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For a lot of people, it's a rite of passage on the way to becoming a true Texan. Kirk Schwartzenburg is 32 now, a salesman for an environmental services firm, but like a lot of...
Although the Down and Dirties didn't intend to live up to their moniker off-stage, it's certainly turned out that way. "The band is more like a gang," says guitar...
We're still shivering when the waitress brings our menus. Maybe it's the January chill that causes us both to want the dish called winter curry, or maybe it's just the most...
It used to be that the only Korean films to be seen in the United States were somber art-house films such as Jeong Ji-yeong's White Badge or veteran Im Kwon-Taek's Chunhyang...
According to Austin author William July II, there's a term for commitment-phobic men -- and it's not the profanity you might think. July euphemistically calls these...
Blond, bronzed, buff TV pretty-boy Lester Perry's got quite a secret. And it's filling him with an existential dread that no lightweight ex-soap star should ever have to deal...
Richard Honiball was just the kind of guy Houston had in mind when the city nailed down Super Bowl XXXVIII. The Hoboken, New Jersey, man and about a dozen of his young...
As the temperature drops, the concert schedule becomes as limited as Ozzy's working vocabulary. This is the time of year, then, to stay home, save money on parking and $5 beers...
Is white the new red, if not for fashion this spring then for wine? "In New York it's all about Chardonnay," says Cafe Annie's master sommelier Paul Roberts. "Our climate...
Anybody who's cracked open a recent Disney G-rated DVD has probably witnessed the ultimate in sequelmania: On Lilo & Stitch, for instance, the feature was preceded (skippably,...
Thursday, February 13 In the '60s, English musician Keith Rowe became frustrated with the limitations of his guitar. So he developed the tabletop guitar and used springs,...
One day in July 1991, William Pope.L, dressed in a nice dark suit and clutching a small flowerpot in his hand, lay down in the street near Tompkins Square Park, in New York...
Remember the mid-'90s? Come on, it wasn't all that long ago. A lot of Big Things have come -- and gone -- since then: Monica Lewinsky, the dot-com bubble, the rise and fall of...
Hasil Adkins became a one-man band because he thought he had to. The first time Adkins heard Hank Williams on the radio, he assumed that since the song was credited to one man,...
The Italian word for eggplant is melanzane, which comes from the Latin melum insanum, meaning either "unhealthy apple" or "mad apple." It's no wonder, then, that the poor fruit...
The fanboy suckled at the teat of comic-book writer-artist Frank Miller, circa 1980-81, will be satisfied, for the most part, with this cinematic Daredevil; if nothing else,...
Make no mistake: The first full-length concert of the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater may happen to fall on the holiday of love, but it is not a Valentine's celebration. "There are...
This show could be subtitled "Six Men Make Big Heavy Objects," except many of the sculptures aren't what they seem. Butch Jack's wall disks, which appear to be formed of molten...
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Houston's been hard at work on its image ever since we dug the Ship Channel. Mostly we've tackled the problem by importing culture from afar. Thus we have the symphony, the...