We've just walked up and down the Montrose on an August day so hot you can hear the heat, and Big John is sitting in a bar with his shirt off. He leans back in a crappy chair,...
The truth is only known by guttersnipes. -- the Clash, "Garageland," 1977 London calling and speak the slang now. -- M.I.A., "Galang," 2004 Cult of personality: If...
The Jamaican curry goat at Tropical Grill on Bissonnet is a sumptuous, spicy stew containing long-cooked pieces of meat clinging to chunks of bone. I try to explain to my wary...
If you're a character in a movie, and the rain is coming down so heavily that you cannot see out of your car's windshield, for the love of God, don't drive! Mack-truck drivers...
There are few coming-of-age stories like Maria Elena Fernandez's Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist. The autobiographical comedy, full of breezy, sassy dance and music, is about...
Michael Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, now running at Main Street Theater, is a most unusual comedy. Wildly ambitious, this play, set in Paris in...
Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet Second Seazon (HBO Home Video) Sacha Baron Cohen is inching closer to Tom Green territory; come this time next year, his HBO show is likely to be...
Wayne Kanuch's gambling addiction dropped him to his knees -- literally. He spent nights searching for lost wallets between cars in the parking lot outside Sam Houston Race...
Zach Sciacca wanted to know one thing, and one thing only: "Did that motherfucker just grab his dick at me?" That motherfucker was big-time raver DJ Icey, and, yes, that...
Brown Bag Deli (2036 Westheimer, 713-807-9191), customization is the name of the game. Customers pick up brown bags outside the deli's front door, then check off on the bags...
Andrew Niccol's first two films as writer-director, 1997's Gattaca and 2002's S1m0ne, were hollow, sterile sci-fi masquerading as earnest satire. The former told of a near...
Thursday, September 15 Here's one reason to revel in adulthood: You're finally old enough to eat dessert for dinner without getting in trouble. Unleash your sweet tooth and...
Assassins For Broadway hep cats, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1990 cult musical about presidential assassins may be catnip, but it's a difficult work to cozy up to. This...
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James Ellinger scuttles to a parked van, lifts another heavy cardboard box nearly half his size and hauls it through the Astrodome parking lot. The 52-year-old Austin native...
In a well-intentioned but flawed Fox News article that came out in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, columnist Roger Friedman railed against the lack of zydeco and...
If The Memory of a Killer were not mostly in Flemish, it would be easily mistaken for a Hollywood movie. The story of a hit man with a conscience and the cop who's always a...
Quite frankly, as far as musical instruments go, few are more suicide-provoking than the Indian sitar. Just playing a simple melody on the stringed instrument takes years of...
"Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work came to the attention of the art...
Katrina evacuees have for the most part moved on from the Dome and the convention center, but when they first got here officials estimated they might be living on cots in the...
