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Craig Gerhard was driving back to Houston from a camping trip at Lake Somerville two weekends ago when a billboard along U.S. Highway 290 caught his eye. It pictured a field of...
It's Saturday afternoon during this year's South by Southwest, and the collection of independent parties known as South by South Congress is in full swing along South Austin's...
An iceberg wedge already has retro appeal; served with French, ranch or Thousand Island, it recalls the 1960s, an era of more innocent salads. But here at Ibiza, the new "food...
When he was in his thirties, Ivan Reitman made comedies like a young man. His early movies, among them Stripes and Meatballs and Ghostbusters, were messy, cocky, charming,...
Writers like Vladimir Nabokov can approach their stories like an academic thesis, while others can boil their work down to a step-by-step process, as John Gardner did in the...
Who wouldn't want someone like the shuffling, overalls-wearing, white-haired Mr. Bundy living next door? Decrepit but twinkly-eyed, the sweetheart of a senior spends his quiet...
Nancy Kral was confused. A longtime professor of political science at Tomball College, Kral considered herself well versed in college course material. And so far as she could...
Say what you will about failed love affairs, how they wreak havoc on your emotions and leave your psychic closets bulging with unwanted baggage. But fall in love with the right...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no good deed goes unpunished. Few have gone so wrong so fast on such a scale as in the recent dustup at The River Cafe (3615...
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. was raised in patrician comfort as the adopted son of a wealthy Chicago businessman, and educated at Culver Military Academy and Ohio State...
If you've never heard of Marco Perella, there's a good reason. Perella is a nobody, at least nobody worth mentioning. He's a moderately employed actor who got his break as an...
For more than a century, parched Texans made the six-mile trek east from the town of Wimberley down the five-mile-long Little Arkansas Road, which parallels the Blanco River...
In music, genres are used to simplify things so that would-be fans don't need to investigate every act that comes out of the chute. But in some ways, categorizing is a...
Skewers (3991 Richmond, 713-599-1444) is a counter-service eatery devoted to kabobs. Shiningly clean, the tables are hospitably set with a sea-salt grinder, some sliced pita...
"Now wait a minute," you may ask yourself during the setup of Ken Loach's new film, Bread and Roses. "Is that Tom Green? Because it sure looks like Tom Green, and judging by...
Jose spends his days inside a dark two-bedroom apartment in Irvington Village across the street from Moody Park. When he gets up in the morning he eats breakfast, lifts...
The Boston gig's been canceled. Oh, don't worry about Boston. Boston's not a big college town. -- Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith Go to the Internet newsgroup houston. music, and...
Warren's Inn (307 Travis, 713-247-9207) has been a downtown institution since way before downtown was cool. The original Warren's was on Milam; when the building that housed...
At first, the photo looks dull. On a stage stands a gaggle of men in suits, plus somebody's wife. Big deal, you think. But the longer you look, the weirder it gets. The banner...
Nothing says blues quicker than the fat sounds of a miked harmonica. Think of the great Chicago/Delta players: Big Walter, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson (I and II), James...