They say Gene Weaver could sell you the hair on your head. He says he's already done that. He's sold Taiwanese wigs, peddled cashew trees in Belize, even pushed cactuses in the...
If Bob Dole ever decides to change his image, he might consider enlisting a little help from Seattle's The Presidents of the United States of America. These post-grunge...
The soul of a foodie who's jaded from too much exposure to all that's hipper-than-thou in today's restaurant scene might well find respite in the welcome presented by the two...
Why, indeed, must the show go on? This question is of more than academic interest to Joe Harper (Michael Maloney), a high-strung, chronically unemployed British actor who...
thursday february 29 Jack Daniel's at the rodeo Today at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Jimmy Bedford, master distiller, will be in the Jack Daniel booth to talk...
Perhaps it's just something in the air, but for reasons uncertain, Jane Austen, dead lo these 179 years, has suddenly become the author of the moment. Two major movies based on...
Before you build a stairway to Heaven, you might want make sure it's okay with your neighborhood civic association. Take it from members of the Tien Tao Association of...
When the task at hand is spitting out product for listeners, Houston's music community is nothing if not prolific. Tiny local record labels have multiplied in the last few...
Though I've always been fond of the food at Churrascos, what I've been even more fond of at Michael and Glenn Cordua's South Ameri-can restaurants is the service: unfailingly...
There are two scenes in Rumble in the Bronx that go a long way toward explaining why, in Asia, Jackie Chan is a movie star who eclipses the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger,...
This week, as Foto Fest '96 begins, a Colombian photographer named Oscar Mu�oz will place a piece of photo emulsion paper in a four-foot-by-four-foot Plexiglas box sitting on...
The monthly meetings of the Bellaire Parks and Recreation Advisory Board are not known for their controversies. Normally, they proceed with the sort of quiet, orderly...
Given that complex people are often best described with a few short words, "universal appeal" seems the most fitting tag for Merle Haggard. Over the years, Haggard's fans have...
At the beginning of Barbet Schroeder's new Before and After, we're shown a winter landscape of steel blue skies and crisp snow; as the camera moves through a frozen waterway,...
In 1936, when Spain's Francisco Franco invaded his own country "to save it from itself," one of the pollutant forces he saw fit to extinguish was the poet Federico Garc�a...
The guy in the blue Volvo had one of those rubbery, expressive faces. "You gonna take my picture?" he hollered, sounding a De Niro-ish mixture of invitation and threat as he...
Reggae revival... After a so-so debut in 1995, Velvet Park will try its hand again this year at the festival game. Saturday and Sunday, the choice plot of cement and grass...
The Enemy of My Enemy Is ... Go Figure When it comes to the Republican primary contest for county attorney nominee, the key to figuring out the support for hopefuls Mickey...
Come Off of It Judge Jim Barr does not deserve the jabs [The Insider, "Try Another Come-On," February 8]. Jim Barr is fair, knowledgeable and conscientious. He has the best...
