Houston Symphony presents "Symphony of Dinosaurs!"

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

04.18.13

Get ready for an earth-shaking adventure that takes you back to pre-historic times with the Houston Symphony. Guests will explore the Mesozoic era when dinosaurs roamed the earth, discover fossils

Life imitates art

Coming to an island near you? Rumors of real-life Jurassic Park planned in Australia

By Michael Graupmann

08.12.12 | 6:38 pm

It's obviously a terrible idea. But it's also all we want to talk about all day, every day. Rumors have popped up in Australia that Queensland billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer is ...

Dino-Mite!

A dinosaur lover's dream: Inside the Houston Museum of Natural Science's new Hall of Paleontology

By Whitney Radley

06.01.12 | 5:21 pm

The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a new Hall of Paleontology, and everybody's talking about it. Here's a look inside. ...

CultureMap Art & About Video

Jurassic Park at the Zoo: Unruly dinobots & a groovy flock of young professionals do the disco

By Joel Luks

05.05.12 | 6:02 am

They roar, burp, snarl and some even spit. Inconceivable! Thankfully, that unruly behavior wasn't coming from the rowdy young professionals that flocked to Flock's primal fete at the Ho ...

At the Arthouse

Tree of Life goes past masterpiece to revelation, with Houston symbolizing life's emptiness

By David Theis

06.11.11 | 4:50 pm

What do you call a film that contains both a brilliantly realized depiction of 1950s American childhood and a visually precise account of the creation of the universe, an account that quite possibl ...

Members Lecture: Prehistoric Monsters: Quetzalcoatlus

Houston Museum of Natural Science

06.11.11 - 06.11.11

Be one of the first to see Quetzalcoatlus, one of the prehistoric monsters that will populate the Museum’s new paleontology hall when it opens in the summer of 2012. During this exclusive, me

Starring Texas!

It's "Buffy on bad acid": WorldFest gets a vampire movie with serious fangs in Reinfeld

By Cynthia Neely

04.15.11 | 6:39 am

Dracula fans have cause for a big toothy grin. A new take on lesser-known characters from the classic Bram Stoker novel will screen Friday night at the AMC Studio 30 as part of the WorldFest/Housto ...

Don't forget the shark!

HMNS teases expansion with Texas history, Russian jewels and a mummified dinosaur

By Caroline Gallay

02.08.11 | 11:10 pm

From Texas to triceratops, it's going to be a big year for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Between scatalogical jokes on Tuesday morning, visiting paleontology curator Dr. Robert Bakker ...

Nothing intelligent in this design

Ethical atheist Richard Dawkins mocks creationists, jabs Texas, dismisses Bible as a moral center

By Nancy Wozny

10.07.10 | 1:18 pm

Evolution is not just a theory. It's fact. Unfortunately, that's news for some 40 percent of the American population, including Texas' clueless State Board of Education. Richard ...