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1. Feature

   A Hard Case of the Blues

   Roy Ames and his Home Cooking records have spread the sound of Houston blues around the world. Some local musicians are wondering why he hasn't spread more of the wealth as well.

   By Jim Sherman

   Published: April 28, 1994

   Three months ago, Glendora Wilson walked home from work to find a blues fan standing on the porch of her Third Ward home. The fan was there to show her an ad in Living Blues,...

2. Music

   Rotation

   By Brad Tyer

   Published: April 28, 1994

   Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys Truck Stop Favorites Volume 2 (cassette) Pulse Productions If you've been following the Monkeys' frequent live performances...

3. Cafe

   Hot plate

   By Alison Cook

   Published: April 28, 1994

   Blond on Blond Nielsen's is the Marilyn Monroe of Houston delicatessens -- pale, creamy and voluptuous, talisman of a quaint era in which goddesses had meat on their bones...

4. Film

   Playing by the Numbers

   From the French, more music, more affairs -- the usual

   By David Theis

   Published: April 28, 1994

   The scope of French film has certainly narrowed in recent years. If a movie is Gallic, odds are that it deals with the problems of making art, preferably music. Oh, the film...

5. Night & Day

   Press Picks

   By Edith Sorenson

   Published: April 28, 1994

   thursday april 28 Brewpub opens A certain sort has been waiting years for Houston to have another brewpub. Now, we get a brewpub and more. The fresh, unique,...

6. Theater

   Mamet Goes to College

   At the Alley, Oleanna probes the anatomy of harassment

   By Michael King

   Published: April 28, 1994

   "Higher education is ritualized annoyance." That's a professor trying to explain to his student why the course lectures may seem confusing, unorthodox, even enraging. But he...

7. News

   Teresa's Treasures

   Teresa Rodriguez's up-for-auction goods tell a lot about Teresa -- and Houston

   By Alison Cook

   Published: April 28, 1994

   Ambivalence seeps like an uneasy vapor from the subdued cocktail-party crowd prowling Hart Galleries' vast second floor this Tuesday night. Everyone's motives are suspect....

8. Music

   Sprawling Toward Spunk

   Weeping at the Metropolis, hiding in the Abyss

   By Brad Tyer

   Published: April 28, 1994

   Sprawl may have played their last Houston show on the 15th, but the long strange trip wasn't over till the band had filled an obligation at the Metropolis in Lafayette,...

9. Cafe

   The Dallas Version

   At Mesa: A Taste of Santa Fe, there's a whole lotta trendiness going on

   By Alison Cook

   Published: April 28, 1994

   I could have sworn I was in Dallas. Mesa's pared-down decor certainly said so, its sleek vanilla planes lit by Japanesey boxes and technoid Italian snakes. So did the young...

10. Film

    Crazy Child

    Martin Lawrence has a mean mouth, but a mild mind

    By David Theis

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Attending a 9:30 a.m. screening of the concert movie You So Crazy sounded like the downside of film reviewing. Citizens normally have little sympathy for a critic's bad day at...

11. Theater

    Jesus Is Just Alright

    By Michael King

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Religious hypocrisy is the subject of Houston playwright Michael Morrow's The Secret Tapes of Jesus, given its premiere this month at the newly opened Westheimer Art Bar &...

12. Letters

    Letters

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Rebuffed at the Buffet "Mickey's back!" So began Alison Cook's gushing review of Khyber, the new restaurant specializing in North Indian cuisine [Cafe, "Karma Veranda,"...

13. Music

    Live Shots

    By Chris Smith and Brad Tyer

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Atomic Opera Goat's Head Soup Saturday, April 16 First there was King's X, then Galactic Cowboys, now Atomic Opera. By all rights, the three bands should have patented a...

14. Theater

    The Little Triumph That Couldn't

    MST can't quite mind its comedy of manners

    By Peter Szatmary

    Published: April 28, 1994

    If you had a great-sounding name like Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, it would behoove you -- indeed, you'd almost seem destined -- to pen something worthwhile. This...

15. Music

    Nail Noise

    By Brad Tyer

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Trent Reznor, the one-man angst factory behind (and in front of) Nine Inch Nails, has gained widespread critical praise for introducing the confessional "I" to industrial/...

16. Art

    Amazing Cleveland

    James Surls and Charmaine Locke start a small-town art space

    By Susie Kalil

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Drive north on Highway 59 toward the forest and lake district of east Texas, out past the master-planned communities and shopping malls under development. The superhighway...

17. Music

    On the Blues Highway

    Trudy Lynn recalls her journey to musical acclaim

    By Brad Tyer

    Published: April 28, 1994

    Soul singer Trudy Lynn was born, raised and graduated from high school in Houston's Fifth Ward. Since that time, her voice has taken her around the world, from Thailand to...