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Houston Congressman Bill Archer has a vision. It's of an America in which April is just another month, and April 15 just another day. A land where "form 1040" has no meaning, a...
"Al Stewart Singing Syd Barrett's Bob Dylan's Blues." This beast of a song came to Mikael Martin in a waking dream, its cluttered title a radio DJ's nightmare -- eight words...
My second visit to the counter at Sunnyside's Heaven-N-A-Blanket involved some uncertainty, which expert assistance quickly resolved. Upon hearing that I had already sampled...
Makarov is not a straightforward, linear movie. Instead, this is an odd, dark and comic film about the problems of being a poet and a gun owner. Shadow play (full figure and...
thursday april 11 Tour de Bayou Tonight is the first of six Thursday evenings of "free races, free water, free fun." The races referred to are of the foot variety,...
When a venerable professor I studied playwrighting under in college described what it was like to be at New York's Barrymore Theatre on the night of December 3, 1947, he would...
The offensive line was composed chiefly of cooks. On Saturday, they had allowed the quarterback to suffer so greatly that on Monday, he came to practice in street clothes....
Sting Mercury Falling A&M; For years, Sting has struggled to keep his effective pop song writing from being drowned out by his lofty musical and lyrical ambitions. As...
With The Journey of August King, John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Sirens) has done a masterful job of bringing the audience to another time, and another place. The time is...
An exhibit saddled with a name that contains not only a play on words, but a sub-subhead, might well be cause for alarm. And indeed, "Justapose: Strategy and Style:...
HISD-Partnership Bonding If some in the hierarchy of the Greater Houston Partnership had their way, HISD would be forced to obtain voters' approval for future tax increases,...
Out of the Cradle... When you get right down to it, the concept of the Cradle Concert holds more groundbreaking appeal than its lineup. Headliners Jesse Dayton, Robert Earl...
Once again, the WorldFest/Houston International Film Festival is offering more of the same, only less. Continuing its evolution into the "lean, mean festival machine" promised...
We're bemused by the way the projected cost of building a new downtown basketball arena for Rockets owner Les Alexander has doubled -- at least in the pages of the Chronicle,...
Remember geek rock? Back in the late '70s, it took the guise of the new wave singer/songwriter when self-proclaimed English losers such as Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson made...
If you want to catch all that WorldFest has to offer, you have a couple of options. You can buy individual tickets ($20 for the opening night gala, $5 for matinees, $7.50 for...
The Chronicle's years-long campaign to kill off the Post was code-named "Operation Falcon" by the winners, who immortalized their April 1995 conquest in an epic wildlife...
A film festival is not all art and culture. Like any other celebration of fandom, a film festival is also about indulgence. Aficionados take time off to wallow with their...
When the federal government proposed last summer to create a wildlife refuge for migratory songbirds in the river bottoms southwest of Houston, the political and business...
Despite their high profile on A-list festivals in Europe and Canada, South Korean films are conspicuous by their absence from the diet of U.S. moviegoers. It's difficult, if...