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Three Austinites take over the CAMH with inventive photography
By Dusti Rhodes
For "Perspectives 168," photographer Anna Krachey shopped around. The artist scavenged eBay for items to photograph, including a backdrop for a princess party. "It's a giant...
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Michael Crowder gets ghostly with glass and paints the gallery blue
By Dusti Rhodes
If the works in "L'heure bleue" could speak, they'd say "Boo!" "I'm sort of making a ghost of an object," says Michael Crowder. The artist works with molding glass to create...
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Trick-or-treating: now, with alcohol!
By Dusti Rhodes
Ah, The Montrose Crawl: It's like trick-or-treating on the rocks. The annual bar-to-bar tour allows you to don your scariest, cleverest and most scandalous apparel and hit up...
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Discarded home movies get the attention they always wished they’d had
By Dusti Rhodes
For more than 15 years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, the duo behind the Found Footage Festival, have scouted garage sales, warehouses, thrift stores and dumpsters in search of...
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By Dusti Rhodes
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...
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Houstonist.com brings the background to the foreground
By Dusti Rhodes
"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...
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Poet Valzhyna Mort is the first to verse in English and Belarusian in U.S.
By Dusti Rhodes
Valzhyna Mort is well versed in Belarusian and English. The Minsk-born poet, the first ever to release a collection of poems translated from her native tongue into ours, reads...
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Documentary explores '90s define-it-yourselfers
By Dusti Rhodes
If you disagree with the establishment, then redefine it. This could be the motto for the artists chronicled in Beautiful Losers. The documentary film, screened today by AIGA...
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Houston Swing Dance Society flips into fall with a ball
By Dusti Rhodes
Swing into fall at the Harvest Moon Ball. The Houston Swing Dance Society's annual bash is a chance for hepcats to strut their stuff and newbies to get into the swing of...
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Best Of Houston 2008 pick brings in the big guns for its third birthday
By Dusti Rhodes
The Poison Pen Reading Series raises its glass to three years of bookish boozing with Dean Young. Our 2008 pick for the Best Local Reading Series isn't skimping on guests for...
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A local comedian stokes right-wing anger, but just for laughs
By Dusti Rhodes
When local comedian Rob Mungle tackles topical issues, he goes after the right wing with liberal fire and brimstone. "I like making [my opinion] known with, shall I say,...
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Elder Street show features some petite packages that are big on detail
By Dusti Rhodes
Being little is big in "It's a Small World." The international miniature art show celebrates the teeny and tiny with works no larger than four inches by four inches....
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BooTown gets you off your ass and out of the theater
By Dusti Rhodes
See Ace. See Ace run. See where Ace runs...and go there. It's all part of what you'd expect from local guerrilla-theater company BooTown. The troupe's latest offering, Ace of...
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Joel Orr revisits the origins of his perverse puppetry
By Dusti Rhodes
Out of the Dark: Bobbindoctrin Nightclub Acts features works Joel Orr has been waiting to do for a long time - again. The revue includes shows from the early days when Orr...
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Buddhism gets a weekly punking at the Zen Center
By Dusti Rhodes
Spirituality is getting punked in Houston. Matt Brownlie — he of local band Bring Back the Guns, formerly The Groceries — recently started a chapter of Dharma Punx,...
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Bringing comedy back to a familiar spot…sort of
By Dusti Rhodes
Sherlock’s Comedy Open Mike brings laughter back to a familiar setting. “[Sherlock’s on West Gray] used to be the Laff Stop, and that’s where most of the...
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Who cares about a free lunch — try some complimentary culture
By Dusti Rhodes
Museum District Day is a field trip, free of charge and sans permission slip. Catch up on the latest offerings from 17 museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;...
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Houston Ballet celebrates the big 4-0 with sex, lies and stylish leotards
By Dusti Rhodes
Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40 (and still able to tastefully sport tights). The Houston Ballet rings in four decades of dancing en pointe with Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s...
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You've heard the podcast, now see the screening
By Dusti Rhodes
The movie buffs who host locally grown podcast Film Forum will step away from the digital world to present a screening of 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? They'll show...
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It may not be gold, but it sure shines
By Dusti Rhodes
JB Carrillo is putting a sparkly spin on Signac and Seurat. "I'm starting neo-pointillism," says the artist behind "Glitter Art Show." "I'm not doing dots with paint, I'm doing...
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