The Politically Undead Boy, what a little un-redistricting can dig up! Suddenly, the landscape was crawling with zombie-like forms we thought we'd laid to rest -- Gene...
Reflections '96... Of all the trends and tragedies that spun modern music into its cockeyed spiral in 1996, Houston can't really claim direct involvement in any of them. Last...
Talking Turkey (Sort Of) Take a chicken. Bone it. Stuff it with cornbread stuffing. Slather it with Cajun sausage, or maybe crawfish etouffee. Take a duck. Bone it. Stuff it...
Hollywood routinely creates movies whose sole reason for existence is to provide a beloved celebrity a scenery-chewing star turn; occasionally, these films even win their lead...
thursday december 26 Family Fun at the MFA At this familycentric event, you can not only see art, you can hear art, you can make art, heck, you can be art. In the...
In a time when programming choices at non-commercial galleries are often made by committee or viewed mainly as grant-getting opportunities, a strong personal vision can be...
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, it was 4694 -- the Year of the Rat. Our own fair city's rodents celebrated with inventively rattish behavior as we slouched toward the...
In a pop world where female musicians are designed, micromanaged and as carefully positioned in the marketplace as a new brand of air freshener, how wonderfully earthy and real...
When I hear that an eating establishment is one of only four Relais Gourmand organization restaurants in North America, and that the seriously gourmet menu is in French, I...
When an incredulous Jane Campion fan asked what I hated about her version of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, I immediately responded, "Everything." Actually, I thought...
Item 54 on the City Council's agenda was enacted into law last week the way councilmembers routinely take care of most business before them -- with no public discussion and a...
Imagine for a moment what it would be like if the record industry's billion-dollar promotion budget was allocated on a musical, rather than a commercial, merit system. Jon Bon...
The news that there would be no money came early last week, a few hours after Audrey Gassama arrived in New York City to observe how the AIDS community up there takes care of...
Back before there were long-form videos and CD-ROMs for overweening artiste types to wallow in, musicians used the concept album to overextend their half-baked ideas. Not...
The Gold-Plated Mouthpiece Here's more proof that HISD Superintendent Rod Paige is hell-bent on proving the school district's critics right. After voters rejected a $300...
Next Week They'll Make Fun of Habitual Letter Writers Let's see: You have one movie critic who makes fun of Sly Stallone's speech impediment ["Tunnel Vision," by Robert Abele,...
