There were times during the bank fraud trial of Joe Russo when courtroom observers might have had trouble recognizing the man who, in the boom that fueled the giddy 1970s and...
The word "extreme" has become a press release staple in the past couple of years, as more and more bands try to push more and more envelopes of taste and musical stricture in...
It is gratifying to report that in the battle of the brewpubs now raging along Richmond Avenue's party strip, the home-team entry shows signs of being a winner. The Houston...
Peter Jackson might be the boldest English-language director working today -- or at least the boldest whose films are seen by almost no one. His latest effort, Heavenly...
thursday december 1 A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas This now ubiquitous holiday story was, when it apeared in 1843, the invention of Christmas as we know...
"But you see, I can't do any other work," observes Lulu Bett, a well-bred spinster confined to domesticity in small-town America, circa 1920. "That's the trouble. Women like me...
One hot day during the summer of 1992, David Rains wondered exactly what the hell he was doing driving back and forth every weekend from his home in Corpus Christi to the set...
The Wolfe Tones Monday, November 21 Stevens of Hollywood Dance Studio The Wolfe Tones, named for an 18th-century Irish nationalist, have spent the last three decades...
You might not have noticed it, but in the last six months, the leading ranks of American film directors has grown by one. John Dahl is the most exciting, stylish,...
Any way you slice it, FotoFest 1994 -- the biennial international photography event that filled the George R. Brown Convention Center from mid- to late November and is touted...
You may have missed it, but a small wire story buried in the November 12 edition of the Houston Chronicle reported that the Chicago Tribune had sent a "handful" of employees to...
The grownups are coming, the grownups are coming. For those members of our reading audience who aren't all atitter over the metaphoric bloodletting offered by the Unsane and...
Perhaps grasping for a little of the magic he found when directing Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman begins his Junior in the same way as his breakthrough film -- in a library with...
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center banned the sale of cigarettes back in the mid-1970s, becoming one of the first hospitals in the country to do so. The University of Texas-affiliated...
Adventures in LaLa Land... Those big-guitar-soundin', herb-worshippin', one-lovin' hip-rockers in Planet Shock! are back from their latest field trip to Los Angeles, and if...
At a time when most Houston Democrats are moping about with hangdog looks, an upbeat and preening John Whitmire is putting his favorite personal pronoun forward to potential...
Bad Billy The letter by Mavis P. Kelsey Jr. worshipping Billy Burge and his unselfish work to make his perfect bus system [Letters, November 10] is a direct insult to bus...
