2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
The Vans Warped Tour has been punk-rock summer camp since 1994. Camp will be in session Sunday at Sam Houston Race Park, 7575 N. Sam Houston Pkwy West. This year the tour continues to blend genres, booking acts from ska to electronica. The Warped Tour has been on the road every summer since 1994 and began as a hybrid of skateboarding demos and punk-rock music. (0) comments
Most Americans scoff at the very idea of watching a foreign film and avoid doing so at any cost. Foreign films are such a rarity for mainstream American movie-watchers it's easy to forget that the motion picture today is not entirely our invention. When Auguste and Louis Lumière presented the first motion picture projection at Paris' Grand Cafe in December 1895, cinema as we know it was born. (0) comments
Performance art, sculptures, assemblage, video installations and paintings collectively create the NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, on view at The Menil Collection. NeoHooDoo celebrates ritual as a form of artistic expression and further comments on the role of spirituality in contemporary art. (0) comments