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Billy Bob Thornton
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: July 17, 2008
Back when glamour ruled Hollywood and gossip wasn’t yet an industry, stars were expected to do it all. If you couldn’t sing, dance and act, brother, you were out....
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Kirk Farris
By William Michael Smith
Published: July 17, 2008
Activist, poet, artist, performer and former investigator for the Harris County Pollution Department, Kirk Farris is well-known to environmentalists and City Council members...
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Children’s Hilltop Theatre Festival
Express Children’s Theatre presents four fairy tales
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 17, 2008
The Children’s Hilltop Theatre Festival gives kids a week’s worth of fairy tales — for free. On Tuesday, it’s Beauty and the Beast, reset in Mexico. On...
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“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”
See artifacts and props from the new animated SWTCW film
By Julia Youssefnia
Published: July 17, 2008
Can’t wait for the August release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars? Then head to the Space Center Houston, which has just scored “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a bunch...
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“In Residence”
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents an AIR group show
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 17, 2008
Critical acclaim is great, as is a sale or two, but for up-and-coming artists, a residency is the Big Fish. Just ask the participants in this year’s artist-in-residence...
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The Power of Men
The boys in Tomás Urtusástegui’s domestic comedy hold back on the nookie
By Lee Williams
Published: July 17, 2008
Watch out for meddling mothers-in-law. They can make your life miserable. That’s what three husbands discover in Mexican playwright Tomás Urtusástegui’s...
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The Summer Sin Party
Dare Ware heats up Houston with a night of scantily clad shenanigans
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: July 17, 2008
We’re guessing the Houston heat will be no match for the hotness brewing at The Summer Sin Party. The festivities will be sponsored by local fetish clothing boutique Dare...
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Reliant Park World Series of Dog Shows
Man’s (and woman’s) best friend gets a workout
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: July 17, 2008
Anyone who’s seen the mockumentary Best in Show knows there’s a breed of humans who take their four-legged friends seriously. Very, very seriously. But the Reliant...
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“Perspectives 162: Snow”
Allie Bogle and Libbie Masterson create a chilling experience at the CAMH
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: July 17, 2008
It’s Christmas in July at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. “Perspectives 162: Snow” features the work of L.A.-based Allie Bogle and Houston native Libbie...
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Shannon Cannings: “Trigger Happy”
This artist sticks to her guns when it comes to weapons as toys
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: July 17, 2008
The paintings in Shannon Cannings’s show “Trigger Happy” pay homage to a forbidden fruit of her youth: toy guns. The artist says her parents wouldn’t allow...
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Something Sweet
Love is a messy, messy affair in this Israeli film
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 17, 2008
Love can be messy. It certainly is in Something Sweet, director Dan Turgeman’s story about falling in love with the wrong person. Alon (played by Turgeman), is a smart...
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Pumping Iron
Before Ahnold was a movie star, he was a, uh, movie star
By ALEXANDRA BEGLEY<
Published: July 17, 2008
“I am coming day and night, it’s terrific, I’m in heaven,” beams a taut Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. Back then,...
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“Windows & Mirrors: Marcus Miller”
A Houston-born artist and doctor explores the body
By TAMMY PORTNOY
Published: July 17, 2008
“Windows & Mirrors” is a homecoming for Houston-born, now Portland-based artist Dr. Marcus Miller. The show reflects his education and experiences in internal and...
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“The Glass Half-Full”
18 Hands Gallery presents teetering teapots and tumbling tumblers
By LEIGH BELL
Published: July 17, 2008
It’s anybody’s guess which is the handle and which is the spout at “The Glass Half-Full,” a whimsical collection of ceramic vessels on exhibit at 18 Hands...
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Mixed Martial Arts Extreme Fighting & Championship Boxing Extravaganza
Hector “Macho” Camacho faces Perry “The Punisher” Ballard for the World Boxing Empire title (whatever that is)
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: July 17, 2008
The full-contact Mixed Martial Arts Extreme Fighting & Championship Boxing Extravaganza should appeal to fans of both Rocky Balboa and Tito Ortiz. One of the boxing matches,...
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Kept and Dreamless, The Custodian
Two films look at life in Argentina
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 17, 2008
Tourists adore Argentina for its juicy steaks and soaring mountains, but it’s easy to forget what a complex and unsettled recent history the country has had. The severe...
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Jaws
The River Oaks Theatre screens the first summer blockbuster
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: July 17, 2008
Summer blockbusters were never the same after Jaws. That’s because they actually didn’t exist before Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller. The landmark film changed...
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Tony Rock
Chris Rock’s brother has his own kind of funny
By Julia Ramey
Published: July 17, 2008
Anyone who likes Entourage probably has a less-than-favorable impression of celebrity siblings. But you have to give Tony Rock a break — there are nine Rock siblings...
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Stella Rimington
The former head of MI5 signs and discusses her newest novel, Illegal Action
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: July 17, 2008
Stella Rimington is uniquely qualified to write about the spy game: She spent 30 years at England’s MI5, alternatively heading up the organization’s...
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Game On
An Old Flame, Scorching: Space Invaders Extreme
Forget that shiny new shooter. A new Space Invaders is all the extreme you need
By Gary Hodges
Published: July 17, 2008
Battlefield: Bad Company is a video game published by Electronic Arts for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. It's a first-person shooter. That means that in...
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