There is one chair in the room and they sit him in it. He pulls out his wallet. He's looking for a number. A phone number, an address. That is why he is here. Fernando the...
My interview with Kenny Bridges, vocalist and guitar player for the rock band Moneen, starts off as expected -- with him being sarcastic and charming at the same time and me...
After a deep whiff of the duck red curry at Thepthidaa, the new Thai restaurant near the Alley Theatre on Louisiana, I burst into song: "If you like pi�a coladas, and getting...
Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amidst...
John Harvey's mind seems to be a tortured place indeed. In Rot, the newest story coming from Harvey's dangerous pen, incest, disease and a general sense of the hatefulness in...
From the newest iPod to the Olsen twins' collective waistline, the world loves all things mini. The Nintendo Wii embraces this digestible format once again for Wii Play, a...
Sleep in today and wake up ready to imbibe. You have no excuse for missing out on the biggest drinking day of the year. Start it off at the parade or an Irish brunch -- either...
The world of dating can be tough these days. Sensing, somehow, that single Houstonians lacked anything like computers that had eHarmony or Craigslist, the folks at Channel 13...
The last few years have seen a mini-trend of internationally renowned artists releasing albums about growing up in Houston. Rodney Crowell got the ball rolling with The Houston...
Domino's has nothing on the Turkish lahmajun pizza (a.k.a. lahmacun pide) ($5.99) at Turquoise Grill (3701 Kirby, 713-526-3800). Lahmajun is an Arabic word that means "meat on...
Gross-out horror is never far from comedy, and The Host, Bong Joon-ho's giddy creature feature, has the anarchic mess factor worthy of a pile of old Mad magazines. A broadly...
Burn This Playing one of the most incendiary, original characters in modern drama, Pale in Lanford Wilson's 1987 oddball romance drama, Bernardo Cubria sets Silver House...
Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition (Fox) Revenge of the Nerds is a great movie. No, really. It's got a bitching new-wave soundtrack and some truly inspired performances...
Similar situation: I have never written in response to a story before, but I just had to say thank you for this one ["Homeless in Suburbia," by Todd Spivak, February 22]. I...
You don't have to have supernatural powers to sense which direction the music industry is headed. With that sentiment in mind, we've sorted through the riffraff of the digital...
In the seminal CGI flick Tron, Jeff Bridges plays a hacker transported into a video game environment where he must perform all kinds of arcade-riffic feats in order to defeat...
A Brush With Death (New Light) Buster Crabbe Collection (St. Clair Vision) Captain Horatio Hornblower (Warner Bros.) Care Bears: Friends Forever (Lions Gate) Commissar...
Rapper J Xavier was only 12 years old when he won the America's Most Talented Kids Show contest in 2004. Now, at age 14, he already has a CD and a couple of music videos out,...
"Ariane Roesch" Ariane Roesch is still in school at the University of Houston, but she's managing to put out some really interesting work. In her show at DeSantos Gallery,...
