Sitting at a table in his bright, sunny new apartment, John Termine invites a visitor to check out his pills. He does this as casually as if he were asking if anyone wanted a...
Summers in Dallas are always hot. But to Todd Lewis, the summer of 2001 was downright hellish. He had reluctantly broken up his band, cult faves the Toadies, after a dozen...
I'm staring at my plate in anticipation. There's a short tower of rice, a stack of shredded collard greens, a mound of toasted crumbs, and all the piles are separated by...
Like a jawbreaker that changes color every few seconds that you suck it, MIIB: Men in Black II delivers a quick buzz, lots of stuff to look at, and a totally non-nutritious joy...
I arrive on time at the designated location, the corner of Yale and Washington. It's 9:30 on a Thursday night, and a line of hiply dressed twentysomethings has already formed...
They stream in and out, all day and all night, one after the other: band members, producers, business associates, friends, family, strangers, hangers-on who stare at the...
Although funding for resistance testing is up for debate, almost all doctors who work with indigent patients can agree on one thing: Texas's program that pays for the HIV drugs...
The future of music is invariably difficult to see. Mere replication doesn't do the trick; nothing works as well the second time around. But at the same time, the "experts" --...
The focaccia sandwiches at Dolce & Freddo (5515 Kirby, 713-521-3260; 7595 San Felipe, 713-789-0219) are unexpected because they are neither sweet nor cold. They are, however,...
In her recent book, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, journalist Rachel Simmons hits a very topical nail squarely on its very sore head. Coining the term...
The problem with doing a sidebar on a book by one of your colleagues is that there are certain questions you can't ask for the sake of office civility. While sitting down with...
Even for those of us who enjoy looking at art, painting and drawing can seem like strange activities. Covering a blank surface with marks and colors, lines and blotches,...
The Innocence Network at the University of Houston law school may be the last hope for wrongfully convicted defendants, but it's not winning a lot of love from the district...
It's the end of Internet radio as we know it. Librarian of Congress James Billington, the man charged with administering copyright laws for music, decided on June 20 that...
It's Saturday evening at the elegant Lancaster Hotel (701 Texas Ave., 713-228-9500), and the dining room is all set for the theater crowd. With diamonds of sunlight filtering...
Ah, jealousy. Scourge of the spirit and seed of countless wicked plots, the green-eyed beast guarantees gripping drama. Celebrated British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer (Equus)...
The bright orange protest poster outside a Bellaire home continues to bring a banner year for the legal business. On a recent Friday afternoon, Mary and Keith Cohn received a...
Okay, by now you know the drill: Downtown's a nightmare. Blah, blah, blah. Nowhere to park. Yada, yada, yada. Construction everywhere. Blah, blah, blah. Big fake titties....
The administration of Mayor Lee P. Brown has never been renowned for its smooth operations or operators, but the ride is really getting bumpy as the clock runs down on the...
Like a man who makes a stinky-drunk, raving fool out of himself at a party and returns the next day to make amends, Eminem comes back with his head held high after dislodging...
