Water conferences are usually boring affairs. Filled with too many middle-aged men whose fashion sense favors the timeless pocket-protector-and-a-tweed-jacket look, the...
When Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz was 14 and living in Striy, a small Ukrainian village near the Hungarian border, he caught wind of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown while...
They look like noodles, but they taste like fish. So what are they? my dining companion wants to know. He discovered the long, skinny ribbons in his seafood soup, or to be more...
Good Lord, there hasn't been this much blond hair on screen since the Von Trapp children sang and danced their way across the Alps in The Sound of Music. The fact that these...
You're going out there a nobody, but you're coming back a star -- or at least a scale actor. Seven talented locals have roles in Theatre Under the Stars' What Ever Happened to...
No one denies that a man's head was smashed in, most likely with a camera tripod, on June 29, 1978, in an Arizona hotel room. No one denies that this same man was a porno...
It was never Rachel Rodriguez's dream to be a high school teacher. She just happened to be good at it. On August 15, four days before the new school year, the five-year veteran...
There are a couple of things stopping American audiences from realizing that World Outside My Window, the debut album from soul singer Glenn Lewis, is one of the more...
The line of people coming out of the Continental Club had us peering through the windows to catch Billy Joe Shaver and Kinky Friedman on stage. Yelling and applauding from...
Those Reservoir Dogs are proving hard to shake, and in Knockaround Guys, which could be renamed Knockoff Guys, the comparisons to other contemporary pulp fictions fly fast and...
Every clique has an "out" group that insiders make fun of. For stoners, it's kickers; for kickers, it's hipsters. When I was a research assistant during my brief stint as an...
Floyd Collins, the title character of Adam Guettel's musical about a Kentucky backwoods man who winds up trapped in a cave for two weeks, was a real-life legendary spelunker....
After his arraignment on 140 years' worth of felony charges, Andy Fastow's inglorious exit from the federal building last week bore a certain resemblance to the bill of...
To call Mickey Newbury, who passed away on September 29 after struggling for years with emphysema, a "country singer-songwriter" does the man little justice. Newbury, a native...
"Burger and fries" and "healthy" don't usually go together -- unless, of course, you're talking about the burgers and fries ($5.50 to $6.50) at Ziggy's Healthy Grill (2320 West...
Roger Avary's screenplay for The Rules of Attraction is a remarkable work of literature: the disassembly and reconstruction of an impenetrable book by Bret Easton Ellis; a...
Photograph No. 1621 is a panoramic view, from a great height and distance, of the twin towers of the World Trade Center poking up through a roiling mass of clouds. In the...
From the glowing, prominent treatment given the event by the Houston Chronicle, we'd say a crusade has begun. Somehow, the paper got its hands on a report -- just a day before...
With all the damn drama this column reports week after week -- the gossip, the rumors, the closings, the construction, the indictments, the drunken acts of public debauchery --...
Best Wishes City thoughts: Thank you for the Best DJ We'll Miss award [Best of Houston, September 26]. It's an honor to know that I was able to touch anyone through my music,...
