With ticket sales up and a trip to Carnegie Hall on the horizon, the Houston Symphony announced that Hans Graf will continue as music director for four more years. His contract has been extended through the 2012-2013 season. He will then remain with the symphony as conductor laureate, with two weeks of concerts through the 2014-2015 season. Graf is the symphony's fifteenth music director since it was founded in 1913. He and his wife Margarita maintain homes in Salzburg, Austria and Houston.
The Year's Best Films
Starpower and expert storytelling define the 10 best movies of 2025
Dec 30, 2025 | 3:30 pm
Photo by Eros Hoagland
Idris Elba in A House of Dynamite.
Photo by Eros Hoagland
Idris Elba in A House of Dynamite.
While much of the focus on award-worthy movies is put on those that come out in the final months of the year, the release dates for the ones that made the list of CultureMap's Best Movies of 2025 spanned nine months, from mid-March to late December. The one thing they all had in common was an attention to storytelling, with the occasional burst of starpower to put them over the top.
Scroll through CultureMap's picks of the 10 best films of 2025 by using the left and right arrows on each photo.
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