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God Sleeps In Rwanda: Movie Screening & Lecture Tonight at the Holocaust Musuem (yes, Houston has one of the best in the country), The Houston World Affairs Council will present a free screening of "God Sleeps in Rwanda," a documentary film by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman and narrated by Rosario Dawson. The film was an Academy Award nominee for best documentary short film in 2005. Acquaro will be on hand to answer questions... more ›

Each week, Houstonist highlights a few of the more interesting events going on in the city. Check back each day for more details. Is that so much to ask?! Monday, Jan 29 Movies Houstonians Love @ MFAH: Barbara Bush The Museum of Fine Arts' series, Movies Houstonians Love is back. The former First Lady kicks things off with a guest lecture preceeding her favorite movie,Life Is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni (Italy, 1997, 116... more ›

Here's something to add to your agenda the next time you're museum-hopping: the John C. Freeman Weather Museum, which opens today in the Museum District. Finally, a museum about something that interests everyone in Houston! We expect the crowds to be enormous. Freeman was a world-renowned meteorologist who died in 2004. He came up with the idea of a museum dedicated to the weather and collected old forecasting equipment that's now on display at the... more ›

The Holocaust Museum Houston marked its 10th anniversary yesterday with ceremonies that included the unveiling of a 1942 German railcar that was most likely used to transport Jews to concentration camps. "It is a living reminder of a terrible journey that I do not remember but feel in my bones," said [holocaust survivor Chaja] Verveer, who was only three years old at the time. "Let it be a symbol that we today cannot afford to... more ›