The atmosphere was almost strangely celebratory when Bob Lanier joined Ben Hall on December 2 to reveal that Hall would be leaving his job as city attorney at the end of this...
You know this information superhighway thing is about three years on the stale side of new when even a technophobe like yours truly can finally stumble his way through a modem,...
Yum, yum, yum! It's time to tuck in our napkins for the Second Annual Menu from Hell, that appetizing compendium of guaranteed real-life dishes served by Houston restaurants...
It's quite a compliment to say that an artist's failures are more interesting than most of his colleagues' successes. That description certainly applies to Robert Altman, a...
thursday december 22 Historic house museums Some people like to sneak off to the beach during the off-season, even though the weather isn't right for swimming and even...
Father Rivers Patout is cruising his domain, but he's nowhere near a church or a school. Instead, the slightly pudgy Catholic priest is driving his late model Honda Accord...
Two Shots of Jerry Jeff Jerry Jeff Walker is no slouch when it comes to singing county and western songs. The question is, is Jerry Jeff really country? (He was hatched in...
The central character in Michael Apted's new film Nell is introduced to the tune of her own, otherworldly, melodic keening. In the opening scenes, Nell (Jodie Foster) is a...
Lawyer Mary Conn was hurrying to keep a court date one morning last year when the wire-rimmed brassiere she was wearing triggered the metal detector at the entrance to Harris...
Train in Vain Good Enough For You Fuzzgun Records Train in Vain's a Beaumont-based outfit with the standard guitars-bass-drums rock lineup, and the band plays a melodic...
"Oh, this is a stag party," Robert Altman jokes as he enters a room full of male journalists gathered round a table for a Ready to Wear press junket at New York's...
Whoever said there are no second acts in American life obviously never viewed Houston political life in all its multitudinous wonder. Take the upcoming special election to...
Delbert McClinton Friday, December 9 Rockefeller's Much to the delight of the sold-out crowd of 400 well-groomed and deep-pocketed fans, the resurrected Rockefeller's...
Not So Heavenly After reading Matt Zoller Seitz's review of Heavenly Creatures [Film, "Friends and Fantasy," December 1], I thought I understood the Press's decision to...
It seems to be that time of year again, when nobody's playing, and nobody's touring and the music editor is trying his damnedest to squeeze out some blob of easy copy early so...
