The night Smashed Ice stabbed Standing Deer to death with a kitchen knife, he made four phone calls. The first three were for an alibi that never held up. The fourth conveyed...
The cowboy hat may be D:Fuse's trademark, but his music hardly makes you think of Texas. Instead, his creations evoke such locales as New York, San Francisco, London and Ibiza,...
The waterfall has been broken for months. It used to flow over a glass wall in the lobby of Trevísio, the huge and lavish restaurant in the Medical Center. When...
To prepare for reviewing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, I did the obvious research: I watched Yellowbeard again. Yes, yes indeed -- can't do without...
Anybody who's seen Bobby Valentine make a fool of himself on ESPN's Baseball Tonight must wonder why the network can't find a host who can speak in complete sentences. Here's a...
Stan Lee, for better or worse the most recognizable face in the history of the comic book, insists he has no love for rehashing his past. He claims to take no great joy from...
Gay rights supporters hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's June 26 decision in Lawrence v. Texas as a watershed that will forever change gay and lesbian life in America. Many of the...
Mando Saenz is the kind of guy who wins the lottery the first time he buys a ticket. One day Saenz is a singer-songwriter scuffling for an audience, his new album all but...
In Italian, sea scallops are known as capesante, or "holy shells." Medieval pilgrims visiting the sanctuary of St. James of Compostela in northern Spain wore the scallop shells...
French director François Ozon doesn't like to repeat himself. His last film, 8 Women, was a theatrical, rather campy piece of fluff starring la crème de la...
Thursday, July 10 New York-based artist Donna Rosenthal creates suits and dresses out of vintage papers taken from romance novels, comics, sheet music and old...
Wondering whodunit is just a fraction of the fun in Agatha Christie's wonderfully droll 1952 mystery The Mousetrap. In fact, the real excitement comes from all the oddballs who...
Two weeks ago, a couple of lawyers, a client and state District Judge Caroline Baker retired to her empty jury room to try to work out a mediated settlement to a civil lawsuit....
Unfortunately for both men, there are a lot of R&B; fans who think that Calvin Richardson is really Joe, the R&B; singer. It's not because they look alike, or even sound a lot...
Among the smiling faces on the cover of July's Food & Wine magazine is Houston's Scott Tycer, executive chef and owner of Aries restaurant. Tycer and nine other young chefs...
If, in keeping with current fads, you seek movies featuring females kicking a bunch of ass, your appetite will be tended (and cultivated) at the multiplex all summer long....
Julia Kay Laskowski has played Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Olympia in Tales of Hoffmann, Gilda in Rigoletto, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos and Micaela in Carmen -- which is...
In the summer of '92, I wandered into the Rassensaal of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where I was dumbfounded to find myself in the middle of a permanent exhibition...
With the advent of Crime Stoppers, reporting an offense has become synonymous with reaping a reward. And now, Crime Stoppers has found a new target: public schools. "Money is...
The tamale, one of many launched by Chango Jackson's roadie from the Lower Westheimer stage on a sweltering Sunday afternoon, flew upward into the cirrus-clouded sky. Up it...
