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Suited from head to toe in woodlands camouflage, Lynna Kay Shuffield paces back and forth in front of the chalkboard, lecturing on the art of war as taught by Napoleon,...
Latin twist... At first glance, Calvin Owens and Norma Zenteno might seem an unlikely musical match. But they use their world of differences to distinct advantage on the...
Mention of brasseries always puts me in mind of Paris: Baudelaire reading aloud from Les Fleurs du Mal ("The Devil pulls the strings by which we're worked"); Proudhon extolling...
In the new Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and scripted by Mitch Glazer, the teeming world of Charles Dickens's 1861 novel is very loosely updated and transposed...
thursday january 29 "SCALE: small" The group exhibition focuses on "work that imitates life without getting too realistic about it," says Sean Rudolph, co-owner of the...
Puccini's Madame Butterfly -- about a young geisha in Nagasaki, Japan, who loses her honor and ultimately her life over love -- premiered in Milan in 1904 and promptly became...
You saw it here first: Governor George W. Bush will run for president in two years, and he's going to win. Here's another tip: This month's purchase of the Texas Rangers by...
Quick, count the number of bassists you know who have led memorable jazz bands; if you have to use more than one hand to keep track, you're ahead of the game. By virtue of the...
I eat peach cobbler at the Black-Eyed Pea (2048 West Gray, 523-0200; and other locations) at least once a week, and each time I do, I make the same resolution: Today, I won't...
Fifth Ward, first-time director Greg Carter's film about inhabitants of Houston's most notorious ghetto, is a charmingly amateurish effort that takes pride in its low-budget...
Affirmative Transactions Now it can be told: One Houston, the political action committee that funded the defense of the city's affirmative action policies for last...
Today's hard-core rappers are in a difficult position. Many of them achieved success via exciting accounts of drinking, drugging, dealing, whoring and homicide that they...
Victim of Ambition Forced to leave a scuzzy shopping strip earmarked for gentrification, the former Cortes Deli -- now called the Cortes Restaurant -- has embraced the...
As The Apostle's title character, E.F. "Sonny" Dewey, writer/director Robert Duvall never stops moving and never speaks in a voice lower than a roar. He runs in place, dances...
Remembering de Menil I thought Shaila Dewan's piece on Dominique de Menil was well written and quite moving [Art, "The Last Eccentric," January 8]. But it made you thirsty...
"Women aren't the only ones with bosoms, you know." With that statement, Cornershop's soft-spoken leader, Tjinder Singh, is attempting to explain the meaning behind the...
Texas-tourism flacks like to call Austin the live music capital of the world, but the city's learn-as-you-gig musical ethos suggests that "live rehearsal capital of the world"...