It starts early on.  At first, it seems spontaneous: parents who enjoy their interests naturally display those passions to small children who are dragged along for the ride. The child observes and absorbs until one day, parental interest becomes child’s obsession.  And in The Truths We Hold by Vice President Kamala Harris, that’s how a

| Author Brad Gooch discusses his new biography of the late artist and activist Keith Haring  By Tim Murphy  After working as a model in the 1970s and ’80s in New York City, Brad Gooch became an author. He wrote poetry, novels, and memoirs, including “Smash Cut,” about his decade-long relationship with film producer Howard

By Terri Schlichenmeyer They’ll stick to your teeth, but whatever, you’ll be too busy watching to care. You like the director, you know most of the actors as first-rate, and word is that the newcomer couldn’t be more right for the role. Yep, you’ve done your homework. You read Rotten Tomatoes, you’ve looked up IMBd,

How do you do? Howdy. Hey, there. Hello. Hi, how are you? It’s polite to greet people when you meet them for the first time, and respectful, too. Furthermore, it’s human nature to want to be liked, to find common ground and get along. Read the new book “How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi,â€

The Ensemble Theatre is truly a “leader of the new school†when it comes to the inclusion and production of contemporary theatre works in the City of Houston. From its wide array of training programs and workshops for developing Playwrights, Actors, and Designers, to their increasingly popular New Voices Fest (held every other year in

Do you need three pairs of shoes?  The answer is probably yes: you can’t dance in hikers, you can’t shop in stilettos, you can’t hike in clogs. So what else do you overpack on this long-awaited trip? Extra shorts, extra tees, you can’t have enough things to wear. And in the new book “How to

| Letters of Love and Lust from the White House   By Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler  Four bills, a political flier, a request for a charity and a magazine.  That’s what came in the mail yesterday, which is about average. If you get a letter, man, that’s unusual because almost nobody does that anymore. Imagine

Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south—it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe. This World is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist’s world and her life spanning the 20th century. The film begins with her birthday on July 4, 1900, artist Nellie

By Johnny Trlica Beads will be lobbed, and beads will be caught! Actually, an estimated three million beads will be tossed from floats and riders participating in the more than twenty parades that are the core of Mardi Gras! Galveston. The island’s family friendly extravaganza will be from February 10 through 21, 2023.  That’s only

Through the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US’s queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall.  By Kristen Raddatz  The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film