Past Articles by kuhf staff
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Celebrate the spirit of Hanukkah with NPR's perennial favorite, Hanukkah Lights, a collection of stories and memoirs from acclaimed writers written expressly for the show and read by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz. Thursday at 8pm on KUHF. |
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NPR Music Staff has already weighed in on their favorite music of 2010. Now it's time for listeners like you to have a say. Vote for your favorite albums of 2010. You can chose up to ten. If you don't see your favorite listed, tell us what it is in the comments section. Voting is open to the public until Dec. 13. All Songs Considered will reveal the rankings on Dec. 14. |
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TSA Protests Turn Out to be All Talk Airports across the country braced for the holiday rush this Thanksgiving weekend, as well as protestor backlash against TSA screening measures. As travelers at Houston's largest airport found out, all that worry was for nothing. Laurie Johnson reports. |
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Longwood Elementary Does the Work for Santa If you're a parent, you may be wondering what to get your child this holiday season. Ten-year-old students at HISD's Longfellow Elementary held their own news conference to announce this year's most-wanted gifts. From the KUHF NewsLab, Wendy Siegle reports. |
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KUHF and Fox Searchlight present a preview screening of 127 Hours on Thursday, November 18th at 8:00 PM in the Edwards Grand Palace. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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Houston Grand Opera Broadcasts Tune in to KUHF on tonight, October 21 at 8pm to hear the Houston Grand Opera production of Puccini's Tosca from last season starring Patricia Racette in her role debut as Floria Tosca. Even more, HGO continues its partnership with WFMT Radio Network to broadcast 6 more productions from the 2009-2010 season. You can hear the series on KUHF, Saturdays at noon beginning November 6 with Wagner's Lohengrin. |
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UH Geologists: Northwest 'Burbs Still Sinking Parts of northwestern Harris County are sinking at an unusual rate. Now a study from geologists at the University of Houston reveals that some points in Jersey Village are subsiding by more than two inches a year. |
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Early voting in Texas begins on Monday as elections observers keep an interested eye on how things work in Harris County. As Wendy Siegle reports, a fire earlier this year that destroyed thousands of electronic voting machines hasn't thrown off preparations for this election. |
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KUHF and Warner Brothers Pictures present a preview screening of Hereafter on Monday, October 18th at 7:30 PM in the Edwards Grand Palace. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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Universal Breakfast Works Best in Classrooms An increasing number of school districts in the greater Houston area are providing universal breakfasts for students. Although it is free for all kids regardless of family income, the majority of students opt not to take advantage of the complimentary meal. But this changes in schools that offer breakfast in the classroom. Wendy Siegle has more. |
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Opening Night: A Vienna Soirée Escape to an evening in Vienna as KUHF broadcasts the Houston Symphony's 2010 opening night concert, Vienna Soirée. Maestro Hans Graf will lead the orchestra in a program which will feature two selections that will capture the sounds of Vienna — Mozart's Sinfonia concertante featuring the newly-appointed concertmaster, Frank Huang and Strauss' Blue Danube. Airs on 88.7FM on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 7:30pm. |
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"The Disappearance of Alice Creed" Preview Screening KUHF and Anchor Bay Films present a preview screening of The Disappearance of Alice Creed on Wednesday, August 4th at 7:30 PM in the Angelika Film Center. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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Funnel Cloud Spotted Outside KUHF Newsroom Due to the rainy weather today, several funnel clouds could be seen forming outside of the KUHF Newsroom. Our Health, Science and Technology Reporter Carrie Feibel was quick enough with the camera to capture some video. |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curators Joan Troccoli and Emily Neff take us back to America's Wild West with a tour of the exhibition, The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. |
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"The Kids Are All Right" Preview Screening KUHF and Focus Features present a preview screening of The Kids Are All Right on Tuesday, July 13th at 7:30 PM in the AMC Studio 30 on Dunvale. Tickets are available at House of Coffee Beans on Bissonnet. |
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Remembering Traffic Service Pioneer Marty Ambrose Houston traffic reporting pioneer and former KUHF traffic voice Marty Ambrose has died after a short battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Ambrose was 69 years old. He was known as the dean of Houston traffic reporting, with almost four decades on the air here in Houston, most recently as KUHF's afternoon traffic anchor. |
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The Front Row - Texas Music Festival We preview Summer Fantasies, tonight's final Faculty Chamber Recital of the 2010 Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston. Curator Rob Smith and five of the participating artists chat about and perform selections by composers Camille Saint-Saens and Paul Stanhope, excerpted from their concert program that explores aspects of fantasy, ranging from magic to Elvis Presley... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Two of the Houston Symphony’s principal players, trumpeter Mark Hughes and clarinetist David Peck, chat with us about what it takes to win the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. They were two of the Symphony members who served as judges in the first round of this year’s competition, which wraps up with its Finals Concert, Saturday evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Classical Minds Guitar Institute Houston guitarist Valerie Hartzell and classically-trained singer-songwriter Jennifer Grassman share solo guitar pieces and original songs, previewing the joint recital that they'll present tomorrow night at the University of Houston, benefitting this year's Classical Minds Guitar Institute, associated with the Texas Music Festival... |
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"Gangsters Paradise: Jerusalema" Preview Screening KUHF and Anchor Bay Films present a preview screening of Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema on Thursday, June 10th at 7:30 PM in the Angelika Film Center. Tickets are available at House of Coffee Beans on Bissonnet. |
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The Front Row - 48 Hour Film Project Producer, Laura Schlecht, and film-maker Wayne Slaten of Fire Pig Productions, chat about The 48-Hour Film Project, the world’s biggest movie-making competition, which this year visits 90 cities world-wide, including Houston, and challenges teams to complete an entire film in a mere two days... |
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The Front Row - Apollo Chamber Players The Apollo Chamber Players perform live in KUHF's Ceary Performance Studio. They treat us to a movement from Dvorak’s Piano Quintet and an arrangement of a Greek Folk Melody, both pieces excerpted from their next concert, Apollo Travels the Globe... |
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The Front Row - Houston Metropolitan Dance Company Members of the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company steam up the windows of our studios, as we hear about Sizzling Summer Dance. Managing Director Marlana Walsh-Doyle and choreographer Jhon R. Stronks describe the evening of contemporary dance that they'll present tomorrow at Miller Outdoor Theatre... |
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The Front Row - River Oaks Bookstore Former Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas reads selections from The Skin of Light... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Two of the Houston Symphony’s principal players, trumpeter Mark Hughes and clarinetist David Peck, chat with us about what it takes to win the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition! Hughes and Peck were two of the Symphony members who served as judges in the first round of this year’s competition, which wraps up with its Finals Concert, Saturday evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curators, Barry Walker of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Jeremy Lewison, advisor to the Alice Neel estate, introduce us to the work of Ms. Neel, an indomitable twentieth-century portrait painter who captured the character of her times and the diversity of life in New York City over the course of her career... |
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Jazz keyboard master, Bobby Lyle, gets together in KUHF’s George Geary Studio with local favorites, saxophonist Woody Witt, guitarist Mike Wheeler and drummer Sebastian Whittaker for a live set, previewing this weekend’s performances at Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Broadway Across America We chat with performer Cory English, who plays Igor the lovable but inept lab assistant, in the national tour of Mel Brooks musical-theater adaptation of his classic horror-film spoof, Young Frankenstein, now in the final week of its run at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition Today, we introduce you to an artist who is generating great excitement in Europe but who generally has not yet been discovered by American audiences. French counter-tenor, Philippe Jaroussky was just named Opera Singer of the Year in France for the second time and we spend the hour discussing his musical development and the repertoire that he specializes in... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition We spend our hour with a musical native son. Houston-born flutist Hubert Laws is one of the few musicians who are equally at home in the classical, jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops The Houston Symphony’s Principal Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, talks about Cirque de la Symphonie, this weekend’s Jones Hall concerts that combine exhilarating classical favorites with the daring feats of live aerial artists, strongmen and a hand-balancer... |
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The Front Row - Chorus Angelorum Scottish organist Ruaraidh Sutherland and Musical Director Ed Franklin chat about two performances coming up this weekend at Our Lady of Walsingham Anglican Rite Catholic Church, a solo organ recital by Mister Sutherland, and A Choral Tribute to English composer, Herbert Howells, featuring Chorus Angelorum... |
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The Front Row - Restoration Chamber Players We welcome to KUHF's Geary Performance Studio the Houston Symphony's new concertmaster, Frank Huang. He is joined by colleagues from Restoration Chamber Music, a summer recital series that pairs innovative programs of pieces for small ensembles with historic Galveston buildings. Our guests play Beethoven and Chopin, previewing the "Living Room Concert" they'll give Saturday evening at the Moody Mansion... |
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We chat with former aspiring actress, stripper and call-girl, Jillian Lauren, whose new book, Some Girls, tells poetically and with psychological insight, the story of how she became a member of the harem of the Prince of the Southeast-Asian island nation of Brunei... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We explore Dallas artist Ann Wood’s site-specific installation at the Lawndale Art Center. While aware and appreciative of nature in this post-Katrina and post-Ike world, the piece, Spoiler, also pays attention to the eat-or-be-eaten dynamic of the food chain and the dangers that can loom in seemingly innocent situations - those natural occurrences that can ruin your whole day... |
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Today, we find about the Alley's world-premiere production of Keeneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave The play tells the true story of Curt Herzstark, a WWII concentration camp prisoner who was kept alive by the Nazis because he had designed the world’s first hand-held four-function calculator... |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book We visit with Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, John Camp, who, under his pen name of John Sandford, has just published Storm Prey, the 20th of his crime thrillers that details the latest adventures of the ruthless and irreverent special investigator, Lucas Davenport... |
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In collusion with those daring imposters, The Yes Men, we propose outlandish solutions to various technological, societal and political problems while poking holes in the assumptions of corporate and governmental thinking. The exploits of The Yes Men are the subject of the current exhibition at DiverseWorks... |
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The Front Row - Zoya Shuhatovich Russian-born Houston pianist, Zoya Shuhatovich, shares tracks from her brand-new CD, recorded in KUHF’s Geary Performance Studio; it contains Ms. Shuhatovoch’s latest interpretations of pieces by Schubert, Chopin and Mussorgsky... |
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We take a look at the one remaining FotoFest-associated exhibition that’s still up and available for viewing: Talento Bilingüe de Houston presents Opus Autonomía: Latino Photography of Houston... |
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The Front Row - American Harp Society We hear harpist Paul Page in recital with colleagues from the Houston Symphony. She'll be joining her friends from the orchestra once again for a recital of music for harp , flute and viola... |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet Former prima ballerina, Merrill Ashley, the artist known as “George Balanchine’s Muse,” describes the process of re-staging a piece Mr. Balanchine created for her. Ballo della Regina - The Queen’s Ball is part of Houston Ballet’s Spring Mixed-Repertory Program, which opens Thursday at the Wortham Center... |
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Former Houstonian, jazz diva, Kellye Gray, performs live for us, previewing her sets tonight and tomorrow evening at the Montrose-area jazz club, Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Indo-American Association We have a studio performance by two dancers who come from completely different cultural traditions, but who have discovered that they share a profound spiritual and aesthetic connection through their art. Pandit Chitresh Das, master of the classical style of Indian dance called “Kathak”, and Jason Samuels Smith, known as “The World’s Fastest Tap-Dancer” trade steps and rhythms, just as they’ll be doing in their live stage show, India Jazz Suites, tonight at the Wortham Center.. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today we chat with Houston Symphony Music Director, Hans Graf, and one of the world’s great pianists, Garrick Ohlsson about this weekend’s Houston Symphony Classical Series Concerts, which conclude the Orchestra’s season with two blockbuster pieces: Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring... |
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The Front Row - Divas World Productions Composer Beverly Grigsby and tenor Kenneth Gayle (pictured) share portions of Dr. Grigsby’s chamber opera, Fragments from Augustine the Saint, which Gayle will perform tonight and tomorrow evening at the Rothko Chapel... |
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The Front Row - Unhinged Productions Joe Angel Babb, the Artistic Director of Unhinged Productions, and actress Jay Mays talk about Uncivil Unions, Babb’s original piece based on the life-experiences of real people who offer their perspectives on the national debate over the issue of same-sex marriage... |
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The Front Row - United Nations Association International Choir Eric Esparza, and members of the United Nations Association International Choir perform for us, previewing their spring concert, WorldSong, which includes sacred and secular works from each of the planet’s six inhabited continents... |
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The Front Row - The Art Music Collective Singers from The Art Music Collective perform for us! They’re joined by producer Richard White, who introduces us to this new group of professional vocalists and their debut concert, a pre-Memorial Day tribute, scheduled for this Saturday evening at Saint Matthew’s United Methodist Church... |
