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Sleeveless Chic: How to Go Back to Style This Summer

Sleeveless Chic: How to Go Back to Style This Summer

A spring look by Chanel

READY TO VENTURE back into the public eye? From happy-hour haute to glorified pajamas-gone-glam, our style guru collected five must-shop trends to revamp your style. Gone is the cold shoulder — the sleeveless trend is as hot as it gets! Vaccine-ready shoulder-baring blouses, tees and tanks by designers from Balmain to Retrofete can be dressed up or down. And as denim and trouser rises get higher, so does the crop.

Paisley-print canvas top, $790, by Gucci

Viscose top, $298, by The SEI

Cropped denim top, $1,095, by Balmain

Padded-shoulder French cherry top, $225, by Philip Lim

Étoile Filante earrings, $15,259, by Chanel

Handbag, $350, by Coach

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Developed by Alley Theatre, Hit Broadway Play Comes Home to Houston

Lynn Lane

Zachary Fine as Larry Sultan, with Susan Koozin as Jean and Todd Waite as Irving in Alley Theatre's production of 'Pictures from Home'

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, AND the sometimes-fraught dynamic between fathers and sons, is the subject of Pictures from Home, a poignant and humorous “memory play” written by Sharr White based on photographer Larry Sultan’s 1992 photo memoir of the same name.

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A Self-Taught Artist Hangs a Solo Show to Inspire Everyone

'Lady in Waiting' and a detail of 'Blue Abstract'

WHAT IF ANYONE could be an artist? Or, to put it another way, what if the tools of creativity — regardless of the medium, be it dance, writing, music or visual art — were accessible to all of us, and more often than not, simply lay dormant due to circumstance, socio-economic challenges, and self-doubt?

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