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“Monica Vidal: CULL”
Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 4 a.m. by JIM J.TOMMANEY

They are big. They are colorful. And for the “Monica Vidal: Cull” exhibition, they are installed at the University Museum of Texas Southern University. Artist Monica Vidal creates large scale three-dimensional sculptures...
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts Comes to TSU
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 11 a.m. by Altamese Osborne

How do you immortalize dance? The movements are fluid and transitory, like condensation rolling down the side of a glass of iced tea in the hot sun. Will a camera do? The multimedia exhibit, "Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Fir...
Cover Story: A Brief History of Joe Sample and the Crusaders
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 8 a.m. by William Michael Smith

What a badass. As chronicled in this week's cover story, there's a reason why Joe Sample is Texas Southern University's artist-in-residence at the school's jazz studies program -- and why he may be able to reinvent TSU's disgraced r...
Cover Story: Joe Sample Attempts to Bring TSU Back to Relevancy
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 10 a.m. by Steve Jansen

Teaching jazz at Texas Southern University was probably the last thing on the mind of Joe Sample when the Phillis Wheatley High School graduate returned to his native Houston after tearing it up in Los Angeles for 40 years. But Samp...