It's bedtime at the Bishop house, and everything inside the pink two-bedroom apartment seems normal. Little Andy, with a thatch of red hair on his two-year-old head and his...
When Paul English helped establish Cezanne more than a decade ago, he probably had no idea the small club would become Houston's longest-running and most-respected outlet for...
Smack! What was that sound? A waiter losing a tray? A table collapsing? Undomestic violence? I look around the restaurant to see what's up. Smack! There it is again. "Look,...
The 15th-anniversary reissue of Ran underscores a singular irony: If lives and careers could be plotted as satisfyingly as movies, then Akira Kurosawa's epic interpretation of...
"I estimate that there are about 400 American ballet companies that operate with a serious degree of professionalism," said John Munger, director of information services for...
Inspired in part by The Castle of Perseverance, a little 15th-century ditty about virtue conquering evil, Wendy MacLeod's Sin is a cheesy though likable New Age morality play...
The first day of summer was not a good one for Houston police officer Randy Carodine. As he drove to his cousin's house on Laurel Drive in Riverside Terrace, just south of...
When a friend first heard the song "Mineral Wells," Tom Russell's tale about a faded Hollywood starlet and an equally washed-out film critic who seek the fountain of youth in...
Texans love a practical joke. The practical joke, after all, is what distinguishes American humor from, say, British humor. Think of the difference between Mark Twain's The...
A couple of years ago jazz singer Kurt Elling asked, "How many choir boys go out and start shooting people up? If [a choir boy] does it, it's a freak accident, right? ... Look...
Lala Levy is positively obsessed. It's 1939, and Gone with the Wind is about to premiere right in the middle of downtown Atlanta. Never mind that almost every other upper-crust...
Carlos Lavernia spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. Roy Criner lost ten years of his life before DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime. A.B. Butler was...
If you really wanna know how much the late Robert Earl Davis Jr. meant to the Houston rap scene or to the city's urban (read: bass-loving) culture in general, you need to head...
If the thought of tongue excites you -- gastronomically speaking, that is -- then we suggest you try the stewed version at Ruchi's Taquerias El Rincon de Mexico [2651 Richmond,...
In the trial of Clint Shelton, lead prosecutor Toby Shook unveiled a mind-numbing 138 pieces of evidence and presented nearly three dozen witnesses in seven days of testimony....
Lesson No. 1 at R.L. Burnside's School of Music: "The blues started all the music." Burnside doesn't elaborate on that declaration; in fact, he doesn't elaborate on much,...
The bride is shaking her groove thing on the dance floor downstairs, and the groom is handing out cheroots in the cigar bar upstairs. Nobody seems concerned that Buffalo Bayou...
In his house's big front room, Lloyd Wells reclines on the unmade king-size bed like a raja, and you pull up a wooden stool beside him. It's eerie, talking to Wells in his...
It was a slow Wednesday night at the retro-chic Polly Esther's and Culture Club (6111 Richmond Avenue). A small group of patrons convened in the club's '80s room, but they...
Speaking off the toque: Carl Johnston, executive chef of Sambuca Jazz Cafe, 909 Texas Avenue, (713)224-5299. Q. Have you noted any changes in the dining or drinking patterns...
