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Single Tickets Go on Sale Today For Houston Ballet Live and In-Person

Margaret Downing — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

At Houston Methodist's physical and occupational therapy center in Sugar Land, the walls are lined with large photos of the hometown pro teams — the Astros and the Texans — that go to Methodist for health care advice and treatment. Uniform shirts of th...

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Stages’ 2021-22 Season Complete With a New Managing Director Who Wants Everyone to See Theater

Margaret Downing — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Fresh from her duties as managing director of Denver's Curious Theatre Co., Katie Maltais will begin working as the new managing director of Stages and its theater complex The Gordy on August 1, sharing leadership duties and a commitment to commu...

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Miller Outdoor Theatre Changes Ticket Policies Again to Better Assure Attendance

Margaret Downing — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

In response to the pandemic, Miller Outdoor Theatre instituted a new ticketing system in spring 2021. Instead of standing in line to at the Miller box office to get four free tickets in the covered seating, would-be patrons were asked to sign up online...

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Bellaire High School Teacher Writes A Book About Dubsmash, TikTok and Dancing With His Students

Margaret Downing — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Dr. Trevor Boffone, the Bellaire High School Spanish teacher who embraced the music and dance of many of his students at the school, has written a book involving that experience and ways of building community through social media due to be release...

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Yep, Sitting on Senator Ted Cruz’s Lawn Will Get You Arrested As Climate Change Protesters Discover

Margaret Downing — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:31:00 +0000

Members of a group of activists who walked all the way from New Orleans to Houston to bring awareness to climate change, experienced an up close and personal with Houston police Monday who arrested eight of them after repeatedly telling the protesters ...

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Mad Dogs and Democrats (& Republicans) Left Out in the Cold by Gov. Greg Abbott

Margaret Downing — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:04:00 +0000

The same Texas governor who on Friday followed through with his vow of retribution for the walkout by Democrats that (for now) sank the voting "reform" bill by defunding the Texas Legislature, inexplicably on Sunday also vetoed a bipartisan bill ...

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Houston Ballet Dances to A Little Night Music at MFAH’s Kinder Building

Margaret Downing — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Among all the unexpected side effects of the prolonged pandemic, was the swing from live shows to filmed productions for many of the performance groups in Houston. For Daniel Rivera, Houston Ballet’s Associate Director of Audio and Visual Services...

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New HISD Superintendent Gets a $350,000 Salary and a Lot of Challenges

Margaret Downing — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

On July 1, Millard House II becomes the new superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, with a three-year contract paying him a $350,000 yearly base salary, the chance to earn $150,000 in incentive pay a year, $25,000 dropped into a reti...

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Witnesses at Congressional GLO Inquiry Say That George P. Bush is Trying to Start a Fight Between Houston and Harris County

Margaret Downing — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:58:00 +0000

For almost two hours Friday morning, Democratic Houston Area members of Congress spoke about and listened to complaints about the City of Houston and Harris County being left entirely out of any of the FEMA flood mitigation funds allotted by Republican...

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Alley Theatre Expands its Offerings and Talent Across the Board in its New Season

Margaret Downing — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

With two new company members and a lineup of new shows to be performed on both the upstairs and downstairs stages — including a very different take on A Christmas Carol — the Alley Theatre has announced itself ready to resume its in-person performance ...

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Main Street Theater Announces its New Season Starting in Fall 2021

Margaret Downing — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

In announcing a season with two regional premieres, the theatrical equivalent of comfort food and some biting comedy, Main Street Theater's Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden says the common theme is that "all of these plays raise questions that I ...

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4th Wall Theatre Co. Announces a 2021-22 Season Filled With Premieres

Margaret Downing — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

What better way to celebrate a new season of live, in-person performances than to present a collection of Houston premieres as well as to bring back a Pulitzer Prize-winning show that got on stage here for a minute before COVID-19 shut it down? 4th Wal...

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Get Ready to Access Your Inner, if Somewhat Deadly, Child in HGO’s Hansel and Gretel

Margaret Downing — Mon, 24 May 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The spectacle and "a little bit of mystery," were what first drew Raven McMillion to opera — or as she describes her initial reaction: "How are these people making these sounds which are almost otherworldly?" Now a Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist, so...

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Lina Hidalgo Wants a New Deal on Hurricane Harvey Mitigation Funds

Margaret Downing — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:44:00 +0000

"The deck was stacked against us from the get-go." That was Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's assessment at a Friday press conference in which she protested the criteria used to determine what counties and cities would get what share of the federal fu...

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HISD Names its Lone Superintendent Candidate and He’s From Tennessee

Margaret Downing — Fri, 21 May 2021 18:01:00 +0000

Millard House II, the director of schools for the Clarksville Montgomery school district in Tennessee was named the lone superintendent candidate for Houston ISD today by school board trustees in a unanimous vote. His selection still has to go through ...

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TUTS Goes Right to the Heart of its Rescheduled 2021-22 Season

Margaret Downing — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In a move born of optimism tempered with caution, Theatre Under the Stars today announces its readjusted 2021-22 Season, one that starts off in October with Rock of Ages and winds up with Jersey Boys in May, betting that audiences are ready to come bac...

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Mayor Turner Unveils Proposed 2022 City Budget That He Says He’ll Already Be Amending Next Week

Margaret Downing — Tue, 11 May 2021 17:04:00 +0000

Mayor Sylvester Turner at a Tuesday morning press conference revealed details of his proposed $5.1 billion city budget for the 2022 fiscal year that begins July 1, 2021, at the same time saying he will amend it by next week to include raises for the ci...

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Here’s Your Chance to Sing Along With Opera Stars in Public and No One Will Shush You

Margaret Downing — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:00:00 +0000

As a youngster, Michael Mayes would sometimes accompany his father to his job as an electronics technician working on pipelines stretching from Amarillo to South Texas. Along the way, they'd sing bluegrass and country music. "My dad taught me how to si...

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Houston Ballet Returns in Force and Yes Virginia, There is a Nutcracker

Margaret Downing — Sun, 02 May 2021 05:01:00 +0000

After more than a year away from live, in-person performances, Houston Ballet today announces its 2021-22 season, ready to welcome pandemic-weary audiences back to the Wortham stage to see the company present the same upper level work its dancers have ...

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Policing Reform in Houston Kicks Into the Next Gear

Margaret Downing — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:10:00 +0000

Effective immediately by executive order of Mayor Sylvester Turner, body camera footage from all police-involved shootings which involves a display of excessive force or the death of someone in custody, will be made public within 30 days. However, to t...

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