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Friday Night: John Digweed at Stereo Live

John Digweed Stereo Live April 12, 2013 Last Friday night, I left an EDM show feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and simply happy. This was because I had been brought back to a musical place I hadn't been in years, a place where I was discovering something I loved for the first time. Seeing John Digw ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bert L. Long Jr: An Odyssey," "Cruz Ortiz: I Speak Lightning," "Janice Jakielski: Constructing Solitude," "John Cage: Prints, Drawings, and a Music Box," "Toby Kamps: 99 Cent Dreams"

The Complete SXSW Overflow Festival 2013 Guide: Week 2, Part 1

Ready for another week of the SXSW Overflow Festival 2013 at Super Happy Fun Land? Check out the first half of the second week's musical acts! MONDAY, MARCH 18 Embers in Ashes: Their single, "Then You Came," connects a metallic, thrashing chorus to a surprising series of mildly sung verses. 6 p.m. ... More >>

Top 10 Educated Guesses for Free Press Summer Fest

Tomorrow, we will know who will be playing the fifth annual Free Press Summer Fest June 1 and 2 in Eleanor Tinsley Park. We know this because Monday, our rivals over at the Houston Chronicle revealed that they will have an exclusive announcement of the FPSF lineup sometime Thursday, thanks to what w ... More >>

Announcing the 2013 MasterMind Winners

This year's winners danced, sang or delivered their lines in spectaculer fashion. For which we give each entity out thanks, admiration and a check for $2,000.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Flying Solo," "Gilad Efrat: Negev," "Jerry Jeanmard: Collages," "Jonathan Faber: Surface," "Laura Nicole Kante: Fibers of Being," "Unpremeditated Natures: Russ Havard and David McClain"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Flying Solo," "Gilad Efrat: Negev," "Jonathan Faber: Surface," "Peat Duggins: Wreaths"

8 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: October 19-20

Matt & Kim House of Blues, October 19 Infectious pop, bright-eyed wonder and criminally catchy hooks have made Matt & Kim one of the best live acts to emerge out of the Aughties. The duo -- keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino -- feed off the energy of the crowd, and usually end up in ... More >>

Borgore

The 2012 Summer Israeli Film Series:Three Servings of Funny

''Gilad Efrat: Negev''

33rd Annual Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre: Company E - NEXT: An Evening of Choreography of Israel and Spain

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change: A Sweet, Rosy-Cheeked Revue

The setup: This intimate, four-character, Off-Broadway musical revue about relationships (1996) makes you feel better when you leave than when you come in, as its visionary producer James Hammerstein once said. There's magic in that pronouncement, for this pleasant, unexciting, eager-to-please litt ... More >>

Texan Sails Across Atlantic to Mark a U.S. Government "Cover-Up" of the USS Liberty Incident (Update)

Courtesy of Jean Garst(From L to R) Larry Toenjes, Sherry and Joe Wagner aboard their 39-foot sailboat.​Larry Toenjes was living a pretty nice life in Clear Lake Shores, Texas with his wife Jean Garst. Then, in April, the 74-year-old retiree decided that he would ditch his comfy existence to s ... More >>

Contemporary World Cinema: Israeli Short Films

2010 Summer Israeli Film Series: Hamesh Shaot me'Pariz (Five Hours from Paris)

Will she fly away before he gets over his aviophobia?

Music Cities

Texas has its own brand of March Madness

A Musical Evening with Kirill Gerstein

Here's an intimate preview of what you'll see later this weekend at Jones Hall

The Houston Comedy Film Festival Is Here -- Yuk it Up

​Houston has its share of film festivals, including last month's mega-successful Cinema Arts Festival Houston. But this week's 1st Annual Houston Comedy Film Festival is adding another flavor to the scene with a collection of funny flicks from around the world. (Of the more than 400 submissions th ... More >>

Monotonix

Israeli Film Festival

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Batsheva Dance Company

The troupe co-founded by Martha Graham performs a variety of dance works by Choreographer/Artistic Director Ohad Naharin

Dogs of War in Waltz with Bashir

This is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

Rogen and Franco, on the Run and Madly in Love in Pineapple Express

True Bromance

Hairpiece in the Middle East: You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

Monotonix: Body Language

Capsule Art Reviews: "AES+F," "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space," "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006," "Foto Fest2008: Current Perspectives, 1998–2008 CHINA," "Tony Berlant," "Vivid Vernacular"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Aaron Parazette: New Paintings," "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space," "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006," "Tony Berlant," "A Visceral Valentine,"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space," "Death and Shit Like That," "Tony Berlant," "A Visceral Valentine," " Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now"

Capsule Art Reviews: "AES+F," "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space," "Death and Shit Like That," "Gratitude, There's No Competition," "Jac Leirner," " Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now"

The Band's Visit Is Smart and Dry

Egyptians and Israelis forge an unlikely, and unsappy, bond in the desert

Chantal Akerman turns the everyday into the extraordinary

The Observer

Big Boobs

Attorneys Arthur Schechter and Gary Pitts are in a nasty fight over breast implant cases

Your Weekend, Planned

Monotonix

The Tel Aviv trio performs its raw rock

The Bubble

Twentysomething Tel Aviv hipsters live life, have sex, befriend the enemy in The Bubble

Lebanon, Snake Trap

The Plane Truth

Houston minister Dr. K.A. Paul flies around the globe using Jesus to pull in worldwide donations -- unfortunately spending more money on jet fuel than orphans

Keeping It Reel

The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases edgy cinema

Family Ties

An Israeli clan tries to fly again in Broken Wings

Telefon Tel Aviv

Map of What Is Effortless (Hefty)

Divine Decadence

Rabbis won't recognize this wild and wicked Holy Land

Kane Mutiny

The industry's initial reaction to Welles's masterwork should serve as a lesson to WorldFest filmmakers

Changing Horses

Equus

Rap Shoah

Two Houston rappers use their Jewish heritage to define their toughness

International Film Festival 2000

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