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It was funny enough that Tashia was even here, a big, unrestrained, laughing woman like herself. As her boyfriend saw it, she was "real," and pageant people were "fake." And...
With song titles such as "Rats Don't Have Wings" and "I Wish I Were Alcohol" and "Tie Yourself to a Broom and Fly Far Away," Jaguares could be a Sex Pistols tribute act. Of...
This summer a revolutionary concept was introduced to Galveston's West Beach: fine dining. Now, I'm not just being a citified food snob: This is one of few things that...
Insomniacs, rejoice! During the first several decades of Sydney Pollack's bloated, interminable Random Hearts, your eyelids will droop, your pulse and respiration will slow,...
Jennifer Monson is a critically acclaimed and well established New York choreographer. Her work has been seen in Europe, Latin America and Australia. She has won a National...
It was a scene of art culture-meets-street culture that could almost have been lifted from the '80s, a few years after a celebrated Soho street writer called Samo revealed his...
There he stands, in grainy, jerky images resembling an old home movie. Captured on rough-hewn film is George W. Bush in a Cub Scout troop line, then posing for snapshots with...
Houston's Next Level Band is in a happy mood. It's still playing regular gigs, from private parties to its monthly stop at Monroe's Gallant Knight on Holcombe. And it recently...
Those whispers you've been hearing about the closing of Lido [3201 Travis, (713)523-9295] are true. "Yeah, the rumors are ugly," says Khon Lu, whose parents own the restaurant....
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! The repressed Irish Catholic schoolgirl that Molly Shannon plays on Saturday Night Live is certainly not everyone's cup of glee. But there's no denying...
It's your typical bar: dark and smoky, with flyers peeling off the walls. And Low looks to be your typical bar band: Alan Sparhawk on guitar, Mimi Parker on drums and Zak Sally...
Since the street is something we city dwellers can appreciate every day, bringing the street into the gallery seems potentially weird and fakey, like garden-scented aerosol...
Married to a man with AIDS, Sally DeVito signed up for the 1997 AIDS bike ride from Boston to New York City. But as the date got closer, her husband got sicker, and she was...
Danilo Perez vividly remembers the first gift he ever received from his father: a set of bongo drums. Perez's father, a Latin bandleader and singer in the style of Beny More,...
Just say, "Red Beans and Ricely Yours," as Louis Armstrong used to sign his letters. The national dish of Louisiana can be found on the chalkboard menu every day at Creole's...
The triumvirate is complete. First Paris, Texas, then Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, and now Happy, Texas. German existentialism. Coming-of-age melodrama. Screwball mistaken-identity...
Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge is an urgent and arrestingly simple play. A middle-aged longshoreman named Eddie Carbone (James Black) falls into a forbidden love with...
He drank too much alcohol during that early August night, got behind the wheel, was nabbed by a police officer for speeding and was taken to jail on his first ever charge of...
Various Artists Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the '60s Astor Place Recordings If you were to walk down Bleecker Street between Sixth Avenue and University Place in...
Little Harriet plays with matches against her parents' wishes and goes up in crackling flames. Cruel Frederick whips a dog unmercifully and is bitten to death. Silly Conrad...