Yongsheng "Jason" Wang sits at the worn wooden table that serves as his desk. The 39-year-old physicist spends his days in a dark bedroom, writing and faxing countless letters...
Long before the "No mo' emo" uprising of 2002, during which the genre's Kansas delegates bravely shrugged off the approach that had earned them hot-topic status nationally...
The brisket at Thelma's Bar-B-Que on Live Oak has a tasty black char on the top, but the inside is slick with juice and as tender as the white bread. How Thelma gets it so soft...
Joe Versus the Volcano was a misguided, unmemorable film, but it contains a small scene that resonates only now. Tom Hanks, who believes he has not long to live, emerges from a...
The grief of losing a parent is something most of us eventually will have to experience. And when it happens, we'll probably think of the questions we should have asked. When...
A pal asked last week, "Who you writing about?" Told him, "Art Linson," which screwed his face into a big ol' question mark. "He's a movie producer. He made Heat, Fight Club,...
For more than four years, local Lutheran pastor Don Carlson has had the darkest of clouds hanging over him. He may finally be able to start seeing some light. In March 1998,...
At some point between the last miserable day job and the first national tour, countless musicians have either chosen, or been forced, to take a new direction. Sometimes it's a...
The menu at Tila's Restaurante and Bar (1111 South Shepherd, 713-522-7654) simply calls this entrée Chicken Endive ($12.95). But that doesn't do the dramatic dish...
If there's any truth to reincarnation, the spirit of Napoleon may walk among us today. It's not unreasonable to conjecture that he has taken up residence in Bill Gates or Joel...
Scott Hill Bumgardner's lifelong passion for cowboy poetry began when his horse fell on him and broke his pelvis. He began penning poems to keep from going insane during his...
Long before Stephen King bloodied up the silver screen, or John Carpenter slithered up our spines, or Hitchcock became the master of pins-and-needles, there was Bayard...
Houston physician Eric Scheffey has a record of shoddy care and noncompliance with the standards of his profession. Some unwary patients have risked going under the knife of...
The last thing I want is another story where it's 'Rocky's checked out of secret Cirrhosis-By-The-Sea and he's doing well,' " says a gruff, deeply Texan voice over the phone....
It was almost midnight, and the movie had just let out at the River Oaks Theatre. I was damned if I was going home to broken air conditioners and a dog that won't stop yapping,...
It's daunting to hear that John Sayles's new film, Sunshine State, is almost two and a half hours long, and consists mostly of calm conversations. But don't be deterred, or...
"Let the eagle soar…she's far too young to die, you can see it in her eye…" Ah, the immortal song stylings of John Ashcroft, our esteemed attorney general, former...
Some of Houston's best political precognitives are hard at work this summer trying to prevent what they foresee as an electoral disaster. Operating out of the Department of...
Mike Snow feels like an old fart on Wednesdays. That's the night that the 38-year-old veteran local DJ (this month marks his 18th year in the record-rotating business) pulls...
Changes continue to bubble up at the Houston Chronicle under new editor Jeff Cohen, and two of the paper's high-profile columnists are the most recent targets. Cohen, people at...
