Results tagged “thebook”

Remember when you were a little bitty Houstonist and someone would read to you at night and you could just lose yourself in the story, abandoning all other thoughts of the day? Well you can still do it now, you know. In fact, you might be all the more eager to shed your quotidian annoyances now that you're grown. Here are a few places to hear some stellar writers read from their work: Friday...

Cara Barer—The Book Project DeSantos Gallery Beginning with just a found soiled copy of the Yellow Pages, Cara Barer created The Book Project, and eventually had volumes of new sculptures resulting from old books. As book lovers, our first inclination was to scoff at the idea of destroying old books for the sake of art. But then we saw the sculptures. This is one of the Houstonist's favoritist things we've seen in a long time....

In one of the strangest stories to come along in a while, a Humble man is accused of having beaten a Russian traveler to death at a New Jersey Turnpike service plaza yesterday — apparently a random attack that police say might have been motivated by religion. The basics are these: Shortly before 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Michail J. Makarenko, a 75-year-old Russian who emigrated to the U.S. 25 years ago, pulled over with his interpreter...

It's the end of the month, and Houstonist is fresh out of cash. Here's where you'll find us this week: Friday, June 30th Hilarious rapper babel fishh opens for Bowel, the Love Drunks, and Born Liars at Rudyards (2010 Waugh) this evening. His rhymes are about things like throwing up Lone Star beer and why Walmart is the devil. The Love Drunks are fun too. Enjoy! 8pm. $9. Saturday, July 1 The Tasting Room (114...