Reagan Hamilton, thin as a twig, tough as bark, looked out over the podium at her captive audience. Dressed in prison whites and seated neatly at coated metal tables with...
I have seen the future of music, friends, and I have to tell you I'm a little frightened. In the future, there won't be many chicks around, and the UK will continue to slowly...
Smoke rises in a cloud above the hookah smoker's head. In front of him, a belly dancer in a blue-fringed bra moves her head from side to side above her folded arms and ample...
Amid the plethora of films with Freddie Prinze Jr., Mena Suvari, Chris Klein and Jason Biggs, it's nice -- in theory, at least -- to see a contemporary romantic comedy like...
In the mid-'80s, Vince McMahon transformed the World Wrestling Federation from a regional northeast promotion into a national force. He did so by raiding talent from other...
With the heart-stopping sound of helicopter blades descending from the darkness above, Claude-Michel Schönberg's Miss Saigon makes its grand operalike entrance onto the...
Although Laesha's father was absent for most of her childhood, doing time for drug offenses, she didn't begin hating him until her 13th birthday. To celebrate the start of her...
Let's get this out the way immediately: Yes, this is a profile on a musician named Montrose. Yes, that's his real name. Yes, he's aware he shares the moniker with a culturally...
The two most overrated things in the world, goes a gritty old Texas saying, are home loving and home cooking. Since the time when Julia Child first began appearing on...
Justice may be blind, but vengeance, it turns out, has a very short memory. So it goes in Memento, the much anticipated "puzzle" movie from Christopher Nolan (Following), which...
From the dawn of civilization, they have existed to undermine it. Their only enemy is the status quo. Their only friend is chaos. Antoine, Colby, Trotter, Adair -- they are the...
Bellini's La Sonnambula is about a sleepwalking-prone Swiss maiden who is rejected by her fiancé. Though melodramatic, fatuous and flimsy, the wretched plot is easy to...
When Dorothy was seven, she started washing her own clothes. Never mind that she couldn't reach the dials; she just climbed on top of the machine. She has two fathers and...
Not long ago, Beaumont-based country singer Tracy Byrd was questioning whether he wanted to continue his career. It was an odd thought coming from a man with so much success....
Speaking off the toque: Tony Ruppe, chef and proprietor of Tony Ruppe's [3939 Montrose Boulevard, (713)852-0852]. Q. With the constant stream of stories coming out of Europe...
As its title suggests, Spy Kids is an action fantasy aimed primarily at the preteen/early-teen audience. For all its thrills -- and it has plenty -- it's strictly a PG film,...
There is a great scene in Mike Judge's film Office Space in which a trio of oppressed suburban computer programmers strikes back at an incessantly malfunctioning printer. In...
For a good number of his 18 years, Antonio caused trouble. He broke into cars, busted out windows, got suspended from school and "caught three cases," he says of his run-ins...
From a family that has discovered or helped bring to light Leadbelly, Son House, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and Kasey Chambers,...
To anyone who has seen Jan Hooks's hilarious turn as an Alamo tour guide in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, it may be difficult to keep a straight face about the Avocado Adobe...
