September 4, 2008
Get in the mood for September 16 with MegaFest 2008, a catch-all concert for Latin music fans of every persuasion. Like salsa? There’s Mr. Jennifer Lopez, uh, we mean Marc...
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Kathy Reichs
The author of Devil Bones stops by Murder by the Book
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: September 4, 2008
Kathy Reichs wrote her first novel ten years ago, just to do something different. A successful forensic anthropologist and professor, she was tired of writing textbooks and...
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Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra: An Evening Under the Stars
Héctor Agüero Jr. takes the baton for the first time as FBSO conductor
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: September 4, 2008
It’s easy to get the best seat in the house at Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra’s An Evening Under the Stars — just bring your lawn chair. The concert is outside...
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The Center Cannot Hold
All Africa Theater Productions presents an adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart
By Lee Williams
Published: September 4, 2008
The terrifying power of colonialism is at the heart of The Center Cannot Hold, an adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s classic African novel Things Fall Apart. Focusing on a...
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Mitch Fatel
Aspen Comedy Festival’s Best Comedian winner gets funny — and naughty
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: September 4, 2008
Mitch Fatel has a stage persona that suggests the speaker is rarely allowed to use big-kid scissors and an arsenal of material focused on boobs, blowjobs and other heady...
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Mark Doty
The Dog Years author reads at the Houston Public Library
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 4, 2008
In the world of publishing, 2005 was the year of the dog — that dog being Marley, of the best-seller Marley & Me. But in 2007, there came another dog-centric best-seller,...
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Jack Gantos
The creator of the Joey Pigza series reads at Cool Brains!
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: September 4, 2008
Jack Gantos started as an author young. As a kid, he read his sister’s diary and decided he could write as least as well as she did, and a career was born. That was almost...
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Rushmore
Wes Anderson’s career-launching film pays homage to his hometown, our town
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 4, 2008
What’s the best thing about Wes Anderson’s Rushmore? A.) The killer British-invasion soundtrack; B.) Jason Schwartzman’s career-launching performance...
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Sleeping Beauty
Dominic Walsh Dance Theater brings the fairy tale into the 21st Century
By Amanda Mahmoudi
Published: September 4, 2008
Dominic Walsh Dance Theater is bringing its celebrated modern-day version of the medieval tale Sleeping Beauty to Miller Outdoor Theatre. Catapulting Aurora, danced by...
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Strings of Fire
At Miller Outdoor Theatre, there’s classical combustion
By Julia Ramey
Published: September 4, 2008
If any orchestral group can get away with giving a program a name like Strings of Fire, it’s Mercury Baroque. With its period instruments, and, well, a baroque flair for...
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Opera Jawa
An Indonesian musical tells the story of love, betrayal and regret
By LEIGH BELL
Published: September 4, 2008
Three’s certainly a crowd in Opera Jawa, the acclaimed Indonesian film. Based on The Abduction of Sita, Opera is a musical portrayal of a couple shaken by marital...
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“Big Kids, Little Kids”
John Freeborn reveals a bit of Philadelphia’s underground art scene
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: September 4, 2008
Artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright laughs when asked to explain the title of the exhibit “Big Kids, Little Kids.” “A few of us had the concept that the guys from the...
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“(Re)Vision: A Preservation of Houston’s Inner Loop”
Shannon Duncan chronicles six months’ worth of home deconstruction using Polaroids and found objects
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 4, 2008
Shannon Duncan’s black binder holds a rather hefty list of houses inside the 610 Loop that were demolished from January 1 to June 30. Duncan traveled to most of these...
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The Knights of the Quest
The MFAH’s third annual Italian Film Retrospective mixes Greece, France and the Holy Shroud
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: September 4, 2008
There’s more to Italian film than just the contours of Sophia Loren’s body, as the MFAH’s third annual Italian Film Retrospective proves. It brings together...
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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, talking about, and...
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Third
Main Street Theater gets political with Wendy Wasserstein’s last play
By Lee Williams
Published: September 4, 2008
These are political times, and Wendy Wasserstein’s Third (2005) speaks directly to the issues of today. Her story concerns Laurie Jameson, a left-wing professor teaching...
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Unbeatable, A Bold New Musical
Laurie Frey and Eric Coble turn cancer into art
By Lee Williams
Published: September 4, 2008
When Laurie Frey found a lump in her breast, she waited a full year to go to the doctor. She was too busy, she kept telling herself. Of course, by the time she went in, the...
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