Sarah Tollemache wins laughs pondering subjects such as how much Paul McCartney’s ex-sweetheart Heather Mills’s beautifully crafted prosthetic leg must have cost....
Things are heating up at Tommy’s Seafood — no, not the food, the music! This weekend, trumpet player Brandon Lee joins Tommy’s house band the Matt Lemmler Trio...
The Wars of the Roses isn’t one of the more History Channel-worthy conflicts, but its passionate lords and ladies, who undergo constant tests of loyalty and carry out...
Though hip moms have traded in 2 a.m. last calls for 2 a.m. breast feedings, there’s no reason they can’t still get their groove on with their rugrats at Baby Loves...
Anne Frank is the best known of the hundreds of Jewish children that were hidden across Europe during the Holocaust; thanks to “Hidden Children in Occupied Greece,” a...
Good news, bad news. Bad news first: With 17,000 runners already signed up for the full and half marathons, the annual Chevron Houston Marathon is sold out. So if you...
In an age when “eating healthy” means consuming foods that have had all the carbs, fats and/or cholesterols ripped out of them through chemical tinkering, Martha Rose...
Dr. Terrence Doody is nothing if not brave. Here’s hoping he’s long-winded, too. The English professor from Rice University takes on the daunting task of boiling down...
Growing up gay in East Texas might be enough of a challenge for some people, but Robert Leleux had a hysterical, self-absorbed mother to contend with as well. In The Memoirs of...
The NeverEnding Story and Everlasting Gobstoppers: Neither is true to its name, but both offer layer after layer of goodness. You can stock up on both today at Alamo...
If you’re the type of art lover who gets aroused by the words “video installation,” thank Bruce Nauman. The San Francisco-based artist, whose works on and off...
Composer Cindy McTee was inspired by a coincidence. “[Last summer] I was talking with a friend about the various ways in which ‘shadow’ might be expressed...
“DIGITALIA: Intimacy in the Hyperreal” explores a hot topic of the information age. Deborah Colton Gallery assistant Evan J. Garza is making his curatorial debut with...
It seems strange for an Italian restaurant to host a Celebration of Beer Dinner — after all, aren’t Italians wine people? Yes and no, according to Italian native and...
The music of contemporary classical composers often takes second fiddle to that of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. But one of the great advantages contemporary music has over its...
Something you might hear at an Art Chatter Critique Group meeting: “Hey brushy, brushy, brushy…STEE-ROKE!” Okay, that was pretty dumb (art/baseball analogies...
Hope Stone will celebrate its tenth anniversary with something old and something new, as it premieres a new dance production by veteran choreographer Jane Weiner. SEE Me is...
A dark cloud looms over Gulf Coast All-Star Wrestling’s Doomsday division — well, actually it’s a sparkly-pink-spandex-clad wrestler named Precious Jewels —...
Getting sent to prison may have been the best thing to happen to Tommy Chong in years, careerwise at least. Before his “water pipe” company Chong Glass/Nice Dreams...
Swing dancing didn’t die (again) in the late ‘90s. Believe it or not, there’s still enough interest to fuel the 17th Annual Swing Dance Championships. Dancers...
