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  Fall in Love With West African Fabrics at 2018's Quilt Festival Houston

  October 22 at 4 a.m.

  It's easy to see why artist and teacher Hollis Chatelain fell in love with the colorful fabrics she discovered during her 12 years working with humanitarian organizations in West Africa. The repeating prints of spirals, geometrics, flora and fauna, all rendered in bright, happy colors, are enough to put a...

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  Artist Draws a Line in the Sand at IAH Against Human Trafficking

  October 18 at 4 a.m.

  When people and individuals start being described as "other" or "them," that's when artist/activist Molly Gochman steps up to the plate with her massive trenches — about three feet wide and hundreds of feet long — filled with red sand in the shape of international borders. "When you think of...

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  Top Illustrator Pokes Bear With Satirical Works at Russian Cultural Center

  October 17 at 5 a.m.

  It's been a little more than 100 years since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Red Guards stormed Petrograd, an uprising that led to the execution of the abdicated Tsar Nicholas and the Romanov family and paved the way for five years of Russian Civil War and the creation of the...

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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: K-Fest, Mutt Struttin' and Hangar Bash

  October 12 at 4 a.m.

  We've got several cultural milestones this weekend in Houston. The Houston Italian Festival turns 40 (read more from our food writers) and the Korean Festival marks its tenth anniversary this year. And while the dogs will be strutting their stuff to save shelter animals, the divas from RuPaul's Drag Race are...

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  Fire, Wild Parties and Rule-Bending Museums Shaped Houston's Art Scene

  October 10 at 4 a.m.

  Now we're not saying that James Surls and Bob Graham burned down the University of Houston's Art and Architecture building in 1978 when sparks from their welding torch went awry, though those who knew the chainsaw-wielding sculptor and his protégé think otherwise. As reported by The Cougar, a lightning strike shorted the...

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  Project Row Houses Brings Night Bakery, Pics For Prison Moms and Chill House

  October 9 at 5 a.m.

  Feeling stressed about 24/7 technology or worried about pharmaceutical consumption? Stop by artist Lisa Harris's "House of Practice" installation at Project Row Houses to unplug from social media, chill out with some calming colors, and learn how to "just say no" to Big Pharma. Harris is one of...