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The Art House is Back: Welcome to Houston, Sundance!

December 4, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Houston has had a fractured relationship with art house cinema. At our best, we had three theatres to choose from: Greenway Cinema, River Oaks Cinema, or the Angelika. After Greenway closed and the Angelika could not renegotiate their lease with the owners of Bayou Place, it closed, as well. Much to my dismay, River Oaks’ selection of films has only deteriorated since all of these changes, with fewer and fewer films and keeping them for longer and longer periods of […]

Categories: movies • Tags: art films, Art movies houston, movies houston, Sundance Cinemas

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To bag or not to bag: Neiman Marcus accepts peasant cards

November 29, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

When I am feeling highly optimistic, I hit Neiman Marcus where everything fashionable seems possible. From old lady glamour to funky minimal art snob and nouveau old-school sophisticate, I <heart> Neiman Marcus but not because I have bought a ton of stuff there. In fact, I have only purchased two items from NM, and that was this fall for a birthday present. My earliest experience with NM was when my grandmother would take me there to look at (over-priced) children’s […]

Categories: thoughts • Tags: expensive goods on budget, Neiman Marcus, Neiman Marcus accepts Visa, shopping with cash

T-Day: Thankful that I’m neither Emma Bovary or Bella Cullen

November 23, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

I just finished watching Madame Bovary. I have read the Gustave Flaubert novel twice — once as a teenager, having much compassion for a young girl trapped in pastoral solitude and then again as adult, confounded by the interconnection between fate and desire. If you’re not familiar with the fate of Emma Bovary, here is a quick summary. Emma was educated in a convent in Latin, music, art, etc so so she be a proper gentlemen’s wife. Once her education was […]

Categories: thoughts • Tags: Bella Cullen, Madame Bovary

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Why does Tuberculosis make such good music? A deconstruction of La Boheme

November 22, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

In honor of my on-going, dramatic, hacking cough that makes me sound more like a dying opera character than a girl who is ready to go salsa dancing at a moment’s notice, I offer you a round about of Puccini’s La Boheme, whose Mimi dies of TB in one of the world’s most popular operas. La Boheme premiered in 1896 in Turin by Toscanini and has been played a zillion times around the world. Seriously. A zillion. But even after […]

Categories: dance | theatre | music • Tags: Angela Gheroghui, Ewan McGregor, La Boheme, Moulin Rouge, Nicole Kidman, Puccini, Rent, Roberto Alagna, Rosario Dawson

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More stuff than I could possibly buy: Spacetaker’s Winter Holiday Art Market

November 20, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

It’s not too late to head over to the Winter Street Holiday Art Market – open today from 11:00 – 4:00. Went there last night as part of Art Crawl Houston and it was shopping nirvana. In my challenge to buy work appropriate clothes at White House Black Market that don’t make me feel old, I forget that there are TONS of local artisans ready to create something unique to insert into my bland professional attire. From jewelry to bags, […]

Categories: fashion • Tags: b.bags, Frilled and Feathered, georgina key, Hello-Lucky, Houston local designers, Winter Holiday Art Market

Do “Stupid” People Have More Fun? Twilight Breaking Dawn

November 19, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

I am not a Twilight fan. In fact, I went to see Twilight with LL and it was the single most horrible movie I had ever seen. You remember the scene where Edward and Bella are all golden glittery holding hands in a meadow full of lilacs? I was cracking up thinking, people like this? I have never had that much dramatic music erupt while I was holding anyone’s hand, not even MB when I was 18. But given the […]

Categories: movies • Tags: Breaking Dawn, Twilight

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Viva la revolucion pero con banos! Occupy Wall Street kicked out of Park

November 16, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

There is a fine line between protest and occupation, liberation and tyranny and that is why Occupy Wall Street continues to be a mystery to me. Hence the Delacroix, above. In the past day, Mayor Bloomberg has evicted Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan. Here is my question — was he right to do this? Political ideologies notwithstanding, it’s interesting to think about this action in relation to the distinction between public and private spaces. Zuccotti Park […]

Categories: thoughts • Tags: Occupy Wall Street

Art Crawl Houston this Saturday: Examiner.com

November 15, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

So, I just got a gig writing about Contemporary Art for Examiner.com and although it is not The New Yorker, it does confirm to my father that someone other than people who love me and are forced to endure my writing might actually find me interesting. Yes, it’s hard for me to imagine, as well. Similar to what I am writing here, I will be publishing previews and reviews of cool things that are happening in Houston with a particular […]

Categories: art

You’ve Ruined Me, Norah Jones! Music Monday

November 14, 2011 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Hands down, Norah Jones’ “The Fall” is my musical soundtrack this week. Autumnal, sultry, and moody, the album’s music and lyrics reek of heartache and longing. Here is “Back to Manhattan” “You’ve Ruined Me” “I Wouldn’t Need You” And, finally, “Tell Yer Mama”

Categories: dance | theatre | music • Tags: Norah Jones

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