On a windy day in early November, Houston sculptor David Adickes is watching a handful of loyal volunteers from the city of Huntsville put the finishing touches to his mammoth...
Smile Smile Hail Damage Records This is the debut CD -- or digital demo, however you want to look at it -- from a Houston three-piece that's been playing the small club...
Now that Houston restaurant entrepreneur Ghulam Bombaywala has announced plans to spread his Marco's Mexican restaurants across the nation, it behooves us to ask what manner of...
There are two kinds of bad movies: actively bad and passively bad. An actively bad one can prove perversely enjoyable. You sit there gazing up at the screen, marveling at the...
thursday december 15 Rockets Those dastardly Los Angeles Lakers are back in town tonight, and if you're of a mind to recall the bleak days of the last decade when...
Noel Coward was no Eugene O'Neill, nor did he want to be. His witty urban dramas were meant to entertain, nothing much more, and at that they succeeded sparklingly well. But...
At a Salvadoran diner in Bellaire, where extravagant soccer trophies on the counter compete with photos of Salvadoran volcanos on the walls, a 45-year-old cook who calls...
There are bands that make fantastic albums, then can't seem to muster enough energy to so much as pick their noses during a live set (did the Cars ever make anyone's Top Ten...
Rejoice, all ye Chinese-food buffs: an early holiday present awaits you at Diho Square -- Houston's new center of gravity for serious Chinese dining -- where the Shanghai...
Drop Zone is an action movie with the requisite good guys and bad guys, zap and pow and ostensibly witty tough talk, and all of that ordinary action movie stuff is done well...
It's hardly news that advertisers take pleasure in a captive audience. And a prime target is the person waiting for a bus. Most who wait to get from one place to another...
Twenty-five years ago Gene Locke faced a different set of legal challenges than those he will inherit when he replaces Benjamin Hall III as Houston city attorney later this...
Sir Douglas Quintet Friday, December 2 The Fabulous Satellite Lounge The Sir Douglas Quintet, the band that taught the Beatles some chops, are back on the road. To their...
During her four years as a concierge at Houston's Ritz-Carlton, Kareen Eichmann was accustomed to receiving -- and was skilled at fulfilling -- requests for special favors from...
Late night thoughts (9:30 anyway) on watching last week's Billboard Music Awards on the tube... Everybody, I suppose, understands that the Billboard Music Awards are based on...
Houston filmmaker Eagle Pennell has done pretty well for himself in recent years. Working as an independent, he's managed to complete three films -- the well received Last...
Every Monday afternoon, the Houston Press staff convenes around a big ugly green table in a big room with ugly purple carpeting and commences with the weekly editorial meeting....
Peeling an Eye for Alison Is there any possibility of printing a picture of Alison Cook in an upcoming issue? I'm dying to put a face with the name I love to hate. What...
