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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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  New Book Tells How Rock and Roll Came Home to Cleveland

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  The House That Rock Built: How It Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to ClevelandBy Norm N. Nite with Tom Feran 176 pp. $28 Kent State University Press For those who’ve never made the pilgrimage to the great glass...

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  Italian Cultural Center's Film Series Returns with Il Campione

  September 11 at 4 a.m.

  Sometimes, stereotypes exist for a reason. Among the Europeans, the Italian culture is very much a touchy-feely one. There are a lot of hugs and kisses and embraces and talking loudly and closely with operatic hand gestures. So in the Age of Coronavirus with its masking and social distancing and...

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  Discovery Green's House Of Cards Lights Up Public Art Scene (UPDATED]

  August 25 at 4 a.m.

  Discovery Green will unveil a public art display, House of Cards, starting Friday and running through October 11 in the park’s Sarofim Picnic Lawn. The piece is an astonishing structure consisting of 126 playing cards stacked to dizzying height of 18 feet. During the day, the cards’ crisp white lines and colorful images will dazzle; at night, the structure will be animated to create the illusion of the house of cards rising and falling.

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  Catching Up With the Arts in Houston: A Lost Masterwork, the Irrepressible Tamarie Cooper & More

  July 23 at 4 a.m.

  A forgotten film of note being aired by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Catastrophic Theatre's Tamarie Cooper's Quarantine Edition. A new participatory public arts project through the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.  While visual and performing arts venues are dealing carefully with the coronavirus, there is still plenty to see and do right now.

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  Timely "Soul of a Nation" Finally Reaches the MFAH. But See It, Quick!

  June 29 at 4 a.m.

  Sparked by a spate of high-profile killings of African-Americans by law enforcement and private citizens – and the worldwide George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests that have ensued and continue – we are seeing unprecedented dialogue about, attention to, and action against long simmering issues of racial prejudice, inequality, and social...