There were a couple of striking-looking women sitting at the bar at Sabor, one of the trendiest restaurants in town. They were drinking some of the restaurant's signature...
For such a young band, the Hush Sound is making a big noise. Bob Morris has got his hands full tonight. His band, the Hush Sound, is slated to open for Fall Out Boy and the...
The moussaka at YiaYia's Roadster Grill on Bissonnet in Bellaire is one of the best in Houston. It starts with a bottom crust made with wide slices of potato. The middle is a...
By all rights, 2002's Die Another Day should have been and could have been the final James Bond film. It was packaged like a cynical, weary best-of concert coughed up by an...
Noisy neighbors can ruin a perfectly good day. Nobody knows that better than Jerry Schiff, the down-on-his-luck character at the center of Daniel Stern's Barbra's Wedding, now...
Final Fantasy is to role-playing games as the Yankees are to baseball. The series -- now almost 20 years old -- practically redefined the genre with Final Fantasy VII on the...
It's a cool, crisp Tuesday night, and Osama Bin Laden is taking a leisurely ride through the Montrose. As he leans over his little blue scooter, the wind whips through his...
When you get right down to it, Houston is really just all about one thing -- The Car. Every day, we seem more and more like a city fit only for refined oil and crude people....
Pizza isn't the only thing you'll find at California Pizza Kitchen (1705 Post Oak Blvd., 713-963-9262). The place also serves an amazing appetizer called tortilla spring rolls...
Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater from Eric Schlosser's 2001 best-selling expos� of the McDonald's conspiracy, is an anti-commercial. It's designed to kill desire...
Antigone When Sophocles wrote this most stereotypical political tragedy about how a citizen questioning authority can devastate a community, he should have called it Creon. The...
Forbidden Planet (Warner Bros.) Long available as faded discount product, Fred McLeod Wilcox's 1956 masterpiece -- the movie without which Star Trek, Star Wars, 2001, and,...
Hopes for Henley: I worked with Jim Henley at Lanier for many years and he really came to my rescue in my early teaching days, when I was discouraged and wanted to quit...
Dear Hollywood, You adore making big-budget biopics about rock stars and their eternal struggles against booze, broads and diverse demons. And we love watching them. Some you...
Based solely on the sounds blasting out of The Cotton Exchange Bar & Lounge (202 Travis, 713-229-0097), you could reasonably assume there's a gigantic rave going on inside. A...
Having animals act like humans on film is a storytelling device as old as time, so maybe it's a little unfair to get tired of it just now. But back in the day wise old owls...
"Andy Moses: Vuelta" Andy Moses's work looks like interstellar plein-air paintings -- sunrises and sunsets from some other planet. Using pearlescent pigments, Moses creates...
Brothers of the Head (IFC) Cary Grant: The Franchise Collection (Universal) CSI: The Complete Sixth Season (Paramount) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Rhino) 49 Up (First...
Moxie, a rock quartet of Rice University students, has just put out their first studio work, an EP called Fight the Monochrome. Made up of Evan Davies on guitar, piano and...
