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Bevin Bering
The photographer’s “Houston Series” sheds new light on familiar places
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 24, 2008
Photographer Bevin Bering has the ability to take the familiar and make it seem new and different. Her “Houston Series” focuses on local landmarks, including downtown...
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“The Hour: Cocktail Time Design 1930-1980” & 20th Century Modern Market
The Lawndale Arts Center looks to stylize your vices
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 24, 2008
Don Browne’s interest in modern design led him to some bad habits. “The smoking kind of came along with the drinking,” he says. Browne isn’t referring to...
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Anne Appleby and Maddy Rosenberg
One artist delves into “concrete painting” while the other shows off good old abstract stuff
By NICK KEPPLERpainting” while the other shows off good
Published: April 24, 2008
“Concrete painting” isn’t a home-decorating fad — it’s a term used by Wade Wilson Art to describe the work of Anne Appleby, whose minimalist one-color...
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Fabulous Fridays
iFest hosts a series of free lunchtime concerts
By Chris Gray
Published: April 24, 2008
Get a jump start on iFest’s second weekend at Fabulous Fridays, the free lunchtime concert series. Today one of Houston’s longest-running, best-loved party bands, the...
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Katy Heinlein
This artist leaves the interpretation up to you
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 24, 2008
Katy Heinlein does her best work between the sheets. For her show at CTRL Gallery, the artist draped brightly colored fabrics off wires and wood beams to create ambiguous wall-...
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Coert Voorhees
Author of young adult novel The Brothers Torres aims to appeal to every demographic
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 24, 2008
Think local author Coert Voorhees’s young adult novels are just for kids? Well he doesn’t think so, and to prove it, this reading will be at a bar. “My target...
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One Flea Spare
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company puts on a play about infecting company
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 24, 2008
If one thing could make cabin fever worse, it would be the black plague. (Okay, so maybe that would actually make it a lot worse.) Brought to you by Mildred’s Umbrella...
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Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s Spring Concert
This Is Your Brain on Dance
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 24, 2008
The innovative Houston Metropolitan Dance Company routinely draws the eye of established local and national choreographers, but the company puts a special emphasis on...
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East Meets West
Two worlds collide for pirouettes, not politics
By Julia Ramey
Published: April 24, 2008
Let’s face it: Relations between China and the West aren’t in tip-top shape right now (see the recent torch-extinguishing episode in France). Fortunately, performing...
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Tea with Mussolini
Zeffirelli has a different take on life under a dictator
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: April 24, 2008
If you’re hoping to see a serious historical portrayal of an Italian dictator, don’t bother with Franco Zeffirelli’s Tea with Mussolini. There are plenty of...
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“Happiness Is a Warm Gun: The Thomas Imbach Films”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston dedicates a weekend to a man whose work is beyond experimental
By Nick Keppler
Published: April 24, 2008
Genre. Tone. Fiction. Fact. Documentary. Drama. These terms don’t seem to mean much to Switzerland’s Thomas Imbach, a director for whom the term “experimental...
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Dersu Uzala
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa captures life in the Russian wilderness
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 24, 2008
There aren’t many Russian/Japanese films out there, and fewer still that can be called classics, which is why this screening of Dersu Uzala is an especially nice treat for...
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Dan Fesperman
The author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo reads from his newest spy novel
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 24, 2008
Dan Fesperman has spent the last 17 years as a war correspondent. It shows in his writing. Known for his blistering renditions of world politics in a post-9/11 world, the...
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Vijay Iyer
This acclaimed young jazz pianist is worth all the accolades the press showers on him
By Nick Keppler
Published: April 24, 2008
Called one of the “new stars of jazz” by U.S. News & World Report (the magazine that’s always in your dentist’s office), and one of “today’s most...
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Paul Mooney
This comedian doesn’t sugarcoat his comments on race relations
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: April 24, 2008
Paul Mooney doesn’t care if he offends whites. “I ain’t sugarcoating shit, because white folks didn’t sugarcoat shit to me,” he says. Mooney’s...
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Itzhak Perlman
The award-winning violinist performs works by Bach, Strauss and Schumann
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: April 24, 2008
With 15 Grammy Awards on his shelf, Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman could sit back and enjoy his success. Instead, he’s keeping up a rigorous touring schedule, which,...
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Billy Budd
The Houston Grand Opera mounts Melville’s story of treachery at sea
By Chris Gray
Published: April 24, 2008
Nautical tragedy Billy Budd, one of the major operatic works of the last century, has impeccable credentials: a script based on Herman Melville’s novella first published...
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Game On
Rogues' Torment in Baroque
Atlus imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn't pretty
By Gary Hodges
Published: April 24, 2008
First of all: God bless Atlus. As a publisher devoted to bringing obscure Japanese gaming gems to the West — basically the much-needed heir apparent of Working Designs...
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Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisis
Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition
By Paul Knight
Published: April 24, 2008
Victor Correa approached the abandoned house with caution. The lawn was overgrown, and various pieces of junk — a broken charcoal grill and rusted push lawnmower...
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Foreclosure Pets
Dogs, cats and other household pets get left behind when owners are pushed out
By Paul Knight
Published: April 24, 2008
The rising number of foreclosures in the area has created a new term in the animal welfare lexicon: "foreclosure pets." As realtors and junk haulers find more and more animals...
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