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Robert Campbell's friends had a hard time getting from Houston to the little Panhandle town of Claude to bury him. It was St. Valentine's Day, and snow and ice had closed the...
Pete Anderson's solo debut, Working Class, brings to mind a couple of local quotes. Joe Hughes has some great lines about how his goal was to be a musician, not a bluesman, and...
Lunching in downtown Houston is nothing if not a Darwinistic ordeal. You're competing with many fellow apes for a precious few sources of acceptable sustenance, rushing to,...
Your hooey detector will probably start beeping about ten minutes into British filmmaker Antonia Bird's controversial melodrama Priest when Father Greg (Linus Roache), a young...
thursday april 13 Images of Vanishing Nature In some circles, the topic of dying species can generate much controversy. For others, the issues involved are more exotic, more...
The skills in Keyboard Skills belong almost entirely to the actors and director of Stages Repertory Theatre. This insignificant comedy of political manners by Lesley Bruce --...
Betsy Frost is a River Oaks resident whose husband and father-in-law both attended River Oaks Elementary. But much has changed in the Houston Independent School District since...
The Stone Roses Second Coming Geffen In an act of overweening arrogance, the Stone Roses meander through four and a half minutes of guitar noodling and quasi-Moroccan...
Writing about a two-week-old restaurant is a fool's errand. Ordinarily, anyway. But talented chef Olivier Ciesielski has made such a promising start at the trim little...
"Don't you want to deal with problems when they happen?" Rachel demands. She's just moved in with someone and, being level-headed, isn't quite prepared for the answer: "No, I'm...
Houston Press staff writer Alison Cook has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the prestigious James Beard Journalism Awards. The Beard journalism awards --...
It's interesting to wonder what the folks who went to Lollapalooza last year -- folks who were seeking out the pop-friendly likes of Green Day or perhaps Smashing Pumpkins --...
There's no denying that Bad Boys follows Hollywood's action comedy formula by the book. But where most films only end up bombing in the process, Bad Boys takes the laughs and...
"It's like watching a cop show right in your own front yard.'' -- Allison Shantz, who viewed the police standoff with Selena's accused killer from a balcony of the...
After 20 years in the rock and roll business, Tom Petty still hasn't really made it. Unlike a Springsteen or a Dylan, Petty has yet to elevate to first-name status. Bruce is...
Wheelchair-bound septuagenarian Roy H. lives in a tidy brick house at the end of a shady block lined mostly with burned-out or collapsing shanties and overgrown lots in the...
Houston Press staff writer Alison Cook has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the prestigious James Beard Journalism Awards. The Beard journalism awards --...
George Koury Speaks An anonymous heckler sent my daughters and me a copy of your recent article about the plight of Samual Templeton [News, "Sam's Farewell," by Brian...