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“This is what Texas blues is supposed to sound like!” raves the Houston Blues Society about John McVey, and understandably so. After growing up in Arkansas and a stint in Austin, McVey now calls Houston home with his hard-gigging band The Stumble. In a day when imitation has become...
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It was back in 1960 when astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope to listen to two nearby stars. He didn’t hear much, but that was the birth of our modern search for life beyond earth. It’s been more than 50 years since Drake’s experiment, and we haven’t found any...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., October 16 until Sun., April 15
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King Tutankhamun is the Elvis of Ancient Egypt. Even 3,000 years after his death at the age of 19, thousands of fans flock wherever he or the fabulous relics left in his tomb land in their world tours. Houstonians will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see some of those artifacts, if not the...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 30 until Sun., March 18
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A scant nine select prints and drawings of saints from the 16th through the 18th centuries make up “Visions of the Saints,” currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The focus of the small grouping is the recently acquired chalk drawing called The Head of a Young Woman...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., November 13 until Sun., February 12
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Wander among a collection of some of the greatest works by the Old Masters at the “Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection” exhibition. The show features works by Rembrandt, Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others. The colors and light...
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A major figure in 20th-century American art gets a retrospective in “Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski,” currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Born in the Ukraine, he came to the United States at the age of four, and it was here that he created his paintings,...
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Main Street Theater :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 9 until Sat., February 18
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There are some parts of the character of revolutionary Michael Bakunin that are so unlikeable, it was difficult at first to play him, actor Guy Roberts told us. He’s easily the most annoying, and yet in some ways the most enthralling, character in Voyage, the first part of Tom...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., February 1 until Sun., May 6
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Over the years, the staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has received thousands of photos with notes scribbled on them. Some were just a few words long; others were full-length letters. Some were correspondence about upcoming exhibits, others just friendly notes. One untitled image, by...
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If you are a zydeco fan in Houston, you already know about the Zydeco Dots. Since 1987, they have ruled the small but fervently followed genre in town, winning an absolutely embarrassing amount of awards with their combination of Creole rhythms and lively onstage antics. Now that Weird Al has...
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Rice Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., March 18
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The Rice University Art Gallery is filled with large floating planks and rectangular boxes for “Joel Shapiro: New Installation.” But the brightly colored objects aren’t meant to deceive viewers into thinking the artist has defied gravity; instead, the point is to create an...
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With apologies to the History Channel, watching re-enactments and talking heads on television won’t bring the Civil War to life in the way that seeing a soldier’s prayer book with a bullet hole in it will. “Discovering the Civil War,” currently at the Houston Museum of...
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Every last Sunday of every month at The Big Easy, zydeco reigns supreme, meaning you don't have to drive to Louisiana or wait for crawfish season to get your fix of accordions and washboard jams. The mood is always lively, and the company alone is worth making a stop to hear some of the best...
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The self-proclaimed “hardest working band in Texas” is also one of Houston’s longest-runing blues groups, priding themselves on preserving the the native tones of the city Lightnin’ Hopkins once called home. Since 1991, The Healers have been playing more than 300 shows a...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 23 until Mon., February 20
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A print publisher who worked with all the leading contemporary American and European artists, Peter Blum made a gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of more than 40 finished projects by some 23 artists in 1996. As a bonus, he included all of the related preparatory materials. In 2006, a...
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You can see three life-size representations of Erica Van Pelt’s hand in the exhibit ''Gemstone Carvings: The Masterworks of Harold Van Pelt.'' Both husband and wife are photographers who have traveled around the world on assignment. During those travels, the couple picked up quartz and...
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