It started with her freshman-year midterms. Laura, a student at one of Houston's toniest private high schools, suddenly realized that her grades, in a word, sucked. It was her...
Dave Grohl didn't intend to fill a niche. Not really. When he released his first album as the Foo Fighters in 1995 -- a self-titled disc he calls "a demo tape that one person...
There is no polite way to suck a goat bone. And the goat korma masala at La Sani is served in the authentic fashion, bones and all. So at some point you have to pick one up...
Imagine a large, dead Saint Bernard with its bones removed. Then visualize a hefty bellows inserted into it from behind, with a gorilla hopping up and down on it, causing the...
"Poultry companies are like the Mafia, but a little more refined," says Sylvia Tomlinson, the author of Plucked and Burned, a fictionalized exposé of the chicken...
A few things learned from the memoirs of Marines who served in Gulf War I: They're more terrified of being killed by friendly fire than enemy artillery; they're bored brainless...
Although term-limited Lee Brown isn't going to be on the ballot in November, mayoral candidate Michael Berry is glomming onto the next best black thang in an attempt to scare...
How does one go about making an instrumental concept album about womankind? What does that do to a band? Dirty Three violinist and pianist Warren Ellis is almost as mute as the...
At The Rivendell Bar & Grille (920 Studemont, 713-564-3700), there is a magnificent mural of that mystical land of the same name from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings....
The Harry Potter phenomenon has aroused in publishers and studio heads alike a sudden new appreciation for our children's needs. These people understand that no consumer is...
Thursday, April 17 Opera darling Renée Fleming, who has two Grammys under her belt, says her breakout performance came here in Houston in 1988. Houston Grand Opera had a...
The gorgeous landscape of rural North Carolina, with its hidden back roads, lost graveyards and abandoned plantations, feels haunted. Its gothic setting seems fraught with...
On April 10, the Philadelphia Inquirer announced that -- after more than 100 years -- it will stop publishing its Sunday magazine section. A memo to the troops said the...
After 12 years in the business peppered with who knows how many No. 1 singles, reggae icon Buju Banton is still frustrated. Fondly known as the Gargamel, a name given to him by...
Better Luck Tomorrow, about Asian-American high schoolers making good grades but up to no good, arrives with the minor furor attendant a Sundance Film Fest fave. In this case,...
Almost every low-budget, independent feature in existence has its own story of production hell. Take The Marianao Kid, a movie that local film producer Teddy Hallaron and his...
A car on the road to Marfa bears the bumper sticker "I JUDD." Here in Texas, Donald Judd is widely known because of his Marfa outpost-turned-pilgrimage site. Almost ten years...
After six months of study, the T.H. Rogers playground issue has been settled, proving once and for all that Jeff Shadwick, trustee with the Houston Independent School District,...
With a second 420 festival planned for the weekend of April 19 and 20, Houston is rapidly earning itself a new nickname. With the old "Baghdad on the Bayou" falling from favor,...
The Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts 6 isn't a snooty film festival. "It's open to anyone with a camera," says Andrea Grover, Aurora's executive director. "It's...
