Weighing in at 350 pounds, Carlos Sosa's impressive girth reflected his huge appetite for la dolce vita. Before his arrest on a felony theft charge this past spring, Sosa was...
As Brian Wilson waited to board a plane in Los Angeles one morning in December 1964, he glanced over at his wife, Marilyn Wilson, who appeared to be gazing at fellow Beach Boy...
The neon sign above the front door of Lyndon's Pit Bar-B-Q reads, "Open Pit." But there is no fragrant smoke wafting through the restaurant. That's because the two Southern...
Rather than asking if this senseless and expensive new film from wunderkind entertainer Robert Zemeckis is devoid of merit (it is), or "worth seeing" (it isn't), we should...
Okay, maybe not dead dead. The local comic legend has still got a few days left before he's laid to rest at the completion of his farewell performances at the Comedy Showcase....
Eva Peron lived a shooting-star life -- brief, fiery, magical. Born illegitimate and poor, the future goddess snaked out of her small Argentinean town at age 15 and slept her...
Republican delegates packed the George R. Brown Convention Center for their annual June meeting, and now the final premier moment shifted to the host, Gary Michael Polland. As...
If only Tipper Gore had continued her crusade against sex and sleaze in rock and roll, not only would her PMRC rail hopelessly against the psycho-sexy-disco-funk-industrial...
I have a confession to make: I'm a big-city food snob. So when I was told that there was a great Spanish restaurant in Katy, my initial reaction was, at best, one of...
In Bryan Singer's last movie, 1998's Apt Pupil, Ian McKellen portrayed a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the suburbs, passing himself off as an ordinary old man crouching...
How many bad canine puns, allusions and stupid pooch lines can we pack into 400 words? Just watch: The dog days of summer have just gotten a little cooler. The Astro World...
No doubt about it. The tale of the doomed Titanic has reached true legendary status: It has finally become a Tony Award-winning, multimillion-dollar musical extravaganza...
William Steen, an artist of some note, spends his days with hands-on work at the Menil Collection. But his heart is squarely within the quadrants and residents of Houston's...
What the world needs now is another folk singer / Like I need a hole in my head. -- "Teen Angst," Cracker Todd Snider can't tell you how happy he is to bury the Tom Petty...
Serious Houston diners have gotten used to restaurants appearing and disappearing with the speed of an Italian government. This sometimes induces powerful feelings of stress...
The bewildering penchant of recent American movies for glorifying the lovable naÏf, the perpetual adolescent and the village idiot takes a strange new turn in Miguel...
Gil Baumgarten thought the J-shaped driveway would be the perfect finishing touch for his addition last year to his fashionable Bellaire home. Workers carefully cleared away...
With the population of downtown's club scene seemingly expanding with every weekend, the dress codes for many of these hangouts have become stricter and more extreme. We might...
The culinary trademark of Ruggles Grill [903 Westheimer, (713)524-3839] and most of its siblings [Bistro Latino, 711 Main, (713)227-9141; Enron Field, 333 Crawford,...
That Texas halau," the Hawaiians called Keli'i Chang's hula school. Everyone knew about the group: First, simply because they were Texan, mainlanders who'd somehow landed a...
