And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. -- Corinthians 12:6 Come with me / Hail Mary nigga, run quick see / What do we have...
Everyone has a story to tell. Some people keep their stories private, creating a mystery; others will assault you with their most personal -- and often most boring -- details...
The bruschetta is a do-it-yourself project at divino. This version of the Italian-restaurant staple features slices of grilled bread, naked but for a drizzle of greenish olive...
There's definitely something weird going on in the British pop scene. Years after tasteful Yanks allowed classic works such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease to dissolve into...
You know, BET celebrated its 20th anniversary last fall, yet the cable channel still gives the perception that it's broadcasting from 1986. (It still plays videos in mono, for...
Apparently some people like geometry. Marco Villegas is one of them. His exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, "Flat latex paint on raw stretched canvas," has its origins in the...
Time was putty in the hands of Robert Earl Davis Jr. On the turntables, as DJ Screw, he could cut back and forth, reversing records and recuing them so swiftly you'd swear the...
It seems somehow appropriate that when Rick Miller, the force behind Southern Culture on the Skids, is contacted at his house/ studio in North Carolina for a scheduled...
You won't find the encrusted snapper ($19.95) on the menu at Vinnie's Italian Café [5413 Bellaire Boulevard, (713)667-7740]. You have to track down a waiter, wink twice...
Think all blacks vote straight Democratic? Think there are no black followers of Judaism? Think African-Americans and Jews don't get along? Say any of this to Tony...
On a bitterly cold night in December, comedian Paula Poundstone takes the stage at La Zona Rosa, seven blocks south of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin where George W....
As general manager of the newly opened Have a Nice Day Cafe (544 Texas Avenue), Bill Haecker has done everything to hype the place except run butt-naked through the Galleria...
Three twentysomething bleached blonds in blue jeans share a giant sandwich at the bar, while the New York Giants eat the Philadelphia Eagles' lunch. First the subway series and...
We were sorely disappointed to read recently that the Houston Chronicle, as it begins the build-up to its 100th anniversary, is unable to locate a copy of the first edition it...
It's easy to hate Cowboy Mouth, particularly when most everyone's exposure to the band has been through that odious single "Jenny Says." When drummer/ singer Fred LeBlanc...
Kathleen Cambor grew up in Pittsburgh, and she thought that everyone who grew up there knew about the Johnstown flood. A century before, Johnstown had been a little...
Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock are the current magnates of the rap/ metal industry, but compared to the politically charged and intense Downset, they're little more than mail-room...
Poor Betti Maldonado just can't seem to get out of Ben Reyes's shadow. The association of the former Houston media consultant and port commissioner with the trash-talking...
For 17 years, Dorothy Swanson has waged the loneliest battle: keeping good shows on television, a medium that exists as if only to taunt her. You can hear in her voice the toll...
Being as the owners are now actually trying to get you to pay for it, chances are you didn't read the latest issue of Inside Houston magazine. We're here to tell you what you...
