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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
By Chris Vogel
Published: March 6, 2008
As Hurricane Rita thundered towards him, Garrett Deetz lay terrified and confused on his bunk, locked up inside a cell at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont. For the...
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Pompeii
The ruined city rises like a phoenix through a new exhibit of artifacts and art
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 6, 2008
When Mount Vesuvius exploded above Pompeii, Italy, in late August A.D. 79, it sent a fury of boiling mud and gases down its slopes at nearly 100 miles per hour, burying the...
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8:10 Assembly
Suchu Dance tackles the ordinary
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: March 6, 2008
Houston’s Suchu Dance has been putting on thoughtful and creative modern-dance shows since its conception nearly ten years ago. The brainchild of artistic director...
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Le Bonhuer du Vent
Et Voilà Théâtre presents a grown-up puppet show
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 6, 2008
Since we just gave the friggin’ Best Actress Oscar to Marion Cotillard, does that mean it’s safe to love the French again? Let’s hope so, because Houston’s...
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Risky Bizniss
Warehouse party features local bands, DJs, art and embarrassing moments
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 6, 2008
If you ever participated in one of Jacob Calle’s video scavenger hunts, prepare to get a (pleasant or unpleasant) reminder. Calle saved the videos from his contests, which...
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Jewish film festival
The JCC holds its fourth annual cinema gala
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 6, 2008
For the fourth year in a row, the Jewish Community Center has scooped up the best recent films with a Semitic theme for the Jewish Film Festival. It kicks off today with a...
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Dagoberto Gilb
The author of Gritos is back with a tale of love and anger
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 6, 2008
In Dagoberto Gilb’s latest novel, The Flowers, 15-year-old Mexican-American Sonny Bravo is what high school counselors call “overly sensitive.” When his mom...
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FotoFest: Pozos Children’s project
A Rice University prof hands his camera off and gets a kid’s eye view
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 6, 2008
In 1979, the photographer Geoff Winningham visited Pozos, a tiny mining town near Mexico City. Nearly 30 years later, Winningham and his wife now spend at least half the year...
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We versus the Shark
This Athens foursome sticks to the experimental hardcore they know instead of jumping the shark into instrumental
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 6, 2008
The last time we saw Athens, Georgia’s We Versus the Shark in Houston, the group seemed headed into a more instrumental territory. But luckily, the members didn’t...
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“Obsessive Compulsive Awesome”
Arthur Bates and Christopher Cascio team up offstage to get on the wall
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 6, 2008
When Arthur Bates and Christopher Cascio aren’t rocking the crowd, they’re decking the halls. The locals known in the music scene as Wicked Poseur are part of the art...
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For Better or Worse
East End photographer Michael Monreal captures images of sites on the brink of destruction
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 6, 2008
As new construction floods the East End, dozens of buildings are being torn down — buildings that photographer Michael Monreal says are “filled with memories.”...
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solo zydeco festival
The good times roll into Humble
By Lisa L. Powell
Published: March 6, 2008
This year, the rechristened Solo Zydeco Festival moves the party to its new home in Humble. The fest kicks off Friday night with a dance featuring Chris Ardoin and NuStep at...
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Dan Zanes and Friends
The throwback folkster makes music both kids and adults can enjoy
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 6, 2008
Dan Zanes is known for making actual family music, not kids’ songs adults can somewhat tolerate. With his trademark green jacket and ringleader’s hat, Zanes has the...
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Exiled
The MFAH screens the “FotoFest: Pan-Chinese Cinema Now” film series
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 6, 2008
Part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “FotoFest: Pan-Chinese Cinema Now” series, the Cantonese-language flick Exiled is an intense but often humorous homage...
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Lang Lang and the Houston Symphony
Young, talented and controversial, the Chinese pianist returns to Houston after a four-year absence
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 6, 2008
It’s been four years since Houston has experienced Lang Lang, and classical music fans are jonesing for a fix. Who can blame them? The 25-year-old pianist is one of the...
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
‘90s hip-hoppers return to tha stage
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 6, 2008
It’s time to wake up, wake up, wake up: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are going onstage. For those twenty- and thirtysomethings who’ve forgotten, Bone Thugs were all over MTV...
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The Beer Can House
50,000 cans of beer are the walls
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 6, 2008
Take one down; pass it around — and it won’t make much difference. More than 50,000 cans of beer make up the walls of the Beer Can House. John Milkovisch began...
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Everything’s cool
Global warming never seemed so funny
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 6, 2008
One of the main problems facing activists who hope to get the public to take action against global warming is that the message often comes across as preachy — thanks in...
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Fotofest opening
Houston’s photography festival hangs 3,000 photos in 129 locations
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 6, 2008
From hushed museums to stylish -department-store windows, crowded coffee shops to sophisticated corporate offices, FotoFest is taking over walls all over Houston....
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Cinderella
Houston Ballet presents a new version of an old classic
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 6, 2008
The character Cinderella has seen many incarnations, from Disney’s wistful songbird to Drew Barrymore’s defiant dreamer in Ever After. The latter version disposed of...
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