MUSES: Women Who Inspire

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Art historian Farid Abdelouahab’s Muses: Women Who Inspire (Flammarion) is more than just a superb collection of black and white photographs. It is a thoughtful and intelligent paean to thirty-two women – some famous, some obscure – who captivated some of the greatest male [...]
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Performing Words

Abby Koenig·
Houston’s Reading Culture Ramps Up Stepping inside your local watering hole on a Friday night you might find it odd to stumble upon a live reading event, but if you have taken stock in Houston’s nighttime entertainment du jour, readings are all the rage, and they are not your grandmother’s [...]
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Honeymoons on The Bayou

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Conducting affairs with HTown’s Orchestras It’s finally official: After a three year search and on the eve of its Centennial Season, the Houston Symphony has named 35-year old conductor Adrés Orozco-Estrada as its next Music Director. Born in Columbia and trained in Vienna, Orozoco-Estrada hasn’t yet conducted most of the world’s [...]
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artiFACTS: February 2013

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Houston Symphony President Robert A. Peiser and Executive Director and CEO Mark C. Hanson announced that the Orchestra has selected Colombian-born, Vienna-trained conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada as its next [...]
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Review: Wittenberg

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Stages Repertory Theatre’s rendering of David Davalos’s delightfully quirky Wittenberg may be the one show in Houston you shouldn’t miss. As director Josh Morrison says in his program note, “I would love audiences to experience a debate of faith versus reason in a witty, fun [...]
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