A historic meeting between two of Mother Russia's legendary leaders? Never happened. "Lenin and Stalin in Gorki, 1922" by an unknown Russian artist, 1949. In these days where even the most basic of computers has Photoshop or some photo manipulati...
World War Z is one of my favorite books. I'm aware of its problems- why do people from different walks of life all talk the same in an oral history?- but I like the world it builds so much that I look past that. You would think that having admitted...
Houston Press Flickr Pool and see what kinds of art shots our talented photographers have added. We love street art, unique perspectives and beautiful photos of Houston's creative community. If you think you've got a good eye, drop your pictures in ...
Magnum P.I. Pete, being the resident Magnum fanboy, suggested we watch the two-part Season Three premiere, "Did You See the Sunrise." If you know nothing about Magnum P.I. , then I'll give you the lowdown since I recently had to look the show u...
It is this essay that is the thread that ties together the work of artist Pamela Fraser in her new exhibition, "The Fourth Dimension was Ha-Ha, in Other Words, That it is Laughter," which opens June 1 at the Blaffer Art Museum. The title of the show ...
After Earth Sure Seems Like It Took A Long Time For The Kid Of A Hollywood A-Lister To Make The Big Time: Don't let Kiefer Sutherland or Scott Caan hear you say that. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Two copies of George Micha...
outdoor garden-turned-bio-electronic environment , "Primordial Garden." The Romanian-born artist returns to the Montrose art space -- this time indoors -- for the site-specific installation "Cocomirle." Andea's work has been described in the past b...
Brian Waldrep, Karina Gonzalez, and William Newton in Ballet Imperial. The Setup: Houston Ballet has started its two-weekend run of Journey with the Masters , a mixed-rep program featuring choreographies by George Balanchine, Ji? Kylin and Je...
started out its life as a trailer in the middle of the Rodriguez/Tarantino love letter to the exploitation films of the '70s known as Grindhouse . As a trailer it was pretty cool- a one note joke that didn't overstay its welcome. The Machete that...
A career in fashion wasn't always on the drawing board for designer Sameera Faridi. Originally a pre-med student with a strong biology background, she decided to make a switch when she moved to Houston from Dubai. Houston Community College's fashion ...
Todd Waite as Sherlock Holmes Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle never met -- although they attended the same university a year apart and were fans of each other's stories -- but thanks to playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, their work is joine...
10. Dallas (4 hours) We start with Dallas. If it isn't football season, we don't usually have much to say about Dallas. It's too much like Houston (big city, no real tourist zone, lots of traffic) to warrant frequent trips, but we do make it up the...
Todd Waite stars once again as Sherlock Holmes The set-up: In Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club , playwright Jeffrey Archer has borrowed his central character, Sherlock Holmes, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and much of his pl...
The cable provider has become the television maker. When satellite television was first launched way back in the 1970s, it was in an effort to expand services and help all those unfortunate people that weren't able to get over the air television. Dis...
Cover Art for Masterworks Broadway's Kinky Boots (Original Broadway Cast Recording) . The 2005 quirky British film Kinky Boots recently received a Broadway facelift. Producer Daryl Roth sent director Jerry Mitchell ( Hairspray , La Cage aux Fo...
I was watching an episode of Chelsea Lately the other night, not something I do regularly, and Chelsea and her cohorts were doing their usual celebrity slamming and began a coordinated dump on Justin Bieber. This usually doesn't bother me as I am a...
August Muth brings the lasers in his series of holographic squares. They might remind you of holograms by another light artist -- James Turrell -- and in fact, the New Mexico artist has been making Turrell's holograms since 1994. For his own work, Mu...
I heard Adele's "Skyfall" on the radio this past week and couldn't help but think that the producers of the James Bond film scored big by getting one of the world's most loved music acts to write a song that not only played over the songs credits, bu...
When Brazilian artist Clarissa Tossin came to Houston in 2010 as a Core Fellow, she was stunned by the heat -- Houston is apparently way hotter than her hometown of Braslia. She was also fascinated by the prevalence of tinfoil-covered windows in th...
Dear Mexican: I went to a Los Angeles Dodgers game today and noticed that they now have Doyer Dogs, which are fucking disgusting and covered in nacho cheese, jalapeos and chili. Not that it doesn't have potential, but this is Dodger Stadium here, n...
Eternal Egypt Lives on in the Hall of Ancient Egypt
'Mommy, look, that lady is naked." The little girl, standing no higher than the bottom of the black Plexiglas case into which she peered, saw her immediately. In the gloom that surrounds… More >>
"Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know" In our time, there may be no art form more divisive than street art. For decades, the… More >>
Dracula Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with… More >>
Dear Mexican, Recently, a coworker turned me on to a Web site that features many videos of unspeakable atrocities the drug cartels are committing in Mexico, many graphically displaying murders and… More >>
Macbeth: Real Life Couple Tackle Shakespeare's Most Murderous Married Tag-Team
In Stark Naked Theatre Company's season finale, Macbeth, real-life couple and the troupe's co-directors Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin tackle Shakespeare's most murderous married tag-team. I'm not sure who wins. Any… More >>
"Call It Street Art, Call It Fine Art, Call It What You Know" In our time, there may be no art form more divisive than street art. For decades, the… More >>
Dracula Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with… More >>
A Bloody Good Show: Theatre Southwest Takes on Dracula
Fog swirls underfoot and Gregorian chant reverberates. Red light bathes two blanched, debauched brides wearing dusty wedding dresses. They perch on the stairs near the Gothic windows, watching with hungry… More >>
"Cocomirle: A Visual and Sound Environment by Adela Andea" Houston artist Adela Andea's light installations and sculptures are true crowd-pleasers, captivating artists at galleries, art fairs and, last winter, Art… More >>
Close Up Space The tyrannical senior editor of a publishing house keeps his rebellious teenage daughter in a boarding school, but, expelled for destruction of property, she returns to attack… More >>
