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Feature
The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.
By Tim Fleck
Marvin Hoffman recalls giving David Cohen a ride to the airport in the fall of 1993 after a presentation to a committee planning what would become the Rice School. Cohen, an...
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Music
Twenty years after Elvis's death, a guide to his greatest movie "hits" and misses
By Serene Dominic
To commemorate last week's 20th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, MGM Home Entertainment has released a video gift set containing all 31 of Elvis's movies in a guitar case....
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Cafe
At the Restaurant at the Art Institute, professional cookingis taught -- sort of
By Paul Galvani
Okay, so I was wrong. So sue me.
A couple of weeks back, after a deliciously delightful experience at the University of Houston's Barron's Restaurant, I delivered myself of...
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Film
G.I. Jane traps a testosterone-poisoned lunkhead in Demi Moore's body
By Peter Rainer
In G.I. Jane, Demi Moore's Naval Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, is recruited as a test case to be the first female Navy SEAL. She gets a buzzcut and loses her...
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Night & Day
By Lee Williams
thursday
August 21
Major Thoroughfare Proposal How often do the city and all its bigwig decision-makers invite us lowly citizens to participate in that high-in-the-sky...
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News
If nudism is not about bodies, what's it about?
By Randall Patterson
The miles passed and a world slipped away, and it was late afternoon when we entered the land of livestock. Somewhere between Brenham and Navasota, as we turned off the dirt...
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Music
By Jim DeRogatis, Matt Weitz and Michael Roberts
Brian Eno
The Drop
Thirsty Ear
Colin Newman
Bastard
Swim
By no means technically accomplished or perfect in the classical sense, Brian Eno and Colin Newman's...
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Film
By Michael Sragow
When the beautiful entomologist rips open the chest cavity of a huge bloodthirsty insect in the sci-fi nightmare Mimic, it turns into Thoracic Park. This movie, like...
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News
By Tim Fleck
Dog's Days of Summer
It's been a long, hot summer for City Controller Lloyd Kelley, whose missteps have been so many and so flagrant you'd think he was deliberately trying...
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Music
By Hobart Rowland
The real Skinny... The late Dwayne Goettel wasn't a founding member of Skinny Puppy, but he might as well have been. When Goettel joined the Vancouver band in 1986, his synth...
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Film
In Box of Moonlight, John Turturro finds himself ... in a too-precious movie
By Michael Sragow
When Time magazine columnist Walter Shapiro recently referred to himself as part of a generation that still believes "A Thousand Clowns holds all the secrets to human...
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Letters
From McVicker, That Was a Compliment
Steve McVicker's report ["Death of an Informant," July 24] was okay, but it was too long. His referring to a certain bar as a "dimly lit...
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Music
By Hobart Rowland, Frank-John Hadley and Bob Burtman
Prodigy's number one debut notwithstanding, music industry watchers remain leery of electronica's potential for success -- as they should. So far, the craze is hardly shaping...
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Music
Andre Sam-Sin, a.k.a. DJ Sun, spins a luminous sound
By Hobart Rowland
As countries go, Suriname is tiny. Its smallness is particularly apparent when measured against the enormous size of Brazil to its south and the vast expanse of the Atlantic...
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