On a frigid Sunday evening, Daniel Hopkins and his girlfriend pasture his sorrel quarter horse, crank the heater in his Astro van and set off with a load of five children for...
Right now, it seems like the world is Slim Thug's oyster to shuck. The towering (six foot six) Northside rapper has been one of Texas's and the South's mixtape messiahs for...
When I glanced up from the mound of pure jumbo lump crabmeat and the complimentary bowl of boiled shrimp on our table at Clary's Seafood Restaurant, I was looking out a picture...
Roald Dahl's inner child was evidently a contrary lad -- precocious, dark-minded, contemptuous of adult supervision and fueled by a sense of justice that often proceeded via...
The Inversion installation at Art League's Montrose headquarters has been impressively turning heads lately. But in general, public art certainly lacks the "wow factor." In...
In Main Street Theater's hysterical production of Beyond the Fringe, the following characters all appear: Tony Blair, a coal miner and a one-legged man who wants to play...
Despite the fact that my wife, Jacqueline, and I had been on vacation for five days with four children -- two of our own, our nine-year-old son John Henry and infant daughter...
There can be few worse places to be on this earth than Houston in a July drought/ heat wave. Chicago in a January blizzard can't hold a candle to this for sheer misery -- the...
The "perro caliente" ($4.25) at Onion Creek Coffee House (3106 White Oak Drive, 713-880-0706) is a dog with an attitude. Two large all-beef frankfurters are squeezed between...
If Vince Vaughn puts any effort into what he's doing, it doesn't show, which is perhaps one of the benefits of always appearing to be hungover. The man probably has to check...
Thursday, July 14 LL may or may not have gone to hell, but one thing's for sure: His former one-man-band-cum-right-hand-man rocks the bells every week in Houston. That's right,...
Mister Roberts It's hard keeping those crisp navy whites cleaned and pressed when you're on a "can" of a cargo ship called the USS Reluctant, somewhere in the South Pacific...
The racetracks of NASCAR -- from the "Too Tough to Tame" Darlington Raceway to the blazing-fast Talladega Superspeedway -- are intense cauldrons of competition where the...
Mark my words, two words will take the country by storm by the end of this summer, and those two words are dookie bubble. And we will have the one and only Bobby Brown to thank...
Movies based on comic books have become dime-a-dozen events -- appropriate given the cover price of these titles was ten cents when they debuted decades ago. It wasn't so long...
Bertice Berry earned her Ph.D. in sociology at 26. She's a successful corporate speaker and has written two memoirs, four novels and two best-selling comedic "guides,"...
With the exhibition of works by Luis Tomasello, Sicardi Gallery brings yet another little-known Latin American master of avant-garde work to the attention of Houston. Like...
Congressman Ted Poe has gotten national attention with a little travelogue he wrote that showed up on the op-ed page of the Houston Chronicle and on the celebrated...
Now that even your grandmother gets Dave Chappelle's goof on Lil Jon, crunk faces the challenge of all overexposed genres: How to stay relevant? One way, of course, is through...
Me and You and Everyone We Know, the new film from writer-director-performance artist Miranda July, walked off with prizes at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. An...
