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University of Houston-Downtown

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Last Night: Buxton & The Tontons At Discovery Green

    Buxton, the Tontons Discovery Green May 24, 2012 I was pretty proud of myself Thursday night: I managed to kill three birds with one stone. I'd never seen local darlings Buxton or the Tontons live before, and I'd never been to a concert at Discovery Green, either. Thanks to UH-Downtown's Thursday C ... More >>

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    April 26, 2012

    FabriFaction 2012

    Buxton, the Tontons Discovery Green May 24, 2012 I was pretty proud of myself Thursday night: I managed to kill three birds with one stone. I'd never seen local darlings Buxton or the Tontons live before, and I'd never been to a concert at Discovery Green, either. Thanks to UH-Downtown's Thursday C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Harvard, CU-Boulder Design Downtown Houston of Your Dreams, Possibly

    That up above, the dreamy rendering of the area that used to house the downtown Post Office? It's "Bayou Commons," which is "strategically designed to be downtown Houston's first residential district celebrating cultural diversity and urban lifestyle." But don't go looking for it yet.

  • Music

    March 1, 2012

    Welcome to the Neighborhood

    An iconic Houston music venue settles into new digs amid a hint of controversy.

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Coffeehouses

    Photo by Kevin O'MaraA reminder of what our No. 3 pick used to look like.​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 25, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Who Was That Masked Man?, Sylvia

    Photo by Kevin O'MaraA reminder of what our No. 3 pick used to look like.​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 18, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Three Murders and It's Only Monday, Who Was That Masked Man?

    Photo by Kevin O'MaraA reminder of what our No. 3 pick used to look like.​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    “Storied Beads: The Art of Teri Greeves”

    Photo by Kevin O'MaraA reminder of what our No. 3 pick used to look like.​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2010

    Comment Of The Day: Loving Houston

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

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    October 7, 2010

    Houston Poetry Festival

    Roses are red, violets are blue, listeners are happy and you will be too

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    September 16, 2010

    "Melanie Crader: The Eula Project"

    The artist responds to items found in her grandmother's old purse

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    August 5, 2010
  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Metro Light Rail Expands Hours For Bike Riders

    The Iron Horse welcomes velocipedes​Metro and BikeHouston have reached an agreement that expands the hours bike riders will be allowed on light-rail trains.Bikes are still barred during peak travel hours in the morning and afternoon, but the definition of "peak hours" has changed.Bikes can now be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2010

    The Glass Menagerie

    The Landing Theatre Company is starting at the top

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    June 3, 2010

    "Enchanting Taiwan"

    The island nation reveals its culture in this photography exhibit

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Don't Depend On Light Rail To Get You Anywhere This Weekend

    ​If you were thinking you could drink freely downtown this weekend and take the light rail home, think again. It's "Set Back the Clock" weekend at Metro, as they abandon the sleek 21st-century wonder of light rail and regress back to smelly old buses.A new pedestrian bridge is being installed over ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Quincy Troupe

    The Pursuit of Happyness co-writer drops by UHD

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Last Call For Art: Retablos And UH-D's Musical Debut

    Among the annual must-see shows is Lawndale Art Center's "Retablo Exhibition." The show is winding down, with Saturday as its last day, so if you haven't seen it yet, get to it.Dozens of Texas artists re-interpreted the Mexican tradition of retablos or devotional paintings for the show. The arti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Don't Believe The Hype! The Press Mayoral Debate Is Not Only Still On, It's Already Been Broughten!!

    ​Anti-trust lawyers began searching collusion law last night as word began to emerge that Houston's field of mayoral candidates had agreed to drastically cut back on the number of forums/debates they'd attend.Then they put the law books away, because even they agreed there were far too many mayor' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Here's Your Chance To Ask The Next Mayor A Question

    ​Whether you like it or not -- and it seems most people couldn't care less -- there will be a mayoral election in two months.Your next mayor will either be the city controller (in which case Houston will be the largest city in the U.S. to elect an open gay or lesbian as mayor), a city council memb ... More >>

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    August 27, 2009

    "RAW"

    Three artists dust off classical drawing’s cobwebs

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Light-Rail Will Be Limited In Downtown This Weekend

    Photo by pfrench99Metro's announced they'll be doing track maintenance this weekend, so if you're planning on cruising the light rail through downtown, think again.There will be no service between the Downtown Transit Center and UH-Downtown from 5:30 am til 2 pm on both Saturday and Sunday, Metro's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    UH-Downtown's Max Castillo, We Hardly Blew Ye

    That was some send-off the Chronicle gave over the weekend to Max Castillo, outgoing president of UH-Downtown. It was the kind of glowing profile some cynical journalists call a "blow job."In it we learned that Castillo:a) is "a bilingual Hispanic, at a time when 85 percent of college presidents are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Seguin State University, Here We (Don't) Come

    This is it, people - the pivotal moment we've anticipated for weeks, nay, months.The new name for the University of Houston-Downtown is...in the final stages of being decided. UH System Chancellor Renu Khator and UH-D President Max Castillo will pass on this afternoon five tentative finalists to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    UH-Downtown Gets Set To Vote On World's Least Necessary Name Change

    Max Castillo, president of UH-Downtown, confirmed to the Houston Chronicle what he told us last month: he really, really wants to change the name of his school.And now he's taking it online!The school has put up on its webpage a whole collection of facts, lists, criteria and suggested names for stud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    A UH-Downtown By Any Other Name

    As we first reported back in August, UH-Downtown is trying very, very hard not to be UH-Downtown anymore.The rumored change is more or less a done deal; all that's left is to decide what the new name will be.Why give up the brand name of UH, especially as UH is embarking on an aggressive (if possibl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    Floyd Newsum's "Primary Concerns"

    Joan Wich & Co. Gallery presents recent work by a local artist

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    October 9, 2008

    "American Civil War Field Notes: Sketches from Cairo to Columbia"

    Embedded Illustrators on display at O'Kane Gallery

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Will UH Try To Take The "UH" Out Of UH-Downtown?

    Embedded Illustrators on display at O'Kane Gallery

  • Culture

    October 11, 2007
  • Culture

    September 27, 2007

    Art Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Culture

    September 20, 2007

    Art Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Calendar

    August 16, 2007
  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Scooby-Dooby-Done

    The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2005

    Stylish Scavenging

    Troll for art at the Downtown Stomp Around

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    For Whom the Hell Tolls

    Heights residents fear the toll road authority's new land acquisition plans

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Going Batty

    Efforts mount to make downtown home to a new kind of nightlife

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2004

    Look Back in Anger

    A short-film series plumbs a dark cultural data bank

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2003

    I Got You, Babe

    Stan Killian puts his money where his mouth is

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Stan Killian puts his money where his mouth is

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Roger Cooper

    Oenophile, Bert Wheeler's Liquors, 6518 Westheimer

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Place to Get a Traffic Ticket

    Revitalized section of downtown

  • Calendar

    November 26, 1998

    Night & Day

    November 26 - December 2, 1998

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    September 3, 1998

    Night & Day

    September 3 - 9, 1998

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    February 27, 1997

    Press Picks

    September 3 - 9, 1998

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    February 29, 1996

    Press Picks

    September 3 - 9, 1998

  • News

    September 1, 1994

    Crisis on Cullen Boulevard

    Funding is down. Faculty is fleeing. And 50 professors are in semi-open revolt. Is the University of Houston on an irrovocable slide toward mediocrity?

  • News

    April 21, 1994

    Still Lives

    The muse for hire at $8.50 an hour: unveiling the naked truths of Houston's art models

  • Calendar

    February 17, 1994

    Press Picks

    The muse for hire at $8.50 an hour: unveiling the naked truths of Houston's art models

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