Toyya Braskey took two tranquilizers her first night dancing topless at Heartbreakers. She doesn't remember being there, she says, but she made $700. As she danced on...
"It was a blessing in disguise," says Felix Sama, co-host and DJ for Mun2's hot property, the daily live TV show The Roof. He's carrying bags full of records he just mixed live...
It's 6:30 a.m., and the breakfast shift at Frank's Grill on Telephone Road has already been at it for an hour and a half. The head chef is wearing one of those...
Much like "hilarious Islamic comedy" or "sublime Affleck picture," the term "terrific second sequel" isn't bandied about too much. Name one. Took you a minute, didn't it? Don't...
Houston's poetry scene has exploded. In the early days, there were underground Midtown Art Center gigs with Israel McCloud and the infamous Roots Collective, and those...
Watch out! The "jungle-red" claws of the catfighting ladies in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women are as sharp as ever, especially in Main Street Theater's hysterical revival of the...
Juneteenth should be a celebration of unity, right? What with slaves being freed and all. But the holiday reportedly left some bruised feelings at one local government agency....
All you gotta do is say yes / Don't deny what you feel /Let me undress you, baby / Open up your mind and just rest And so begins the chorus of "Say Yes," the sparkling,...
If you're planning to order the chicken-fried steak ($9.95) at Hickory Hollow (101 Heights Boulevard, 713-869-6300, and other locations), the only decision you have to make is...
ABC-TV has penciled in to its 2004 schedule a series based upon the 2001 film Legally Blonde, for which a pilot has been shot starring someone named Jennifer Hall in the Reese...
Thursday, July 3 We suggest calling in sick today and booking it out of town to spend the afternoon tubing down the Colorado River. Unlike New Braunfels, Columbus is only an...
Mayoral candidate Bill White did his best to hold the attention of an audience crowded around the bar at Midtown's Seven Lounge, but the competition was stiff. White paced the...
A little less than four months after getting fired by Clear Channel Broadcasting, June Garcia Sherman, formerly the director of nontraditional revenue at five local Clear...
If we base our perceptions of Palestine on news accounts, we imagine ruined towns, rubble and people throwing stones at Israeli tanks. We view Palestine as a place ruled by...
Robin Riley had seen the recent blizzard of what he considers pro-Bayport advertising by the Port of Houston Authority. He and other opponents of the plans for a major...
Vikter Duplaix wants you bad -- really bad. So bad it hurts. You can practically see him, lying on the floor, hand on his stomach, slithering around just like Maxwell in that...
FRI 7/4 Here's a rundown on where to watch the bombs bursting in air this Independence Day. Sam Houston Race Park celebrates the Fourth with some good ol'- fashioned...
Job Dilemma Masking the résumé: Saad Mahmoud needs to ignore his friends ["Taking the Plunge," by Jennifer Mathieu, June 19]. Allegedly they told him that...
Ah, the music industry, where a former white-hot mama indie rock icon turns to designated hit-makers the Matrix, the Scandinavian songwriting team responsible for Avril...
Only a month ago, Houston played host to a sold-out international match -- Mexico vs. the U.S. -- that proved that this city has lots of soccer fans, and that if the...
