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  Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
  Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

  November 16 at 5 a.m.

  The movie is book-ended by Grindelwald's fairly incoherent escape from New York ("Credence Barebone, I heard you were dead.") and the climactic battle beneath Père Lachaise Cemetery, but that leaves a whole lot of twitchy Redmayne and leering Depp to sit through.

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  Die Hard Is Not A Christmas Movie (But It May Be the Perfect Valentine's Day Film)

  November 14 at 5 a.m.

  The holidays are nigh and with their return resurfaces the most absurd argument in filmdom, which is whether Die Hard is an action flick or a Christmas movie. The film is playing in select theaters nationwide this week to commemorate its 30th anniversary. It concludes its limited run with showings...

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  Starting With His Own Stories, Houstonian Luke Brawner Has Assembled a Podcast Network

  November 12 at 5 a.m.

  Three and a half years ago, Luke Brawner was commuting to work from Tomball to the Heights. As a worship leader and long time musician he was hearing more than enough music at work every day. The Fort Worth native needed something else to pass the time during the hour-long...

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  Five Ways Our Online Interactions are Different Than 25 Years Ago...and How It Changed Us

  November 2 at 5 a.m.

  I began making friends online before the world wide web existed. Back then, it was America Online and usenet bulletin boards that only hard core nerds really read. Soon, bulletin boards and chat rooms would begin to take over, still more than a decade before social media would make its...

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  Houston Symphony's Sinfully Delicious Show Will Take Houston By Storm

  October 31 at 5 a.m.

  The Houston Symphony will put on a parade of mortal pleasures with Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, running Nov. 2 - 4 at Jones Hall. Vocalist Storm Large will portray the main character of Anna in a satirical story of one woman's travels across seven cities in America in pursuit of the American deem, discovering a different cardinal sin at every stop.

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  Pinwheels Keep on Turning in Discovery Green's Interactive Light Show, "GUST"

  October 30 at 4 a.m.

  The artists at Cocolab have climbed a pyramid at Teotihuacan (draping it in a Mesoamerican light show), built scale models of more than 50 of the world's historical monuments (Rome's Colosseum dwarfed London's Buckingham Palace) and christened the opening of Mexico City's 50-story BBVA Bancomer Tower with an audiovisual and pyrotechnic light show...