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Literary Salon @ space125gallery Join Houston Arts Alliance on tonight. August 2nd, from 7PM -9PM at space125gallery for an evening of poetry and literature. "Meet the Authors" reception begins at 6:30PM. Featured artists: Laurie Clements Lambeth PhD, University of Houston Creative Writing Program Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Award Recipient Winner 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition Cambor Fellowship Recipient, Inprint David Stuart MacLean MFA, New Mexico State University Fullbright Scholar Mary Gibbs and...

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art will soon be conducting a nationwide search for a new Executive Director, as Susanne Theis will be leaving August 31st to become the new Programming Director of Discovery Green, which opens in early 2008. Susanne has been with The Orange Show for more than 20 years. Under her guidance, The Orange Show has garnered international recognition for the world's largest and oldest Art Car Parade and each of...

Old is New: Opening Night Reception Opening tonight, Thursday, June 14, 2007 and running through July 26th, Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) offers Houstonians a fresh look at some old artistic techniques in space125gallery with its exhibition, Old is New, featuring the work of HAA Fellowship artists Catherine Colangelo, Anthony Thompson Shumante and Robbie Austin. In a nod to art’s history, Old Is New explores innovative ways of presenting old techniques and themes — transforming...

And could there be anything more exciting? Good news: the new budget will allow for increased funding for the police and fire departments. Some of these funds will pay for new police cadet classes for the understaffed department and for the firefighters' recent raise. Health care costs are also expected to go up, while the entire budget will go up less than 4%. Overall, it is likely that there will be little for most people...

Mayor White, along with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities Executive Director Michelle Colvard and Connectivity Source Director of Marketing and Development Richard Saler announced yesterday a new program to provide hearing impaired Houstonians with cell phones. The phones use updated technology that provides better sound quality and is less likely to interfere with hearing aids. Connectivity Source has committed to providing people with hearing disabilities with the right technical features compatible with the...

An odd story from HPD headquarters: Early Sunday morning, officers shot and killed a woman who lunged at them inside the building's lobby. It happened just after 2 a.m., when 42-year-old Marnell Villarreal showed up at the HPD building at 1200 Travis wanting to talk to an investigator. According to KTRK, officers sent her away because she had brought a weapon into the building before. She paced outside for a while, then came back into...

More on the story of the city trying to take The Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation's land: The Chronicle reports that advocates of The Center seem to have found supporters on City Council. To recap, the issue here centers on an agreement The Center worked out with former Mayor Lewis Cutrer in 1963 to lease the land at West Dallas and Shepherd for 99 years. Under the agreement, The Center would pay the city...

We've often driven past the corner of Allen Parkway and Shepherd and wondered just how that chunk of prime real estate has remained home to a social service agency instead of a high-dollar, high-rise apartment building. Seems the city of Houston has wondered that, too — and now it looks like the city is going to boot the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation and sell the property to the highest bidder. At issue here...

The Chronicle's Rad Sallee talked last week about something we've halfway wondered about for a while: the quotation on Michael Davis's "Water Screen," the thing at Main Street Square that's supposed to be a frame containing a waterfall on which images are projected (we say "supposed to be" because we've only seen it working a handful of times). Across the top of the frame is the inscription "As we build our city, let us think...

Attention, Houston major league hockey fans — we know you're out there — you may want to keep your fingers crossed for the next few days: The Chronicle reports today that a delegation from the Pittsburgh Penguins is expected to visit Houston this week to consider the possibility of moving the NHL franchise here. It's rumored that Hockey legend and Penguins owner Mario Lemieux will lead the group from the Steel City, but beyond that,...

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-backed plan to clean up Houston's air doesn't go far enough, according to a suit filed yesterday by a local environmental group — in fact, the group claims, changes in the local air-quality rules would actually allow industries to pump more smog-forming pollution into the air. The proposed revisions to the clean-air plan were submitted by the state of Texas and approved by the EPA in September. They shift the...

The Chronicle reported yesterday on an interesting dilemma facing people who want to make Houston a more urban, walkable city: In many cases, they can't, thanks to existing development ordinances that defer to the almighty car. The Chron article focuses on Midtown, where a lot has been done in the last 10 years to create pedestrian-friendly districts. Even so, "a lot" is relative — the area has gone from a no-man's land of abandoned warehouses...

If you think traffic on I-10 was a bad repercussion of yesterday’s downpour, try being washed away from your nest. You would have to be a bird to have experienced that, but you get the idea. Rain storms usually cause a lot of phone calls to come into Wildlife Rehab and Education, a non-profit organization, and yesterday was no different. Among those the group rescued Monday were a family of cottontail rabbits flooded out of...

LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can't get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor's new book asks WWJB. Gothamist gets down with the immigration rally and their readers want to be heard. The anniversary of the Mets' 1986 World Series is celebrated via a RBI Baseball...

This post comes to us from Austinist's Shannon Roberts. In the last month, we started a discussion about the potentially critically-damaging impact that the dissolution or restructuring of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) could have on Texas' arts and cultural organizations. (here and here) This week, we interviewed Ricardo Hernandez, the Executive Director of the Texas Commission on the Arts, and Jennifer Wijangco, the Deputy Director of the Texas Cultural Trust to get...

The cash-strapped Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is considering a plan to transfer control of the 4,919.5-acre Lake Houston State Park to the city of Houston.