Pickup Time Panty raid: Last Wednesday evening, on my way to the bus stop, I stopped at Lamar and Smith streets to pick up the latest Houston Press. I opened the...
Most musicians and record labels are like, " 'Yo, the masses are stupid,' " says New York rhymer C-Rayz Walz. "But I've got more love than that. I've got more love than that...
The simple clam soup called sa fregula at Arcodoro Ristorante Italiano in the Galleria area says a lot about Sardinian cuisine. The Mediterranean-style broth of tender baby...
DC Comics has kept its superheroes locked in a fortress of solitude for almost a decade, forcing the likes of Superman and Batman to warm the bench while longtime rival Marvel...
Author Melissa Bank is sick of her own voice. "It's just, at a certain point on a book tour you get so tired of talking about yourself and your book. Just the sound of your...
It's an age-old story: Boy meets girl, boy woos girl, boy wins girl -- and then his fiancée shows up to prove him a lying, cheating cad. Girl dies, literally, of a...
Houston Press food writer Robb Walsh has been named a finalist in two separate categories of this year's national Association of Food Journalists competition for work done in...
For a few months there, the mild-mannered English trio Keane was the hot UK export for American listeners who were counting down the days to the release of Coldplay's X&Y;,...
A meal of pulpo con camarones ($9.50) at Ostioneria 7 Mares (4602 Irvington, 713-692-7776) is an incendiary experience. Eight large butterflied shrimp are cooked with pieces of...
You're a talented young resident at a New York hospital, first-generation Chinese, and you happen to be gay. In fact, you're dating a new and exciting woman, a dancer with the...
Thursday, June 16 Today, bars and clubs will be full of eager singles looking to hook up for the weekend or -- gasp! -- even longer. But if you're growing tired of asking for...
A Class Act A Class Act, now running at Theater LaB, is a wonderfully tender homage to the late Edward Kleban, award-winning lyricist for A Chorus Line. Put together by Linda...
Tempers flaring and dark exhaust steaming, life on Houston highways is no easy road. Cars and cargo lunge about as the orange-cone crews struggle to clear wrecks and shield...
If you're a regular reader of this column, you know that this writer is of the (widely shared) opinion that Houston radio sucks. But, brothers and sisters, I'm here to tell you...
For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator who has bewitched Japanese audiences since the late '70s...
In 1995 Jade Esteban Estrada became a woman. And like so many things alt-culture in those days, it was all thanks to Jerry Springer. "I was asked to play a transgender singer,...
Todd Hido has lurked in banal suburban neighborhoods photographing ranch-style houses at night. He has recorded the interiors of featureless motels. He has wandered the rooms...
There are few things more heartwarming than a giant corporation going after the little guy, especially when that giant corporation normally puts on a warm and fuzzy public...
Few figures in pop music are as divisive as Björk, that pint-sized Icelandic pixie princess with the Grand Canyon-size voice. Her fans border on obsessive. Her detractors...
SAT 6/18 As a place of musical importance to Houston, it's tough to beat the Eldorado Ballroom. Originally open from 1939 to 1973, its stage hosted musical legends from Count...
