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1 week ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing
The House cleared its historic hurdle early Thursday with a vote of 85 to 63 approving its version creating a $1 billion voucher school program. Democrats, who all voted against House Bill 3, were outnumbered by Republicans, only two of whom voted against the bill. Still to come: a conference committee negotiation to come to an agreement between the House and Senate versions.
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1 week ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing
The number of reported discipline cases as of March in Houston ISD has significantly decreased, except for a small uptick in expulsions (34 to 37), Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles reported Wednesday night. But gun possession cases went from 18 to 42 for a 133.33 percent increase — something that Miles said that will be countered, in part, the district's ongoing expansion of weapons detection systems in the schools.
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1 week ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing
When soprano Lauren Snouffer says playing Bess McNeill in the opera Breaking the Waves is "by far the most complicated role I've ever had to navigate," few people would say she's exaggerating. Set in Scotland in the 1970s, the three-act opera, based on the film of the same title by Lars von Trier, tells the story of Bess, a devout member of a Calvinist congregation known for its conservative and patriarchal views. Somehow, she is allowed to marry an outsider, Jan, an oil rig worker from Norway.
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1 week ago | 
houstonpress.com | Sam Byrd |Margaret Downing |Sean Pendergast
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press
It's the return of Waitress the musical to Houston, the story of expert pie maker and waitress Jenna trapped in an abusive marriage who sets her sights on fighting her way out of a sad life via a pie making contest with a $20,000 prize. It's a story of female entitlement and found family that ever since the 2007 movie written by Adrienne Shelly and the more recent stage version has found an eager audience across the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, as predicted, is delaying Houston’s Congressional District 18 race to November, blaming Harris County’s elections department for being the worst in the state. The governor issued a proclamation Monday afternoon announcing a special election on November 4 to fill the seat vacated by the late Congressman and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. “No county in Texas does a worse job of conducting elections than Harris County,” Abbott said in a public statement.
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press
It's probably not the last time we'll ever see actor Todd Waite on an Alley Theatre stage but it will be his final appearance as a company member when Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery opens in a few days. Once again playing Sherlock Holmes — a role he seems born to inhabit — Waite says this is a comfortable spot for him that has as much to do with the chance to repeatedly play the same character in any play.
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3 weeks ago | 
houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing
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