When Jennifer Franklin's boyfriend found out that she and her four children were staying at a battered women's shelter in Pasadena, she decided it was time to leave. After all,...
Getting to the heart of that dirty and devilish genre known as funk can be somewhat akin to searching out nude pictures of Martha Stewart on the Internet: The real deal is...
A few years back, Tennessee novelist Jesse Hill Ford wrote a magazine article about an old family friend who always began his meals by eating dessert. After watching him do...
In Picture Perfect, Jennifer Aniston tells a whopper of a lie partially to win the attentions of a guy who has heretofore ignored her, interrupts a wedding and humiliates a guy...
thursday july 31 Live Downtown Contest You've been hearing about all that downtown warehouse space being converted to "lofts," living spaces too hip for the homely...
Most of us already fear our computers. Bad things happen to good data all the time: Disk errors! Unreadable files! Crashed servers! You may question God's existence, but you...
Jacqueline Beckham didn't know whether to laugh or start packing. It was almost noon in the chapel of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church on Clay Street downtown, where...
A new era at HMC?... For the last few months, local producer/indie label entrepreneur Darrell Clingman has been going on about what he'd do to improve the Houston Music Council...
John Leguizamo is lithe and full of juice -- he's like the shy boy who suddenly discovers he can dance and can't keep still. Given his need to express himself physically -- in...
Woodman, Whack That Tree! Parker Estates was once one of the most intriguing green spaces near downtown and had been considered as the locale for a city park. The site of...
What is it about summer that makes people go out and have, as one person once put it, "hot, lovely relations?" Is it the skimpy clothing? The heat? The extra daylight? The...
187, a number favored by adolescent thugs, is the California state penal code number for homicide -- and a harsh sentence for all involved in this hopeless, hapless movie. The...
Haute Bourgeois Whiner So ex-assistant district attorney and former cokehead Kristen Pain believes she was treated "unfairly," singled out, as it were, by a vengeful...
Not long ago, a certain Houston club manager came to the following conclusion about one of his favorite Texas acts: "The best thing about Old 97's is that people think they're...
Sarah McLachlan has only herself to blame. After all, in a country where Baywatch can pass as high drama, her idea to put together Lilith Fair, a pop music road extravaganza...
