It felt good to spend money. Jennifer Fuller handed over her plastic card, watched the clerk slip it through the reader and listened to the chug-a-chug of the machine giving...
The tall, grizzled Austin cop peered through his mirrored shades down Congress Street from his position across the street from the state capitol grounds. There, several...
When we first enter The Rivendell Bar & Grille, we walk by two women who are talking intently on a big sofa by the front door. One has her legs curled up comfortably underneath...
The Hunted pits Tommy Lee Jones against Benicio Del Toro in a battle of hand-to-hand, wit-to-wit fighting skills. Frankly, my money would be on Tommy Lee any old day: He may be...
Jason Nodler has said that if his company, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, ever had a brother, its name would be Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre. Like green-eyed siblings, the...
Regina Giddens is one of the most treacherous villains ever to walk across a stage. Moneygrubbing and wily, the nasty fox will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Helping...
During a routine inspection of the woods near a base in Bavaria, Army Staff Sergeant Dwayne Armour was collecting trash. He noticed a box, opened it up and found a...
Chris D'abaldo can't help but laugh when he contemplates his predicament. The rhythm guitarist with rock shredders Saliva is only 45 days out of rehab, where he kicked a habit...
What makes Stone Mill Bakers' (2518 Kirby Drive, 713-524-6600) signature curried chicken salad sandwich ($6.95) different? Everything. Start with what Stone Mill does best:...
You know how boys love to play soldier? How they get stern-faced and march out to destroy an enemy whom they believe needs destroying? Well, actors are into that, too....
Thursday, March 20 Mary Kay Andrews, author of ten mystery novels, is moving closer to the more genteel, literary realm of Southern fiction with her latest offering, Savannah...
Behold the demi-caractère. It is technically a character role using classical steps but is recognizable as the guys who aren't the prince. Ben Stevenson's ballets are...
Waller City Council sessions are exercises in the purest form of backroom country politics. The chambers occupy the kitchenlike rear of the aging City Hall, and the council...
Singer-songwriter/Spanish teacher/tennis coach Melinda Mones's musical background is a jumble, and her debut album proves it. The album ranges from energetic good-time twangers...
Ever really listened to the words to "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys? In the days before she became a novelist, T Cooper was researching its lyrics for Teen People...
Juan Muñoz's work is crowded. Sometimes there is a literal crowd of clustered sculptural figures that eerily shares the viewer's space. But other times the figures exist...
Rufus Browning lives in a six-story apartment building a few blocks from Minute Maid Park. The DeGeorge at Union Station houses about 90 military veterans, all of them...
Everybody loves a good epic musical performance. Unfortunately, there are usually two problems with Broadway-scale productions: 1) They're normally held in arenas, which carry...
SUN 3/23 Michael W. Dean doesn't define himself as filmmaker. He's also a novelist, a painter and a musician. And though you've probably never heard of him, he makes a living...
Led by then-governor George W. Bush, Texas Republican Party heads launched an intensive push to try to organize supporters among the state's burgeoning Hispanic population....
