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Here Are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

Capsule Art Reviews: "A Golden Time of Day," "James Turrell: Holograms," "Kyle Farley: Countenance," "Layover," "New Prints: Gallery Artists," "Six Apart," "UNIT"

5 Ways to Tell If You've Politically Lost Your Damned Mind

If you're a sane person then you are dreading the next four months leading up to the presidential election. Every single election cycle has gotten more and more crazy, but I have a feeling this is going to be the one where we end up developing airborne thorazine to try and chill folks the holy hell ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Kyle Farley: Countenance," "Perry House: Elegance/Violence," "Rita Bernstein: Out of Place," "UNIT," "Woven Landscapes"

The Sound of Music Mother's Day Brunch Feast

''The Impact of Racist Ideologies: Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Laws''

Last Night: Skrillex At Verizon Wireless Theater

See pics from the official Skrillex afterparty at Rich's. Skrillex, 12th Planet, Foreign Beggars Verizon Wireless Theater September 29, 2011 Dubstep is to music what the Oakland Raiders are to the NFL. It's as if a gigantic group of people got together and, as a whole, screamed, "Forget your syste ... More >>

Eight Rejected Shuttle Designs: From Space Zeppelins to Flying Boxes to Cool Deltas

Everyone's got an idea.​The space shuttle isn't the most graceful design ever (although it can look great in such pictures as the first one here): it's a bit boxy, more akin to an 18-wheeler than a Ferrari. But the idea of a reusable space vehicle presents unique challenges, and NASA had plen ... More >>

For Flag Day: The 10 Worst U.S. State Flags

As we are sure you are no doubt keenly aware, Flag Day is tomorrow. We could give you a list of the ten prettiest flags, but we are Hair Balls, and that's not the kind of crap we like to cough up. Here instead is a list of ten state flags to tun up the flagpoles of your worst enemies: 10. Nevada T ... More >>

Idol Beat: The Dirty Two Dozen

​The fallout from Jennifer Lopez's Wednesday night freakout only ate up about ten minutes of last night's show. At least, that's how much it looked like as I was fast-forwarding my DVR. You've got to hand that much the producers of American Idol, they can milk even the most trivial of incident ... More >>

American Grocers: Joins A Stellar List Of Companies Ripping Off Troops

​This week's cover story in the Houston Press details the case of Houston-based American Grocers and its owner Samir Itani, charged with shipping expired food to troops stationed in the Middle East and ripping off the government with bogus shipping costs. As noted in the story, "the case stretched ... More >>

"How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination"

An expert on Nazi medical practices shows us the stark reality of the Third Reich

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Un Pueblo Unido: Scenes From Houston's Immigration Protest

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​An estimated 7,000 people took to the streets of Gulfton on Saturday afternoon, part of a coordinated series of national protests against the passage of Arizona's SB 1070, a bill which many Hispanics in Arizona and across the nation have decried as racial profil ... More >>

A Picasso

Art one, politics zero

Year in Film: Three Critics, One List, Ten Best

J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork!

Civil Discourse?

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

Fostering Intelligent Conversation Through "Obama's A Nazi" T-Shirts: One Houstonian's Perspective

​ If you're like us, when you see Tea Partiers displaying imagery associating Obama with Hitler, your benefit-of-the-doubt well goes bone dry. But when we received an e-mail about a local clothing company that's gotten into the Obamanazi business, it seemed like a good opportunity to explore ... More >>

70 Years After A Nazi Invasion, Poland Gets Respect: The Five Best Movie Poles

On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded Poland. Soviet troops joined the attack (in adherence to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) on September 16, and by the first of October, the country was entirely in enemy hands, and World War II was well underway.Poland and its people have had enough problems, ... More >>

Divide and Conquer

Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.

Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

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D. L. Hughley

The original king of comedy is back on track

Idol Beat, Part 1: More Hollywood Week

Photos courtesy FoxYou thought the funeral was over? You thought all those tears were dried up? You were wrong, my friends - so very, very wrong. Aye, verily, the bloodletting continued unabated as Hollywood Week wound down. Hey, Ryan Seacrest warned us at the outset: "The stakes are as high ... More >>

The Reader Is Fundamental

Winslet and Fiennes take the long and (Oscar-)worthy road to redemption

The Electric Car Is Alive And Kinda Well In Houston

Drenched in Blog: Emo Kids Getting Attacked in Mexico

Beaufort and A Love to Hide

Wars of past and present are shown onscreen at the Jewish Film Festival

Danse Macabre: AES+F

Four Russian artists present three phenomenal installations

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Out Like a Lamb

Downfall chronicles Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

Major Players

A new book proves that The Games Do Count

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critic weighs in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Bends

Theatre New West presents a historic play about homosexuals persecuted during WWII

Achtung, Baby

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin revealed the tip of the Nazi iceberg

To Beer or Not to Beer

The Montrose Beer and Gun Club plays coy

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Heimat Sweet Heimat

Postwar German films attempt to either understand or ignore the holocaust

Bayou City Body Snatchers

How cold war fears fueled a hot market for Houston's human parts business.

A Day in the Life

ArtScan and Inman galleries look for art in the ordinary

Night & Day

March 18 - 24, 1999

Abyss of the Ages

Kindertransport sends insights on historical suffering

Harmonists Way

A bittersweet tale of German music makers before the fall

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Press Picks

Fly Like an Eagle

With Black Eagles, the Ensemble takes wing

Press Picks

Weill in America

Inspired by Porgy and Bess, Street Scene brings an American earnestness to the august art of opera