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Posted on · Maria Chavez makes it clear: she’s not a musician, but a ‘conceptual sound artist.’
Posted on · Maria Chavez makes it clear: she’s not a musician, but a ‘conceptual sound artist.’
Posted on · Members of the Houston Matters team play a Houston edition of Monopoly from 1996 in conjunction with the new American Experience documentary on the untold history of the iconic board game.
Posted on · Director Ti West talks about his new horror film set in Houston and rural Texas and explains why it was shot so far from here.
Posted on · The actor has a new collection of photographs of Galveston, which he shot when much of the island was quiet in November 2020 amid the pandemic.
Posted on · We talk with the director of an acclaimed new movie shot on location in the refinery environments of Texas City, Galveston, Port Arthur, and San Leon.
Posted on · On Wednesday's show: A look at the COVID-19 hospitalization rate in Houston and Texas, our weekly political roundup, and a visit to the new immersive art installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: Actor Jim Parsons discusses his lead role in The Boys in the Band and how Houston shaped his career. Plus, we preview the 2021 Texas Legislature.
Posted on · Maybe it's been awhile since you've used an actual paper map – unless you're just not a smartphone person. But nonetheless, maps and roads are a big part of American iconography. And that iconography is also a big part of the work of artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. For example, they'll painstakingly cut out […]
Posted on · For fans of the famed abstract-expressionist Mark Rothko, there's no better place to be than Houston right now. The exhibit, Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, is on display now through Jan. 24 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. And, of course, more of his works can be seen regularly at the Rothko Chapel and the […]
Posted on · Maybe as a kid you made shadow puppets – putting your hand in front of a light to create a silhouette on the wall of a dog's head or a butterfly. Or maybe you struggled to make shapes, and your shadow puppet ended up looking more like just a blob – or some sort of […]
Posted on · A young Blinn College student named Nicole Sanders wanted to start a student organization to advocate for gun rights on the Brenham campus. She was told she could only "engage in expressive activity" in a designated "free speech zone," which is roughly the size of a parking spot. Add this to other “free speech” questions […]
Posted on · If you saw last year's Best Picture nominee, The Imitation Game, you're familiar with the story of Alan Turing. Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who helped crack the Nazi's enigma code, which helped win World War II. And he's considered one of the fathers of computer science. Often, when we think about […]
Posted on · Earlier this month, internal HISD auditors confirmed the now-fired principal of Westbury High School ordered failing grades in a reading class to be raised to a B. Jason Catchings is appealing the dismissal. (His attorney told Fox 26 that Catchings was operating under orders from a superior, and then told the Houston Chronicle the changes […]
Posted on · Radio waves are passing through you right now, whether you like it or not (sorry). Some are generated by distant stars; others emanate from a nearby cell phone. And, of course, there are all those pesky radio stations. It’s an unseen yet significant part of Houston’s landscape. Capturing that landscape is the goal of a […]