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Love on a Goat Farm: Chick lit writer Katherine Center returns to ranch roots in latest novel

By Nancy Wozny

05.05.13 | 3:57 pm

I met Katherine Center while traipsing through Donald Judd's manly steel sculptures on a trip to Marfa. The author regaled me with tales about what makes a love story work. (The heroine meets h ...

Book reading & signing: The Fifth Lash and Other Stories by Anis Shivani

Brazos Bookstore

06.13.13

Long-time Houston resident Anis Shivani's second story collection, The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, was just long listed for the 2013 Frank O'Connor international short story award. His ot

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The search for perfection: Why artists can't let go

By Nancy Wozny

03.26.13 | 10:01 am

"How do you know you are done?" is a familiar question for artists, and one that I heard recently asked to Howard Sherman during a  curator's walkthrough of Howard Sherman: ...

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Here's the story: National Women's History Month draws top female authors to Houston

By Tarra Gaines

03.10.13 | 2:53 pm

March is National Women’s History month, and we’re going to celebrate by embracing the story part of history. By both happenstance and in recognition of the month, many of Houston&rsquo ...

Say no to the giant teddy bear

A perfectly unique Valentine's Day gift guide: Don't be the fool who gives horrible love presents

By Darla Guillen

02.11.13 | 9:02 am

It’s not just that women and men can be clueless when it comes to Valentine’s Day gifts, the problem with shopping for this occasion is that any well-funded advertisement can sway a rea ...

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — with free Valentine's Day tips

By Joel Luks

02.05.13 | 12:14 pm

Smell that? Nope, it isn't the intoxicating aroma of Houston. Love's in the air. Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you don't take care of business and make appropria ...

Classical Theatre Company Reading Series: Why Cupid Came to Earl's Court by Cosmo Hamilton

Brazos Bookstore

02.13.13

Why Cupid Came to Earl's Court is a short, one-act romantic comedy perfect for a pre-Valentine's Day outing. The play takes place over the course of one evening in the Robertson's famil

Kerouac Fest Poetry Reading

Brazos Bookstore

02.10.13

The 'Beats are getting warmed up at this fun event at Brazos with poetry readings by Gerald Cedillo, Tracy Lyall, David Sha, Ken Jones, Dean Liscum and BGK. Fifteen percent

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Sex, satire, fashion, food & literature: Nice and naughty books for everyone on your list

By Tarra Gaines

12.19.12 | 1:48 pm

With less than a week left for holiday shopping, we at CultureMap would like to offer a happy medium between street brawls in Target and Neiman Marcus and just giving up and throwing gift cards at ...

Book reading and signing: Slingin' Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game by Joe Holley

Brazos Bookstore

11.17.12

Author and Houston Chronicle reporter Joe Holley discusses his book about Slingin' Sammy Baugh, who has been called "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Baugh, w