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Never Been to Houston Gallery Talk If our post about the Never Been to Houston show at the Lawndale Art Center couldn't convince you to go, and our interviews with some of the photographers didn't do the trick either, we have just the thing for you: a gallery talk! Jon Rubin, co-curator of the exhibit, along with Aurora Picture Show, will be speaking about the show tonight at Lawndale. Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose...

Francesco Nonino is an Italian photographer who lives and works in Bologna. His work is exhibited in the Never Been to Houston show, and he answered a few questions for us about Houston and the exhibit. What was your perception of Houston before you started this project? A place somewhere far away, linked to my childhood memories on space missions What did you do before to start this project? Did you research Houston or just...

Lindsay Perth is a transplanted Canadian artist who now resides in Scotland. She is one of the artists whose work is exhibited in the Never Been to Houston show. On the right is one of her photographs from the exhibit. Lindsay answered a few questions about Houston and the show for us. Read on: What was your perception of Houston before you started this project? My perception was of lots of glass and reflections and...

Houston is pretty image-conscious, and rightly so. We've been labeled fat, dangerous, and not exactly the best place to have a kid either. Houstonians know our city's tops, but how do we tell the rest of the world that? The Aurora Picture Show and professor Jon Rubin (who's never been to Houston himself) are curating an exhibit about Houston by people who have never been here, and the results are very interesting. Rubin and APS's...

We start off this Tech Buzz with a list of The 50 Most Important People On The Web, Houstonist isn't on the list, but we know our 11 readers love us! We hope by now, you have changed your clocks for Daylight Savings Time. Jay Lee over at The Chron lovingly refers to DST as Y2K7 and reminds us to patch our systems and devices. Looks like we missed BarCampAustin at SXSWi this weekend....