Dreaming in Words
Liz Duffy Adams Returns to Main Street Theater Liz Duffy Adams first amazed Main Street Theater audiences with her play/poem Or, a delicious period piece all set in rhythm. She’s back with Dog Act, a post-apocalyptic play [...]
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Growing an Arts Community
Ashley Clemmer Hoffman in action at Rothko Chapel Growing up in a country store and volunteer fire department...
Light & Lemonade
Hope Stone and NobleMotion Rule Houston’s Dance Stages Houston’s August dance scene belongs to Hope Stone Dance and NobleMotion Dance as they offer brave new works for local dance fans. Jane Weiner plans a deconstruction of Mozart’s Requiem, she calls it WRECK-WE-UMMM, while Andy and Dionne Noble combine forces with lighting [...]
Local Lights
Three Houston Artists Put Houston on the Map None of them are from Texas, but as the saying goes, “they got here as fast as they could”. Once they arrived in the Bayou City, they found a thriving arts community. “People in Houston have an ownership of their arts organizations [...]
Getting (Not Too Far) Away From It All – To Work
Galveston Artist Residency Offers Time, Space and a Bike For artist Nick Barbee, a two-year resident with the...
artiFACTS: July/August 2012
Houston Art Dealers Association announces the ArtHouston 2012 summer event with 35 participating fine art galleries, opening on July 14th in a day-long event. Participating galleries include those along Colquitt, in the Museum [...]
Editor’s Remarks: July/August 2012
“What are you doing this summer?”, I asked choreographer Jane Weiner of Hope Stone. “Oh nothing much. Just...
Film Review: ‘The 6 Month Rule’
When it comes to romantic comedies, I feel I see the same film over and over again, but with different actors. The story usually ends up the same in [...]
The Three Beginnings of a Texas Poet Laureate
2011 Texas Poet Laureate David M. Parsons Death is such an awesome / experience that it takes /...
Review: The Turin Horse
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Béla Tarr claims The Turin Horse will be his last film, and unlike American celebrities who use retirement as a PR scam, he’ll probably stick [...]
Coming Soon: A Weekly Dose of Vitamin A+C
Hi, hospital Houston! Welcome to the first official day of SUMMER! With summer typically comes the slowdown of...
Review: Rusty Scruby, Cube Network & Cherry Blossoms
The disparate influences informing Dallas-based artist Rusty Scruby’s photographic reconstructions and folded-paper constructions include knitting, piano composition and mathematics. You can see evidence of all three in Scruby’s mastery of structure, harmony and tension in Cube Network and Cherry Blossoms, his second [...]