Princeton Watson had only four blocks to go. If his stepmother got home from her teaching job before he did, she'd know for sure that something was missing from the garage....
When George Bush claimed something to the effect of "there was no way we could have known that the levees would break," my first thought was to compile a mixtape for our...
Scott Tycer, the chef and owner of Gravitas, the hip new bistro on Taft, was standing at the end of the stone counter in the kitchen looking out over the sleekly modern dining...
Good Night, and Good Luck, a riveting movie that's as entertaining as it is socially and politically important, could not have come at a more propitious time. But more than...
If opera seems a bit too schmaltzy for you, consider this plot line: Fifteen years after the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian czar Boris Godunov uses treachery and...
Roxie Hart, the gorgeous killer whose wiggling hips all but set Chicago on fire, is one of musical comedy's most wonderfully wicked femmes fatales. She gets away with murder...
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 (Warner Home Video) There's good reason to be skeptical of an eight-disc Batman set that forces you to buy the campy Joel...
Jose Escalante is a free man. And for that, dildo lovers all across Houston should celebrate. Escalante is a clerk at Adult Video Megaplex in north Houston, and he faced a...
As we approach the end of the fattest, dopest, flyest, funky-freshest year in H-town hip-hop history, it would behoove us to take a brief look back at the city's rap history....
The camarones Hennessy en hamaca ($11.50) at Beso (2300 Westheimer, 713-523-2376) are a perfect example of chef Arturo Boada's fusion cuisine, which blends South American,...
It's the cover-up, stupid! It doomed Nixon during Watergate, got Clinton impeached, inspired outrage against the Catholic Church, and apparently it's just part of the...
Thursday, October 20 Artist Fran Padgett was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. Now a survivor, she's putting out the coffee table book Breast Cancer Recovery: No One Wrote...
All in the Timing If, in showbiz, timing is everything, then Country Playhouse's production of these six David Ives comedies is as accurate as an atomic clock. Prolific young...
It's ugly to watch a grown man gush over a puppy. The kissing. The cooing. The "widdle-doggie" talk. Embarrassing stuff. So it was with trepidation that I approached...
The Lost World The ride of her life: I lost my virginity in the park (June 19, 1989 -- during the fireworks show) in an abandoned concession stand ["RIP, AstroWorld," Hair...
Like a lot of us in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Micah Nickerson and Damien Randle of local hip-hop duo the Legendary K.O. (formerly K-Otix) were consumed with...
DreamWorks is so eager to have you believe in its latest family movie that the words "inspired by a true story" are actually part of the title. Yep, Dreamer: Inspired by a True...
Like South By Southwest, the Austin Film Festival is a stargazer's dream. The annual, weeklong event in A-town features 80 advance screenings and film premieres, as well as...
If you've ever built a tree house, tried to exist in a dorm room, gone camping, rearranged your home, attempted to organize your office or intently read a fashion magazine...
The Adventures of Superman: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) American Movie Musicals Collection (Columbia/Tristar) Batman Begins (Warner Bros.) Bruce Lee:...
