The journeyman is coming! Thank God. They've been huddled like this for minutes, minutes that seem like hours, ever since the game ended. They have deadlines, all of them:...
My lesson for the week: How do you find out if Howard Stern's girlfriend is regular? Show up to a TV-commercial audition. I'm hanging out at Jones Plaza on a cloudy Friday...
Listen, boys and girls: A long time ago � yes, before you or I or the Toronto music scene was even born � some very wrong people had a very bad idea. Children, these very wrong...
The mi at Pho Dung Noodle House in Hong Kong City Mall was excellent, but unfortunately my dining companion found my noodle-slurping technique so disgusting, she threatened to...
Given Inside Man's bullpen (director Spike Lee, stars Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster), moment in political history and advertising, you could be forgiven for anticipating...
She was born in Russia, spent her adolescence in Milwaukee, immigrated to Israel to live and work on a kibbutz, and eventually rose to become that country's prime minister from...
Back in MTV's heyday, long before any rooms got raided or any rides got pimped, they used to show these things called "music videos." If you were watching these "videos" in the...
Ladies, you ever check out those bike messengers you see downtown? You know, the ones with the streetwise, hip, emo-meets-jock vibe? They've got the shorts, the lean, muscular...
Frank, Theo and Babette, the three central characters in [sic], the latest play from Mildred's Umbrella, have serious issues. They're educated. They're condescending. And...
Off a county road in tiny Caldwell, Texas, near a town called Harmony, lives a legend. And though many don't know who Gable Matcek is, local country fans should. Today the...
The first show the fledgling west Houston stage company Gray Wolf Theatre ever put on was Hamlet. A noble effort, sure, but honestly, not enough skin. Their next endeavor,...
Here's a much more effective telling of the Palestinian-Jewish situation than you'll get with any "fair and balanced" news coverage. The documentary Arna's Children tells the...
It's been a while since Aimee Jones graced the scene with one of her casually hip art shows. And it's too bad, since her events can be as watchable as any American Idol episode...
Before you take those old clothes to Goodwill, consider the decade of work by minimalist Joseph Havel. His approach to art, hugely inspired by his own laundry, is on view in...
It was the decade of pre-Scientology John Travolta, groovalicious bell-bottoms and generous wa-wa pedals. And now, 30 years later, in a salute to the velvet-jumpsuit era we...
Yo, can you say two Pulitzer Prizes in the house? The Alley Theatre can this week, when poets Louise Gl�ck and Franz Wright take the stage to read from their new books. Don't...
Well, a year has passed, but -- lo and behold -- people are still destroying the environment. So it makes perfect sense that the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble would resurrect...
Last year women's boxing got a huge PR boost with Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. Folks clamored to see the sweet Hilary Swank don a mouthpiece and gloves and TKO her...
Don't worry, you don't have to remember the name of Houston-based band Audible>Stellar>Hypnotic>Situations. They go by A>S>H>S. Since forming in 1997 as a tribal percussion and...
The image of a girl lying bound and gagged on the floor of an apartment is startling. But it's Paige Majko's way of dealing with trauma and terror -- and it's strangely...
