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1. Night & Day

   Classic Cinema Comedies

   Miller Theatre screens The Thin Man, A Day at the Races and Some Like it Hot

   By Olivia Flores Alvarez

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Find your funny bone at Miller Outdoor Theatre’s three-night run of Classic Cinema Comedies. Tuesday, it’s 1934’s The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy...

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   Labor Day Show

   Cinema Bomar’s latest installment features filmstrips about a hard day’s work

   By Dusti Rhodes

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Cinema Bomar is getting to work early with its Labor Day Show. Weeks before our official day off, the collective will screen a round of vintage filmstrips about the daily...

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   “Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook”

   Houston Ebony Opera gives us masterworks lite

   By Julia Ramey

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Audiences never tire of the great music numbers presented in “Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook” by...

4. Night & Day

   Milana

   She loves me, she loves me not gets the Bollywood treatment

   By Julia Ramey

   Published: August 14, 2008

   With singing, dancing, India’s lush environs and, most importantly, a schmaltzy love story, the hit film Milana has all the Bollywood hallmarks. Things are going great for...

5. Night & Day

   Harvest Grand Finale Vintner Dinner

   Messina Hof Winery celebrates its 2008 ports

   By Amanda Mahmoudi

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Messina Hof Winery celebrates the end of this year’s grape harvest with the Harvest Grand Finale Vintner Dinner. For weeks now, both workers and volunteers have been...

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   Third Coast Comedy Theater Second Anniversary Celebration

   A chicken, a road, a hell of a good time

   By Alex Begley

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Third Coast Comedy has a big bash planned in the Third Coast Comedy Second Anniversary Celebration. Things start off with a wine tasting by Galveston’s D’ Vine Wine...

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   “Left Alone”

   ArtStorm showcases photographers who get lonely

   By Dusti Rhodes

   Published: August 14, 2008

   ArtStorm is picturing loneliness. The gallery’s latest exhibit, “Left Alone,” features photography focusing on isolation and introspection. Rachel Hewlett snaps...

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   FrenetiCore Fringe Festival

   A heaping sampler of local theater, dance, film and music

   By Dusti Rhodes

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Houston is adding more fringe. After the success of BooTown’s Fringe Festival, other artistic types are rising out of the underground and onto the stage. The FrenetiCore...

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   “In the Soil: Nicaragua”

   Photographer Ryan Booth documents a trip to the coffee fields of Central America

   By Olivia Flores Alvarez

   Published: August 14, 2008

   In April of this year, photographer Ryan Booth and some fellow coffee shop hounds went to Nicaragua with a simple mission: Meet the people on the other end of the supply chain...

10. Night & Day

    Rock the Lockup: 2008 Prison Reform Film Festival

    Tales from the big house get on the big screen

    By Dusti Rhodes

    Published: August 14, 2008

    The big house is moving to the big screen. Rock The Lockup: 2008 Prison Reform Film Festival features flicks about life behind bars. The fest kicks off today with the story of...

11. Night & Day

    The Gougers

    Texas twang meets indie rock

    By TAMMY PORTNOY

    Published: August 14, 2008

    The Gougers are equal parts Texas twang and indie rock. The four-piece group has three shows today, so you’ll have no excuse for missing them play “oldcrow /...

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    “CINCO IV”

    Bering & James closes out the summer with a show of brand-new works

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Bering & James’s latest exhibit, “CINCO IV,” is made up of five works created just for the show by each of the gallery’s artists. All in all, there will be...

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    How to Draw a Bunny

    This artist documentary isn’t only for art lovers

    By Nick Keppler

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Like The Devil and Daniel Johnston and Neil Young: A Heart of Gold, 2002’s How to Draw a Bunny is that rarest type of documentary, the kind about an artistic person...

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    Dan Kopp and Jay Davis

    Two Brooklyn artists show off their new works

    By Julia Ramey

    Published: August 14, 2008

    With a perfect balance between eye candy and food for the mind, CTRL Gallery pre-sents works by two Brooklyn-based artists. Dan Kopp deals in the space between figurations and...

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    Toypunks

    Add hyper to active and mix in Japanese kitsch

    By LEIGH BEGLEY

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Toy-meets-world in the mesmerizing documentary Toypunks, a fast-paced chronicle of Japanese punk culture that touches on music and fashion but focuses mostly on toys. The film,...

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    Joe Lansdale

    The Houston Public Library hosts an award-winning Texas noir writer

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez

    Published: August 14, 2008

    In Leather Maiden, Joe Lansdale’s lead character Cason Statler has big troubles. He lost his last job in Houston because of, ah, shall we say, ill-advised love affairs...

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    La France

    Serge Bozon’s film is about love and war, set to music

    By Julia Ramey

    Published: August 14, 2008

    War movies and pop music: They’re not the most common of bedfellows, but leave it to a French filmmaker to bring the two together in 2007’s La France, screening today...

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    Chris Grabenstein

    The author of Mad Mouse signs his new adult title, Hell Hole, and new young adult release, The Crossroads

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Chris Grabenstein’s character John Ceepak has a simple code: “I will not tolerate those who lie, cheat or steal.” Needless to say, Ceepak is a cop. And in Hell...

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    “The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell”

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts an art exhibit and documentary film about the African-American experience

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton and Serena Williams. What do they have in common? Just this: They are black in America. Oh, and they’re included in “The Black...

20. Game On

    Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide Soul Calibur IV's Lack of Ideas

    A Bit Force-ed

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: August 14, 2008

    You hear the same words used over and over to describe Soul Calibur IV, words like forced. Jarring. Anachronistic. But to me, the word that describes shoehorning Darth Vader...