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David Sedaris always has time for Houston: Where else would he find the funny?

By Tarra Gaines

08.07.12 | 10:38 am

Editor's Note: As part of CultureMap's State of the Arts series throughout the month of August, we are highlighting upcoming fall arts events you won't want to miss. David Sedaris i ...

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Shuttling to Sundance Cinemas, rocking with graffiti artists & watching an evil elf

By Joel Luks

11.23.11 | 1:12 pm

Winter Street Studios was the place to see and be seen last weekend. As Spacetaker's Winter Holiday Art Market's preview party got off to a rocking start, munchables flew and cocktails flow ...

Alley Theatre presents The Santaland Diaries

Alley Theatre

11.25.11 - 12.31.11

Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish and true chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in Macy's SantaLand display. This c

Trendysomething in Somo

Rick Perry, socialite spaniels & Speedos: Things that touched me in 2010. Literally.

By Steven Thomson

12.30.10 | 10:57 am

When it was suggested that I make a list of things that touched me in 2010, it wasn't a huge conceptual leap to start thinking physically. And so I have scoured my remaining brain cells to comp ...

Santaland Diaries at the Alley

Alley Theatre

11.21.10 - 12.31.10

Who doesn't love David Sedaris? Oh, you're the one? Well, The Nutcracker is down the street. For the rest of us, the Alley Theatre's run of Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is sur

Society for the Performing Arts Presents David Sedaris

Jones Hall

04.19.11

David Sedaris brings a night of satire, comedy and wit to Jones Hall. The best-selling author of the essay collections, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Dress Your Family in Cordurou and Denim, and When You

Trendysomething in somo

Literary lead-on: David Sedaris wants what he can't have

By Steven Thomson

04.29.10 | 2:34 pm

They say that my generation is one without heroes. I don't know who other people my age look up to: maybe Barack Obama, or Shakira, but probably just Ashton Kutcher and Snookie. Personally, ...

Humorist Delights Houston audience

David Sedaris: Petty and judgmental — in the best possible way

By Tarra Gaines

04.29.10 | 5:57 am

Wednesday night, Society for the Performing Arts once again brought author and humorist David Sedaris to town. And once again, Jones Hall was filled with Houstonians paying to see a casually-dresse ...

The Society for Performing Arts presents David Sedaris at Jones Hall

Jones Hall

04.28.10

American humorist and author David Sedaris returns to Houston for an evening of social critique, tall tales and humiliating family anecdotes.

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A spicy start to a season: Anthony Bourdain heads to Houston with SPA

By Sarah Rufca

03.24.10 | 3:04 pm

Mix a grumpy old man, a brilliant chef and a cultural anthropologist together and you might have something close to the inimitable Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain rose to fame with his bestselling t ...