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The problem comes from a single error that often destroys apocalyptic fiction. That error is that pretending that the apocalypse itself matters. It doesn't, and trying to make it matter is always a band idea.
It doesn't matter why the dead walk in T...
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Lindsey Prescia
Guus Kemp's The Messenger exudes power and vitality
The Zoya Tommy Contemporary Gallery has a knack for showing works of wit and substance, and for documenting that significant art can be great fun. The current exhibit "SHOW UP"...
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MJR Theatricals and Music Box Musicals
Kristina Sullivan, Corey Hartzog and Eric Domuret star in this musical about mental illness
The set-up:
A musical about mental illness? Are you kidding, I hear you ask. But wait, it's been done before, q...
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For a long term horror movie fan like myself, the recent mainstream love affair with zombie films is still surprising. How such a hyper-violent genre has become acceptable outside of hardcore horror fan circles is beyond me, but it warms the cockles ...
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A colorful, playful work by Christopher Derek Bruno
Gray Contemporary is a new gallery in the Houston Design Center, large, high-ceilinged and beautifully air-conditioned. This exhibition, a group show of ten artists, is the second one in its new ...
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Big Tex stands tall over the Lone Star State
Pop culture is dotted with the ghosts of long vanquished mascot characters that once represented well-loved products, places, and sports teams. In some cases, the original version was reinvented like ...
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Lots of breaking fashion news hits the interwebs and I don't want you to miss one bit of it. So, I present some of the biggest headlines each week for your reading pleasure.
Click and enjoy!Dino Jewelry for the Adventurer in Us All via The Cut
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In FX's "Married" all Nat Faxon wants is his wife and all she wants is to be left alone.
Because of the onslaught of positive reviews, I recently felt compelled to check out FX's summer sitcom Married. The plot, a married couple with children, is...
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Best One-Liner That Actually Might Have Come From an '80s Action Movie: "I *am* the Hague."
Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Two Roger Murtaughs out of five:
Brief Plot Synopsis: Elite mercenary team hunt rogue arms dealer that u...
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Game: Royal Warfare
Genre: Battle Strategy
Made By: Idengames
Play at: Armor Games
Rating: 3 out of 5
Set in a somewhat medieval European fantasy land, suddenly zombies and skeletons are everywhere. However, the feudal lords decide that they will...
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These days it's common to bump into people that are pursuing some form of healthier living, exercising more, and watching what they eat. Eventually, a lot of these individuals will start to do their grocery shopping at health food stores, places spec...
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What He Does: Some of Houston's best photographers combine to forma giant Voltronian force of artistic thunder under the umbrella of Muse Studios. Robert Gouner, Stanford Moore, Shelby Carter, Gracie Sosa, Rachel Tate are all part of the team, but t...
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Seinfeld admits being alone onstage armed with nothing but a mike and facing an audience he has to amuse and entertain for more than an hour isn't a cakewalk even after all his years in comedy. "I feel sweat rolling down my back for about a half hour...
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The project got started when Playboy model turned photographer Shelby Murry was being photographed with Amen by Allen Henson. She remarked that it would be funny if he took his pants off, Amen agreed, and that was the beginning of an idea.
"We're f...
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When I was a kid my favorite thing every year was the Houston Museum of Natural Science's annual Dinomation. This was long before we had the amazing Morian Hall of Paleontology, and our dinosaur offerings were far more meager. Once a year, though, th...
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Having been to England and dated a guy who's half British (his dad was English), I think I can make the assessment that British guys are better than American guys. And here are five reasons why.
Jamie Dornan
1. More mature. When find you...
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"Leave the house? Why?"
Technology has always altered the ways in which we communicate with one another and entertain ourselves, but those changes are accelerating and dramatically affecting the ways that we socialize. Much has been said about how...
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There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time.
To this point, there haven't been a whole lot of parenting reality shows, unless you count the ones that only address it in the broader context ...
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Like the disembodied arm in Jaws 3-D you probably saw this coming. Last year's Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives was, as it turns out, nowhere near the low point for Discovery Channel.
As I wrote about at the time, that program didn't even try to t...
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The Setup:
It has been 50 years since the passing of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, prohibiting the discrimination of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, which makes the Houston Museum of African American Culture's (HMAAC) presentation o...
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