We at David Weekley Homes are not just selling shelter; we are selling the dream of home ownership ... a sense of security and stability ... a stress-free retreat from the...
Not too long ago, an internationally renowned authority on popular culture came to Houston and asked me to take him out to a few of the city's select juke joints. This...
Anyone who's driven along Kirby Drive in the past couple of months has probably noticed a pair of restaurants that recently opened within blocks of each other. It's not their...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Lone Star, a film richly steeped in Texas traditions and eccentricities, is that it was written and directed by a maverick independent...
thursday june 27 Mark Curry A while back, Mark Curry was working in a drugstore, keeping the customers in stitches. No, he wasn't tending their wounds; he was making them...
Despite her enormous popularity as a writer, Agatha Christie has never been a favorite of the intellectuals. Christie fans claim this has nothing to do with the quality of her...
If the Murillos, Townsends and Ganjis tried to bring their suits against David Weekley Homes today, they might have a tougher time in court, thanks to revisions in the law...
The Plimsouls reunion might have seemed a wee bit more momentous if the band's demise in 1984 had been more of an event. But few were looking on when the Los Angeles quartet...
To all outward appearances, the Brownstone is among the last of a dying breed: opulently decorated, overstuffed with Old World heirlooms, it looks like it was furnished half a...
If you can't get away to the rolling hills of Tuscany this summer, you can enjoy the next best thing by spending a couple of hours with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty....
The eviction notice arrived on a Tuesday, crisp and white and bearing the signature of Randall Davis. The developer had had enough of tenant Jay Seegers, and told him so in...
For obvious reasons, surf music will be forever linked to summer. This is the time of year that record companies are inclined to blanket listeners with yet another mini-wave of...
Early in John Sayles' Lone Star, there is a heated discussion about textbooks that, quite obviously, is really about something else. The scene is a parent-teacher meeting...
Anytime a 15-year-old kid whose hands are cuffed behind his back is shot to death while riding in the back seat of a police car, someone has some explaining to do. Those...
"How Yoo Dawin'?" In conversation, Eddie Nichols flaunts the exaggerated syntactical swagger of Brooklyn, New York, conjuring visions of gangsters, hepcats and, not...
Port of Desire With the profusion of poison pens jabbing over the upcoming appointment to fill the city's slot on the Port Authority Commission, not all the stings being...
Is Parkway punk dead? For now, it appears that punk's presence around Allen Parkway Village will vanish along with most of the Houston housing project. Over the last year, the...
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has concluded that Press staff writer Tim Fleck broke no laws while inside Congressman Steve Stockman's combination home and...
Joe Leydon, an Honorable Man Unjustly Vilified In my opinion, Joe Leydon's review of Mission: Impossible was right on the money, insofar as I pretty much agreed with all the...
