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Phil Arms is in bad shape as he takes the pulpit of Houston Church on the morning of Sunday, January 9. He shifts his weight back and forth from his right leg to his left, sips...
Houston's jazz scene lost one of its most venerable and visible figures when Ben "Scatman" Turner passed away late last month. The octogenarian was a fixture at area clubs for...
When Tony recognizes my celebrity dining partners, he bounds over to our table and starts pumping their hands. Since I am reviewing anonymously, they discreetly fail to...
It's the year 3028, and manŠ is an endangered species! (Haven't we heard that somewhere before, like last month?) This time around, the threat is a little more...
Once upon a time, a university was meant to create responsible citizens and expand the breadth of human knowledge. Then somewhere along the line administrators realized there...
Eons ago, the church invented theater. The praising of gods, in fact, has always involved a good deal of heart-throbbing music, edge-of-your-seat storytelling and fabulously...
The last time anyone admits seeing Danny Fry alive was on September 30, 1995, when he sat mutely, seemingly ill or in shock, on the veranda of the Austin apartment of his old...
Pop culture is littered with archetypal success stories -- Lana Turner turning a producer's head at a Hollywood malt shop, the Beatles sweating their way into screaming teenage...
For years my family, unlike most suburbanites, who prefer the careful landscaping of their own backyards, has hosted parties in the driveway. The idea is to be close to the...
"Industrial-strength boredom" is a vicious term to unload on anybody -- friend, foe or former actress. Considering the lingering discomfort it inspires, one must be aware of...
Last year, in a cavernous southwest Houston club, Lewis Black did a solid 20 minutes of material based on his experiences at Party on the Plaza that very afternoon. Unlike many...
When Sergei Prokofiev composed the score for a ballet version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 1935, he didn't work with a choreographer as is customary. His dramatic music...
It can happen at the beginning of any class period in any middle or high school in the Houston Independent School District. The teacher turns to the blackboard, but instead of...
Missed shot. Rebound. Slam dunk. Shaq Diesel! (Yawn.) As the TVs beamed the L.A. Lakers' manhandling of the Indiana Pacers in game one of the NBA championship last week, poor...
Sitting in a white plastic beach chair under a thatched grass palapa, watching the palm trees sway in the tropical breeze with this showy frozen margarita in your hand, you...
If you missed Trey McIntyre's latest piece in the Houston Ballet's spring mixed repertory program, all you can do is hope that it doesn't take the 30-year-old choreographic...
Houston artist Kaneem Smith couldn't hide her elation. The graduate art student at Syracuse University believed her years of work and study were finally paying off. Smith had...
Pouty and pretty, Juliana Hatfield gained a cult following throughout the '90s with her incisive lyrics and she-rocker presentation. While the past decade has seen her...
Dreaming in Chocolate: If I could design one dessert to satisfy all of my cravings, it'd look suspiciously like the Choco Coco layer cake ($4.87 per slice, $35 per cake) at...
At least since Paleolithic man carved the fecund shape of the Venus of Willendorf from a chunk of limestone 24,000 or so years ago, human beings have been sculpting images of...