The problems start when Demi Marx breaks a nail. She's pulling a pink fishnet blouse over her bare breasts when the material snags a French tip and the sucker drops to the...
There are few artists who can really be called innovative. There are even fewer who really impact whatever unexplored corner of rock and roll they stumble into, and there's...
There are ten stools at the sushi bar, and they all seem to be occupied by sushi eaters of Asian descent. A few feet away, the other bar is dominated by what look like Latino...
At first glance, Hidalgo seems to be nothing more than an old-fashioned, flat-footed adventure epic plunked down on a vast stretch of desert and amply furnished with the usual...
What's up, player? You probably think you're hot shit with all that bling-bling and debonair flair, but how do you think you'd fare against some of the smoothest operators in...
Anne Wilson breathes life into inanimate objects in her video installation, Errant Behaviors. A heap of lace attempts to walk, like Buster Keaton playing a drunk. A pin carries...
Just how much of a sinful den of debauchery and decadence was Houston during Super Bowl week? Apparently, not much. The after-action reports are in and the stats have been...
In the early days of rap, way back in the 1980s, every touring artist was a bullshit magnet. Pillars of the community -- mayors, the cops, the PTA -- all voiced Grave Concern...
No one who enters Vincent's (2701 West Dallas, 713-528-4313) through the bar will fail to notice the brick-fired oven. Here is where you'll find the house special, pollo...
Maybe the most amazing thing about the big-screen version of Starsky & Hutch is how much smaller it feels than its predecessor, the William Blinn-created, Aaron...
Thursday, March 4 Ask any band geek, jock or bleacher-dweller -- nothing froths up team spirit quite like an old-fashioned march. It's something just about everybody agrees...
Oh, happy day! The Alley Theatre's Gregory Boyd has taken on Shakespeare once again. Wildly innovative, wonderfully strange and never stodgy, Boyd's Shakespeare can always be...
The LifeFlight emergency helicopter swoops down to the accident scene. It's bad -- the unconscious victim has lost a lot of blood. An ambulance crew is already there and...
To put it mildly, critics have a hard time pithily describing San Antonio rock underground legends Boxcar Satan. In fact, they wind up sounding a lot less like Lester Bangs...
Texas and crime have a long and storied history together. But even with sensational and nationally publicized cases involving jealous dentists confronting infidelity with their...
Opening night of the Houston Ballet's Winter Repertory Program featured choreographer Julia Adam's world premiere of Ketubah. Set to live klezmer music and performed by Houston...
Two years ago, Debra Ferris was renting a crumbling apartment, where she said rats gnawed her peeling walls, a rising bayou invaded her living room and the upstairs neighbors...
It was just over one year ago at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, that Great White's errant pyrotechnics display started a fire that claimed 100 lives --...
Documentaries about fashion may seem tailored for a specific audience -- one that can actually afford haute couture, or perhaps an audience attuned to the bitches, er,...
Fallen Angels As a playwright, Noel Coward definitely didn't live up to his surname. When Fallen Angels first premiered in 1925, reviewers attacked its immoral content,...
