Every year, it seems, Houston's chamber-of-commerce types wait anxiously for the Environmental Protection Agency to finish its annual study of just what city in the country has...
This was a magnificent year for R&B; and hip-hop -- that is, if you shunned commercial radio, corporate music magazines, MTV, BET and all other mainstream, hype-dolloping media...
"Rock and roll is like Mexican food. As it improves in quality it stops being what it is," wrote Dave Hickey in The Village Voice in 1975. I recall the quote to my tablemates...
Everything about Catch Me If You Can, the loosely based-on-fact tale of a teenager who swindled millions while posing as, among other things, a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a...
The summer between Harby Junior High and Alvin High was a long one for drill team dancer Jessica Manley. The "really, really, really bored" teenager spent a lot of time playing...
The biggest event to happen to television this year took place at the multiplex this summer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a one-woman show that has blossomed into a one-woman...
The trapeze that swung from the ceiling with naked men was taken down years ago. So were the pairs of underwear stripped from newcomers and left dangling on the upper...
How do you take your rock and roll: straight up or steeped in mythology? For some, part of the allure of rock and roll is the back story -- or at least the perceived back...
This New Age-flavored blather cracks me up," wrote former Press staffer Lisa Gray in an e-mail. She attached a recent news release about a new restaurant called Chef g's...
This is a tricky little movie to review, as it's going to divide audiences fairly drastically. Conservatives, especially black ones like Larry Elder and Ken Hamblin, will...
These days, if you're a rapper, it's likely you're also an actor. The crossover pioneered by Ice-T has become a rite of passage for rappers big and small, from local rhymer...
Wearing shoulder-length dreadlocks, size 12 1/2 EE tap shoes and a baggy hip-hop style, Savion Glover stomp-kicked his way into tap-dancing history with his performance and...
Several years ago the City of Houston decided to extend Avenida de las Americas by two blocks north to Minute Maid Park. But the historic, nearly 100-year-old Cohn House stood...
This was a yin-yang, yo-yo kind of year for Houston's music scene. It spun down, it bounced up -- and in the end everything came out as balanced as Lady Justice's scales. As...
The Nouvelle Po Boy ($12.45) at Angelika Cafe & Bar (501 Texas, 713-225-1609) does not come with assembly instructions. It would be helpful if it did, since only careful...
Based on the true story of three young aboriginal girls who walked 1,500 miles across the Australian outback to be reunited with their mothers, Rabbit-Proof Fence might well be...
Are you a lobster thermidor kind of person or a roast suckling pig sort? What you choose to grub on New Year's says a lot about you, so choose wisely. You could consume duck...
In Houston Ballet's version of The Nutcracker, Clara receives the gift that many little girls dream of: a pair of pink pointe shoes. She places first one foot and then the...
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters didn't put on a concert, network anchors were nowhere to be found, and a president named Bush didn't hail it as a momentous event, but Galveston...
"I don't really know how to put this, but I guess it's like Houston really kinda needed an enema," says local record-spinner Albert Rowan, better known as D.J. Bizz. "It needs...
