It was a typical night at The Haunted Hotel in Houston. Owner Jim Fetterly was running around making sure everything was going smoothly. He had no time for foolishness --...
Don't tell Dianne Reeves that jazz singers can't have million sellers. "That's not so at all," she says firmly. "Sara Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald sold millions of records....
The first time I went to the gigantic new Kim Son restaurant at Bellaire and Wilcrest, it was Sunday around noon, and there was a 20-minute wait for a table in the dim sum...
"I guess it doesn't matter where I begin," reasons the adult narrator of Running With Scissors, the inevitable Oscar contender adapted from Augusten Burroughs's wacky memoir of...
Simon Boccanegra, Houston Grand Opera's season opener, isn't very well-known, even among opera fans. The first version, composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1857, flopped. Loosely...
Don't look now, but that noise behind you is growing louder -- and closer. It's the season to jump at every shadow and run from every black cat. You can drown your fears in...
Viewed from an airplane high over the islands of San Esperito, the land seems to stretch out endlessly. The sun slowly rises over the ocean, bathing the clouds in ochre and...
Entering Screamworld, a group is first led to a queue area where a monster sits in a chair -- or what's left of him. His upper torso is intact, but all that's left below his...
Unlike every other genre of music, rap is always viewed as something you play. You never hear about the honky-tonk or heavy metal "games" -- those genres have "industries" and...
The pinkish-brown color of the Mezza red pepper dip ($3.95) at Mezza Grill (6100 Westheimer, 713-334-2000) makes it look a lot like chili, but a taste quickly changes that...
There's a scene about halfway through Catch a Fire during which freedom fighters -- men and woman, each boasting such nicknames as "Pete My Baby" and "Hot Stuff" -- are being...
A Bad Night's Sleep This crazy-quilt revue from the loons at Radio Music Theatre is really a show about nothing, but RMT out-Seinfelds Seinfeld -- and is much funnier to boot....
Reservoir Dogs: 15th Anniversary (Lions Gate) Quentin Tarantino's first film shows its age these days, mostly because we've seen all its tricks done far better by now. From...
Things are a little tense these days among the 15 Harris County criminal court-at-law judges. For some observers, though, it ain't the tenseness, it's the absurdity. No one is...
Dear Nicky, We here at the Houston Press want to offer you our support and assistance during this, your time of post-divorce adjustment. You've been putting up a brave front,...
Having heard tales about Marfreless (2006 Peden St, 713-528-0083) involving scandal, exhibitionism and hedonism, I head to the 35-year-old bar to see if they're true. This is...
Manufactured history guarantees a manufactured controversy: Gabriel Range's Death of a President, which docu-dramatizes the 2007 assassination of George W. Bush, has been...
Too often, big group shows in commercial galleries end up being a hodgepodge of artists, lacking any organizing principle. They're sometimes sops to artists awaiting solo...
An American Haunting (Lions Gate) Astaire and Rogers: The Complete Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Freak-Out (Anchor Bay) Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies...
Every muscle in China Doll's powerful thighs jiggles as she struts through the massive hairspray cloud in the dressing room. The ladies have just gotten the call: "Two minutes...
