Reading the Press archives, we see that the decade's politics was even weirder than we remembered -- a decade of surprising triumphs and, perhaps, none-too-surprising flops. ...
It's easy to hate Hole and its leader, Courtney Love. She does her best to make her defenders look like fools and her enemies look brilliant thanks to her caustic comments,...
Pocket-size pies: From the "other" empanada bakery, Marines Empanadas Delicias [3227 Hillcroft, (713)789-2950], I'm particularly partial to the Apple Supreme pie ($2.15)....
The latest release from Paramount Pictures' bouncing baby, MTV Films, is set in a high school and has been inoculated with the usual doses of teenage angst, teenage wit and...
Thursday May 6 By now, choreographer Jane Weiner is ragged and worn from preparing for Hope Stone Dance Company's latest production for the Pink Ribbons Project. Weiner...
Sir Walter Scott wrote that novelist Jane Austen's "exquisite touch ... renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting." Such is the case with her earliest...
One of pop culture's worst myths is that country music performers chew tobacco, drive low-end pickup trucks, hate Northerners and sing songs about achy-breaky hearts. It's like...
It was the kind of career that hundreds of bands would gladly give up at least some groupie privileges to reach: two releases on a mid-level record label (also home to...
Friends told me I'd love Dave & Buster's. It's like Chuck E. Cheese for grown-ups, they said, a restaurant with Skee-Ball. Others darkly warned that I'd love it so much that...
We seem to be in the middle of one of those thematic blitzes that happen every now and then in the film world. Last year there was Dark City and The Truman Show; this year, so...
By the time Beethoven finally tried his hand at writing string quartets, he'd already written a dozen piano sonatas, three piano trios, several sonatas for violin and cello,...
The candidate could already savor the rich prospects awaiting him in the runoff election only six days away. Ascending to the chief executive's office of the nation's...
In composer Arrigo Boito's version of the Faust legend, our favorite Biblical tempter returns for another celestial duel with the god who kicked him out of heaven. This time...
The scene from the iron-roofed sidewalk tables of the Travis Cafe is bona fide urban Houston. On the south side of the cafe, scaffolding cocoons yet another turn-of-the-century...
When we first see Isa, the 21-year-old heroine of Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels, she's trudging under the weight of a huge backpack through the chilly dawn of an almost...
When the velvet ropes came down and the downtown club Spy introduced a new afternoon event called Remedy to an unsuspecting public on April 11, the first couple of hours were...
There was never any question Sara Fitzgerald would make it. Even though some 25 years ago a local bank wouldn't lend her money to buy her first home -- lending to single...
Man or Astro-man? claims to be from outer space. The story is that the band's spaceship crashed in Auburn, Alabama, and that the band members took on human identities and...
It's funny how little it takes to fan a spark of restaurant gossip into a full-blown rumor fest. The latest contretemps started with the removal of the international gallery of...
The SLC in SLC Punk! stands for Salt Lake City, but it might as well stand for Some Lucky Chump. The filmmaker, James Merendino, has stated that this tale of two punk buddies...
