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A Python Primer
Spamalot.Photo courtesy of Phoenix Entertainment. Spamalot Returns to TUTS The knights who say “ni”, along with killer rabbits, flying cows and other assorted antics, arrive at the Hobby Center this...
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Loose Ends
Jackson Pollock, The Blue Unconscious, 1946. Oil on canvas. Sotheby’s est. $20/30 million. Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Last year’s salutary exhibition American Made: 250 Years of...
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Review: Falstaff
Guido LeBrón as Falstaff.Falstaff, Opera in the Heights.Photo by Gwen Turner Juarez. Send two identical love letters to two married women, and even a lovable scoundrel deserves to be dumped in the...
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Review: Il trovatore
Natalya Romaniw as Ines and Tamara Wilson as Leonora in Houston Grand Opera’s Il trovatore.Courtesy of Houston Grand Opera. Photos by Felix Sanchez. There are two sides to every story, but it’s easy to...
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Robert Ruello: Open Other Side
Robert Ruello, Unknown Adventures in Unknown Spaces #8, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery. Visiting Robert Ruello’s third solo exhibition at Inman Gallery, I was...
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Mark Fox: If That Then This
Mark FoxHymn for Jane Jacobs, 2013Aluminum leaf and ink on paper with metal pins.Courtesy Hiram Butler Gallery. Grids are nearly synonymous with the concept of order. Spreadsheets compartmentalize...
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Astrodome Rising?
This photograph by Arthur Jones, one of the original architects of the Astrodome, shows the steel columns and arcing beams that Ryan Slattery’s proposal would expose. Proposal for Moldering Stadium...
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Review: Roscoe Mitchell with Nameless Sound
Roscoe Mitchell QuartetPhoto by Pete Gershon. On March 29th, Roscoe Mitchell’s Houston residency with Nameless Sound came to a joyous end at the Eldorado Ballroom. The quartet, featuring trumpeter Hugh...
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Sean Shim-Boyle: Salt House
Sean Shim-Boyle: Salt HouseProject Row HousesMarch 30-June 23. Rarely does such a potentially disruptive, even violent architectural intervention feel as organic and sensitive as Canadian-born, Los...
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The Best & Only Palestinian Film Fest in the South
Detroit Unleaded by Rola Nashef:Courtesy of Houston Palestine Film Festival. According to the Arab American Institute, Harris County has one of the fastest growing Arab-American populations in the...
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Uncharted Waters Coming to Anya Tish Gallery June 2013
The works of Joan Hall and Paul Booker will be featured in a unique 2 person exhibition in conjunction with PrintHouston 2013. Joan HallWould You Swim the Ocean to Ease My Pain, 2007Mixed Media, print...
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Morning Returns
Amy Bruce, Troy Schulze and Kyle Sturdivant inMickle Maher’s There Is a Happiness That Morning Is.PHOTOS: ANTHONY RATHBUN. The Catastrophic Theatre’s Mickle Maher Connection If you missed The...
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Editor’s Remarks: May 2013
Editor Nancy Wozny.PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN. There’s something about Sean Shim-Boyle’s Project Row House installation, Salt House, that speaks to the moment. A second fabricated chimney bisects the...
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artiFACTS: May 2013
Guy Roberts and Jessica Boone in Main Street Theater and PragueShakespeare Company production of Shakespeare’s Henry V.PHOTO: KAITLYN WALKER. After a successful run in Houston, Henry V, a joint...
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Life & Laughter
Artists of the Houston Ballet in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert.PHOTO: AMITAVA SARKAR Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous hat blocking...
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Review: Diotima Quartet
Diotima Quartet – image courtesy of Da Camera Houston. In acknowledgment their commitment to modern and contemporary music, the Diotima Quartet takes its name from Luigi Nono’s work, “Fragmente-Stille,...
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River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Big Bang Encore
Todd Meehan, Andre Raphel and Matthew McClung with members of River Oaks Chamber Orchestra.Photo by Jeff Grass. With the Houston premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra and TwoPercussionists by Jonathan...
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Creature Comforts, Indoors and Out
Andy Coolquitt, this vitrine don’t work, 2012. Tennis balls, steel, plastic, wood, light bulbs, duct tape, carpet, fiberglass, bronze and steel cable. Courtesy of the artist. Andy Coolquitt’s...
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Recked Productions Takes to the Pool
Photo by Simon Gentry. Recked Productions Up For Air Imagine you are strolling around Hermann Park and you notice a gaggle of enchanting dancers around the perimeter of the gigantic Jones Reflection...
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Mid-Century Melancholia
Abby and Nancy enjoy Martinis while Don Draper falls.Photo by Mark Wozny with Abby Koenig. Abby & Nancy Dish on Mid-Season Mad Men The Abby and Nancy Show (the one in my head) is back, this time...
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