Joe Lychner heard the call-waiting beep and clicked over. It was his mother-in-law: Did Pam and the girls get on the plane? Yeah, said Joe. Pam called from JFK. Oh my...
"It's the same old story," says Lisa Morales curtly, cringing as she shrugs off the tattered flier that's just been thrust in front of her face for comment. The sheet of...
With a few rare exceptions, chain hotels are not places you'd expect to find fine cuisine. Chains are too often eyeing the bottom line; as a result, their dining rooms...
The true-life incident of the Cottingley fairies is so full of possibilities, so thought-provoking and hilarious at once, that it's amazing it's never been the subject of a...
thursday october 23 Robert Schimmel One evening after Robert Schimmel had finished his standup routine, an old lady came up and told him, "I liked you up there [on...
Using surreal staging and costumes in operatic productions can be a risky business. Sometimes the results are appealing; sometimes they're appalling. In the case of Houston...
A few things we've learned as the November 4 election draws nigh, pertinent information that may be overlooked by the League of Women Voters: (1) It's all over between...
Love Spit Love's Richard Butler has to be one of the vainest frontmen in rock -- not in the sillier sense of the term (a la, say, David Lee Roth), but in a far more tasteful...
Jennifer Jason Leigh follows up one of her smallest, and weakest, roles -- in A Thousand Acres -- with a far more challenging, and formidable, performance in Washington Square....
Houston theater is, for the most part, conservative. Of course we get the strange imports from New York City and Los Angeles, but our homegrown theater -- smart and lovely...
One Publisher, One Vote Readers of the Chronicle's October 19 editorial backing Rob Mosbacher Jr. for mayor may have noticed that the paper's endorsement was hardly, how...
The Hollisters The Land of Rhythm and Pleasure Freedom Nationally, many consider Austin to be the hub of alternative country. But The Land of Rhythm and Pleasure, the...
Stylishness without substance can become wearying fast. Twenty minutes into A Life Less Ordinary, the new movie from the producing/directing/writing team that created...
Teed Off In the "Golfin' Fools" article [by Bob Burtman, October 2] you say, "... of all the private operators running city courses, BSL is widely acknowledged to have done...
Puff Daddy & the Family's No Way Out is as stunningly slack a piece of work as has ever been issued by a major rap act. Puff Daddy, born Sean Combs, has one of the weakest...
Rock's on the rocks... In a meeting last Thursday, Rockefeller's brass advised its staff that the club would be pulling up stakes permanently at the end of the year. That...
Not so fondly, BeauSoleil founder Michael Doucet reflects on what it was like to be a fiddle-wielding ambassador of Cajun music and culture two decades ago. "I'll tell you...
