Houston police Captain Mark Aguirre fights his battles on many fronts.From a battered office in the aging depths of the South Central Division's headquarters, under the large...
In its day, Westbury Square was more than a strip center, it was an attraction. In the late '60s and early '70s, it was the kind of place where Houstonians would bring visiting...
The waitress puts a Heineken and a tall pilsner glass full of ice in front of me, and I pour the beer over the rocks. My brother Scott rolls his eyes. "Since when do you drink...
Talk about trading down: Adam Sandler stands in for Gary Cooper, Winona Ryder for Jean Arthur, screenwriter Tim Herlihy (The Waterboy, Billy Madison) for Robert Riskin (It...
Missed San Antonio's Fiesta? Didn't make it to Galveston's Mardi Gras? No problem. But make sure you're ready to stake your lawn chair on Westheimer and catch the biggest...
Job perks are the primary reason artists are willing to endure penury as employees of the Museum of Fine Arts. They aren't perks in the traditional sense: Nobody is getting a...
Employees of Globe News were used to a colorful crowd slipping inside the small one-story building on the edge of downtown, right by the Pierce Elevated and not far from the...
There's a certain truism that every fifth-grader knows: If you have talent and work hard, you'll be a great success in your chosen field. But just like other myths (Washington...
When it comes to food, there are three things any self-respecting Englishman will search for no matter where in the world he finds himself: a good curry, a pint of bitter and a...
To call a movie the most accessible Dogme 95 film ever made is not merely damning with faint praise. It also threatens to alienate the two segments of the population that might...
"Houston is a big-league-ball city," says Gene Elston, baseball historian and author of A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology. "But it's not a St. Louis…The best...
Magnolia Ellis is downright bored with widowhood. She has buried two husbands and is living quite well, thank you very much, off their insurance money. Still, Magnolia wants a...
The past few years, 19th Street Association merchants had prided themselves on their unique promotional events. They hosted a New Orleans-style street party to draw people to...
Yes, there was a small fire at No tsu oH late on the night of June 12. And yes, the Houston Fire Department has shut down the king-hell funky coffee shop/chess club/music...
It's a wonder Jennifer Wood ever choreographs anything. According to her own press release, she's constantly battling her fears that the audience will think she's boring,...
During the hard-fought Houston mayoral contest last year, Craig Varoga, campaign manager for incumbent Lee P. Brown, took several pages from a New York Times analysis of the...
John Yeager has the best memories.The former Prague general manager remembers the time when a crowd of people gathered around a stall in the club's infamous unisex restrooms...
The Houston Independent School District has been keeping children in the alternative schools run by a private company months, even years, after they should have been returned...
If success were defined by sheer arrogance, then pop/soul superstar Usher Raymond would be as famous as Michael Jackson, the artist he emulates. This boy must've come out the...
South Park Shocker What about the priests? The account of Carlos Coy, the "South Park Monster" [by John Nova Lomax, June 6] and his sexual abuse of young girls was superbly...
