A good part of Houston's air-pollution problem is, well, Houston: almost one-third of Space City's ground-level ozone pollutants are produced by automobiles, trucks and...
With the release of Beauty, Paul English's first CD, the local jazz pianist is poised to earn broader national recognition for the lyrical, rhythmically varied piano style and...
On paper, Semolina is a great idea. Billing itself as an "international pasta bar," this hyper-eclectic world-o'-noodles operation has been a big hit in New Orleans; restaurant...
Not much has been left unsaid about Federico Fellini. If ever there has been a filmmaker for whom a "lifetime achievement" Oscar was a career footnote rather than a capper, it...
thursday february 3 Houston Rockets vs. L.A. Lakers As if Los Angeles doesn't have enough problems -- now it has not one but two lousy basketball teams. The once-proud...
Jane Martin's 1993 play, Keely and Du, currently in an engrossing production on the Alley's Arena Stage, takes on directly and viscerally one of the most troubling moral and...
You might say I have cow phobia," explains Rob Miller, a member of the Tri-Angels, a Houston-based gay and lesbian skydiving team. "Call it 'moo phobia,' if you will." ...
Thrill-Billy Bop The Rounders Major Records There are things in this town -- as in all towns -- that are so regular, so consistent, so ever-present and so thoroughly...
The perverse imp in me has always wanted to eat haggis, and on January 25 -- Scottish bard Robbie Burns' birthday -- I finally got to. The celebrated mega-sausage of sheep's...
If you wouldn't think twice about finding rap stars hanging out in a bar in the Amazon jungle, if you'd agree that a prudent way to make a recalcitrant prisoner talk is tying...
In the middle of Houston Grand Opera's production of Street Scene, I heard something I've never heard before in many years as an opera-goer: the audience responded with a...
Westward Bound Michael Berryhill's excellent story on the Katy Prairie ["The Fight to Save the Katy Prairie, January 20] omits one significant question: why should public...
I don't want to write about the Keenlies. I mean, I really don't want to write about the Keenlies. For one thing, certain of the band-members are friends of mine, and that...
An opening image in Stepping Razor -- Red X, a disappointing biography of reggae legend Peter Tosh, is graffiti on a Jamaican boulder reading "You are sound as a rock." Perhaps...
Gaetano Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor has never recommended itself to critical taste. Even by late 19th-century standards, this Romeo and Juliet-ish melodrama...
Anyone familiar with Dean Ruck's rough-and-tumble installations will probably expect something on the order of shredded hay bales rather than the nine discrete sculptures the...
