Mongoose Versus Cobra Concludes Inaugural Reading Series
As our loyal readers know, each month we have a little happy hour party to present the new...
Astrodome Rising? (UPDATED)
Proposal for Moldering Stadium Shows Promise Amid Logistical, Access Issues Update to story posted April 27, 2013. Earlier...
You Can Go Home Again
Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan Returns to Houston Ballet “I love my childhood,” mused my son, at age nine,...
Room for Improvement
Theater’s Proposed Renovation Includes Overdue Improvements But Needs a Lighter Touch In contrast to Houston’s other major theaters — Jones Hall, The Wortham Center, and The Hobby Center, which are bland, boxy affairs — the Alley Theatre is an utterly memorable building. Originally designed by Ulrich Franzen, its [...]
Suspended Animation
The Bridge Club Heads to Currents New Media Festival If the medium is the message, as philosopher and...
A Plethora of Prints
PrintHouston Returns, Leaving Its Mark on Spaces Large and Small Although it’s only in its third year, PrintHouston,...
artiFACTS: June 2013
Robert Simpson, artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir announced the Choir’s 18th season, Where Class Meets Cool. The 2013-2014 season includes masterpieces by Brahms, Handel, Palestrina, and Duruflé, along with works by today’s leading composers including a newly commissioned piece by Jocelyn Hagan, recent winner of the [...]
Editor’s Remarks: June 2013
I met Jeffrey Dell a year ago in Arturo Palacios’ office, and have been looking forward to his...
Pretty In Pink
The work of French artist Anne Ferrer falls somewhere between the living and unliving. To put it more...
Flying High
Candied peanuts, cialis popcorn, treat clown cars, viagra 60mg and flying ladies. That’s the circus. Or is it? ...
Review: Kirk Hopper Fine Art
Houston artists Karin Broker and Alfredo Scaroina join Dallas sculptor Michael Christopher Matson at Kirk Hopper Fine Art...
Fit at 15
Celebrating its fifteenth season this year, the Festival of Independent Theatres has a unique history of showcasing new talent, encouraging innovative risk taking and premiering new works by local playwrights. Over the last decade and a half, some of Dallas’ most prominent artists have [...]