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Spotlight on Contemporary Greek Cinema Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Sun., October 18, 5:00pm |
Kirby-West U |
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 Works by six of Greece's most renowned filmmakers are included in the first-ever Spotlight on Contemporary Greek Cinema showcase at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shown over two weekends, the films cover love, fear, greed and obsession. Today's screening features the 2007 The Night Fernando... More >> |
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"600 sq mi: Hidden" Xnihilo Art Center |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., October 15 until Mon., November 23 |
Montrose |
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 "600 sq mi: Hidden" is a photography exhibit that invites you to stop and ponder what you've missed. "Houston is such a sprawling and complex place that interesting or beautiful things can be easy to overlook," says Houstonist.com Editor Jim Parsons. The local blog's annual, reader-submitted... More >> |
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Maserati, Golden Cities, Passengers The Mink |
Mon., October 19, 9:00pm |
Montrose |
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 Somewhere down our dark and booze-addled alley lies the sound of Passengers. Rising from the pieces of mod-punks Teenage Kicks, comes copious amounts of grimy leather-scented organ-infused Krautrock.
This is the kind of music that the Brian Jonestown Massacre was making in the mid-'90s before... More >> |
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Viewer Request Program Domy Books |
Tue., October 20, 8:30pm |
Montrose |
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 Cinema Bomar's Viewer Request Program showcases a simpler time, when half the fun of shopping was dressing up and predictions of the future included a holo-TV in every home. For today's screening, the collectors of 16mm "industrial, educational and ephemeral film" - who, with the rest of the... More >> |
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Traves Hedemann: "Young at Heart Art" Dean's |
Daily from Tue., October 20 until Mon., November 30, 5:00pm-2:00am |
Montrose |
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 Artist Travis Hedemann is known for his anime-esque, innocent style, putting his signature big, blue-eyed spin on everything from opera characters to animals, and even inanimate objects such as sushi and handbags. Currently presenting his "Young at Heart Art" exhibit, the Houstonian says, "When... More >> |
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Copyright Criminals Rice Cinema |
Wed., October 21, 7:00pm |
Kirby-West U |
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 It's rap meets Wall Street when recording artists and lawyers square off in Copyright Criminals, a PBS documentary by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, first broadcast on its Independent Lens program last January. Rappers and DJs have been "sampling" for decades, taking a brief piece of a... More >> |
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"Taboo!!" Art Exhibit Bering & James Gallery |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Wed., October 14 until Wed., November 18 |
River Oaks |
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 Catherine Cameron, one of eight artists and photographers participating in the Bering & James exhibit "Taboo!!," makes art that examines the idea of the forbidden. Her EGO 6 Persona Self Portraits series of soft-focus black-and-white photographs show only glimpses of her; a close-up of her... More >> |
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Robert Ellis & The Boys Mango's |
Every week Wednesday |
Montrose |
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 Each Wednesday night, local long-haired twanger Robert Ellis and his band of pickers turn indie-rock playhouse Mango's into a beerhall that would make Mickey Gilley smile. Cheap Pearl beer, a big dancefloor, and Ellis and company belting out some of the best songs recorded by Willie, Waylon,... More >> |
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Artful Thursday: Bohnchang Koo Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Thu., October 22, 6:30pm |
Kirby-West U |
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 Over the last 50 years, Korea has gone from being one of the least powerful countries in the world to being a major political player. That transformation is reflected in they country’s contemporary art, and during today’s Artful Thursday, photographer Bohnchang Koo discusses how his... More >> |
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The Devil’s Backbone River Oaks Theatre |
Fri., October 23, 11:55pm
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Montrose |
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 Director Guillermo del Toro gives viewers a ghostly look at the last days of the Spanish Civil War in The Devil’s Backbone. Set in a gloomy wreck of an isolated orphanage, the film chronicles the fate of a group of boys and the doctor tasked with keeping them safe. A larcenous assistant,... More >> |
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"Classic Numbers" With DJ Wes Wallace Numbers |
Every week Friday |
Montrose |
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 There aren’t many places inside the Houston city limits where you can see a guy dressed up like a goth George Washington nursing a dirt cheap Long Island Iced Tea and shadow-dancing, but such is the reality at “Classic Numbers” every Friday at well, Numbers off Westheimer. The... More >> |
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Aurora Picture Show Video Salon Aurora Video Library |
Sun., October 25, 1:00pm |
Montrose |
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 When Emily Hagins set out to create zombie flick Pathogen, she was still years away from being able to buy a ticket to an R-rated movie. The 12-year-old Austinite was neither a rich kid nor a child prodigy — she was simply driven to produce a film about dead people eating live people.... More >> |
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Herb Keyser: Geniuses of American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists Barnes & Noble -- River Oaks |
Mon., October 26, 7:00pm |
River Oaks |
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 Being accepted into medical school temporarily interrupted Herb Keyser’s career in show business. Good thing for musical theater fans, he found his way back. Keyser will be discussing and signing copies of his latest book, Geniuses of American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists,... More >> |
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Irma Galvan’s Favorite Film: Tortilla Soup Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Mon., October 26, 7:00pm |
Kirby-West U |
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 Houston restaurateur Irma Galvan hosts a screening of Tortilla Soup, this month’s installment of Movies Houstonians Love: Meals on Reels. Hector Elizondo stars in Soup as a retired chef who lives with his three grown daughters. No one in the family is having much luck in affairs of the... More >> |
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Port O'Brien, While You Were Gone Rudyard's |
Mon., October 26 |
Montrose |
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 For a handy key to Port O'Brien's new album, threadbare, simply look at who recorded it: Papercuts' Jason Quever and Earlimart's Aaron Espinoza, which made for a somewhat melancholy, distinctly Californian album as drowsy and inward-looking as it is lush and spooky with reverb. Formed by Van... More >> |
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Out in the Silence Rice Cinema |
Wed., October 28, 7:00pm |
Kirby-West U |
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 After filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer were married in Canada in 2004, Wilson posted an announcement of the gay nuptials in his hometown newspaper in Oil City, Pennsylvania to inform his old friends. His harmless celebratory notice almost burned down the town. It also prompted a mother and... More >> |
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Digital Leather, The Energy, Room 101 The Mink |
Thu., October 29, 9:00pm |
Montrose |
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 So far 2009 has seen the debuts of about a dozen or so new Houston bands that have rocking our collective nuts off. Muhammadali, Passengers, Roky Moon & Bolt, the inimitable 10th Grade Cutie, the solo debut of Benjamin Wesley, and the classic-rock filtered garage of Giant Princess just to name... More >> |
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Bering Support Network Bering Memorial United Methodist Church |
Daily |
Montrose |
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Fantasy Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Life Burke Baker Planetarium |
Daily |
Kirby-West U |
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Central Market Central Market |
Daily |
Greenway Plaza |
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Hall of African Wildlife Houston Museum of Natural Science |
Daily |
Kirby-West U |
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Houston Zoo Volunteer Program Houston Zoo |
Daily |
Kirby-West U |
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IMAX - Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston Museum of Natural Science |
Daily |
Kirby-West U |
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"Fighter Pilot: Operation red Flag" Houston Museum of Natural Science |
Daily |
Kirby-West U |
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Menil Collection The Menil Collection |
Daily |
Montrose |
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