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It was at Browning Elementary, a neighborhood public school near the Heights, that The Beast first made its appearance. Ron Jones, a biologist with the local field office...
Hector Berlioz made no secret of the fact that Symphonie Fantastique was one long opium dream, the fevered imaginings of a bereft lover haunted by memories of his fickle...
Please Send Money An enterprising con artist from Madison, Wisconsin, recently attempted to rip off Houston restaurants with a variation on the old "victim of spilled...
Writer-director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, the filmmaker's adaptation of James Jones's 1962 bestseller about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal, arrives in...
Fly Dance Group's rehearsals look more like basketball game warm-ups than dance concerts these days. As the heavy bass of house music fills the tiny duplex studio, five young...
Opening night at Theater LaB was packed. But what else would be expected when the show bears the rather provocative title Shopping and Fucking? What self-respecting,...
On a Wednesday afternoon in late October, about two weeks before Texas voters went to the polls to re-elect the governor and decide several close statewide races, the numbers...
A fable: Once upon a time (say, 1986) there was a band in Boston called the Pixies. They sounded a bit caustic -- combining roaring guitars and odd rhythms with a love for...
You've gotta hand it to restaurateur/developer extraordinaire Tilman Fertitta: He's not one to be slowed by mere acts of God. Less than four months after the force-three tidal...
Genius can be a terrible, destructive gift. Jacqueline du Pre, the brilliant British cellist who enraptured audiences in the sixties and seventies with her musical passion and...
Rita Rudner's sitting in Palm Springs hoping Houston won't be humid because her hair's been doing really well lately. Too bad for her. At least her wit is dry. Rudner's...
Following a vote of a panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, confessed murderer Walter Waldhauser Jr., also known as Michael Lee Davis, is once again a free man. ...
Celine Dion These Are Special Times Sony 550 Music Having spent 15 years in both the French Canadian pop ghetto and the adult contemporary star machine, Celine Dion is a...
Humble hoecakes get the Hollywood treatment at benjy's in the Village (2424 Dunstan, 522-7602). Executive chef James Nakayama adapts a technique he first saw at Robert...
Because it revealed the coke-snorting, ego-fueled corruption of Hollywood in the early 1980s with such acid wit, David Rabe's play Hurlyburly became a huge audience hit when...
Thursday January 14 "The worse my life gets, the funnier I become," lamented Dana Gould six years ago in his critically acclaimed, autobiographical, one-man play,...
Jonathan Wolfe's dad died just when high school was getting hard -- especially hard, since the sophomore was in Lamar's prestigious, challenging, for-smart-kids-only...
You might figure that the German band Kraftwerk and their 1977 single "Trans-Europe Express" would mean about as much to the history of hip-hop as, say, Rick Springfield and...
Questions began innocently enough in the survey that showed up three months ago in the mailbox of a North Harris County home. The recipient, a white-collar professional in...
Houston native Calvin Owens has, in his own words, "straddled the fence musically" for more than half a century. Moving freely between jazz and blues, the master trumpeter has...