Home Base: An Intimate Q&A with Alex Bregman & Reagan Howard

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Home Base: An Intimate Q&A with Alex Bregman & Reagan Howard

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Star slugger Alex Bregman and fiancé Reagan Howard have been take-action leaders in Houston’s Covid crisis, and outspoken advocates for racial justice through a season of protest and, they hope, change. Next up? A...
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Bregman: ‘We Will Be Back in the World Series’

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In ‘CityBook’ cover story, the Astros star predicts a return to championship glory, says he wants a ‘dozen’ kids with model fiancé Reagan Howard....
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Beautiful New Book Tells Healthcare Heroes’ Stories

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For creatives, this time of quarantine has been at times inspiring and productive, at others impeding. While some musicians and visual artists report experiencing a creative block, others are able to channel what they...
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Art Watch: By-Appointment and Virtual Shows to See Now!

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The expression “the show must go on” took on new meaning after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the city, its Theater District in particular. As the water receded, arts organizations banded together to brave the long...
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How to Help H-Town Musicians and Artists Today

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Here are 10 ways to support local artists and musicians singing the quarantine blues. Again....
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Well Versed

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Prolific poet Edward Hirsch, once a popular UH professor, shares his pain, progress and love for Houston in a new collection of poems. ...
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Houston’s Hottest 11 Musicians in Covid Times

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In a moment of isolation and turmoil, can these young artists, daring and diverse, help bring us together with their song? ...
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Long Road Home

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No one died. But one of Houston’s most celebrated artists remembers a ‘moment of trauma’ that still informs her perspective on race and justice decades later. ...
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The Sun Will Rise: The Gallery World’s New Normal?

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Inspired by his 2019 global travels, Archway artist Robert Straight prepares a new show to be viewed digitally and by-appointment. ...
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Houston-Raised Author Wins Pulitzer Prize!

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Houston native Ben Moser yesterday won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in biography for Sontag: Her Life and Work. It’s a whopper of a book: 866 pages that dares to tackle head on one of the most demanding and difficult...
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Virtual Gallery Show Helps Artists in Need

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Houston’s ever-important art world is working hard to evolve with the times, turning to virtual experiences and livestream art tours. The Museum of Fine Arts launched #MFAHatHOME, a virtual museum experience including...
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Houston 2030

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In the last 10 years, Houston grew into its now global reputation as a remarkably diverse, economically blessed, foodie-forward, hidden-in- plain-sight capital of cultural cool. What will the new decade bring? At the ...
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music
Hideout Hottie

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Max Flinn has already had a busy 2020, playing the Steamboat Springs MusicFest and recording and writing new music in Nashville. But the Houston-based country artist is certain that his show at the Rodeo’s Hideout...
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That’s a Rap

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CAMH’s new show is screwed up — and that’s a good thing. Exhibiting work by a dozen artists, ‘Slowed and Throwed’ explores the connection between visual art and the late, great DJ Screw’s music technique....
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Waxing Poetic

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Retired from a career in oil, an artist and gallery director brings a revitalized perspective to city skylines. ...
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Memories of Mexico

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Starring in HGO’s new Christmastime production ‘El Milagro del Recuerdo,’ Cecilia Duarte explores the meaning of home for the holidays. ...
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An Absurdist’s Odyssey

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With a tone of tongue-firmly-planted-in-literary-cheek self-seriousness, Mark Haber’s new novel is both convoluted and captivating. ...
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Growing Roots

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A hockey-playing high-tech locksmith by day, Chris Gardner has the key to the Americana music charts. ...
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Two Truths & a Lie
Split Personality

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Dylan Godwin, 35, is the face of Christmas. Well, actually faces. As the star of the Alley Theatre’s one-man show, Fully Committed, the Tyler, Texas area native plays 40 characters, all jockeying for a hard-to-get...
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Renowned Artist Stages Career Comeback at Off the Wall

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After making a splash in the big pool that is the art world at a very young age — she was only 12 years old when she was selected as the official visual artist for the 39th annual Grammy Awards, and the media dubbed...
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Reel Talk

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Shea Serrano has tackled the music and sports worlds, and in his latest offering, praises Hollywood’s unsung heroes. ...
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Draw Deal

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Illustrator and comics-maker Sarah Welch leverages her extensive artist network to make a lasting impression....
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Painting a Statement at HMAAC

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On Saturday, a bold new exhibit opens at the Houston Museum of African American Culture, featuring the work of Nigerian painter Idowu Oluwaseun, who studied painting in his native Lagos and fashion design in Germany...
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Make It a Double

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These duos, from power couples and tenacious twins to best buddies pairing up to take care of business, are proving the immortal ’80s poet right. Sometimes, it really does take two to make a thing go right!...
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Milestone
Into the Wood

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Take a rare peek behind the gates of Stablewood, as the remarkably remote, incredibly elite Uptown enclave on the forested banks of the bayou turns 25. ...
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High Notes

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After scoring on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ single mom Christina Wells is making her next move. ...
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books
Turning the Page

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Houston-based Brit Michael Zilkha is a record-industry veteran and renewable-energy tycoon. His next project? An edgy little publishing house. ...
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The Equalizer

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In ‘This Is My Body,’ first-time author Cameron Dezen Hammon reconciles feminism with faith and family. ...
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Mall Tales

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Swimwear Department makes a splash with raucous concerts and quirky tunes about retro teen spirit. ...
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books
Millenial Diaries

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Those who would most enjoy Internet darling Jia Tolentino’s first collection of essays, the raved-over Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, may be the most unlikely to find time to consume it: the...
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Fresh Prints!

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Local Galleries Celebrate PrintHouston...
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Tales of the City

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In his acclaimed debut, young author Bryan Washington introduces the world to a sometimes messy, always vibrant new Houston. ...
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music
Music Makes the People Come Together

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In an era of tribalism, these emerging artists create an engaging, eclectic soundtrack for the most diverse city in America. ...
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Human Nature

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Lanecia Rouse Tinsley channels inimitable grief in brilliant new works inspired by nature and ‘life amidst death.’ ...
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Murder, He Wrote

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With years of experience as a Death Row advocate, Houston attorney and TED Talk phenom David Dow pens a provocative new novel in which things aren’t always as they seem. ...
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Leaders & Legends 2019

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In this second annual portrait series by photographer Steve Visneau, find Houston’s towering legends in business, the arts, advocacy and more — women and men whose vision and commitment helped make the city great....
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music
Shiny Keys

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Audaciously paying homage to iconic piano men, Robert Ellis reinvents himself....
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United State

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As his sixth album hits, Hayes Carll takes on political tribalism –– and what it means to be a good Texan. ...
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Music
The Outsiders

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A documentary in the making poses the provocative question: Why does Houston’s music scene still play second fiddle to Austin? ...
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Hot Topic

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An HGO heartthrob returns, shining a spotlight on today’s complex socio-political issues....
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Latin Spring

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The biennial Latino Art Now! conference arrives in Houston, delivering timely and transformative art exhibits across the city. ...
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Artistic Interpretation

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Artist and menswear designer Preston Douglas, 24, has a message for Houston art collectors: “There is better art happening in your backyard than in Basel,” he says, referring to Art Basel, the mother of all...
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Discovery Green Unplugs!

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Given Houston’s unseasonably cold weather lately, it may be hard to imagine yourself spread out on the Discovery Green lawn jamming to acoustic music. But with a forecast of 75-and-sunny for Sunday, it’s actually...
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Music
Band Together

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For the members of dream-pop trio Astragal, friendship comes first....
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art
Meet the Master

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An exclusive new MFAH exhibit reveals the evolution of the often-perceived tortured artist Vinent Van Gogh....
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Big Idea
‘The Pill’ 2.0

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Houston researchers may be closing in on a major game-changer in reproductive health and sex: a birth control pill for men. ...
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Wet Paint: New Exhibits at Archway

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Archway Gallery’s latest exhibit, Spill, which opens Saturday, is actually a three-in-one experience. Abstract artist Donna Perkins’ paintings are the central component to Spill, and themselves fall under two...
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culture
Living Color

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The zany, zigzagging aesthetic of legendary British punk fashion designer Zandra Rhodes takes center stage at HGO. The company presents Bizet’s Pearl Fishers (Jan. 25-Feb. 8) with colorful, bejeweled costumes and sets...
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Books
Heavy Stuff

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Author Chris Cander, a former bodybuilder, weighs in on the discipline of writing....
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Back in Black

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Prolific artist Robert Hodge returns, with a new body of work exploring the spectrum and subtext of the color black. ...
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The Shape of Sound

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In Loop38’s new concert series, art and music intersect in ways never before heard. ...
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Writing Back

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In ‘The Reckonings,’ rape survivor Lacy Johnson wrestles with justice — and healing. ...
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Design
Remaking History

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In its bold new post-Harvey style, the 92-year-old Lancaster Hotel combines meticulously restored ’20s architecture with an eclectic explosion of contemporary art....
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Child’s Play

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At the heart of Space Kiddettes’ new candy-coated pop music is a substantial lyrical message. ...
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Avenue Gets to the Art of the Matter

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Local nonprofit Avenue is kicking off the holiday shopping season in artful style with its 22nd annual Art on the Avenue event, this weekend at Winter Street Studios. It’s Houston’s largest silent art auction, with...
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A Day in the Life of the Arts

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In H-Town, culture never takes a day off. From a black-tie dinner at which patrons rub elbows with a superstar, well into the wee hours of a new day, to a drag queen putting on her face ’round midnight....
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Round Deux

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The Ballet’s new principal is prettily poised to make a comeback after a nearly career-ending injury. ...
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Art Doing Good

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Houston may have one of the most generous artist communities anywhere. And, tomorrow night, many of that community’s leaders are coming together to fight a terrible blight at The Art of Stopping Human Trafficking....
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Art
Sax Appeal

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Blues-singing, sax-playing Latina Evelyn Rubio is breaking barriers. ...
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Paper Back

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Who says print is dead? The popular Zine Fest returns, channeling the punk spirit of its eccentric late founder. ...
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