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In Dallas's high-rent West End, on the fourth floor of the marble-halled Paramount Building, Michael Lee Davis was fumbling through a stack of papers in his office's reception...
If Howard Stern still believes he carries the burden of being "King of All Media," he should pick up a copy of the urban-music bible The Source sometime. He'll find that many...
Chiles rellenos can be hell on wheels or paradise on a plate. For an Elysian version, try chiles rellenos en nogada at Pico's (5941 Bellaire Boulevard, 662-8383). A pair of...
The first time we see Ray Joshua, the young black hero of director Marc Levin's impressive feature debut Slam, we get a vivid taste of the conflicting forces that rule him. His...
This weekend, when the Houston Grand Opera opens its season with The Flying Dutchman, much attention will be paid to the production's visual elements. As directed by Julie...
Some people call it metaphysical dread, that deep-in-the-night, creepy kind of useless terror that can send shivers up the spines of slumbering babes and grown men alike. It's...
At first glance, the Fiesta Ballroom might seem like almost any other Houston Tejano club on a Saturday night. There are the lights, the ear-scorching sounds from the conjunto...
Hey kids, it's another Robert Earl Keen album. Time to crack some brewskis, get rowdy and howl at the moon as you pilot that pickup toward some border town. Better be ready for...
Ecstasy la Carte "Why can't our weather always be like this?" whined one of my neighbors recently. I thought the answer was obvious: If Houston had china-blue skies,...
For filmmaker Todd Solondz, it's always midnight in suburbia. Life is lonely, and the natives can be hostile. In his daring second film, Happiness, the darkness engulfs victims...
Most of us crowded between sea and shining sea are from someplace else. If we didn't arrive here under our own steam, then it was our parents, or grandparents, or someone our...
Here's evidence that perhaps Mayor Lee Brown's staff has a little too much time on its hands. A memo from Brown's chief of staff Jay Aiyer last month exhorted City Council...
Add Ian Moore's name to the growing list of artists who have graduated from the apparent grind of major-label commitments to working for themselves. The Austin guitar prodigy...
There are restaurants -- and it's my good fortune to have eaten in some of them -- that offer not just good food but spectacle as well: views of the Sphinx, the Bosporus, the...
At the Ensemble Theater, the fragrance of anticipation mixed with the scents of fruits, cheeses and an exquisite apricot punch that grandma might have made. A freckled Debbie...
Lead Stories *In August, a Virginia Circuit Court, ruling in the divorce case of Glaze v. Glaze, said that "sexual intercourse" was not a legal requirement for having...
Joni Mitchell Taming the Tiger Reprise It's another Joni Mitchell album, and here we go again with the hue and cry from the media about how Mitchell's genius is...
Thursday October 22 We're living in an age in which a government-funded entity, the National Endowment for the Arts, has the power to decide what We the People consider...
Burial Plots Thank heaven someone has the courage to take on SCI ["Last Chance to Save," by Randall Patterson, October 8]. I think SCI is probably the worst of corporate...
One-man show... For a guy who abandoned his native city for Austin years ago, Darin Murphy sure was spending a lot of time slumming in Houston a few months back. And while...