A handful of reporters, photographers, trial groupies and lawyers milled around in front of the downtown federal building in the sullen, hazy heat of a late Thursday afternoon...
Whimpers from a dead Planet... The message was rambling, one poor schmuck's attempt to make sense of circumstances beyond his control. When Dave Summers, former late-night jock...
A funny thing happened on the way to Sabine. Just as I'd reached the restaurant, the door was thrown open suddenly and the chef, one hand clutching his toque, raced past me and...
The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey, is the zeitgeist movie of the hour. How could it not be? It's all about the omnipotence of television and how our lives seem scripted by...
Thursday June 4 The French poet Alfred de Musset described the title character of Abbe Prevost's novel Manon Lescaut as an "[a]stonishing sphinx! A true siren! A thrice...
The Music Hall will soon be nothing more than crumbled concrete, but its demise hardly means the death of the musical comedy in Houston. Besides the slew of traveling shows...
For two years, supervisors at Houston-based Tex-Co International kept a file on a client that was simply marked "AL." AL was a great customer, with plenty of hard cash and a...
According to country music's critics, ever since Billy Ray Cyrus broke through in the early '90s, looks are more important than talent. Indeed, from most perspectives,...
Sites from the Scene A recent surfing survey of Houston restaurants on the Internet left me with the depressing conviction that most of our local eateries just don't get...
Call it "Neilism": the unblinking acceptance of just about anything Neil Young does, just because it's him doing it. The far-too-cozy alleged documentary Year of the Horse is...
Tennessee Williams wrote Not About Nightingales in 1938, but it never made it to the stage. Sixty years later, the play is finally getting the attention it deserves. Following...
In the grand tradition of confined artists such as John Wayne Gacey and Elmer Wayne Henley, the Art League of Houston presents "The Prison Show: Art from Inside: Out" -- an...
From the Friday, May 29, letters to the editor section of the Austin American-Statesman: Clarifying Some Errors I always enjoy the American-Statesman and admire the good...
Natalie Merchant Ophelia Elektra Don't be fooled by the perky, provocative "na, na, na"s and pillowy backbeat of "Kind and Generous," the first single from Natalie...
Boy, but they're clean at Cafe Latina (1972 Fairview, 528-8304). Before you're allowed to sit at one of the spotless tables, don't be surprised if they insist on giving it a...
Most people associate the disco era with hedonism, homosexuality, a sense of community, tacky fashions and awful music. But in The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman imagines...
David's in oil and gas. Clair's an actress at the Alley. Their daughter, Rebecca, is at MIT, but returns frequently to use her whiz-bang remote-control commode -- who...
Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio is pretty smooth turning a double play, but when it comes to sports-related slickness, he's a bush-leaguer compared to the Harris...
Securing the rights to release live concerts by top-name rock acts is a daunting process. As a result, current King Biscuit releases are generally by second- and third-tier...
Last week, the Houston Press cast its vote in favor of downtown development by moving its offices to a historic building on the corner of Milam and Pease. The newly christened...
