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Three days after Christmas, 1998, Judy Ann LaVergne Walker visited her son Reginald at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Michael Unit. For his 18th birthday she bought...
Wolf Loescher loathed the three years he spent in Scotland. His German-born father had taken a job as general manager of an American-owned semiconductor plant and relocated the...
I've never done this before," says the black-clad woman in the backseat as we slow down to pay the toll at the Westheimer exit on Beltway 8. "Done what?" I ask from behind the...
For a few moments, American Pie 2 tastes every bit as stale as junk food left out on the countertop for two years. "Just like old times," says one actor to another as they...
Tamarie Cooper sits at a small table at Brasil, a Montrose-area coffeehouse, pencil in hand, laboring over a piece of paper. It's the choreography for a dance number in the...
The Houston Shakespeare Festival thunders in grand style across Miller Outdoor Theatre as one of the best that producing director Sidney Berger has put together in years....
George Molho is hurtling down U.S. 59 South in his black Land Rover SUV, the one he drives because he "likes to be up high." He is a large doughy man with a moon face, dark...
No matter what some delusional musicians might spew forth in their diatribes about "art" versus "commercialism," few bands would call for a ghostbuster if the specter of...
Counterfeit Scottish smoked salmon may never engage the attention of the producers of Sixty Minutes or Hard Copy, but for Joe Williamson and his wife, Margaret, it's a topic...
During this cinematic Summer of Dumb, it would be all too easy to celebrate half-assed cleverness as a virtue, especially when proffered by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, who...
It's time we stopped branding all cowboys as gun-toting, chaps-wearing, horse-riding white guys. Throughout history, there also have been gun-toting, chaps-wearing,...
"Mixed media" are the two words this writer most hates to see on a wall label beside an artwork or on the checklist of a gallery exhibit. What a cop-out, he grouses, knowing...
At 4:30 on a May afternoon, Jason Armando Flores left his north Houston home to pick up his mother from work. He'd driven just two blocks when a deputy constable caught sight...
This much was clear: She wasn't coming back on her own. "Where's Lu?" a woman, apparently a manager, was asking. "We're late." Lu was last seen standing behind the outdoor...
The opening of Enron Field and the accompanying boom in bars and restaurants have given everybody a little taste of what it would be like to have a thriving entertainment...
Houston, get ready. Every grandma who's been baffled by a VCR, every technophobe who's quailed at having to program a new remote control, every significant other who's ever...
It's Saturday evening, and Our Lady Star of the Sea parish hall is filled with families enjoying cold beverages and homemade gumbo. The event is an old-fashioned zydeco dance,...
The young woman in the micro-miniskirt sitting next to me is raptly attentive to the goings-on in the center of the dance floor. "What do you think of Kipling?" I ask her. The...
An unusual slogan and graphic grace the Web page for Gerald Womack's Houston City Council campaign. Next to a photo of Womack -- a 44-year-old, pencil-thin real estate company...
Rock historians have long debated the First Rock Song question. For years, the consensus had it that Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" was this Holy Grail. Haley was...