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Issue: April 27, 2006
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  1. Feature

    Big Love, Texas-Style

    Polygamists live in a compound on our state's dry western plains

    By Keith Plocek
    Published: April 27, 2006

    ELDORADO, TEXAS -- James Doyle rears back on the stick, and his Piper Cherokee 180 flops into the air, hastily rising above the dry cedars and prickly pears of Schleicher...

  2. Been There, Done That

    They've Got Spirit

    Houston Texans Cheerleader tryouts

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    There's this notion around town that the Houston Texans Cheerleaders have it easy. Bah! For starters, these hot, nubile women -- much like their football-playing counterparts...

  3. Music

    Mothers' Day

    Acid Mothers Temple's long, strange trip

    By Michael Roberts
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Kawabata Makoto, the high priest of Japan's Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno, conducts English-language interviews via e-mail with the help of a translator, and that's...

  4. Cafe

    The Sweet Smell of Wang Galbi

    This stunning new Korean barbecue restaurant looks like a picnic grove inside a shopping center

    By Robb Walsh
    Published: April 27, 2006

    The metal grill in the middle of our table at Arirang Korean Restaurant was sizzling hot and ready for action. As luck would have it, the raw meats arrived at exactly the same...

  5. Film

    Fear of Flying

    You may not want to see United 93, but you should

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: April 27, 2006

    United 93 -- which uses the hijacking of one plane on September 11, 2001, to tell the story of what happened to all four aircraft seized that morning -- may be the most...

  6. Night & Day

    Come Out with Sheryl

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Recently, Houston Comets All-Star forward Sheryl Swoopes made headlines when she acknowledged that she's a lesbian. Some fans where aghast, while others were more like, "Well,...

  7. Night & Day

    Queen Thang

    By Mary Templeton
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Poppea may not get crowned Empress until the end of The Coronation of Poppea, but she establishes herself as Ms. Thang immediately. Already a married noblewoman living in a...

  8. Night & Day

    "Argentine" Trip

    By Mary Templeton
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Eduardo Gil's black-and-white photograph Untitled shows a large circle of people holding hands, open-mouthed in either joy or protest. The ambiguity is no accident. Like Gil's...

  9. Night & Day

    They'll Albee Good

    By Mary Templeton
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Broadway be damned. Edward Albee enjoys university theater, thank you. This week, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Tony Award winner, who has spent a good...

  10. Night & Day

    An Early Christmas

    By Mary Templeton
    Published: April 27, 2006

    It's almost May, and Bobbindoctrin and Unhinged Productions know just what you need: some warm holiday fuzzies. Their collaboration on Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel's The...

  11. Night & Day

    Jetsetters Invited

    By Ray Hafner
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Although they'd never admit it, many people go to air shows in hopes of watching a stunt prop-plane execute perfect barrel rolls and loop-de-loops and then promptly crash into...

  12. Night & Day

    Boy Makes Good

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Calvin is a loser. A loser's loser. He's so loser-iffic, his goldfish rejects him. After our mousy hero loses his job and girlfriend, he meets his six-foot-eight, easygoing...

  13. Night & Day

    Bush, or Bust?

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    The debate has been going on for months: Should the Houston Texans select USC's Reggie Bush with their No. 1 pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, or should they go with hometown fave...

  14. Night & Day

    Bringin' tha Funk

    By Julia Ramey
    Published: April 27, 2006

    How's this for cred? 50 Cent, Janet Jackson and P. Diddy have all worked with members of Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, which the Society for the Performing Arts brings...

  15. Night & Day

    Coochie Coos

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Much like Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, the title of local playwright/director Wayne De Hart's new show gets right to the point. Yes, there's really no mistaking what's...

  16. Night & Day

    Raise the Ruthie

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Texas singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster owes much of her fan base and critical following to her live performances. At once folksy, bluesy and poppy, Foster works any room � big...

  17. Night & Day

    Phat "Futurist"

    By Travis Ritter
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Born and raised in Queens, artist, rapper, tagger and self-proclaimed "Gothic Futurist" Rammellzee helped change the face of New York's urban landscape in the 1970s with...

  18. Night & Day

    They're in Tune

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    The next time you think of cracking on adolescent drama geeks, consider this: Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie got their start acting in high school productions. With that in mind,...

  19. Night & Day

    Go West

    By Travis Ritter
    Published: April 27, 2006

    Yep, it's spring again, and the folks behind the leftist bi-weekly rag Free Press Houston are gonna make sure you get out of the house and experience it at the Westheimer...

  20. Night & Day

    Feeling Beals

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: April 27, 2006

    You may recognize Jennifer Beals as the artsy femme on Showtime's lovely lesbo fest, The L Word. But if you were of PG-watching age in 1983 � or you just dig old movies �...

Issue: April 27, 2006
Page: 1
52 stories found - 1 through 20
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