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Thick gray fog gobbles the tops of downtown's skyscrapers; a damp chill sidles through the sparse lunchtime crowd huddled on folding chairs in front of City Hall. It's not the...
Iowa beatnik folkie Greg Brown was my long-scheduled reservation for this week's Critic's Choice slot, but according to the folks at the Mucky Duck, where Brown was scheduled...
Poor me. I drove by Mandola's Deli for eight years without stopping. And no wonder: the blank brick facade of this windowless East End lunch spot seems hooded. Inscrutable....
It's pointless to respectfully review a film as ineptly written, indifferently directed and slothfully performed as Just Cause, the new legal thriller about a Harvard law...
thursday march 2 The Sacred Journey into Women's Sexuality This workshop is "a safe space, for women only, to get in touch with and explore further a part of themselves...
If there were any doubts that the Houston Ballet is grooming Lauren Anderson to take over as the symbol of the troupe once prima ballerina Janie Parker steps down, last week's...
It was the late fall of 1984, and then-U.S. representative Phil Gramm was flying about Texas on the final leg of his near-manic pursuit of the U.S. Senate seat he now holds. ...
Fun-Da-Mental Seize the Time Beggars Banquet In case you haven't yet figured out why Public Enemy's last release stiffed so hard, take another lesson from Fun-Da-Mental....
Outside a stylish Glasgow flat rests a doormat with the message, "Not today, thank you." It's been put there by the flat's residents, a trio of twentysomethings obsessed with...
Leonard Nimoy is not a playwright. This cuts to the quick of the problems with Vincent, currently at Main Street Theater. In 1984, Nimoy, best known as Star Trek's Mr. Spock,...
How can it be revealed: "It is imperative that an applicant's weight be in proportion to his/her height." That's the first sentence in the Houston Police Department's...
Austinite and former Houston homeboy Jessie Dayton is still being coy about the label deal he's reportedly on the verge (at press time) of signing, and since we've waited this...
The Hunted has packs of lithe ninjas and, like so many Asian-flavored films, has an instructive subtext. Between the bouts of swordplay, we learn that Christopher Lambert is...
Loud music. Noisy drunks. Beer bottles, pools of urine, an occasional undergarment left behind after a night of carousing. Joanna Pasternak figures that such spillover from...
AUSTIN -- The man standing at the counter, waiting to order his food, is slumped and disheveled and looking slightly deranged. His beard chopped and trimmed in odd proportions,...
Indefensible Behavior I was glad to learn that I was not the only person completely offended by the cartoon which you printed in "Female Troubles." [News, by Steve McVicker,...
"Texas" Johnny Brown Billy Blues Tuesday, February 21 After seeing "Texas" Johnny Brown invite Katie Webster on-stage to close out the night, I know Houston is a blues...