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Feature
When what should be one of the happiest moments in your life becomes an ongoing nightmare -- and you're not only living it, you're living in it
By Brad Tyer
No way is John Cobarruvius going to even think about selling his home.
The location is good, for one thing, anchored near the bulb end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Clear Lake...
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Music
Tosca takes up arms against a watered-down craze. Its secret weapon? Tango.
By Hobart Rowland
The noise from the Orchid Lounge stage sounds suspiciously like tuning in an orchestra pit. On the dance floor, a handful of couples practice their steps. One graying twosome...
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Cafe
By Margaret L. Briggs
Just the name of this appetizer is enough to restore the twinkle to your eye: Vuelve a la Vida! While the menu at Rudy & Paco's (2028 Postoffice Street, Galveston, (409)...
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Film
Clichs are the real killers in the anemic action film Vampires
By Mark V. Moorhead
When Montoya, one of the fearless vampire killers in John Carpenter's Vampires, tells another character that nobody believes in the title creatures because nobody wants to,...
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Night & Day
October 29 - November 4, 1998
By Lauren Kern
Thursday
October 29
True or false: Holocaust atrocities were committed by Nazi Party members, SS men and those they coerced. Not so fast. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Harvard...
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Theater
By Lee Williams
If you're looking for an interesting Halloween evening, consider starting off the ghoulish night with a trek into the bowels of Houston's warehouse district. Infernal...
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Feature
With help from Democrats Pete Laney and Bob Bullock, Bush has been a Republican governor Texans love. But who'll be his pals if he sets his sights on the presidency?
By Stuart Eskenazi
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Easygoing George W. Bush
With help from Democrats Pete Laney and Bob Bullock, Bush has been a Republican governor Texans love. But who'll be his pals if he sets his...
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Music
By David Simutis
Think of industrial Bozo Porno Circus as horny exhibitionists given free rein to act on their sexual/musical urges in public. On stage at a Bozo show, female dancers in bondage...
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Cafe
The Original Tila's isn't the same as the original Tila's. It's good anyway.
By Margaret L. Briggs
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Of Time and Tila's
The Original Tila's isn't the same as the original Tila's. It's good anyway.
By Margaret L. Briggs
Once upon a time, in the waning of the 1980s, a very...
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Film
Chaplinesque Life uses humor against Holocaust horrors
By Mark V. Moorhead
In 1994's The Monster (Il mostro), his most recent film to gain wide American release, the Italian writer/director/star Roberto Benigni put himself at the center of a...
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Night & Day
By David Simutis
Marilyn Manson's primary talent seems to be pushing people's buttons. With his earlier work, he went out of his way for shock value, mixing imagery of serial killers, bondage...
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Theater
Julie Taymor's Flying Dutchman isn't perfect -- but parts are awfully good
By Lauren Kern
"I can listen to the music in my home and imagine the most amazing imagery," Tony Award-winning Lion King puppeteer Julie Taymor told the Los Angeles Times in 1995, when her...
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News
Civic, school and business leaders unite to try to pass a massive HISD bond election
By Richard Connelly
Just two years ago, voters soundly rejected a $390 million bond proposal from the Houston Independent School District, with potential supporters being understandably unmoved by...
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Music
By Hobart Rowland
Initially, the concept seemed a little odd: booking local underground bands at an infamous all-nude nightclub. But when you think about it, the idea of a punk night at the Pink...
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Cafe
By Margaret L. Briggs
Bilbo Bags It? No, But the Hobbit Has a New Hole
News of the Hobbit Hole's unexpected August closing had Montrose health nuts shaking in their Birkenstocks. After all, the...
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Film
By Paul Cullum
The Lone Star State supplies an extremely unlikely subject for a documentary -- Hands On a Hard Body -- that develops into one of those Zen parables that can be found all...
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Night & Day
By Shaila Dewan
A bad boxing match either ends too quickly or, like a midlist porno movie, stretches on into tedious monotony. It's hard to hit it somewhere between those two extremes, but...
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Theater
Boys mark gay life of 30 years ago
By Lee Williams
The Boys in the Band, one of the first popular modern-day plays about gay life, opened in New York City in April 1968. To celebrate the play's 30th anniversary, New Heights...
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Letters
A Big Deal
While it is true that throughout James DeAtley's reign as U.S. attorney, his office has tended to make a federal case out of often petty offenses, he has applied...
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Music
By Hobart Rowland
The color of money... Anyone waiting for front-row seats to Gulf Coast hip-hop's final showing might want to take a number: Master P's No Limit label empire is expanding like a...
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