June 28, 1996: Jana Dreyer was about to turn 14, and she didn't want to spend Friday night with her mom. A senior at Brenham High School was hosting a graduation party at a...
There are lots of raucous, obnoxious, noisy bands out there. Some have cut CDs. Some have regular gigs around town. And some even manage to attract crowds at their shows. This...
Faster than you can say "new American cuisine" or "Asian fusion," the Nuevo Latino trend is sweeping the rest of the country. Of course, this is an instance where Houston has...
Filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger, the lead character in the intermittently funny Hollywood satire Bowfinger starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy, has a dream. Nothing so grand as an...
John Slate had his first "whoa, cool man" visual trip in early-'70s Austin. Some hippie neighbors had plastered their walls with black-light posters, and listening to Slate...
At the turn of the 20th century, America burned with adolescent rage. It was a country struggling to find itself. Immigrants, African-Americans and gentrified white Protestants...
"I do miss you, but I am not unhappy that you are gone." Edith Oliveros wrote those words to her 20-year-old daughter, Pauline, in 1952. Pauline had left Houston for San...
If Jimmy "T-99" Nelson could have foreseen it, he might well have adopted another nickname, something with a lower number. Known for almost half a century by the "T99" moniker,...
Antique shopping in the Houston Heights can be exhausting, and Carter & Cooley is the perfect place to stop and replenish yourself. In fact, the place looks a bit like an...
Do not be fooled: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss receive top billing in Detroit Rock City, but KISS doesn't actually appear in the film until its final...
Make no mistake. Anthony Clark is not Boyd Pritchett. The star of NBC's Boston Common, a somewhat successful and now syndicated 1996 sitcom, may have lent his life story to the...
The Houston Chronicle just finished a fat, happy week, bulging with advertisements urging shoppers to take advantage of the state's new three-day "sales-tax holiday." The...
+Seattle's Hovercraft remains best known not for its fascinating instrumental music but for the love life of bassist Sadie 7, a.k.a. Beth Liebling, who's married to Pearl Jam's...
Heads up, pancake purists: It's worth the pilgrimage to Rio Ranch [9999 Westheimer, Westchase Hilton, (713)952-5000] for a short stack of tender buttermilk pancakes, gems of...
When Rice University financial officials and their lawyers packed their briefcases and drove to City Hall for a Council committee hearing earlier this summer, they thought...
First of all, Al Green is not Chubby Checker, and "Let's Stay Together" is definitely not "The Twist." When will people realize that this top-of-the-line performer is not a...
The worn planks that make up Gareth and Bram's tree house rest in the tangled branches of an old Chinese tallow. A few steps affixed to the trunk lead to what looks like an old...
Sometimes it's easy to forget Al Jarreau is a tremendous jazz singer. For more than 15 years his recordings have been in the soft R&B;/adult contemporary vein. Even though he...
When the only trial involving the police killing of Pedro Oregon ended in acquittal last March, the cries of vindication began. Former officer James Willis openly sobbed after...
Lead Stories In July the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York, finally got around to forming a committee of physicists to explore whether the...
