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Barack Obama and Me
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Little Bitty Burger Barn
"It's okay to be little bitty in the big city" is an apt slogan for this new burger joint, where sliders rule
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Houston St. Patrick's Day Guide
Our guide to going green for St. Paddy's
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Barack Obama and Me (255)
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (22)
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)
All This Useless Beauty
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What's the Problem Houston? (5)
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard (5)
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Lisa Lampanelli
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Lisa Landolt and Jo Barrett
Two law-school-grads-turned-chick-lit-authors show us amore might be the death of us yet
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade
Watch downtown turn into cowpoke heaven
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Free First Sundays: Family Flicks
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films
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One for Doc Concert
HSPVA grads say thanks to Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus Dr. Robert Morgan
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Bobbindoctrin’s Fourth Annual Puppet Festival
A group of local puppeteers show off their latest, strangest works
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: December 13, 2007Not all puppetry is Muppetry. This was proven to mainstream audiences recently when Broadway in Houston brought in Avenue Q, but it was already well-known among local fans of underground puppeteering (all five of them), thanks to Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre. The collective of performance and visual artists is known for its off-center puppet productions, and you can see some of them at Bobbindoctrin’s Fourth Annual Puppet Festival.
Local playwright Lyndsay Kayser and David Barr’s Box Guts is a silent production that uses music box gadgets for a man-vs.-machine plot. Chelsea Luna and Bobbindoctrin founder Joel Orr each have separate shadow puppet plays — Luna explores gender and queer issues in Sealu’s Sideshow, and Orr discusses arguments for extinction in But They Are Weak. And Bobbindoctrin veteran Francesca Marquis’s Ethel and Rasputin employs large marionettes to depict a love triangle between Ethel Merman, the evil Rasputin and a Komodo dragon — this is way more bizarre than puppet-on-puppet sex scenes, folks.
See these and other odd tales told in even odder ways at 8 p.m. today, as well as December 13 and 14, and 6 p.m. December 16. Ovations, 2536 Times Boulevard. For tickets and information, call 713-526-7434 or visit www.bobbindoctrin.org. $12.
Thu., Dec. 13, 8 p.m.; Fri., Dec. 14, 8 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 16, 6 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 17, 8 p.m., 2007
