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It was so early it was still dark out when Chad and Shani Walter woke up on the morning of November 27, 2001, in their three-bedroom home in Humble. They got in their car and...
Oops. Somebody forgot to tell the Weary Boys that moving to Austin to play country music was akin to shipping coals to Newcastle. No matter. Despite the fact that Travis County...
"They could turn it into a game, like Where's Waldo?" Ms. W suggests as she sips her margarita. "See how many monkeys you can find. Kids would love it!" We are discussing the...
Like Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro is one of those guys who can make just about any material enjoyable. Also like Clint, he will sometimes make you wish he'd pick roles that...
The television is always on at Tracie Brownlee's house, yet she never watches anything. It's background noise; everything comes to her in bits and pieces. In this age of the...
In 1948 the artist Alighiero e Boetti tore a large piece of brown paper into small squares that he then "stacked into a rather unstable column." He smoothed out and saved the...
For anyone wondering what has become of former editor Gerald Garcia of the doomed Houston Post, the self-nicknamed "Angel of Death" has found a new roost in the heartland....
NASA's chief of the Astronaut Corps sits behind a podium with three other space travelers. At his immediate left is one of Russia's top cosmonauts, and next to him is a...
One of the most popular appetizers at Crostini (2411 S. Shepherd, 713-524-8558) is the lumache (snails) with grilled polenta ($8.95). Perhaps the simplest and most famous way...
Jay Leno better not come to Houston anytime soon, because there are a bunch of public-access boys ready to jump his ass! More on that later. When we last left Joel Reed Parker,...
One day long ago--or not, because no one except he and a rare few know the precise date--an actor dove into the ocean to save a drowning boy. He did not want to do it, but he...
In addition to his manic "saves you money" commercials, Gallery Furniture's Jim "Mattress Mac" McIngvale has built his reputation in Houston on sports boosterism and promotions...
John Congleton and Matt Armstrong, otherwise known as one half of the pAper chAse, sit in a tiny cluttered recording studio, otherwise known as one of the rooms in Congleton's...
The cars seem to never go away. At first I thought it was some kind of opening celebration that went on for weeks and weeks. But apparently, whatever its name, the...
For months, Captain Mark Aguirre of Houston's South Central Patrol Division carried around a videotape of late-night drag racing along Westheimer that made his blood boil. It...
Well, Houston has lost another top-notch musician, and this time the Music Awards jinx can't be blamed. Mary Cutrufello -- who, believe it or not, never won a single one of our...
Split on Shelley Thrown for a Loop: I was very angry to read Tim Fleck's feature on Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs ["Overdose," August 22]. What he described was an ideal of...
Duke of Hollywood Tailors (305 Travis) is the last tailor shop left standing in NoDo. There used to be 13 tailor shops on and around this block of Travis alone. But as time...
There's something admirable in Darius Rucker's mission to prove he's more than the Dylan of the frat-boy generation. After years as the darker-skinned front man of the...
Words like "sublime" get thrown around a lot in music reviews, a little too recklessly, if you ask this writer. The overall effect is to cheapen the adjective's value when...