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Blogging while intoxicated: Goodbye and Good riddance to Rick Casey and Steven Thomson
September 5, 2024 – 4:09 pm | 24 Comments

By Alex Wukman
Houston media is a small, and always getting smaller, community. It’s not uncommon for Free Press Houston, Houston Press and 29-95 writers to share some words and a drink when we run into …

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Physical Graffitti
August 26, 2024 – 4:03 pm | No Comment
Physical Graffitti

By Alex Wukman
Dallas area street/graffiti artist Evero was recently sentenced to six months in jail and given a job offer from Dallas’ “graffiti czar,”attorney John Barr. Barr is known throughout the DFW area …

Newton nudes are huge
July 19, 2024 – 4:07 pm | No Comment

The cult of celebrity looms large in the exhibit Helmut Newton: White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes. The photos range in size from what you might conceivably frame and put on your wall to photographs …

United States of Tamarie : Catastrophic Theater’s latest musical
July 18, 2024 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
United States of Tamarie : Catastrophic Theater’s latest musical

By Alex Wukman
Summer in Houston means a few things: shorts, mosquitoes and musicals. From the big budget musicals of Theatre Under the Stars, who close out this season with Urban Cowboy, and Broadway Across America, …

Mary’s Mural Returns BUT Is Montrose still the ‘gay-borhood’
July 15, 2024 – 11:21 am | 4 Comments
Mary’s Mural Returns BUT Is Montrose still the ‘gay-borhood’

By Alex Wukman

After almost two years of waiting, and a week of work, it was time to pop the champagne. Moments after the final brushstroke had been added Cody Ledvina, one of the founders …

Welcome to the United States of Tamarie
July 6, 2024 – 3:21 pm | No Comment
Welcome to the United States of Tamarie

By Alex Wukman
Summer in Houston means a few things: shorts, mosquitoes and musicals. From the big budget musicals of Theatre Under the Stars, who close out this season with Urban Cowboy, and …

Montrose Ingenuity
June 28, 2024 – 4:49 pm | No Comment
Montrose Ingenuity

When it gets this hot in the summer, city water mains tend to rupture much easier. All of our city water mains are busting and city workers can not keep up. The one on Harold …

Comicpalooza 2024
May 27, 2024 – 1:02 pm | No Comment
Comicpalooza 2024

Summer Fest is coming up next weekend but if you’re into comic books make sure to clear your schedule this weekend for another festival. Comicpalooza has come a long way from its humble beginnings in …

Catastrophic Theatre’s “Crave” will destroy you
May 24, 2024 – 4:57 pm | No Comment
Catastrophic Theatre’s “Crave” will destroy you

By Alex Wukman
There are plays that are entertaining for both the audience and the actors. There are plays that challenge the audience or actors, either through the difficulty of the script or the themes that are explored; and then there’s Catastrophic Theatre’s production …

Titian & Ledray on display
May 22, 2024 – 11:14 pm | No Comment

When introducing the Titian paintings of the goddess Diane Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator Edgar Bowron points out that the famed Venetian artist (Tiziano Vecellio 1486-1576) is arguably more influential that many of his …

Zine Fest Houston 2024 This Saturday at Khon’s
May 18, 2024 – 12:19 pm | 2 Comments

As long as there have been copiers, there have been Zines. It’s amazing but, despite the overwhelmingly digital world we live in, this late 20th century medium is still quite vibrant and alive. …