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Links we love
The week's top links: The Office ends, honoring Robocop & tons of cocktail recipes
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05.18.13 | 12:17 pm
Here are just a few of the stories, lists and videos we loved this week: Spin is streaming Japanther's new album, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart (which wins ...
Mondo Cinema Renior movie May 2013
Mondo Cinema
This weekend's alternative film lineup, from Hollywood cultists to Bollywood zombies
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05.18.13 | 08:30 am
What's that, fellow movie buff? You claim the pickings are slim this weekend at theaters and drive-ins near you? You say you want something more substantial — or at least ...
Beyonce MET costume party May 2013
Houston Date In Doubt
Beyonce pregnant again: Happy or just sweating those Tour tickets?
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05.17.13 | 06:26 pm
Rumors have been swirling about Beyoncé — or, more specifically, about the possible contents of the Houston-born singer's womb — in the first month of the Mrs. Carter World Tour.  Could ...
Taylor Swift arms up
Taylor Swift's All Red
Taylor Swift lets her costumes (10 changes) and emotions fly, calls Houston a magical place
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05.17.13 | 06:41 am
“Hello Houston, Texas . . . I’m Taylor.” A wide-eyed Taylor Swift played to a sold-out Toyota Center Thursday night on the 17th stop of her worldwide “Red Tour.” The show came ...
Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan
Music Matters
Psych out: Billy Corgan's yearning Smashing Pumpkins rebirth makes for one trippy Houston concert
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05.16.13 | 11:29 am
The last time I saw the Smashing Pumpkins live was Lollapalooza 1994 . . . so, to say the least, it's been a while. As an obsessive high school Pumpkins fan through ...
La Mafia band Houston
Shocking Crime
Superstar singer hurt in brutal Houston attack targeted by berserk fan
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05.15.13 | 07:29 pm
Oscar De La Rosa — frontman of the Grammy Award-winning Houston Tejano band La Mafia — is recovering at home this week after a brutal attack at a Montrose club that left ...
23 Deborah Elias My Favorite Things May 2013 Uchi Director of Culinary Operations Phillip Speer and Chef de Cuisine, Kaz Edwards
A Real Feast
Uchi restaurant whiz puts on special $500-a-plate art dinners throughout Houston
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05.15.13 | 10:32 am
Conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll — in partnership with Uchi culinary director Philip Speer — is just one in a series of artists to assist the University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum ...
Free Press Summer Fest Houston concert crowd
Music Matters
Free Press Summer Fest to be a high roller's paradise? With general tickets sold out, few other options for fans
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05.15.13 | 08:46 am
It's a big year for Free Press Summer Fest, which celebrates its fifth milestone with an all-star lineup and collaborations with the likes of Bun B and Uchi's ...
Fast & Furious 6
KHOU CultureMap Moment
The big summer movie battle is just starting: Iron Man vs. Great Gatsby only the warmup
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05.14.13 | 03:28 pm
The summer movie season, which started in early May, is off to a robust start with Iron Man 3 going gangbusters and The Great Gatsby doing better than expected in ...
Main Street Theater's newly configured building rendering May 2013
Main Street Millions
Houston art rumblings: Another theater jumps into the renovation craze, trying to update its Rice Village digs
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05.14.13 | 10:47 am
How do you solve a problem like Main Street's theater? Doing what this coterie of entertainment professionals does best: Charming their way into the wallets of art-loving consumers. Leave ...
9 Inprint Houston James Salter event May 2013
Inprint's birthday
An ultra hot book party: Tickets for 87-year-old author's reading disappear in an Internet flash
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05.13.13 | 02:42 pm
Turning 30 usually calls for a blowout birthday party, but for Inprint, Houston’s preeminent literary arts organization, turning 30 was the perfect excuse to create a whole, new party ...
Pierre Étaix French Comedy Master Screening: Le Grand Amour
Formidable!
Films from French comedy master inspire dreams of a romantic Paris getaway
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05.12.13 | 02:45 pm
Mon cher fellow Francophiles, vous will surely not want to miss the series of Pierre Etaix films now showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, especially if you enjoyed ...
MFAH Cyrus Cylinder WHITE BACKGROUND
Priceless Treasure
After 2,500-year journey, first known human rights declaration finds temporary home at MFAH
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05.12.13 | 12:45 pm
For all its historical importance, the renowned Cyrus Cylinder is a surprisingly understated artifact — a baguette-size piece of clay inscribed with a straight-forward proclamation from Cyrus the Great, the founding ...
Kate Upton on the cover of Vogue
Hot Links
10 badass moms, Kate Upton's Vogue cover & RGIII's wedding registry top links we love right now
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05.12.13 | 08:43 am
Editor's note: There's so much that's beautiful, funny, smart and informative on the Internet. Problem is, there's also a bunch of garbage. Here's the best ...
Dennis Quaid University of Houston UH May 2013
Quaid Back In the Coogs' House
Zac Efron's new BFF Dennis Quaid spills his "brutally real" University of Houston secrets
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05.11.13 | 03:01 pm
Dennis Quaid was getting in touch with his Bayou City roots on Friday, visiting drama students and chatting with reporters on his old stomping grounds at the University of Houston ...
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