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AEROS
The Romanian Gymnastics Federation turns STOMP! on its gymnastic ear
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 20, 2008
Created by the choreographers from STOMP! with a pulsating original score and surreal props, the gymnastics spectacle AEROS is a grown-up way to appreciate hard-toned bodies in...
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Texas Fetish Ball
Pony play is just one form of erotic excitement at Dare Ware’s annual fetish funhouse
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 20, 2008
Here’s a real, live fetish: pony play. One partner imitates a domesticated colt, chomping on a bridle, wearing a saddle and prancing around as the rider sits on the...
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Public Broomstick Adventure
Discover Houston Tours shows off the city’s creepy, creaky, ghost-filled sites
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 20, 2008
The Public Broomstick Adventure will scare the pants off of you — or at least make you giggle a lot. For three hours, Discover Houston Tours founder Sandra Lord will lead...
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“Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius”
The painter of the Mona Lisa also had a head for inventing machines
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 20, 2008
You’d think that painting the freaking Mona Lisa might be enough to fulfill a guy, but not Leonardo da Vinci. He couldn’t get himself to stop inventing things that...
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Easter in the Gardens
Kids have a date with the big Bunny
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 20, 2008
After the kiddies stuff their faces with Cadbury eggs and jelly beans on Easter morning, they might be too jacked-up to sit still in church and hear about all that tomb and...
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Breaking Out of the Box: Conventional Women Embarking on Unconventional Paths
The Heritage Society marks Women’s History Month with a look at Houston’s earliest female movers and shakers
By Lisa L. Powell
Published: March 20, 2008
Find out what radical and surprising activities Houston women were up to in the early 1900s when local historian and author Betty Chapman presents Breaking Out of the Box:...
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“Voices of the Tempest”
A multimedia exhibition considers the 1982 sinking of the Argentine cruise General Belgrano
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 20, 2008
During the 1982 conflict over the Falkland Islands, half of all Argentine casualties occurred in a single incident: the sinking of the navy vessel General Belgrano. Three...
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“Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes & Other Riches”
Man-eating piranhas are the centerpiece of this nature exhibit
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 20, 2008
Scare your kids silly at Space Center Houston’s “Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes & Other Riches.” The enormous exhibit (5,000 square feet) is a journey to seven...
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The Wild Moccasins
Music to kick your shoes off to
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 20, 2008
The Wild Moccasins are just getting off the ground, but they’re already sweeping local scenesters off their feet. In only a handful of live shows, the barely-legal quintet...
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Jigu! The Thunder Drums of China
This company of 28 musicians beats the hell out of their instruments
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: March 20, 2008
What could be bigger and better than the Taiko Drummers of Japan pounding away on their huge instruments? (Wait, that doesn’t sound right…) How about Jigu! The...
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Hot Child in Hollywood
BooTown is talking ‘bout bad girls
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: March 20, 2008
The never-ending saga of celebrity gals gone wild hits the stage in Hot Child in Holly-wood. Local playwright Greg Hundemer of the BooTown Theatre troupe penned this tale about...
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Kairu
Sol y Luna Dance mix hip-hop, ballet and martial arts to tell the story of a hero who faces down evil
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 20, 2008
Newcomer Sol y Luna Dance Company has a bare-bones budget, but what it lacks in age and money it makes up for with a boundless energy, as it unites hip-hop, breakdancing,...
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Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour
Cross-cultural comedians prove what’s so funny about peace, love and understanding
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 20, 2008
“Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour” may seem like four words that shouldn’t go together. Charley Warady and Ray Hanania, the Israeli and Palestinian who founded...
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“Reverent Estimations”
Adam Schreiber looks beyond the obvious
By Lisa L. Powell
Published: March 20, 2008
Austin-based artist Adam Schreiber is fascinated with landscapes, but not the green kind. For his new exhibition “Reverent Estimations,” Schreiber photographed stark,...
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Caché
Michael Haneke explores sex, security and violence in a way that’s all too familiar to fans of David Lynch
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 20, 2008
An upscale couple receives a series of mysterious videotapes showing them being videotaped in their home. As the videos become more frequent and disturbing, the man is caught...
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Beaufort and A Love to Hide
Wars of past and present are shown onscreen at the Jewish Film Festival
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 20, 2008
There’s a scene in Beaufort of a soldier talking to his friend. “You know what my biggest fear is?” he asks. “That I’ll be discharged and no one will...
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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
It’s three on a mattress in Tsai Ming-liang’s look at modern love
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 20, 2008
Finding a dirty mattress in the trash isn’t often seen as good luck, but it is in I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone. The film, by director Tsai Ming-liang, follows...
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Strange Brew
This Canadian cult classic sets Hamlet in a brewery
By Nick Keppler
Published: March 20, 2008
Hamlet has been subjected to some great screen adaptations — and some totally outlandish ones. There’s animator Mike O’Neal’s Green Eggs and Hamlet, which...
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Dance Salad 2008
The 13th installment of the performing arts festival includes dance groups from around the world
By Julia Ramey
Published: March 20, 2008
One company is three years old; another is 125. But age isn’t a priority at Dance Salad 2008 — only diversity, ingenuity and the very finest of dance. For this...
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Sty of the Blind Pig
The Ensemble Theatre examines one woman’s life
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: March 20, 2008
Cheray Dawn Josiah has had many a role in Houston theaters during the past 20 years, but her current part, in Phillip Hayes Dean’s Sty of the Blind Pig at the Ensemble...
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