They call him the boy born without a throat. That's shorthand for an esophagus that wasn't hooked up right. Born in Galveston to a juvenile diabetic mother, at age four he...
Inscrutable band name Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Randomly chosen by combining words in the Canadian Anarchist Collective Magnetic Poetry set. Put the exclamation point after...
The head sushi chef leans over his work station to hear my whispered request. "This young lady over here wants to try sushi for the first time," I explain. "What do you...
It's hard to believe they were originally going to release Basic before bombs started falling over Baghdad; if it isn't the worst movie of 2003 so far, it's only because Boat...
Last fall, Soundwaves buyer and professional house/downtempo DJ Chris Sill decided something was missing from the Soundwaves store in Montrose. What the nerve center of the...
War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O'Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it's...
As the first missiles struck Baghdad last Wednesday, local Democrats were quick to back the troops, but mostly silent on the larger issues posed by the first pre-emptive war in...
Coming across Dallas songwriter Max Stalling's One of the Ways in the Texas music section of the local record store is like discovering a pack of Gauloise cigarettes in a...
Camille Waters is the premier urban gardener of Houston, an earth mother who makes enough money from the lettuce she grows to vacation in Mexico every summer -- when it's too...
The title Morvern Callar may sound like an Edward Gorey book or a job designation for telephone solicitors, but it's actually a name -- pronounced (roughly) "Mawvin Calla"...
Thursday, March 27 What does a comedian get if he's both funny and easy on the eyes? A Taco Bell ad campaign. Daniel Tosh pushes nachos for the fast food chain, flashing his...
From the diminutive and dirty world of Joel Orr's Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre comes another strange story. Sex, drugs and art are at the center of this tawdry tale about a day...
Killing the Leaders Gulf War II didn't quite start like one of those John Wayne or Ronald Reagan WWII movies where the hero prevails against overwhelming odds -- and a cast...
Country musicians have never been shy about their political views, especially during times of war. Way back in 1945, Red Foley had a hit with a song called "Smoke on the...
The Spanish dish paella takes its name from the paellera, the shallow, two-handled, iron pan in which it is both cooked and served. The Romans brought this utensil to Spain,...
Emerging from Till Human Voices Wake Us, it was easy to overhear some male viewers striving adamantly to put the film's metaphysical themes in their place, to explain them...
Patti Smith may have almost single-handedly launched punk rock in the late '70s, but she originally wanted to be a visual artist. "She really studied as an artist and moved to...
Kerry Inman is looking skeptically down her nose at Texas Gallery. Er, rather, she's at Texas Gallery looking down her nose. Her portrait and its floral-wallpaper-on-steroids...
Like a lot of Houston motorists, Daphne A. Rambo found out the hard way that her vehicle license tags and inspection sticker had expired in January. A police officer pulled her...
If the first image your mind conjures when you think of a steel guitar player is a pudgy old white guy in western duds helping a bar full of similar-looking patrons to cry in...
