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Dear Readers: U.K.'s spectacular Guardian newspaper has asked if I could field some questions for their readers as part of the paper's summer travel package -- turns out Brits want to know more about Mexican food! Let's be benevolent toward those ...
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On May 31, Samskriti presented its annual Incredible India program at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. Each year, Samskriti brings the most acclaimed performing arts groups from the Indian subcontinent to the Miller Stage. Incredible India ...
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I'm not much of a food person, beyond the fact I need to consume it in order to survive. And while I'm fairly conscientious about what I eat and what I feed my kids, I'll certainly never pass for a "foodie."
So in news that shouldn't come as a huge ...
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It was a sweaty 95 degrees Monday, the kind of Houston heat where you're dripping just standing in place. But that didn't stop three artists from going up and down ladders working on a new outdoor mural at GreenStreet , formerly known as the Houston...
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There's something fascinating about sandcastle art, and I've narrowed down why to two reasons. The first is that it's something that, unlike most art, most of us have a frame of reference for. While we may never have painted in watercolors or drawn a...
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If you were making your way to the Galleria on Tuesday, June 4, for the Madewell Galleria's grand opening you may have hit just a tiny bit of traffic on the freeway. Bummer! The mob scene on the highway and streets surrounding the Galleria was less...
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Last week Pete decreed that we would watch Magnum P.I. , and I actually ended up enjoying it a great deal. I was two years old when "Did You See the Sunrise" premiered, so this was really my first exposure to Tom Selleck's most famous role other tha...
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Ned Gayle likes to doodle, but he hates doing backgrounds and landscapes. It's admitted laziness on his part, so he decided to find a unique way around it. His work takes pictures and paintings bought from thrift stores (Mostly Goodwill Select), and ...
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Literally anyone can get a movie made or anything for that matter. Last week it was announced that the Grumpy Cat meme was getting a movie made about, I don't know, I assume it's going to be about being a cat that's grumpy. Grumpy Cat was voted th...
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A week after Psophonia Dance Company debuted the first fully produced dance concert performed at City Dance Studio, the space housed jhon r. stronks' and Jasmine Hearn's collaboration B.L.K. Gurls ~n~ W.H.T. Boiz Singin' 'bout Gawd! T...
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Mark Rothko. Jackson Pollock. They're not the usual suspects you'd associate with Surrealism, but they're some of the biggest names in the Menil Collection's current show "Late Surrealism."
Though they're known for their groundbreaking abstract work...
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The Politician's Wife. A British predecessor to The Good Wife , the three-episode mini-series starts at the same place as its American counterpart - a woman is shocked and humiliated to find out that her politician husband has been having an aff...
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Ghostlight Record's Cover Art for Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (Original Broadway Cast Recording) . Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella first premiered in a 1957 made for TV movie, that presented the story in a three-act format and starred...
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Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge.
Half Past Danger #1: Jeremy Bulloch of 8th Dimension Comics and I play a little game when he hands me the sele...
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forbid me to enjoy it."
Just in time for Father's Day 2013, actor/playwright Williams is headed back to Galveston's Grand 1984 Opera House with his latest creation, Blame It on Valentine, Texas , a one-man play that dissects all things familial,...
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BBC announced that the Eleventh Doctor was hanging up his fez and bowtie. Matt Smith will leave Doctor Who during the 2013 Christmas special, regenerating into the next incarnation of the Time Lord. Hints have abounded for almost a year that the s...
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Weddings, right?
I mean, it's bad enough making proper seating arrangements and trying to hide those crossbows from prying eyes, but what the hell gets arterial spray out of fine linen? Does Heloise even have a hint for that?
Here's your good new...
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Sometimes two organizations come together in a way that seems totally bonkers but it's just crazy enough to work. Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) teamed up with the Texas Art Asylum for a Tupperware-inspired art show, which opened this past Friday nig...
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After seven plus years in the making, the Metropolitan Dance Company and Center finally opened the doors to its brand new home. This weekend marked a huge accomplishment for the dance company, who up until now had been holding court in much loved but...
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Seward (Sam Martinez) expresses his love for Lucy (Autum Woods).
The set-up:
We're definitely not in Kansas anymore, we may not even be in Houston. We're in the land of demonic dreams and nebulous nightmares, of fog and crashing waves, of howl...
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