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"It teaches hard work. It teaches that, hey, nobody's gonna give you anything in life. You've got to get out there and you've got to compete and you've got to work at it. And...
Filmed in Las Vegas, Monster Magnet's video for "Space Lord" comments on all that's wrong with hard rock. The "song commercial" borrows symbols from hip-hop -- scantily clad...
March came roaring in for Houston chef Claire Smith, owner of the much-praised Daily Review Cafe in north Montrose [3412 West Lamar, (713) 520-9217]. By the end of the month's...
The last decade has been an extraordinary period for Iranian cinema. Restricted by minuscule budgets, filmmakers have been forced to fall back on exactly those qualities that...
Thursday March 18 There's one dance group in town that doesn't much care whether we ever get a concert hall for contemporary dance. Leslie Scates and her crew of...
Two of Edward Albee's earliest one-acts, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, have been pulled from the shelf and dusted off for the Alley's Neuhaus Arena Stage. This stunning...
This story begins with an escape. It was 1979 in Middletown, New Jersey, and nothing was happening. Probably nothing was ever going to happen. And Bryn Tustin knew it. He...
Bob Irwin spends his days sorting through the vaults of record companies, listening to songs long ago hidden away from the general public, songs either too bad, or too good,...
The Sambuca Jazz Cafe chain opened its Houston outlet last October at one of downtown's nightlife revival epicenters, the arcade of the Rice Lofts. Since then, the restaurant...
At the movies, the fun-loving temptress has been liberating the buttoned-up clod ever since Katharine Hepburn's leopard made off with Cary Grant's dinosaur bone in Bringing Up...
Easter's coming, Cadbury bunnies are clucking away on TV, and pet stores are full of cute, cuddly rabbits. Parents buy a bow-tied bunny for their kids, who love the rabbit for...
Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre has hit the (relative) big time. After three years of putting on charmingly crude and not-suitable-for-children short shows at bars and underground...
Workin' Overtime During his stint as the Chronicle's main baseball writer, Alan Truex never seemed to be one of those many Chron sportswriters who automatically take the...
Quiz: Since 1957, what has been the leading cause of nights of passion in the United States? a) Barry White, b) Frank Sinatra, c) Cinemax After Dark or d) Johnny Mathis. Okay,...
Drive-thru dee-light: Ah, Houston, foodie heaven, where great eats are served everywhere, even in your car. Best case in point: the grilled swordfish sandwich ($5.75) at the...
Jimmy Cagney brought the same electric physicality to gangsters that he did to song-and-dance men. He gave a bright-eyed mug such as his character in Public Enemy extraordinary...
In 1976 minimalist composer Philip Glass collaborated with theater director Robert Wilson (a Waco, Texas, native and UT alum) to create the "portrait opera" Einstein on the...
In 1915 artist Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York, where he would turn himself into a work of art and invent the future of American art. The sophisticated Frenchman had set...
Two Houston Press reporters have recently received word they are winners in separate journalism contests. Brian Wallstin is a winner in the Texas Medical Association's...
The Disco Box Discs 1 and 2 Rhino Records My ideal life has been lived out by an impostor. I've always thought the cowbell player in KC & The Sunshine Band should've...