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25th Annual Labor Day Cup
300 boys’ and girls’ soccer teams descend on Houston for one of the largest tournaments of its kind
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 28, 2008
Kick off your holiday celebrations with the 25th Annual Houston Labor Day Cup sponsored by the Houston Dynamo, along with the Bear Creek and Westside Soccer Clubs. More than...
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Johnny Cash Returns: The Living Tribute
Dan Whyms brings the Man in Black back to the stage
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
Dan Whyms knows how to walk (very close to) the line. The actor/musician is nationally renowned for his portrayal of the Man in Black in Johnny Cash Returns: The Living...
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Clinton Jackson
This L.A.-based comic works clean — and you like it
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 28, 2008
Cultivating a career in clean comedy and living with yourself after guest-starring on Dharma & Greg are no minor tasks, but Clinton Jackson doesn’t come across like a man...
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“Heroes Alter Egos”
The members of the United Underground Painters Association pay homage to the people and characters that influenced them
By TAMMY PORTNOY
Published: August 28, 2008
“Heroes Alter Egos” shows off the artistic forces of the United Underground Painters Association (a.k.a. UUPA Crust Collective) with mixed-media work by Michael K....
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“AIGA: 50 Books/50 Covers”
The Printing Museum’s newest exhibit judges a book by its cover
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
The American Institute of Graphic Arts judges a book by its cover. The organization surveys a year’s worth of reads for its annual awards and now it’s time to reveal...
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Iconoclastically Yours
Local graffiti artist DUAL is bringing his work off the streets, sort of
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
DUAL is bringing the outside in. "I'm striving really hard to make people feel like they're walking on the streets of Houston when they enter the gallery," he says in an...
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An Evening with Emily Giffin
The chick-lit queen checks in at the Houston Public Library
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 28, 2008
Ever wonder about the one that got away? Emily Giffin’s lead character in her new book Love the One You’re With does. Ellen is happily married — she thinks. Then...
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Alive in Necropolis Author Doug Dorst
Novelist tells the tale of a different kind of ghost buster
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
Being a cop in Colma, California, should be an easy job — the majority of the residents are dead. The city is a northern neighbor of San Francisco, and for decades has...
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B L A C K I E
Type-concerned MC proves to be quite the pacemaker
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
B L A C K I E is making a name for himself on Houston stages. This isn’t just because the hip-hop MC’s moniker is so caps-lock-and-spacebar specific, either. The...
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Happy Birthday, Houston
The city celebrates 172 years with music, brews, and more
By LEIGH BELL
Published: August 28, 2008
Happy Birthday, Houston — you don’t look a day over 150! Not that anyone’s counting candles (it’s 172, for those who are). The weekend’s celebrations...
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A Murder of Crows
Toxic waste comes home to roost in Mac Wellman’s avant-garde play
By Lee Williams
Published: August 28, 2008
The world is a nasty place in Mac Wellman’s strange play A Murder of Crows, making its Houston premiere. The story takes place in an America where the toxic air is...
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The Goonies
Favorite flick of ‘80s babies follows misfit teens who elude felonious family, treacherous traps and bossy brothers to trek for treasure
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
The chase for One-Eyed Willy’s treasure is back on the big screen — we’re talking, of course, about The Goonies. The film follows a group of misfit kids —...
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The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 cult hit gives viewers something to talk about
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: August 28, 2008
When struggling director Francis Ford Coppola hit it big with the success of The Godfather, he had the clout to make pretty much whatever he wanted for his next project. The...
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“Moscow and St. Petersburg: A Tale of Two Cities”
The Russian Cultural Center Our Texas presents works by Russo-Texan artists
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 28, 2008
So let’s just say that Russia’s reputation, at the moment, is a little tarnished, thanks to that whole war thing, but some of its guiltless cultural contributions are...
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Louis C. Smith: “Ambiguous Places”
Guess what the Jung Center is showing now. No really, guess.
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 28, 2008
Louis C. Smith’s paintings are neither here nor there, neither this nor that. “Ambiguous Places” is a collection of the artist’s black-and-white works...
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The Killing
It’s classic Kubrick in this heist film
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 28, 2008
Before he filmed malicious spaceship computers, Beethoven-loving psycho killers and Nicole Kidman in the nude, Stanley Kubrick attacked a simpler topic: the heist. But he was...
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Luxury Car
Wang Chao shows us another China
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 28, 2008
Over the past month of Olympics mania, the Chinese have been both so glorified and so vilified that it’s hard to tell what the real China — and its normal people...
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“Warren MacKenzie: Legacy of an American Potter”
See Japanese and Korean folk art inspired work by a master
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 28, 2008
When 84-year-old potter Warren Mac-Kenzie was once asked what makes a good pot, he quoted a friend, the legendary Japanese artist Shoji Hamada: “The good pots are the ones...
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Swing!
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 28, 2008
You might remember that odd period in the mid-’90s when 15-year-old guys started wearing sport coats to school and decorating their bedrooms with neon signs and cocktail...
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Gipsy Kings
The Roma musicians bring their flamenco-pop to CWMP
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 28, 2008
It’s been 20 years since the Gipsy Kings hit the world stage with “Bamboleo,” their infectious flamenco-infused single. The Grammy Award-winning Kings, Roma...
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