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The Vagina Monologues
Take a new look at what’s going on down there
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
This is the tenth anniversary of The Vagina Monologues, the Obie Award-winning play that centers on the seldom-discussed area between women’s navels and knees. To mark the...
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Houston Comets vs. Minnesota Lynx
Tina Thompson and company play their first home game of the season
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
After a four-game road trip, the Comets are back to face the Minnesota Lynx in their first home game of the season. Head coach Karleen Thompson (she went to USC with Tina...
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The Gates
Robert Mayles’s film documents Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s largest and most controversial project yet
By Nick Keppler
Published: May 22, 2008
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have covered entire islands in pink polyester and whole landscapes with umbrellas. The Gates, another site-specific, larger-than-life, conceptual art...
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Aries Spears
The former MADtv comedian takes on Jay-Z, DMX and Mike Tyson — for starters
By Julia Ramey
Published: May 22, 2008
Comedian Aries Spears clearly has no qualms about messing with people that most others don’t usually mess with, like hip-hop impresarios, gangsta rappers and enormous pro...
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Sour Notes
The Austin group releases The Meat of the Fruit EP
By Chris Gray
Published: May 22, 2008
Austin’s Sour Notes play lulling, ghostly, fully realized melodies not terribly far from Bright Eyes or the Decemberists. And they do so with a degree of bitterness and...
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Doomsday 9: Fistful of Steel
Houston’s funniest wrestlers return to the ring
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 22, 2008
Doomsday Wrestling returns enraged and encaged with its ninth installment, Fistful of Steel. We caught up with some of the characters of the theater/wrestling troupe (which...
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Geopalooza! A Hard Rock Anthology
The Houston Museum of Natural Science shows off its mineral miracles
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
Massive amethysts, six-feet-tall citrine geodes and huge gypsum crystals wait for you at Geopalooza! A Hard Rock Anthology, a showcase of mineral wonders from around the world....
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NANO Fiction Spring Release Party
The literary journal that highlights fiction in 300 words or less celebrates its latest efforts
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 22, 2008
The NANO Fiction Spring Release Party features authors who know how to write short, short stories. The literary journal, founded a year ago by University of Houston English...
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“Dither Complex”
Paul Fleming’s resin works are in faux motion
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 22, 2008
Paul Fleming’s art gives off good vibrations. “Dither Complex” is a collection of wall sculptures meant to imply motion. Using opaque white and clear colored...
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“I Hear You: Words-in-Form”
Tara Conley repeats her favorite phrases in wood and copper
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 22, 2008
Tara Conley collects phrases. For more than 12 years, the artist has scribbled down quotes that have caught her ear. “I Hear You: Words-in-Form” is an exhibit...
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Prom Night
You don’t have to be graduating high school to attend today’s big dance, but you do have to wear your best formal duds
By Chris Gray
Published: May 22, 2008
Ah, prom. The corsages...the awkwardness...the puking. If for some reason you didn’t get enough of all that back in high school, one of Houston’s best-loved cover...
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Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
The Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival has a warning label: For Mature Audiences. The annual festival is known for showcasing cutting-edge animation, and this year...
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Zine Fest Houston
Underground, independent and DIY writers and artists — the mother ship is calling you
By Chris Gray
Published: May 22, 2008
Now that everyone and their cat has a blog, it’s hard to remember when being a self-published author took real effort: knowledge of typography and layout, rudimentary...
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Grease Sing-along
The River Oaks Theatre invites you to sing along to an undying musical
By Nick Keppler
Published: May 22, 2008
Singing along to Grease, the musical that will not die, is a guilty pleasure — no one admits they do it, but everyone does. If you’re ready to come out of the Grease...
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“Girl”
Four female artists invade sneaker store and gallery Premium Goods
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
Outside artists of the female persuasion are on the inside at Premium Goods’ “Girl!” In addition to paint and canvas, Y.E. Torres, B~K, Jeanette Degollado and...
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Cowboys, crime fighters and the Hong Kong Cavaliers make for the strangest of strange bedfellows in this sci-fi cult classic
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: May 22, 2008
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension has all the ingredients of a cult classic. The 1984 sci-fi/comedy film features Peter Weller (of RoboCop fame) as...
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“what we want is too late”
Lawndale’s studio artists explore collaborative efforts separately
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: May 22, 2008
In the exhibit “what we want is too late,” three artists explore collaboration — separately. The show features the work of Lawndale’s Artist Studio Program...
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CraftTexas 2008
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft hosts a juried show
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
CraftHouston got so big they had to change the name — now it’s CraftTexas 2008. The juried exhibition highlights the best in Texas-made contemporary craft, including...
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“Dancin’ in the Street…Motown & More Revue”
Uptight? Everything is all right!
By Julia Ramey
Published: May 22, 2008
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that the sultry, sexy music of Motown was made in chilly Detroit. There’s something about sweltering summer nights and Motown that they...
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Fareed Zakaria
The editor of Newsweek’s international edition says we’ve seen the “rise of the West” and now it’s time for the “rise of the rest”
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: May 22, 2008
Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck don’t usually like the same people, but both of them fawned over author Fareed Zakaria in recent interviews. Zakaria, Newsweek’s...
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