At the end of the clammy corridor off the first floor of the Harris County Civil Courthouse, attorneys, law clerks, investigators and reporters line up to scan the glowing...
Alas, poor Simon and Garfunkel. At a time in music when it was more important to be hip than to be good (sound familiar, kids?), they were so collegiate, so pop that they could...
Sometimes good things come in odd packages. You wouldn't necessarily expect inventive Pacific Rim cooking from a restaurant with "Hunan" in the name over the door. Nor would...
First, The Heiress was unofficially remade as Washington Square, then Ace in the Hole as Mad City, and The Day of the Jackal as The Jackal. But now we get The Absent Minded...
thursday december 4 Holiday in the Park Oh! The comforts of tradition: The sweet, angelic voices of bored schoolchildren singing inanely silly songs in unison; the...
Since 1993, when the company first took shape, Infernal Bridegroom Productions has been the closest thing Houston has had to avant-garde theater. Some of their shows have been...
John Ballis has a better tan than a prisoner has a right to. The tall, beefy real estate developer looks much healthier now than when he entered federal prison three years ago....
Welcome to the jungle... What in the hell am I doing here? Surely, that question must have entered Carl Stephenson's mind on a few occasions back in the late '80s, as he...
Bistro on the Bay Bay Brewery hopes that a 23-foot, two-inch elevation will help it achieve what no other restaurant has done on its Seabrook site: survive a hurricane. A...
You can't exactly call Alien Resurrection a pleasurable experience, but, then again, you wouldn't say that about its predecessors either. Directed by the Frenchman Jean-Pierre...
For the last four years, Richard Johnson has cut quite a figure at City Hall as chief of staff for District B Councilman Michael Yarbrough. At the weekly Council meetings,...
It would be easy enough to dismiss Chumbawamba as nothing more than a dance-floor novelty. With a name that borders on the unpronounceable -- and whose meaning is purposefully...
It's hard for anyone under, say, 35 to understand the impact that the so-called French New Wave directors in general -- and Jean-Luc Godard, in particular -- had on cinephiles...
Bob and Kathy and Lee Makes Three! Starting with his gift-wrapped presentation to the city as a Rice University professor two years ago, Lee Brown has turned up one...
G. Love and Special Sauce Yeah, It's That Easy OKeh/Epic Ever since the Hooters blew their major-label wad in one commercialized fell swoop back in 1985, being dubbed...
Once again demonstrating their unparalleled mastery of public relations, those hell-for-leather guys rushing to build a downtown baseball stadium offered up a heartwarming...
It would be easy to imagine that Daryl Hall and John Oates are struggling with the precipitous dip in popularity the duo has experienced over the last decade. Once a...
You could hear the organ swelling and the congregation clapping a block away from Salem Missionary Baptist Church, a small redoubt of piety in the northside neighborhood of...
Ode to Fall The November 13 "True Artist Tales" [Comics, "Fall," by Scott A. Gilbert] is just not "with it." Gilbert's version of fall must be the result of a New York...
