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White Oak Bayou is 25 miles long, from its sluggish rise in northwest Harris County to its concrete-lined terminus in downtown Houston. In September 1998, a band of...
There was once a time when long hair, a scruffy demeanor and bong hits at noon were as much a part of being in a band as amps cranked to 11 and rockin' paeans to the glories of...
"Under $25" is the title of Eric Asimov's column about inexpensive restaurants in The New York Times. I have often mused that if we wanted to do the same sort of thing at the...
Beneath the hazy, mystifying layers of Vanilla Sky lies a remarkable Tom Cruise performance -- one that, to a large extent, takes place beneath a makeup artist's piled-on scars...
T. Sean Shannon may be an Emmy- nominated writer for Saturday Night Live, but that doesn't mean he's gotten too big for his britches. In the past few years, he's contributed...
It is December 5, the day AOL Time Warner-owned DC Comics has been anxiously awaiting for almost 15 years--the day writer-illustrator Frank Miller once more dons cape and cowl...
Nelie came in the door with a strange look on his face. "Get your things," he said. "We're playing the test today." The boys were shocked. The match against the Yanks was...
Buddy and Julie Miller live just a short bicycle ride from Nashville's Music Row. The songs they've written are all over the country charts and on platinum albums by the Dixie...
Carlo Molinaro was born in Verona and grew up in Milano. He has been the chef and owner of La Trattoria restaurant (6504 Westheimer, 713-782-1324) for the last 19 years. We...
The combatants in Patrick Stettner's compelling first feature, The Business of Strangers, are a middle-aged software executive (Stockard Channing) wearing a steel-blue suit and...
Twenty-eight-year-old actor, director and theater freak Ezekiel Morgan is very enthusiastic about his upcoming project, almost to the point where listening to him talk about it...
Fairy tales are simple: Good is always fair of face, and evil is covered with warts. Leave it to Stephen Sondheim to muddle this easy equation with his wonderfully paradoxical...
While others try to fathom the implications of the first human clone, Miller Quarles is thinking that it could have been his baby. And that is precisely the kind of thinking...
The odyssey began on November 30 with a panicked phone call from KPFT Lonestar Jukebox host Rick Heysquierdo. "It's over, man," he breathlessly informed me. "They won." Wait a...
We couldn't be more pleased to see a place use "fusion" in its name yet offer nary an Asian dish. Not that Fusion Café (2442 Times Boulevard, 713-522-1884) doesn't...
Abstract paintings tend to make people nervous. Unsure how to respond to, say, Jackson Pollock's all-over drippy intensity or Mark Rothko's shimmering mystical fields or...
A two-year legal battle between the pastor and the board of deacons of a westside Baptist church is back to square one, with the lawyers in the case the only clear...
Sometimes, a person just wants to cut through all the nauseating glitz and trendiness of downtown Houston and just get tore the hell up like Barney on The Simpsons. Can't a...
The Gatsby (2540 University Boulevard, 713-874-1310), a disco bar advertised with billboards showing a woman in 1930s vamp drag, seems curiously anachronistic, or maybe just...
Its former leaders are in seclusion, protected by elite bodyguards and high-tech security systems. Only a hard-core band of followers continues to staff its shattered shell, as...