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11:56 am
Mon March 21, 2011

Famous Texans' Hats and Shoes at ITC Exhibit

If you're looking for a quiet activity to wrap up Spring Break, think about hoofing it downtown to the Institute of Texan Cultures for the "Head to Foot" exhibit.  You'll find an array of shoes, boots, hats and spurs of famous — and inspiring — Texans, which tell their unique Lone Star State stories.

There are the mud-caked boots optimistically worn by Kinky Friedman during his run for governor. 

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KPAC Blog
2:18 pm
Wed June 30, 2010

YOSA's Great Tour of China: Hong Kong Concert

Credit John Clare
YOSA with the Hong Kong Youth Symphony

Enjoy two selections from YOSA on tour in China, from Hong Kong here is the Spring Festival Overture

And the combined orchestras of YOSA with the Hong Kong Youth Symphony in The Moldau; both are conducted by Troy Peters.

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TPR Cinema
12:12 pm
Mon May 10, 2010

Richard Linklater On His Dreamy "Waking Life"

Credit © 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Are we wake-walking through our dreams, or sleep-walking through life? Or is it the reverse?

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Arts & Culture
9:48 am
Wed April 21, 2010

Girl In A Coma "On The Record" About Their Influences

Credit Josh Huskin
Phanie Diaz, Nina Diaz, and Jenn Alva.

Onstage at the South By Southwest festival in Austin last month, Girl in a Coma played to a packed house at a club on Sixth Street with a special guest, Cherie Currie, co-founder with Joan Jett of the iconic late seventies all-female band, The Runaways.  Girl in a Coma’s bassist Jenn Alva says it was a real “rock star” moment for her.

“I guess we really never think about ‘Oh, we’re so cool,’ but when we were the backup band for her, we just felt like, ‘YEAH!,” says Alva. 

Drummer Phanie Diaz, laughing, pipes in, “Yeah, Jenn’s lips naturally snarled!”

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SXSW
1:06 pm
Wed March 17, 2010

SXSW 2010: Paul Gordon, "The Happy Poet"

A sweet comedy about a sad sack poet trying to open a “mostly vegetarian” food stand, writer/director/actor Paul Gordon says "The Happy Poet" is also about "kindness and generosity versus looking out for yourself and doing what you need to do to get by." In the film, Bill (Gordon) finds trying to stay true to his convictions and make ends meet to be tougher than he expected.  

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