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| The Center Cannot Hold Cullen Performance Hall |
Sat., September 6, 7:00pm more dates/times |
Third Ward | |
The terrifying power of colonialism is at the heart of The Center Cannot Hold, an adaptation of Chinua Achebes classic African novel Things Fall Apart. Focusing on a character named Okonkwo, a great man among the Umuofias, the story follows his rise and eventual fall to the British... More >> |
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| Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty Miller Outdoor Theatre |
Sat., September 6, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - SE | |
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 Houstonian Dawn Dippel, from the stifled, virginal role in the original story to a rebellious teenager, Dominic Walsh... More >> |
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| Global Lens Film Series: Opera Jawa Rice University Media Center Building |
Sat., September 6, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Kirby-West U | |
Threes 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 infidelity living in a country rocked by racial turmoil. Husband and wife Setyo and Siti live a quiet life in Java until Siti... More >> |
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| Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza Series Author Jack Gantos Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Sun., September 7, 3:00pm | Downtown-Midtown | |
Jack Gantos started as an author young. As a kid, he read his sisters diary and decided he could write as least as well as she did, and a career was born. That was almost 30 years ago. Gantos is now author of the popular Joey Pigza series, written for kids like him. Joey has ADHD, a... More >> |
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| Megafest 2008 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion | Sun., September 7, 3:00pm | Outside Houston | |
Get in the mood for September 16 with MegaFest 2008, a catch-all concert for Latin music fans of every persuasion. Like salsa? Theres Mr. Jennifer Lopez, uh, we mean Marc Anthony. With quite a few awards to his credit, Anthony won the Latin Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album and Best... More >> |
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| "Left Alone" ArtStorm | Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., August 16 until Sat., September 13, 12:00pm-5:00pm | Third Ward | |
ArtStorm is picturing loneliness. The gallerys latest exhibit, Left Alone, features photography focusing on isolation and introspection. Rachel Hewlett snaps her shutter just after someone flees the scene. Theres a lot of remnants, sort of, a memory of a person... More >> |
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| Fly Me to the Moon Houston Museum of Natural Science | Daily from Fri., August 22 until Thu., November 6 | Kirby-West U | |
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 flies on the wall: Nat, IQ and Scooter, a trio of adventuresome young muscs domesticas who sneak aboard the NASA spaceship... More >> |
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| "Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection" The Menil Collection | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., August 15 until Sun., March 1, 11:00am-7:00pm | Montrose | |
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 centuries with 30 paintings, sculptures and works on paper depicting invented environments some are rather... More >> |
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| "End Game: British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 14 until Sun., September 28 | Kirby-West U | |
London is the epicenter of the avant-garde art world, and YBAs (Young British Artists) are why. Shocking and controversial when they exploded onto the scene in the 1980s and 90s, YBAs are drawing epic prices at the likes of Sothebys. Their work forms the backbone of End Game:... More >> |
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| Farouk Hosny: The Energy of Abstraction" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 27 until Tue., September 1 | Kirby-West U | |
Farouk Hosny has impressively managed to wield his artistic prowess both as a painter and a politician. His work has been shown all over the world, and hes created many new pieces exclusively for his current exhibition, Farouk Hosny: The Energy of Abstraction, at the Museum of... More >> |
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| "The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., August 3 until Sun., October 26 | Kirby-West U | |
Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton and Serena Williams. What do they have in common? Just this: They are black in America. Oh, and theyre included in The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield--Sanders and Elvis Mitchell.
Greenfield-Sanders, considered one of the best... More >> |
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| Star Wars: The Clone Wars Exhibit Space Center Houston | Daily from Fri., July 4 until Tue., September 30 | Clear Lake | |
Cant wait for the August release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars? Then head to the Space Center Houston, which has just scored Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a bunch of cool Star Wars memorabilia, including artifacts from the Clone Wars film such as sketches, digital prints and 3-D... More >> |
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| Suckling is Continuous Buffalo Bayou Art Park | Daily from Sat., February 9 until Sat., November 1 | Heights | |
For Suckling Is Continuous, local artist Kathy Kelley covered ten-foot, eight-foot and six-foot balls with pieces of leftover tires. The scraps are twisted to form shapes resembling nipples and sucking mouths, but its obviously more than an attempt to tickle our less-than-mature sense of... More >> |
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| More Events | |||
| Ad Deum Dance Classes West University Dance Center | Daily, 9:15am-10:45am | Kirby-West U | |
| Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Alamo Drafthouse Cinema-West Oaks | Daily | Outer Loop - SW | |
| Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs Awareness Information Riverside General Hospital | Daily | Third Ward | |
| Alcoholics Anonymous Intergroup Association, Inc. | Daily | Outer Loop - NW | |
| American Cancer Society Houston American Cancer Society | Daily | Galleria | |
| Angelika Film Center Angelika Film Center | Daily | Downtown-Midtown | |
| Art Museum of Southeast Texas Art Museum of Southeast Texas | Daily | Outside Houston | |
| Bering Support Network Bering Memorial United Methodist Church | Daily | Montrose | |
| Big Brothers/Big Sisters Big Brothers Big Sisters | Daily | Outer Loop - SW | |
| Big E's Rockabilly The Big Top | Every week Sunday | Downtown-Midtown |
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| Bingo at American Legion #586 American Legion #586 |
Every week Sunday, 2:00pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - NW | |
| Bingo Wonderland Bingo Wonderland |
Every week Sunday, 6:30pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - NW | |