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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Boat Parade and Gingerbread Houses

  Friday, December 7, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Gingerbread works quite well if you're a cackling witch trying to fatten up lost, unsuspecting children. But it also seems to be a sturdy construction material. This spiced baked good turns up in both Rec Room's Hansel and Gretel and the Annual Gingerbread Build Off. The weekend also includes holiday cheer...

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  12 Days of Classical Music Makes Houston's Holiday Season Very Merry

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The weather outside is frightful, but inside Houston's concert halls it's quite delightful. 'Tis the season for holiday music and our classical line-up caters to every taste. We've got an Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble, whale sounds, an a cappella chorus, a showcase by rising opera stars, TSO's The Ghosts of Christmas Eve...

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  Ars Lyrica Delivers a Magnificent Production of Handel's Agrippina

  Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.

  Agrippina, where have you been all my life? And Ars Lyrica? I think I love you. Ars Lyrica, Houston's preeminent early music ensemble, under the sparkling direction of Matthew Dirst, has staged an utterly magnificent production of George Frideric Handel's first international smash hit: his baroque opera seria Agrippina (1709)...

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  Opera in the Heights' Production of Cosi fan tutte is Filled With Bounce, Charm and Great Music

  Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 12:20 p.m.

  Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri was never Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's scheming nemesis (sorry, Peter Shaffer with your delightfully wicked Amadeus) so much as he was Mozart's unwitting irritant. He certainly never tried very hard to help out the genius, but he actually did do one thing which was sublimely right...

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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Spinal Tap, CineSpace and a Battleship

  Friday, November 9, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. This weekend in Houston we've got a vintage fashion show and a throwback screening of the world’s greatest mockumentary. For the new, Opera in the Heights has a completely different concept from when it last presented Mozart's most controversial work. More than 250 filmmakers...

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  This La Boheme Slows When It Should Race, But Pureum Jo Shines as Musetta

  Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 7:19 a.m.

  The Parisian cold water garret that the four young Bohemians share in Giacomo Puccini's evergreen opera La Bohème, snoozing through its run at Houston Grand Opera, isn't the only thing without heat. The entire production is lukewarm, glacially paced, and lacks ardor, not the qualities one wants in any Puccini...