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"I'M SO HOUSTON I'm not from here," laughs performance poet, writer and educator Outspoken Bean, who was just named by Mayor Turner as Houston's new Poet Laureate, between sips of his particularly foamy chai tea latte on the patio of eclectic Third Ward coffee shop Doshi House. "And that's the most Houstonian thing."

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A NEW ACTION film premiering in select local theaters today gives several Texas locations the screen time they deserve. Narco Sub, produced by Houston-based attorney Derek Potts through his independent studio Deepwater Productions, tells the story of a retired submarine commander — played by hunky Houston-based geologist and actor Tom Vera in his feature-film debut — who is forced to pilot a cartel sub transporting a large shipment of cocaine in order to win the release of his kidnapped family. Parts of the film, which deals with a Colombian-based cartel, will feature scenes shot in Texas locales like Houston, Katy, Cotulla and Kemah.

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LEGENDARY NIGHTCLUB AND music venue Numbers, which has served as a bastion for Houston's underground culture and the prime stomping grounds for generations of counterculture-inclined Houstonians since its opening in 1978, is set to open its doors for the first time tonight in over a year.

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