WED 11/16 In a 1982 issue of Image magazine, Geoff Winningham remarked, "In the late 1960s there wasn't a photography collection anywhere in Houston. There was no institution...
Gilligan's Island did it; so did Survivor and Lost: Start with a tropical island with sandy beaches and clear water as far as the eye can see. Insert some non-islanders and...
Halloween rules. It's a chance for you to get to plow through candy and cocktails -- guilt-free. Here's a roundup of H-town's best fright-night bets: For adults, children and...
FRI 10/21 Almost a decade ago, Princess Diana's death triggered an overwhelming outpouring of emotion from the public. Since then, her own son Harry has soiled her memory (love...
SAT 10/15 Okay, so there won't be any jousters on Rollerblades. But there'll still be plenty to take in at WestFest Compressed -- the latest permutation of the hallowed...
SAT 10/8 Among the tragedies Hurricane Katrina has visited upon New Orleans: The city's thriving music scene may be forever altered. And this weekend, local and Louisiana...
SUN 10/2 We all dream of being a movie star: our name in lights, our dirt discussed on fan blogs and our breakups the dramatic stuff of tabloid fodder. But sit through the 11...
THU 9/22 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama looks remarkably good for a 70-year-old who's spent a lifetime in exile working for global peace and against intolerance -- lofty...
FRI 9/16 Anyone who has strolled through downtown's Market Square is familiar with the art of James Surls. His 1991 sculpture Points of View, a 25-foot alien pinecone made with...
THU 9/8 The annual Downtown Stomp Around, presented by DiverseWorks, is a kind of aesthetic scavenger hunt. You plot your course through the gallery map, navigate the urban...
You probably wouldn't guess it, but mild-mannered Mayor Bill White can drop some serious smack. His Honor has been talkin' trash to City Councilmember Ronald Green about an...
SAT 8/27 Don't you just hate it when you drop by your mom's house for a routine visit, maybe a bowl of chicken soup and a little chat, but instead you find that she's been...
The Ann Arbor Film Festival has been doing the avant-garde thing since about 1963, making it the longest-standing festival of its kind on our fair continent. Too generous to...
SAT 8/13 Have you noticed the mysterious images of razor blades and the message "Give Up" that have been showing up on city property, blatantly flaunting the "post no bills"...
SAT 8/6 The French Foreign Legion conjures grandiose romantic notions of fighting honorably in exotic lands, all while wearing képis blancs (that's those funny little...
SAT 7/30 Crochet, at long last, has been liberated from its stodgy, pot-holding reputation. That's right, yarny loops are hip again, and local sculptor Tina Kotrla is joining...
Though vilified (unfairly) for "breaking up the Beatles" and (perhaps not so unfairly) for micromanaging her husband's life, Yoko Ono has done more than anyone else to extend...
FRI 7/15 Oh, Harry, how you've grown! When we met you in J.K. Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, you were an orphaned but magically delicious child....
SAT 7/9 So you've woken up with the obsessive urge to purchase a piece of beautiful blown glass. You head to a local gallery during normal weekday business hours, but the...
MON 7/4 So you like bright things and loud noises. Don't be ashamed, simple friend; come July 4 and its plentiful pyrotechnics, all Americans will be reduced to wide-eyed...
