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So there you are, driving down from Kingwood on the Eastex or heading in from Sugar Land on the Southwest Freeway, going to an Astros game. Visions of sugarplums dance in your...
It is 1975. The place, a San Francisco nightclub. On a dimly lit dais, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS are standing center stage guitar-to-guitar, facing each other. As...
Just past the San Luis Pass toll bridge that joins the western tip of Galveston Island to the mainland was a billboard for the Red Snapper Inn. The good news the sign signaled...
From its opening moments, The Road to El Dorado looks and sounds oddly out of time, as though it were removed only yesterday from a time capsule sealed and buried in 1972. With...
America, land of the 24-hour gym and the quick-fix face-lift, is not a country given to growing old gracefully. The only benefit most of us see in seniority is discount movie...
Terrence McNally's Tony-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion!, now running at Bienvenue Theatre, opened off-Broadway less than a decade ago, but it already feels dated. The...
On one corner stands the new monument to the mania of professional sports: Enron Field. Long before it was finished, politicians were already pointing to the retractable-roof...
In 1998 Saul Williams generated some buzz by co-writing and starring in the hit of the Cannes and Sundance film festivals, Slam, a breezy tale about spoken-word poetry in New...
Setting: The Remington Grill. A weekday night. David, Ruth, Robert and Dennis arrive on time, having previously confirmed their reservations. They are shown to a fine table in...
Not so long ago The Skulls would have starred Tom Cruise -- but in which role? He could have been either lead; the one he didn't choose could have landed in the lap of James...
When Shelley Duvall was growing up in Houston, her second-grade class went downtown to see the symphony. To hear Duvall tell it, the experience changed her life. "Classical...
Back in the 1930s, sociologist William Sheldon became famous for taking pictures of nude college students. Sanctioned by the universities, the photos, made in the name of...
Screw the traditional peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Popcorn's the scent pumped into the streets surrounding Enron Field. (We think this pollution is kinda mean to the hungry...
Coal Chamber's second album, Chamber Music, which was released in September 1999, sold like crazy for a few weeks, basically coasting on favorable prerelease buzz. Five weeks...
Two-Minute Drill: Banh mi. That's Vietnamese for a sandwich -- ubiquitous in Little Saigon, on the south side of Midtown -- and no one does the humble sandwich better...
In the opening scenes of Price of Glory, set in the late '70s, a young prizefighter named Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits) loses a career-making bout. He earns a few grand, but he's...
It was 1996. Downtown was as yet pre-vitalized, Bayou Place still unopened, and the baseball stadium not even in the planning stages. The soon-to-boom downtown's powers-that-be...
When Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. was writing "I Wanna Be Somebody," his shock-metal band's breakthrough song of 1984, he probably was imagining being a superstar rock god. He...
For Guy Yount, the highlight of the year comes on opening day of the baseball season. This year the Houston publisher is stretching out the celebration: Yount has tickets to...
30footFALL Fitzgerald's Friday, March 24 From its opening sleight-of-hand sample -- a classic-rock groove that lasted all of 15 seconds before it gave way to...