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Loreta Kovacic
A leap year concert features the Croatian pianist on her way to Carnegie Hall
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 28, 2008
You might want to catch Loreta Kovacic at Notsuoh this week. You’d have a bit of a drive to her next gig — it’s at Carnegie Hall. (Yep, that Carnegie Hall.) The...
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One for Doc Concert
HSPVA grads say thanks to Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus Dr. Robert Morgan
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 28, 2008
Get a sneak peak at the new downtown park Discovery Green and enjoy a stellar lineup of music at One for Doc, a concert honoring HSPVA Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus Dr....
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade
Watch downtown turn into cowpoke heaven
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: February 28, 2008
As a ten-year-old Yankee transplant to Houston in the mid-’70s, the strangest cultural tradition I encountered (outside of the delicacy called Frito pie) was the annual...
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No Logo — Brands, Globalization, Resistance
Naomi Klein’s documentary about branding covers clothes, shoes and people
By William Michael Smith
Published: February 28, 2008
No Logo — Brands, Globalization & Resistance, a 40-minute film by Canadian journalist/activist Naomi Klein, is actually a lot more entertaining than its dour title...
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A Little Day Music: Strike 3 Percussion
This trio of percussionists performs an unusual lunchtime concert
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 28, 2008
You wouldn’t think there’d be much work for a freelance percussionist, but Brandon Bell stays pretty busy. So do Brian Vogel and Matthew McClung, his band mates, in...
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Brent Weinbach
Halfway between gross and mesmerizing, this comedian is all-the-way funny
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: February 28, 2008
“Sometimes people criticize me for acting too creepy onstage,” San Francisco comedian Brent Weinbach deadpans in his stand-up routines. Truth be told, it does take a...
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Hilary York
This singer-songwriter could be Austin’s next radio sweetheart
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 28, 2008
Hilary York knows how to create radio-friendly tunes without pandering to the audience. Her songs are accessible enough to be played alongside any regular rotation including...
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“Escaping Their Boundaries: The Children of Theresienstadt”
The Holocaust Museum Houston hosts an exhibit about the lives of the concentration camps’ youngest residents
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 28, 2008
More than 12,000 children passed through the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia on their way to various concentration camps during the Holocaust. About 90 percent of them...
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“Craft in America: Expanding Traditions”
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft features a thinking-out-of-the-box exhibit
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: February 28, 2008
“Craft in America: Expanding Traditions” features handcrafted furniture, textiles, baskets, jewelry and more — many tilting toward the offbeat and avant-garde....
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Sarah Miles Bolam
A former journalist looks at presidents on film
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 28, 2008
No matter who we elect as our next president, you can be sure there will eventually be a film about him — or her. From silent shorts of Teddy Roosevelt to Michael...
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Third Ward TX
A documentary film explores the history of Project Row Houses
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 28, 2008
It takes more than good intentions and a fresh coat of paint to rebuild a community. Rick Lowe and the other founders of the Project Row Houses learned this as they began...
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Jean Karotkin, Divya Murthy, Deborah Bay and Christopher Olivier
Four photographers exhibit their work in a FotoFest-related show
By William Michael Smith
Published: February 28, 2008
Dallas photographer Jean Karotkin started taking photos when she found out she had cancer. Soon after hearing her diagnosis, Karotkin set about photographing survivors across...
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Free First Sundays: Family Flicks
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films
By Julia Ramey
Published: February 28, 2008
Squish SpongeBob and mute Hannah Montana; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Target Free First Sundays: Family Flicks series is more fun than both those characters put...
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Dance Infusion
Pros share the stage with up-and-comers in this concert in a wild variety of styles
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: February 28, 2008
Uptown Dance Company Artistic Director Beth Gulledge-Brown might have a touch of ADD. We say “might” because the company’s upcoming dance concert Dance Infusion...
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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenaged Blockhead
The Peanuts kids grow into naughty teens in this new show from Unhinged Productions
By Lee Williams
Published: February 28, 2008
Imagine the Peanuts characters all grown and turned into a gang of foul-mouthed, angst-ridden teenagers, and you’ll get the basic idea of Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees...
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Gimme Shelter
See the Rolling Stones’ wildest concert ever
By Nick Keppler
Published: February 28, 2008
Initial media reports called it a drug-fueled riot. Cultural commentators deemed it the anti-Woodstock and said it ended the ’60s. VH1 ranked it the third most shocking...
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Papermoons
A local duo pens poppy ballads perfect for love’s pain
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: February 28, 2008
At first listen, Papermoons can sound a little over-sentimental. Local duo Matt Clark and Daniel Hawkins pen poppy, sweet, poetic ballads about the darker side of love. It...
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Tatsuya Nakatani
Easton, Pennsylvania, is home to the experimental percussionist and his hundreds of noisemakers
By Nick Keppler
Published: February 28, 2008
Tatsuya Nakatani is the baddest thing to hit the 26,000-person burg of Easton, Pennsylvania since the town on the Delaware River was a Prohibition Era nightclub refuge....
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Spike Lee’s look at Hurricane Katrina might be his most important work yet
By Nick Keppler
Published: February 28, 2008
When hard-hitting, groundbreaking director Spike Lee announced he was taking on Hurricane Katrina, we knew we were in for good stuff (as much as a poignant portrait of human...
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Translations
Be transported to Ireland in all its glory
By Lee Williams
Published: February 28, 2008
From the sweet hard bosom of Ireland comes some of the world’s most beloved playwrights — John Synge, Samuel Beckett and Martin McDonagh. They’ve all changed our...
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