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In his debut nonfiction book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, Houston Dr. Ricardo Nuila unconventionally shuns positioning the doctor-storyteller as the hero of the story. When writing his first book, he never thought to cas…
Read MoreMake all the jokes you want. Middle aged guys in the gated community, old men at the retirement condos. . . the New Kids on the Block came to Houston in on the joke and ready to rock the NRG block for their debut performance at the Houston Livestock Sh…
Read MoreFor 15 years the Menil Collection’s Drawing Institute has made its mark on art scholarship when it comes to the sometimes under appreciated art of drawing. Then with the opening of its dedicated Drawing Institute building little more than four years ag…
Read MoreIt’s good to be the king, but when sitting throne adjacent, some queens have to watch their heads. At least that’s the moral of the story of King Henry VIII and his six marriages. Nearly 500 years later, the hottest show on Broadway is Six: the Musical…
Read MoreWhen Houston Grand Opera’s Khori Dastoor and Patrick Summers revealed a bold new production of The Wreckers would open HGO’s 2022-2023 season, we wouldn’t blame the most learned opera aficionados if their first response was: The What? Dame Ethel …
Read MoreWhat’s the secret to a successful theater season? Well, Houston’s Theatre Under The Stars is banking on the power of bringing joy to audiences with a big production of the new show The Secret of My Success. This 21st century musical take on the late-19…
Read MoreImagine a man haunted by a traumatic past and lost love. Lost in a stasis of his own making, he never leaves his apartment and the world narrows to his view from the window and the voices he hears just beyond his apartment walls. A mysterious couple mo…
Read More“Legend has it. . .” I heard that phrase often while exploring the islands off of the southwest Florida coast, especially Sanibel and Captiva. Just a breezy causeway jaunt from Fort Myers brings you to this chain of white sand beaches, Caribbean cool b…
Read MoreIf the idea has crossed your classical music loving mind that maybe the Houston Symphony selects music directors based on a finely-tuned hotness scale, come sit next to us. After eight years watching AndrĂ©s Orozco-Estrada helm the podium and then seein…
Read MoreWhat do the peacock and rock star have in common? Award-winning choreographer Trey McIntyre ponders this question as he sets 11 Houston Ballet male dancers loose onto the Wortham stage to dance-fight for the spotlight set to the music of David Bowie in…
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