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The little girl began to smile as the red rubber ball was dribbled on the wooden bench. With some effort, she turned her head toward the sound. The rhythm -- slap-thunk,...
Jinkies' last stand... Leave it to the Jinkies to turn in what was possibly their finest performance ever on the eve of their unraveling. And leave it to a Houston audience to...
We're a skeptical lot, we Lawlors. Consider our coat of arms: a crossed knife and fork on a silver field and, below, the motto "Eater Beware." Never tell us you've discovered...
Only two months in, 1998 already seems to be the year for film festival and festival-ish series resurrections. First came the Museum of Fine Arts' "Local Spin" series, a return...
thursday february 5 "Bound/Books by Artists" Many of Houston's top visual artists (and a couple of out-of-towners) contributed to this group exhibition focusing on the...
In Washington, Ken Starr, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky may have momentarily cornered the market on political drama (or farce, depending on your point of view), but here in...
Hands On! Lee Brown's travails in hiring people to fill his administration continued last week when Rice University flack Mike Cinelli turned down an offer to become Brown's...
Pearl Jam Yield Epic Eddie Vedder has always been a better star than artist, and don't let any critic who slept through Ten and raved about No Code tell you otherwise....
As we reported last week, much has changed since the Cortes Deli, now the Cortes Restaurant, moved from a humble strip center on Alabama to new premises at 404 Shepherd. But...
John Woo has generated plenty of American disciples in the decade since his Hong Kong action films began playing film festivals in the West. Even before he began his Hollywood...
Almost Emetic After reading your January 15 cover story ["The Trophy Son," by Randall Patterson], I had to control my urge to vomit. Many of us who live in Hearthstone (not...
The most interesting time in a band's career is often when they're on the edge of mainstream success. Marcy Playground are at that point now, poised either to explode or to...
When Irish Eyes Are Glued to the Screen The Claddagh Irish Pub and Grill, normally so jolly, was subdued when I visited one recent Saturday. Just before I got there, this...
Set in 19th-century Australia, this tale of two gamblers -- Oscar, a failed minister, and Lucinda, a glassworks owner -- is too wispy to be an art thing and too heavy to be a...
One of the finest novels about American politics is Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, first published in 1946, the year that Bill Clinton was born in that little town...
Pat Metheny is a unique jazz entity. He doesn't identify with the retro-jazz purist movement, nor is he a smooth jazz or hard-core fusion commodity. His music is rarely played...
The members of Twiggy aren't exactly musical innocents. No earnest sentiments such as "we're really trying hard to land a record deal right now" or "I know I can make a living...