This year was nothing short of a watershed for the Houston Press Music Awards. This time a year ago we wrote, "here's what we want for 2003: More. More categories, and thus...
The driver parks his sedan across the street from Burbank Middle School, opens the door, and staggers out. He looks drunk, too drunk to realize he left the car running as he...
There is a pleasant aroma inside Brenner's Steakhouse and it isn't my medium-rare New York strip: I sent the steak back. My dining companion, who ordered a medium filet mignon,...
Kevin Costner appeared in his first western when he was 30 and looked to be in his early 20s. He was a slender, restless actor in Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado, the 1985 film in...
But all ever ask (and I would say this to her face) is only she remembers who is who and not to go around with her or Gracie either with this attitude. "The Past is Past, and...
When Sean Joseph Casey crawls out of the dark, his life is in a sorry state. Old and washed up, with no place to go and no apparent friend in the world, he's living out his...
On July 28, the fax machine in Governor Rick Perry's office whirred into action, spitting out an urgent message from John Scott, the director of Galveston County's Water...
It's a ubiquitous sign for the ages. Whether thrown in rapture or irony, the pinky-and-index-finger extended "devil horns" might mean something different to UT sports fans or...
The sign on the door to Bunky's Soul Food Café (7265 Scott, 713-747-3663) reads "Feed people good food at a fair price, make a friend along the way." Samuel Nelson told...
With its ominously square title suggesting a feature-length Billy Joel video, Uptown Girls arrives in theaters smelling a bit spoiled, and not only because annoyingly...
Thursday, August 14 For a second consecutive year, Houston hosts the GOODE Water Ski National Championships, and in this heat, you'll want to get as close to the wet-and-wild...
This was the first year Lawndale Art Center's annual Big Show charged an entry fee. The $15 to enter three works was as much an attempt to keep the entries down to a more...
The symbolism was hardly subtle on the front section of the August 6 Houston Chronicle's metropolitan section. There -- on what columnist Thom Marshall used to call "this edge...
They are Houston's own spin on the Rage/Soundgarden/ Audioslave story. Lead singer from a popular band splits off to pursue a solo career, remaining members recruit equally...
"Art films" aren't really Hollywood's specialty. But it's even rarer for a comedian to direct one. Take Melvin Goes to Dinner. Written by Michael Blieden (formerly of The Daily...
He knows there are people, too many, who do not like him. He has to know. They've told him to his face--the studio executives who slice and snip the scenes he loves the most...
Hutton Chops Any biased trash on the relatives of other Hollywood celebrities besides Mel Gibson ["Holy Father," by Wendy Grossman, July 24]? I hear that a certain...
The spring Arbitron radio ratings book is out, and there's a shocker in it. Long-time country market leader KILT (100.3) has been toppled -- not by its rival Q Country, but by...
SAT 8/16 No other city in Texas or the entire Southwest can match up with Houston's diverse population. In fact, only two other cities in the nation can claim more...
Far below the surface, in the murkiest recesses of the 15-year-old male subconscious, there is a slumbering wraith coiled like a black mamba, a kundalini-like force poised to...
