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Sitting inside a five-by-five cage in the visiting area of Texas' death row, convicted killer Anthony Ray Westley looks calm, even pleasant. But as he talks to some visitors...
The Eddy Hobizal Band Escondido Saturday, March 19 Eddy Hobizal's band of four HSPVA alumni plays respectable covers, mostly of '70s fusion. Two of Saturday's sets...
"What's your favorite restaurant?" people are always asking me. Whereupon my brain freezes. I hem. I haw. I qualify. It's the kind of cosmic question to which I have never had...
Two minor characters, veteran reporters on a big-city newspaper, are battling over turf on a late-breaking crime story. "You got the cops," one asserts while looking for...
thursday march 24 Virginia Slims of Houston tennis tournament Conchita Martinez, Martina Navratilova and Zina Garrison headline this year's Slims tourney. Here's pulling...
The theater is dead; long live the theater! That's the theme running through the non-stop conversation of Nicholas ("Nick") Vastakis, one-time managing director of the West-Mon...
It seems like such an easy notion. Ben Taub Hospital needs more parking. The city would like a little more leverage to get something going at the stalled Allen Parkway Village...
It's one o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, there's a big, black Ford truck pulling a U-Haul parked at the curb, and the doors are open as people walk in and out of a rented...
Life After Mrs. Brenner It is instructive to note which restaurants Houston expatriates rush to when they come home again. It's not the fancy or ambitious or high-concept...
I could tell you that The Hudsucker Proxy is a Capra-esque film "about" a little guy's skyrocket ride to the top of American industry, and that it pushes the Horatio Alger...
The Houston Grand Opera obviously likes composer Robert Moran. Two years ago the company launched his one-act Beauty-and-the-Beast opera Desert of Roses, and now they've...
A year and a half of not-so-pacific times at KPFT-Pacifica Radio came to a head recently when Barry Forbes, for 21 fractious months general manager of Houston's original hippie...
Sad Pygmy "tomato halo" Lazy Squid Records Every time I think garage rock has once and for all become its own self-referential bad joke about its own bad self, some...
In Suburban Queen, video artist Mindy Faber fantasizes that her mentally ill mother, Patricia, using "everyday grease and grime" as war paint, casts off the oppressive role of...
"Did you hear what the Art Guys did?" That line has been a sporadic refrain for almost a decade in the Houston art world, prefacing yet another lavish account of some witty...
Don't Give Up the Chase I have just read Brian Wallstin's "Deadly Pursuit" article in the Houston Press [March 10]. As a former Texas peace officer I have been personally...
Austin's annual South by Southwest Music Conference is a perpetual disappointment and probably couldn't be otherwise. Hundreds of unsigned bands, many of whom are unsigned...
Still laying down solid walking bass lines, conducting master classes across the country and adding to the more than 40,000 photos he's taken of fellow performers, 83-year-old...