Rice University which emptied out most of its dorms more than three weeks ago because of the coronavirus, has opened rooms at two of those dorms for temporary housing for medical personnel who work in the Texas Medical Center hospitals. In a message sent out to the Rice campus community,...
Folk Family Revival Dosey Doe Coffee, April 10 Folk Family Revival were country enough to land a date in the Hideout tent at this year's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, though only on the far outer edges. The Magnolia-bred Americana quartet owes an obvious debt to Ryan Adams' existentialist roots-rock,...
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, both the graduate opera students and the chamber orchestra, will present Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in German with English surtitles. This delightful cautionary tale by Humperdinck (no relation to the pop singer of the 1960s) tells the story of the Brothers...
Novelist Owen Laukkanen is in town on Friday to sign his latest thriller, The Stolen Ones, which ventures into the dangerous and deadly world of human trafficking. Investigative team Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere are called in when a Minnesota sheriff's deputy is killed. A hysterical woman holding the deputy's...
Rice University’s Baker Residential College has played host to Houston’s longest consecutively running Shakespeare festival for 46 years. This season BakerShake, as it’s called, offers up Measure for Measure. “We’re taking this classic show of law and lust colliding and re-envisioning it in a timeless setting, familiar to viewers,” said...
Director Wu Tsang captures the happy party scene inside the Silver Platter, an LGBTQ bar in Los Angeles, in his documentary Wildness. He also captures an ever-present sense of danger menacingly waiting, it seems, right outside its doors. The usual clientele of the Silver Platter, one of the oldest gay...
Roberto Rossellini, who co-founded Rice Cinema, directed this 1945 drama about a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Rome who takes refuge with a young couple. Considered a landmark in Italian Neorealism and postwar European cinema, Rome Open City won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1946. Fri., Jan. 16, 7 p.m.;...
Houston audiences received their Christmas presents a little early this year - in the way of five (yes, cinco) productions making their world premieres this weekend. Our choices for Friday include Ashley Horn's Dans La Lune, a dance program inspired by the film of the same name. Also on Friday,...
