Cheech Marin is in the room, but Steve is inching toward the drink table. It's Thursday afternoon, happy hour, and Cheech is giving a speech about a touring exhibition of...
The last time I saw a crowd this big standing outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, it was for the opening of a Star Wars exhibit. But the crowd that's packed in front of...
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Blowfly's long, hilarious and underrated career is this: Had he never lived, there'd be a hell of a lot fewer parental advisory warnings on...
The "enchiladas Anaya's" at the new Cyclone Anaya's on Durham come smothered in a fabulous sauce of ancho chiles, slow-cooked onions and sautéed mushrooms. I can't say...
Deception, betrayal and revenge. In his film directorial debut, acclaimed playwright/screenwriter/theater director Craig Lucas is done in by his own script, which becomes so...
Chambull? Dude, that's so six months ago. Party people of the moment know that the bubbly drink to sip is a French 75. The cocktail is made with vodka, lemon juice, a sprinkle...
The sweetest of holiday traditions, Houston Ballet's The Nutcracker is once again leaping its way across the stage at the Wortham Center's opulent Brown Theater. And audiences...
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Empire) Caterina in the Big City (Empire) CSI: Five-Season Pack (Paramount) Death to the Supermodels (Columbia/Tristar) Deuce...
This is a sidebar to this week's feature, "Free Booze" Americans drop $166 billion a year on alcohol. I definitely do my part, tossing in at least 60 bucks a week. But...
Beatles vs. Stones. 'Twas the great cultural debate of the 20th century, and here in the 21st -- all the really cool Beatles dead, all the surviving Rolling Stones undead --...
The menu at Yia Yia Mary's Greek Kitchen (4747 San Felipe, 713-840-8665) doesn't even hint at all the joys in store for the customer who orders its pistachio ice cream ($3.25)....
You'd think that anyone possessed of the notion that "the Jews" are one monolithic whole that thinks and acts alike need only take a look at, say, wrestler Bill Goldberg,...
Align The holidays usually bring frothy good fun to the theater. But A.D. Players, Houston's Christian theater group, have a whole new take on the season. Their Christmas...
If Hollywood wants to learn from the videogame industry -- which outgrossed the box office last year -- it should pay careful attention to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with...
In a world filled with problems, the folks at Whole Foods Markets have found a cause to fight for: the comfort of lobsters. Soon-to-be-killed lobsters, to be exact. The chain...
Two years ago, Astra Heights was just another band on the local pub circuit -- a semi-regular name on the marquee at hip joints like Rudyard's and also cover band hangs like...
It's Monday night, and I stop off at Cecil's (600 West Gray, 713-524-3691) to join the anti-Monday-night-football league for a drink. Cecil's is a neighborhood pub that's...
"Tom Burckhardt: Full Stop," in the DiverseWorks project space, is one of the city's best shows in a long time. Burckhardt has crafted an entire artist's studio out of...
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox) The pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both in real life and on celluloid, is so obvious as to be almost cartoonish. So even though both are...
Cult Classic Defending the indefensible: It is not a simple task to encapsulate in 6,500 words the twisted and disturbing history of The Family International ["Family Ties,"...
