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  Bob Gruen's Life Through the Lens of Rock and Roll

  October 22 at 4 a.m.

  While their names are often known only to music nerds and credit line readers, the iconic images taken by A-list Classic Rock and Roll Photographers are familiar from hundreds of record covers, T-shirts, posters, and prints which now can be seen in high-end galleries. This small club includes shutterbugs like...

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  Houston Film Critics Society To Hold Virtual "POTUS Fest" On October 25

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  You may have heard there's an election coming up. In the spirit of the American Experiment, the Houston Film Critics Society is celebrating the "reel lessons of leadership" with a salute to films about U.S. Presidents and the election process in POTUS Fest: Cinema in Chief. Society members’ comments and reviews on...

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  On the Road with Linda Ronstadt and Young Mexican Songbirds

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  Everybody thought she was crazy. I mean, she’s Linda Ronstadt. A reigning queen of rock and roll. Why the hell would she do a complete left (and right) turn and put out an album featuring her singing old Mexican songs in Spanish? And then go on tour with a full...

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  Rolling Stones' Lost Steel Wheels Concert Fires on All Cylinders

  October 1 at 4 a.m.

  In 1989, there was a lot riding (pun intended) for the Rolling Stones on the release of their new record, Steel Wheels. It had been three years since their prior LP, Dirty Work, and the feud between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had been going strong in the interval. There...

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  Bill Flanagan Turns Back the Hands of Time in Music-Themed Novel

  September 22 at 12 a.m.

  While time travel and body switching plots are common in books and films, few have ever waded deeply into musical territory. In Bill Flanagan’s new novel Fifty in Reverse (Tiller Press), 65-year-old Patrick Wyatt goes to sleep in 2020, but wakes up as his high-school freshman self in 1970 –...

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  A Night at a Houston Drive-In During The Pandemic

  September 14 at 4:30 a.m.

  Sometime last December the mysterious trailer for Tenet popped up on my phone. Scenes of John David Washington and Robert Pattinson speedily rappelling up a building, were followed by fancy people in suits doing spy things while characters spoke over ominous music. The clip ended with the unexplainable action sequence...