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::Suchu Dance premieres Babka at Barnevelder Movement Complex:: Tonight opens Suchu Dance's newest performance, Babka, at the neato Barnevelder Movement Complex. If you've not been to a Suchu Dance performance, or visited this unique performing arts venue, you are in for a treat tonight. In a unique way to kick-off this performance, Suchu Dance is offering a dinner/show preview tonight. For $29.99 you can catch a sneak peek of the new performance and have a...

MFA's Artful Thursday: Shakespeare's Friends, The Illustrated Version Lecture by Kate Emery Pogue Timed oh so conveniently with next week's start of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, the MFA welcomes Kate Emery Pogue, playwright, Shakespearean actress, teacher, producer, and director for a discussion and story telling based on her book, Shakespeare's Friends . Founder of the Drama Department at Houston Community College Central Campus and former Artistic Director of the Shakespeare-by-the-Book Festival, she is the author...

The Trinity Irish Dance Company, founded in 1990 by Artistic Director Mark Howard will be performing at Miller Outdoor Theatre this Saturday (St. Patty's, of course) at 8:00 p.m.. Admission is free, we suggest that you maybe pack yourself some Irish Stew and good Irish beer or whiskey and enjoy a night of progressive Irish dance. The company is non-profit and melds both traditional Irish dance and new means of expression into their performances. Many...

Tonight marks the final and farewell visit to Houston of renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski at The Menil Collection, aptly titled Without End: A Celebration in Words and Music of Adam Zagajewksi. Beginning in 1988, Zagajewski began teaching each spring in the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. This reading both honors his eighteen years of teaching in Houston and bids him farewell. On the agenda this evening, an appreciation by poet Edward Hirsch, a...

Alliance Francaise Lecture Series: Antoine Plante First the MET lends us French Masterpieces and now tonight's Lecture at l'Alliance Francaise. Houston's gone Haute for the Frenchies! Touche! (Ok, cliche). Actually, we were really just inspired by this cool pic of the Winged Victory from local photog Mark Austin. As part of the lecture series sponsored by the Consulat Général de France, Patrick Berron, Consul Général, on diverse subjects in the arts and in science at...

Call us inspired by this week's arrival of the MET's French Masterpieces exhibit at the MFA, but this week we sought out some of the many art & theather events, performances, and exhibitions going on in the city. Hey, we're hip! Monday, Feb 5 MFA's Hitchock's Blondes Film Series: To Catch a Theif This film series complements the Alley Theatre´s production of Hitchcock Blonde (February 23—March 18), a cinematic mystery that combines theater and...

Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, an ancient Aztec celebration of deceased ancestors. Time to reflect on the lives that have passed which shaped us, gave us our "who we are" and/or those we have loved. This popular holiday, celebrated primarily in the Phillipines, Mexico (Mexican-American communities in America) and Brazil (where it is a public holiday) is dedicated to remembering the deceased. Celebrations can involve cleaning gravesites, making shrines & altars,...