In North Vietnam's misty Halong Bay, a French warship swallowed the children of God. It ferried them in its belly through a maze of towering stone islands and into the South...
The dancer's long, muscular legs are swirling as she arches her back, cups her perky bare breasts and gives my friends and me a "Want some of this?" look. Not tonight,...
For several years back in the '80s and '90s, rock and roll keyboard legend Al Kooper had a very cool yuletide custom. Kooper was (and is) an avid collector of prank calls,...
It was a Thursday night, and Uptown Sushi was packed to the gills. Throbbing techno music made it feel like we were entering a dance club. The black-clad hostess led my...
For whatever reason, the modernized, comic redo of King Kong released exactly 29 years ago has become less the "pop classic" that Pauline Kael insisted it was at the time than...
Andrew Lloyd Webber's astonishingly successful Cats yowled on Broadway for nearly two decades. In fact, in the summer of 1997, it pranced its way into the record books when it...
No wonder Iraq is a mess. If the battlefield in America's Army: Rise of a Soldier is an accurate picture of what it's like in the Middle East, we should cut and run ASAP. The...
She's always been an impatient knitter: half of a blanket, a quarter of a hat, a sliver of a scarf. She has to intertwine her hobby with a full-time job, a daughter and a...
This past year has easily been the weakest of the three since we started stealing Greil Marcus's method of scoring rock and roll deaths. As with every year, the reaper's bushel...
The veal puttanesca ($19.95) at Mangola's (11786 South Wilcrest, 281-498-7950) is a seductive, exciting dish worthy of its name, which means "whore's veal." As with many things...
It's not hard to predict how Ang Lee's controversial Brokeback Mountain will play in John Wayne country. This romantic tragedy about a pair of lean, wind-burned cowpokes who...
A Christmas Story Country Playhouse bathes Jean Shepherd's nostalgia-laden Christmas memoirs of his 1930s boyhood in a deep autumnal glow that's as toasty and warm as a...
The year 2005 may be the last hurrah for this generation's aging consoles, but sugar, they're going down swingin'. The PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Cube age gracefully,...
It began with e-mails that had made the round of parents and finally got to the Houston Press. Phone calls followed. Houston school superintendent Abe Saavedra was looking to...
Throughout her ever-changing incarnations -- Material Girl, religious provocateur, dominatrix, crypt keeper -- one thing Madonna has remained is honest. Whether she's...
"Agony and beauty for us live side by side," laments Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), the most successful geisha in Gion. You'll know how she feels: Memoirs of a Geisha, as directed by...
"New Texas Painting," curated by DiverseWorks visual arts director Diane Barber, presents work from 14 Texas artists. Regional surveys are often problematic, and with broad...
Microsoft isn't often described as an underdog. But in the world of video games, Sony's PlayStation is king, and all others fight for scraps. While Microsoft's Xbox managed to...
You may have noticed it around town lately -- a half-dozen or so cop cars at some intersection, pulling over motorists in order to give the cars a good inspection and find...
It's the end of the weekend, the super-long shitty weekend of all weekends. I find myself at the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium (705 Main). My very own personal safe haven, my...
