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The benefits of membership: Houston Ballet Ambassadors spring party sparks great conversation

By Shelby Hodge

05.02.13 | 12:27 pm

Members of the Houston Ballet Ambassadors patrons group find that the benefits just keep rolling in as the ballet's development arm works to insure that these generous balletomanes are well car ...


Art Party

Young Professionals turn a ballet stage into a Michael Jackson dance party — Thriller mob included

By Joel Luks

08.28.12 | 11:02 pm

The stage of the Houston Ballet Center for Dance's black box theater was home to a different type of artsy gathering Saturday night. It may be where the company refines its gestures, but on thi ...


The Arthropologist

Does anyone stay in Houston for the summer? Performers plan "dancecations" in faraway places

By Nancy Wozny

06.21.12 | 4:40 pm

Bring on the dancecations. Houston dance folk are on the move, taking off to parts East, West, to the mountains and across oceans. Getting out of town is not just a break from Houston's swe ...


Shelby's Social Diary

Star struck: James Turrell's Rice skyspace draws sellout crowd that overflows to the lawn

By Shelby Hodge

06.15.12 | 3:24 pm

With a standing-room-only turnout, James Turrell's Twighlight Epiphany skyspace on the Rice University campus officially opened Thursday night on a comfortable, breezy evening that could not ha ...


25 years and counting

Wortham Theater Center's milestone celebrated at Houston Ballet opening night

By Joel Luks

05.26.12 | 10:20 am

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, so they say. In the midst of an economic recession in the mid 1980s, the tale of the Wortham Theater Center wasn't born out of an era o ...


Pick Five (Plus)

Your weekly guide to Houston: Pedal boats at Hermann Park, parade hunks, the worst celebrity haircut ever and a Rothko moment

By Joel Luks

05.10.12 | 12:20 pm

It's really too bad that May the Fourth be With You comes before Cinco de Mayo. After a heavy party circuit that extended all week, "the force" is what social butterflies needed to so ...


Shelby's Socia Diary

Love note from a President, a kiss from the Mayor and lots of praise for Houston Ballet's C.C. Conner

By Shelby Hodge

01.25.12 | 10:34 am

It was a grand send-off for Houston Ballet managing director C.C. Conner (who actually isn't going very far) — a letter of praise from President Bush, 41; declaration of "C.C. Conner ...


The Arthropologist

A bounty of good: It's been a year of "farewell" and "hello" on Houston's arts scene

By Nancy Wozny

12.27.11 | 11:01 am

Don't mind me. I'm just camped out on the docks, waiting for the white smoke to signal that DiverseWorks has hired a new executive director. Can you tell how the amount of change I' ...


Pick Five (Plus)

Your weekly guide to Houston: Drink beer to save Memorial Park's trees, Messiah for kids & Dickens on The Strand

By Joel Luks

12.01.11 | 6:52 am

It's hard to believe it finally happened. After the fiasco and impromptu evacuation of Angelika Film Center from Bayou Place, Robert Redford's Sundance Cinemas is now open. We'd hea ...


Shelby's Social Diary

Houston Ballet greats, including "Mao's Last Dancer," reunite for Dance of Asian America gala

By Shelby Hodge

11.27.11 | 7:14 am

It was a rare moment in the world of Houston dance when former Houston Ballet prima ballerina Janie Parker and former principal dancer Li Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, reunited in the spotlig ...


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