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  Best Bets This Weekend: Music From a Long Time Ago and a Galaxy Far, Far Away

  November 7 at 4 a.m.

  There's a theory that the universe in which the Star Wars franchise exists coincides with our 18th and 19th centuries here on Earth, so this weekend in Houston we're celebrating the music from both galaxies — two from a long time ago and another far, far away. From the Houston...

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  Ben DeSoto Documentary Debuts This Wednesday

  November 4 at 4 a.m.

  Think of the photographers whose work caught essential moments in some developing American movement. Does your list include Ben Tecumseh DeSoto? It should and that’s the point of Ben DeSoto: For Art’s Sake, a new documentary about the longtime Houston-based photojournalist. The film’s debut is slated for Wednesday night at...

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  Best Bets This Weekend: Lonestar Rally, Señorita Cinema, y Día de los Muertos

  October 31 at 4 a.m.

  We're finally at that sweet spot here along the Texas Gulf Coast when being outside actually feels pleasant. Which is a good thing with celebrations of motorcycles and music in Galveston, skating legends at the Jamail Skate Park, and Día de Muertos festivities at Discovery Green, MECA, and the National...

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  Beatriz Gonzalez Retrospective Documents the Making of an Art Activist

  October 29 at 5 a.m.

  What is important to young adults suddenly shifts with parenthood, then morphs again throughout each of life's seasons. Taste in music changes, opinions about politics, or thoughts about what really and truly matters. Those shifts are magnified in a new exhibit just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,...

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  From the Sea to the Ceiling, Quilt Festival Celebrates Sapphire Anniversary

  October 22 at 4 a.m.

  We actually think every year at the International Quilt Festival/Houston is amazing, but things get even more special during milestone years. "We really try to do something kind of spectacular, something that will wow people. Five years ago we did a red and white exhibit, quilts were suspended from the...

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  Explore an Unsung Heroine and the Evolution of "Isms" at MFAH

  October 21 at 4 a.m.

  This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. But being treated as a second-class citizen wasn't just an American problem; women in France didn't earn the privilege until 1944 so it's no surprise that French painter Berthe Morisot...