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At first, the news spread by word of mouth: 12-year-old Laura Smither had failed to return home from her early morning jog. Hours after her parents realized that something had...
More than a one-trick pony... Any band that aims for greatness needs a steadying element -- an authority figure, if you will. For Houston's Horseshoe, that used to be drummer...
Second Coming on Shepherd Those who have longed for this day can finally rejoice. After a decade's absence, Tila's is back. Or it will be very soon. The Houston...
One of the half-dozen main characters in Tom DiCillo's ensemble comedy The Real Blonde is obsessed with finding a literal specimen of the title rara avis: a bona fide,...
thursday march 12 "Local Heroes" and "Four Wheels, One Eye: Art Cars in the Eyes of the Image Makers" These exhibitions, unrelated except that they both carry the...
On the surface, Threepenny Opera seems a perfect choice for Infernal Bridegroom Productions, which recently opened the show at Atomic Cafe, a new performance space in the...
In his years as a petrochemical plant manager, Joe Monk has grown accustomed to pejoratives hurled in his direction. Until recently, though, "radical environmentalist" wasn't...
Robbie Robertson Contact from the Underworld of Redboy Capitol There must be a few folks out there still pining for the simpler days when Robbie Robertson wasn't such an...
The bread pudding ($4.25) at Gugenheim's (1708 Post Oak Blvd., 622-2773) is something to behold. Served in a plain white bowl, it soars above a mantle of cream like Everest...
At first glance, Jonathan Darby's Hush appears to have a couple of things going for it. There's some high-wattage star power in the persons of Jessica Lange and Emma's Gwyneth...
In March of 1971, Edward Albee, the writer of such astonishing plays as Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, had just turned 43. But critics who'd recently seen his...
In an antiseptic meeting room deep in the maze of the George R. Brown Convention Center, no voices were raised, no impassioned speeches burst forth and nobody made any overt...
The drive from downtown Houston to the Hunger's office-park rehearsal facility is only about 15 minutes. But as far as the Inner Loop's hipster set is concerned, the place...
I love the Angelika Cafe and Bar. Love it truly, madly, deeply. Why? For lots of reasons, really. But mainly because the hostess there -- a delightful person -- helps men into...
City Council Fire Sale With two Houston City Council members among the Hotel Six defendants currently in federal court facing bribery charges, what better time could there...
The performance is almost flawless -- a real stadium crowd pleaser. But in a small venue like Cody's, signs of tension are evident at first, despite the show's tight...
Residents of tony West University Place aren't used to being victims of crime sprees. That's something that happens in Houston. West U cops ordinarily clock speedsters...
The Space Monkeys hail from Manchester, a working-class enclave far from the of-the-moment trendiness of London. That bleak spot is also the hometown of the long-defunct Joy...
Titanic Problem Richard Connelly's analysis of the Piotrowski debacle ["How to Beat City Hall," February 26] was very entertaining but unfortunately only exposed the tip of...