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Port Arthur blueswoman comes home a legend
Becky Barksdale. Photo courtesy of the artist *Story by Dan Wallach For all the time Becky Barksdale has spent as a professional musician — which is most of her adult life — she’s never played a gig...
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Hot Pick: Gnomeo & Juliet at Southeast Texas Ties To Film
Neighboring gardens of Montague and Capulet are at war, and two feisty lawn gnomes — Gnomeo and Juliet, naturally — have to fight for their gnome love. You may have seen 2011’s “Gnomeo & Juliet,”...
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Hot Pick: UGK exhibit unveiling
Beth Rankin/cat5 We’re happy to see Port Arthur finally so excited about hometown heroes UGK — short for Underground Kingz — the iconic hip hop duo of Bernard “Bun B” Freeman and the late Chad “Pimp C”...
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Local art openings bring color to 2013
James Elhers, Death Walks Into a Bar, 2012, part of the Modern Impulses & Surreal Dreams show at the Dishman Art Museum This time of year is a busy one in the local art scene — local galleries and...
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Hot Pick: The Texas Pop Festival Revisited
Catch a set from the Jazz Innovators while you peruse a collection of objects and images from artists who performed at the Texas Pop Festival, a 1960s fest that featured beloved local legends like...
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Hot Pick: “Living with the Atomic Bomb” at Museum of the Gulf Coast
Living with the Atomic Bomb After the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we entered the Atomic Age, a time when American media, film and even household objects were flooded with...
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Hot Pick: “Voyage to Vietnam”
This exhibition of Vietnam War-era graffiti — salvaged from a troop ship’s bunk canvases — will make for a memorable show opening this weekend at the Museum of the Gulf Coast. When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m....
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Cat5’s Fall Fest & Culture Guide, Vol. 2: Arts & Culture
2015 Fall Fest &Culture Guide: Arts We may not have crisp Autumn mornings, changing leaves or even that much sweater weather, but around here, fall does have one big thing going for it: There is a...
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“Sweet Jones: Pimp C’s Trill Life Story” book signing comes to Port Arthur
UGK At 700 pages, author Julia Beverly’s book “Sweet Jones: Pimp C’s Trill Life Story” is a comprehensive and fascinating look at the rise of Port Arthur rap duo UGK – and the untimely death of Pimp C...
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Exhibit chronicles history of betting, booze and brothels
Photo provided by the Museum of the Gulf Coast Southeast Texas has a deep history of lawlessness. For more than 100 years, the area was home to gambling, bootlegging and brothels. Corrupt police and...
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