Attorney-at-law Brad Kizzia is hardly able to contain himself. Punching his phone to put the caller on hold -- in mid-conversation -- he sputters excitedly to a visitor in his...
When Keith Richards finally got around to starting a band, he was regarded as a blatant and cheap imitator of Chuck Berry. "I used to slavishly copy Chuck Berry," Richards...
Nit Noi Thai restaurant's gracious atmosphere is so charming, it's easy to become a member of the restaurant's "family," a customer who returns often to exchange pleasantries...
Thanks to an occassional entry in the old Worldfest film festival, we knew that Iran was why past tense? in a surprising filmmaking boom. The surprise comes in part because of...
Thursday December 2 John Mooney Testimoney is Mooney's latest effort on Viceroy Records, and it's the final nail in the coffin of anyone who claims there's a more...
Mercy killing as madcap mayhem. Corpses hidden, moved, buried and discovered like dogs at the bone. Insanity brushed aside as the eccentricity of personality. Sweet old sisters...
"They got the kids and we got the house," said Jay Jacobson, director of the Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, as he recently assessed the often bitter...
Blame it on Bloodfart (they won't care), but the '80s revival has hit Houston -- for better or worse -- with a vengeance. De Schmog vocalist Diane Koistenen says she spent the...
Imagine Robin Williams playing a character who crossdresses as a 60-ish woman so that he can get a job as nanny to his children, whom he misses dreadfully, now that he's...
I was attracted to Telephone Road by its comfortable human scale and sense of place. In 1990, I began to come here with my camera to catch the remnants of a Houston that...
Since the public seems ready to accept Oliver Stone's quirky version of November 22 events as history, we figured there was no one better to discuss assassination theory with...
A British dance band called Beautiful People recently released a full-length CD called If 60's Were 90's, and if the title's question causes a tiny back-of-the-throat...
What with Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs stomping through Jurassic Park, Roger Corman's got left behind in the prehistoric shuffle. That�s right, the king of B movies -- auteur...
Nature is an active force in the South. Indigenous live oaks, Spanish moss and the ever-present kudzu flourish. Snakes, possums and raccoons populate the countryside. The...
Everybody who grew up in Houston loves Hermann Park, based on a childhood memory of going to the zoo, to Miller Outdoor Theatre, to family picnics in the Shelter. Everyone...
The mysterious symbiotic relationship between identical twins is penetratingly rendered in Christa Ritter and Rainer Langhans' documentary, The Heavenly Twins. Gisela and Jutta...
Politicians are usually at their most pernicious when they're spouting homespun homilies for C-SPAN. So you knew the republic was in danger when, during the October 20 Senate...
There's not much new in Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema, a feature-length program of six short gay films. In mostly uninspired ways, it rehashes general aspects of gay life...
Crash and Learn Responding angrily to music criticism because of differing opinions seems a ridiculous waste of breath and bile. But I feel that Brad Tyer did Crash Worship...
