On the drunk side of midnight, in a stylish Midtown lounge called Union, the dance floor is chaotic, yet benevolent; the DJs, effusive, yet democratic -- laying down beats in a...
It's Saturday night at Numbers, and Shu Latif is frazzled. As one of the three members of the DJ collective Danseparc, she isn't accustomed to getting to the club at 11....
The shrimp masala sounds good, so I order some for lunch. "Hot or mild?" the guy behind the counter at Fish N' More asks. "Hot!" I answer. I grab a soft drink from a glass...
That sound you hear is the stampeding feet of millions of pubescent and prepubescent girls, racing to movie theaters this weekend to catch sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in...
There's a lot more to Italian cinema than Clint Eastwood westerns and Fellini flicks -- especially lately. The country's film industry is finally emerging from its post-'70s...
As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, "The rich are different from you and me." But if "Ricas y Famosas," a new exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery, is any measure, the rich in Mexico...
Sean Carnahan, local promoter, producer and DJ, refuses to accept that his dance scene is dead. It's a quarter past midnight at the grand opening of Spundae's new Saturday...
"I just got done frying up some bacon and eggs," says Summer Hymns leader Zachary Gresham with a lazy, Jimmy Carter drawl. "Now I just have to wash the pot." Cleaning up after...
Approach with reverence the Milanese of beef tenderloin ($16.95) at Backstreet Cafe (1103 South Shepherd, 713-521-2239). Let there be no talking until the first bite is tasted,...
When a pleasant Italian comedy called Mediterraneo won the 1992 Academy Award for best foreign-language film, a lot of observant American moviegoers scratched their heads....
Thursday, May 6 If you love to talk about "nothing," then you've got to drop by Louis Shanks for an appearance by the real J. Peterman. The bona fide inspiration for...
"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings" Born in Turkish Armenia in 1904, Vosdanik Adoian would grow up to be Arshile Gorky, one of America's most important and influential...
New police chief Harold Hurtt didn't waste much time putting his stamp on the department, implementing sweeping staff changes announced April 27. The changes have been largely...
If you missed it last week, we put forth a score and ten songs by Texans as "the Dirty Thirty" -- the worst ever tunes to come from this state. To put it mildly, some of you...
"We must keep the atmosphere electrified!" announces creepy Igor in reference to an abominable experiment in Van Helsing, but he could be appraising the entirety of this...
In a normal world, there's really nothing entertaining about familial abandonment, blatant artistic theft or grossly disfiguring surgery. But much like a mime being punched in...
You won't find Elmer Fudd singing kill the waaaabbitt, kill the waabbit at Houston Grand Opera's rock-and-roll staging of Gioacchino Rossini's Barber of Seville. This...
Their thoughts are ridiculed by other students and often, they say, by the professors themselves. They are required in class to watch movies to which they are opposed and then...
I've said this before, but I'll say it again: A couple of times a year, you get an album that puts all others in perspective, one that makes everything you heard recently that...
Whether it's an impulse road trip to Austin, "Chinese" fire drills on Westheimer or the backseat after prom, Houstonians do it better in their cars. So naturally, folks from...
