Thirty minutes after the Houston Rockets have disposed of the Golden State Warriors 134-102, basketball is a subject far from Vernon Maxwell's thoughts. The Houston Rockets'...
If you've been following the papers, you may already know about the flap caused by Houston rap group Trinity Garden Cartel's recent release of Don't Blame It on Da Music on...
It's a pleasant -- and all too rare -- surprise when a restaurant you'd written off acquires a new lease on life. Yet that is exactly what has come to pass at downtown's...
At first blush, Blue sounds terribly over-conceptualized. Most ominous is that this is the first in a movie trilogy by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. The second film is...
thursday may 12 Young Writers Reading Series Writers in the Schools, a nonprofit organization that sends real live writers around to teach children, allows kids to have...
Tom Topor's Nuts, currently in the final weekend of a briskly effective production at Actors Theatre, has an unpromising title that threatens run-of-the-mill farce. In fact,...
Late one Monday morning in March of last year, Michael Lee was tending his vegetable garden when a stranger appeared at his fence. The man identified himself as Neil Swenson,...
The Mike Gunn Almaron Double Naught If any band slouching around the Houston underground has made a ripple outside its home turf -- not counting the in-limbo Pain Teens...
Get the Halos When you see a phrase like "angel fish" on a menu, you figure it for marketing mumbo-jumbo, right? Well, out at Denis' Seafood -- one of the most compelling...
With the approach of 1997 -- the year that control of Hong Kong will turn over to China -- and with the success of John Woo's films, including his American-made Hard Target,...
Botany occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For eons it was the one field in which humankind had anything more than the vaguest of insights. Tropical...
When United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Houston honored restaurateur Ninfa Lorenzo with a dinner at the downtown Hyatt Regency last month, the organization got a little bit more...
By the sound of Sonic Youth's latest disk, New York's guitar-noise barrier busters have abandoned their skronk mandate for quieter avenues of snotty expression. But since...
How realistic a portrait of substance abuse can a movie give when it features perky beauty Meg Ryan playing an alcoholic? That's the question raised by When a Man Loves a...
My Model Story "Still Lives" [by Ann Walton Sieber, April 21] prompted me to write. I used to model for art classes and fine-art photographers when I lived in New York years...
Of the many rock-culture legacies left in the wake of the late Kurt Cobain, the most lastingly important may be neither his music nor his sad self-martyrdom. Because when...
