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Recently appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and recently named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years," Russell Simmons is much more than a "hip-hop pioneer." His groundbreaking vision has influenced music, fashion, finance, television and film, as well as the face of modern philanthropy. On Saturday, September 19,
The Brilliant Lecture Series is designed to educate, inspire and increase public awareness within the Houston community by providing a forum for interactions with national and international leaders, role models, philanthropists, artists, humanitarians and other prominent members of our society. |
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ComedySportz Arena : Houston Houston's longest running improv comedy show, ComedySportz features teams of improv comedians who compete for laughs as they make up scenes and songs on the spot. Not comedy about sports, but rather comedy played as a sport, similar to "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on t.v. Dates Available: Friday, September 04 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, September 05 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 11 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $16.00 OUR PRICE : $8.00 |
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Sheraton Suites Hotel : Houston Enter the glittering and cutthroat world of the professional Karaoke Singer in Mystery Cafe Houston's world premiere show! Someone is stalking the contestants of the Gulf Coast Regional Semi-Final Three Steps Before National Silver Microphone Karaoke Competition and it's up to you to find out who.....while there are still some crooners living! Dates Available: Saturday, September 05 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $54.95 OUR PRICE : $35.00 |
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ComedySportz Arena : Houston Created for our younger fans and their families, our ComedySportz 4 Kidz show features three all-star performers who invent the performance with the help of the audience. Dates Available: Saturday, September 05 @ 4:00 PM Saturday, October 03 @ 4:00 PM FULL PRICE : $8.00 OUR PRICE : $4.00 |
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urban war zone : houston Urban War Zone Paintball is downtown Houston's finest paintball field! Located deep in the heart of Houston, we are just 2 blocks off I-45 South - inside loop 610! The field is virtually minutes from anywhere in Houston. We have created an exciting paintball field - accessible to anyone in Houston metro area. We hope you'll enjoy playing our fields as much as we do. Dates Available: Sunday, September 13 @ 12:00 PM Sunday, September 20 @ 12:00 PM FULL PRICE : $27.00 - $44.50 OUR PRICE : $13.00 - $25.00 |
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Third Coast Comedy : Houston With a similar format to "Who's Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey, our in-house improv experts delight and entertain you and your family. This is good old fashion clean family fun at its best. Each week different audience members are invited on stage to participate with the Improv Troupe. Young and old a like love the free form style of comedy and entertainment. Dates Available: Friday, September 04 @ 7:30 PM Friday, September 11 @ 7:30 PM Friday, September 18 @ 7:30 PM FULL PRICE : $10.00 OUR PRICE : $5.00 |
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Discover Houston Tours : Houston Join Sandra Lord on a three-hour fun and fact-filled bus and walking tour. History buffs will learn about the city's earliest cemeteries, historic buildings, and famous (and infamous) citizens. Bring your digital cameras and EMF meters to capture the evidence of some of Houston's most famous ghosts & spirits. Dates Available: Saturday, September 05 @ 7:00 PM Saturday, October 03 @ 7:00 PM Saturday, November 07 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $35.00 OUR PRICE : $20.00 |
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Laff Spot : Spring Clinton honed his craft in San Francisco's thriving comedy scene. His act has been described as "Clean, clever, and engaging!" He has appeared on Comedy Central with his own half hour comedy special and has performed at HBO's prestigious Aspen Comedy Festival. Dates Available: Thursday, September 24 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 25 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 25 @ 10:30 PM FULL PRICE : $15.00 OUR PRICE : $7.50 |
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Third Coast Comedy : Houston Third Coast Comedy presents Houston's Own Blues Brothers in A Blues Musical Revue. The Blues Revue, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers Jake and Elwood. Starring Tom Sofka as Jake and Dave Howell-DePew as Elwood. Dates Available: Saturday, December 12 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $25.00 OUR PRICE : $12.50 |
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Third Coast Comedy : Houston Dave and Donna invite you to experience funny family entertainment...improv (not stand-up), sketches, monologues and some of Houston's Home-Grown Talent. Come to the place where it's fun to be part of the show! Dates Available: Saturday, September 19 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $15.00 OUR PRICE : $7.50 |
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Cullen Theatre : Houston The world premier of choreographer Jane Weiner's evening length work Village of Waltz. Hope Stone Dance, a company of 12 dancers & performers, joins forces to bring to life an evening of exquisite dance. Including an evening of all live music by composer/musician Peter Jones, with vocalist Ana Trevino-Godfrey. Dates Available: Friday, October 23 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, October 24 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $25.00 OUR PRICE : $12.50 |
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Minute Maid Park : Houston Atlanta comes to town to take on the Astros. Come watch Carlos Lee, Hunter Pence, Lance Berkman and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. Dates Available: Wednesday, September 09 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $12.00 - $39.00 OUR PRICE : $8.00 - $22.00 |
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Minute Maid Park : Houston Lets play Ball as the Division rival St. Louis Cardinals come to Minute Maid Park. Watch Albert Pujols and the rest of the Cardinals go head to head with the Astros as both teams battle for a playoff spot. Dates Available: Wednesday, September 23 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $12.00 - $39.00 OUR PRICE : $8.00 - $22.00 |
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Texas Rep Theatre : Houston Talley's Folly tells the touching story of two broken and mismatched people who discover that they are like two broken pieces of the same puzzle, meant for no one else than each other. Brilliantly written by Lanford Wilson. Winner of both the 1980 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play of the season. Dates Available: Friday, September 04 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, September 05 @ 3:00 PM FULL PRICE : $16.00 OUR PRICE : $8.00 |
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Coaches Sports Pub : Katy A few minutes could change your life! Speed dating comes to Katy, TX. Coaches Sports Bar is the perfect environment for an evening of speed dating. You will be set up on mini-dates with other singles. If you make a connection either as friends or a potential romantic interest we will exchange your information with the person you match up with. Otherwise, your information remains private. Easy, simple, fun and safe! Dates Available: Wednesday, September 09 @ 7:30 PM FULL PRICE : $35.00 OUR PRICE : $17.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston Supernatural and sultry, Claudia Cardinale plays a nightclub singer seduced and abandoned by a wealthy playboy called Marcello. She pursues him to his villa in Parma, where Marcello's 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) takes pity on her, finding in the aimless, impoverished showgirl some of the tenderness he misses in his moneyed but motherless existence. Dates Available: Sunday, September 20 @ 5:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston One of Mario Soldati's most highly regarded films established the career of his favorite actress, Alida Valli. Based on a classic novel set in the "old fashioned world" of nineteenth-century Lombardy, the film recounts the travails of a young couple from different social classes. Dates Available: Friday, September 04 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston One of the key films of the 1960s, Teorema stars Terence Stamp as a Christ-like figure who wanders out of the dunes and into the home of a Milanese industrialist. He seduces each member of the household: mother (Silvan Mangano), father, son, daughter, the maid. All are spiritually transformed by their sexual encounters, and when the visitor disappears just as mysteriously as he arrived, each develops strange ways to deal with the anguish of his absence. Dates Available: Saturday, September 05 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston Fellinis first color feature unleashed something in the director, the result being one of his most lavish excursions into the world of dreams and fantasy. Celebrated as much for its visual extravagance as for its psychological acuity, the film was designed "for and about Giulietta," Fellini's wife, and as such is nakedly autobiographical. Dates Available: Sunday, September 06 @ 5:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston A grand, sumptuous romance based on a Stendhal short story, Vanina Vanini is set in the same period (the early nineteenth-century Risorgimento) as [Luchino] Visconti's Senso and shares that film's operatic extravagance. The title character is a bored, spoiled young Roman princess (Sandra Milo) whose father is an important figure in the papal council (Paolo Stoppa). Dates Available: Friday, September 11 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston The biggest hit of "comedy Italian style," Bread, Love, and Dreams inspired an entire series of similarly spicy escapist films, sometimes called "neorealist comedies," in which glamorous stars portray peasants unlucky in love. Set in a mountain village, the comedy stars Vittorio De Sica as a middle-aged police officer assigned to the town. Dates Available: Sunday, September 13 @ 5:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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MFAH - Brown Auditorium : Houston "A film I am very attached to; for me it is a real masterpiece," Marcello Mastroianni declared. Mastroianni, in "one of [his] least-known great performances" (Pauline Kael), for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes, plays Oreste, a dumb Communist bricklayer married to a top-knotted nightmare. Dates Available: Friday, September 18 @ 7:00 PM FULL PRICE : $7.00 OUR PRICE : $3.50 |
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Arena Theatre : Houston Recently appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and recently named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years," Russell Simmons is much more than a "hip-hop pioneer." His groundbreaking vision has influenced music, fashion, finance, television and film, as well as the face of modern philanthropy. Dates Available: Saturday, September 19 @ 2:30 PM FULL PRICE : $30.00 OUR PRICE : $15.00 |
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STATUS : Houston You will meet many educated young professionals in one night, and the best part, everyone is there for the same reason. You would be able to talk to each of other for about 5 min. Speed dating allows you to skip the excruciating hit-or-miss first date experience, there's no embarrassing rejections or silly mind games! We do all the work for you! Dates Available: Friday, September 04 @ 8:00 PM Friday, October 02 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $35.00 OUR PRICE : $17.50 |
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STATUS : Houston You will meet many educated young professionals in one night, and the best part, everyone is there for the same reason. You would be able to talk to each of other for about 5 min. Speed dating allows you to skip the excruciating hit-or-miss first date experience, there's no embarrassing rejections or silly mind games! We do all the work for you! Dates Available: Friday, September 18 @ 8:00 PM Friday, October 23 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $35.00 OUR PRICE : $17.50 |
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Laff Spot Comedy Club : Houston Mike made his television debut on Comedy Central's 'Premium Blend', Mike is a regular favorite on the Bob and Tom Show and is a part of the Bob & Tom Comedy All Stars theater tour. In 2008 Mike got the call to join the cast of the popular late-night sketch show "Frank TV" on TBS. Mike uses his impression skills to explore the zone of insanity where politics, pop culture, and the media collide. Dates Available: Thursday, September 10 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 11 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 11 @ 10:30 PM FULL PRICE : $15.00 OUR PRICE : $7.50 |
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Bayou City Performing Arts : Houston Bayou City Performing Arts presents The Bayou Bunch 2009/2010 Season. Enjoy a season subscription to all 5 shows in the 2009/10 Season for one low price. Dates Available: Sunday, November 01 @ 9:00 PM FULL PRICE : $93.00 OUR PRICE : $50.00 |
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Crighton Theatre : Conroe Stage Right will present Vaudeville (Finally) Comes to the Crighton! The variety show could include musicians, dancers, magicians, impersonators, acrobats, one act plays or even athletes. Stage Right is using a series of 1920's skits assembled by Glen Lambert (director) to bring the various elements normally found in Vaudeville into an entertaining yet cohesive show that will leave you wanting more! Dates Available: Friday, September 11 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, September 12 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 18 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $22.00 OUR PRICE : $11.00 |
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Laff Spot Comedy Club : Spring Vince Morris speaks from the heart, giving him the most unique voice in comedy today. With his smooth charismatic style, Vince delivers passionate views on topics including ignorance, hip-hop, self-respect to being raised by a single father. Dates Available: Thursday, September 17 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 18 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 18 @ 10:30 PM FULL PRICE : $15.00 OUR PRICE : $7.50 |
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Barnevelder Arts Complex : Houston Evening begins to fall. Lamps are lit, a child walks outside with a saw, and two sisters in a broken-down house make a ham sandwich for their father who sits on a couch--tied and bagged. A small band of musicians chained in the dining room play waltzes, while birds at the windows watch and judge. Questions are asked. Stories told. But as light bulbs begin to fail, who will survive the night? Dates Available: Thursday, September 24 @ 8:00 PM Friday, September 25 @ 8:00 PM Saturday, September 26 @ 8:00 PM FULL PRICE : $13.00 OUR PRICE : $5.00 |
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