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He hates the gas station. That is the first thing that must be understood. It is not merely a nuisance, or a minor annoyance. To use those words would be to smooth over the...
Last year Brian McKnight pulled off an amazing feat: He released an album that didn't have one track produced by the Neptunes. While the Virginia boys' patented ghetto-sleazy...
Our entrées are finished, and I still have a little wine left. We're drinking a bottle of Paul Jaboulet's Crozes Hermitage, a sturdy red wine from the Northern...
Those possessing a vampire's keen senses may see through the goth grunge of The Queen of the Damned to a deeper ideological conflict lurking beneath. On one side there's...
If a musical struck critics as a bit sickly sweet in 1965, you can imagine the reaction it would get today. Add that kind of saccharine to the age of cynicism, and you get only...
"Pray for us." So ends a note Judd Apatow sent out last week to television critics who have been supportive of his series Undeclared, among the few half-hour comedies to debut...
When she moved to Houston 20 years ago, Carroll Cocchia says, she couldn't find any other American Indians. "They were invisible." Two years ago, encouraged by Dick Huebner,...
Within seconds of your meeting Blue October's singer-songwriter-guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, he acts as if he's known you forever. Anyone familiar with his music will tell you...
Bossa (610 Main Street, 713-223-2622) oozes sensuality. Even the bar is long and curvaceous, softly lit with candles and a pastel mural of a distant land. With wooden shutters,...
Following his dazzling change-of-pace performance in Training Day, Denzel Washington returns to more familiar turf in another of his trademark roles as One of the Best Human...
Here is just a smattering of stats on Casey Stengel: born 1890, died 1975; former major-league baseball player; Hall of Fame manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New...
The mysteries of death, with all its creepy accoutrements, can be weirdly fascinating -- even the stuff of some wonderfully bizarre theater. Take last year's...
One Friday last month, sometime between the breakfast tacos and the lunch meat, Nadir Foteh received a telephone call from his landlord. Foteh runs Freddy's Deli, a small...
The year 2001 was a very bad one. There was September 11. There was the great apocalyptic ArmagedEnron Meltdown. There was Andrea Yates. There was the Fat City tag, the UH...
Like a well-made bed where layers of soft, comfy sheets are topped with the perfectly weighted blanket, the shrimp enchiladas ($5.95) at Ostioneria Arandas Seafood (5757...
Rachel Hecker is "Sad and Pissed." And don't you fucking forget it. Hecker's gallery had suggested that "Sad and Mad" -- albeit a bit like Dr. Seuss -- might be a less...
Winnie Gaynor, a 69-year-old widow, lives alone in Studewood Heights northwest of downtown. It's a low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood where older homeowners...
A young woman -- blond, perky and slightly inebriated -- walks over to the DJ. She flirtatiously asks the spinner if he can play Sade's "King of Sorrow." "I'd kill to hear that...
Let none of the brave reporters here in town following Enron ever think themselves accurs'd or hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks who covers Kandahar. While those...
Maybe the lads from Sevendust can jet to L.A. after the band's show in Houston to put in an appearance at the Concert for Artists' Rights on February 26. That's where the Dixie...