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Documenting Life

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Thin Line Film Fest is Texas’ International Documentary Film Festival held annually the second week of February in downtown Denton, and is the only documentary film festival in the state to screen more documentaries than the bigger SXSW in Austin. For eleven days a diverse program [...]
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New Works In Movement

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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Returns To Texas In their highly anticipated return to Dallas on February 9, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will be gracing the Winspear stage with a program featuring new works by some of the world’s most sought after and inventive choreographers and composers — including famed Czech choreographer [...]
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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

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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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