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Celebrate the Foods and Culture of Brazil at Central Market with Passaporte Brazil

For two weeks of every year, Central Market holds what in essence is an international festival in its stores by paying homage to the food and cultures of the another country. Three years ago, I attended my first "Passport" event when they celebrated the foods of Argentina. The following year, it was ... More >>

Woman's Death on Flight Being Investigated by Police Described in Most Understated Press Release Ever

There is a phrase in the news business called "burying the lead." This happens when a key element to a story is not placed in the headline or even in the first paragraph of the story. Instead, it is somewhere down in the story's body. This can be done for several reasons. Sometimes, an editor just w ... More >>

SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

MFAH Set to Launch Titanic Latin American and Latino Art Archive...and It's Free

Like many ideas that are actually executed, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston didn't exactly anticipate the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) having the legs that it does. "This is the only center of its kind in the world," says Dr. Mari Carmen Ramirez, Wortham Curator of Lat ... More >>

Top 5 Guns N' Roses Riots

More literal than metaphorical.​"The World's Most Dangerous Band." That was the tag applied to Guns N' Roses in their late '80s heyday, and though the smacked-out bad boys of Appetite for Destruction have largely mellowed into comfortable, safe middle age, Axl's crew can still lay a claim as ... More >>

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

Last Night: Sleigh Bells & CSS At Warehouse Live

Photos by Marc Brubaker​Sleigh Bells, CSS Warehouse Live April 24, 2011 See more photos in our slideshow. The concept of loud music is in Aftermath's blood. From the sweet-ass two-page Van Halen mural our Uncle Kelly drew inside his junior high yearbook in 1984, the blown-out speakers in our ... More >>

Gogol Bordello

SXSW 2011 Still Untainted By Houston Artists

listenlisten: Not playing SXSW 2011... yet.​Rocks Off just got the latest list of names for next year's SXSW conference and festival in Austin, and just like the last time, the conference remains unsullied by any performers from Houston's filthy, rotten, disgusting, in-need-of-quarantine music ... More >>

Cheer Up, Houston: Your Traffic Pain Is Way Better Than Moscow Or Madrid

There's an accident "in the clearing stage" somewhere​When IBM puts out a survey that features bar graphs and big circles somehow illustrating results, you can rest assured it is beyond reproach.So know this, Houston: Among 20 top international cities, your "traffic pain" is about as low as ... More >>

"The Monumental Sculpture of Bernar Venet"

The French artist's latest outdoor exhibit has curves ahead

Sounds of the Universe

Synth-pop icons Depeche Mode do read their reviews.

Jimi Hendrix Covers: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (P.S. John Mayer Still Sucks)

This week marks the 39th anniversary of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, which is famous for a couple of reasons. First, it was such a financial disaster it put the kibosh on any further Wight fesivals for the next 32 years. Second, and more importantly, it marked the penultimate performance of one ... More >>

Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke

Friday​The freaky folk band everyone's talking about, listenlisten, helps Block 7 Wine Co. (720 Shepherd) celebrate its grand opening this evening with Robert Ellis. Festivities continue Saturday with Runaway Sun (9 p.m.) and Sunday with Kenneth Scott (8 p.m.). No cover. The adorable Cop Warmth he ... More >>

Charlie Ferguson: "Street Impressions"

This world traveler/photographer finds beauty in urban decay

Tonight: Diogo Nogueira at Kahlua

Washington PossatoSamba is not just a single musical genre; it's actually subdivided into countless sub-genres ranging from the party-friendly Carnaval beat to the highly subtle bossa nova made famous by the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. However, among the best-loved in Brazil (an ... More >>

Remembering 1969, Part 2: The View from Brazil

Note: Part 1 is here. While anti-Vietnam protests escalated in both sides of the Atlantic , the scenario was quite different in Brazil: in March 1964, a military junta toppled democratically elected president João Goulart and installed a cruel dictatorship that stayed in power for two decades - in ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Shows Closing This Weekend

Art by Henrique OliveiraThe drama Orphans, by Lyle Kessler, has its final performance this weekend. The stage is set when two young men, getting by pulling petty crimes, kidnap a drunken businessman. Things don't go as planned, however, when the three, all of them orphans, form a pseudo-family. 8 p. ... More >>

Return to Radartown

"Credibility Scare" alumnus Mark Germino plugs in after seven years.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection", "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes", "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure",

"Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements"

One Man's Trash

Discarded plywood in Brazil becomes engaging art at the Rice Gallery.

Fade to White: Blindness

Adap nails the bleak before succumbing to the sap

A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

Manda Bala

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a Commodity in Sundance Docs.

GWAR Heroes Electro Grrl

Flying filth will never go out of style with these guys around

Get Soma Kicks

The Unlikely Lambs

Carandiru reveals the human side of Brazilian prisoners, then leads us to their slaughter

Meat and Tomatoes

Avenida Paulista Churrascaria should please carnivores and vegetarians alike

Songs of Freedom

Can music free your mind from mental slavery? Depends which Free Radical you ask

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Gooooaaaal!

Emporio Brazilian Café scores with home cooking

Playbill

Sepultura

Dumb or Dumber?

Space cadets of Man or Astro-man? go to great depths to maintain a gimmick

In Their Own Words

Judging by the idle chatter of Hotel Six politicos, the moral barometer at City Hall is in free fall

Unconventional Wisdom

In Four Days in September, the political is personal