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Houston's Best Bets This Weekend: Taco Heaven at Water Works, it's Tacolandia
Friday, October 20, 2017 at 4 a.m. by Nancy Rodriguez

Home of the tacos and land of the salsa. It's Tacolandia and it's back this year with a lineup that plans to give last year's a run for its money. Pick from delicious knockouts like Fadi's Mediterranean Gerardo's and Luna y Sol...
Steampunk, the Supernatural and Decadence in The Tales of Hoffmann at UH
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 11 a.m. by Margaret Downing

There's a mechanical doll. Also a singer, a seductress and a woman protected by her father. And Hoffman loves them all. Billed as a mixture of "steampunk, the supernatural and romantic decadence," Jacques Offenbach's opera fantasy T...
Moore's Opera Center Opens Spring Season With Italian Love and Russians Vying For an Apartment
Monday, January 14, 2013 at 9 a.m. by Margaret Downing

Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston starts its spring season traditionally and otherwise with The Marriage of Figaro and Moscow, Cheryomushki. The first is a romantic successor to The Barber of Seville, written by Mozar...
Il Postino (The Postman)
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 4 a.m. by Carla Bradley

The opera Il Postino (The Postman) focuses on Mario, a poor fisherman’s son turned personal postman for Pablo Neruda, one of Chile’s most famous and controversial poets. Neruda takes Mario under his wing and teaches him th...