1) Ignore scientific consultants. In 1983, The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority hired Los Angeles-based engineering consultants Dames & Moore to conduct a...
Rave and wave-offs, summer edition... Let me preface this selective rundown of the latest crop of local releases by clearing the air a bit: No, we will not be doubling our...
Stranger Than Sushi The president of the Benihana Japanese steak-house chain was recently in Houston not only to check out the newest Benihana in Sugar Land (2579 Town...
The first shot in Steven Spielberg's remarkable World War II epic Saving Private Ryan is an American flag with the sun behind it. It's a delicate, almost diaphanous image --...
Thursday July 23 The works in "Judye Williams: Flying Pies and Cowgirls" call to mind Leslie Caron's famous retort to the offended censors regarding her hip-gyrating fox...
Phillip Duggins, Masquerade Theatre's founder and producer, has lots of chutzpah -- you have to give him that. How else can you explain the audacity this tiny, aspiring theater...
In the stark, wild west landscape of the Trans-Pecos region, a rancher and a baker kick up dust in the bottom of a trench 32 feet deep, 210 feet wide and 400 feet long. The...
While it's true that the B-52's did return to the studio for a while, plans for a full-length CD of fresh material never panned out. Instead, the band has joined fellow...
It's not true, as some have suggested, that I grew up eating steak and kidney pie. What I did grow up eating was another pub-grub mainstay, the so-called ploughman's lunch. I...
In the 1997 book The Conquest of Cool, author Thomas Frank mischievously labels the consumer sway from the 1950s through the present as a swift shift from square to hip. Frank...
Transportation considerations were not paramount in the search for a dump site. The major generators of nuclear waste in Texas are concentrated in the eastern half of the...
Billy Blues shares top billing (so to speak) in a new cable access show covering the genre's primo talent as they rip it up live at the Richmond Strip nightclub. Self-described...
Yes, I admit it, I'm gullible, but when a restaurant calls itself Amazon 2050 A.D., I expect rain forest, chattering monkeys, tree frogs, brilliantly colored butterflies and,...
The first thing you should know about handyman Lucky Striche (that's "Strike") is that he isn't -- very lucky, that is, at least when it comes to money and love. Then there's...
Vanessa and Dr. William Blackstone were eating breakfast in late April when they saw something rather odd out their window. As Vanessa Blackstone recalls: "We saw two people...
On this cold, rainy day in Germany, Canadian chanteuse Holly Cole couldn't be farther from Texas, which may explain why she's particularly interested in the local weather when...
Ad Litem Alibi? Harris County juvenile court judge and Texas Protective and Regulatory Services (TPRS) officials are on a collision course with regard to the judge's tactics...
Dave Alvin Blackjack David Hightone Some things get better with time and age -- like fine wine and Dave Alvin. As the chief guitarist and songwriter for the Blasters,...
Parents' Thanks Thank you for your story ["Two Bullets in the Back, by Randall Patterson, July 9]. You captured the tragedy and absurdity of the events of July 15, 1995. You...
Everyone is trying to get a smile out of Brian Wilson. He's nearing the end of a photo session, sitting on a stool in the spacious, cluttered garage of his Los Angeles home,...
