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Houston police responded on a late April evening to a 911 call from a town-house complex just off Chimney Rock in southwest Houston. A woman had reported that the guy she lived...
"Yeah, they're a pretty cool band! There's this guy down front who breathes fire." That succinct review, delivered by a wowed patron into his cell phone as he left the...
In 1924, the year the Sam Houston Hotel first opened, Damon Runyon was America's best-read journalist. With an incredible eye for detail, Runyon depicted boxers, gamblers and...
Spike Lee's adaptation of David Benioff's 2001 novel The 25th Hour hews closely to the original tale, which the author has adapted in screenplay form. Montgomery Brogan, a...
Imagine conducting a classic symphony while the composer himself looks on. That's exactly the pressure directors Gregory Boyd and Pam McKinnon will face when Who's Afraid of...
As far as he can remember, he always wanted to be an actor. To him, being an actor was better than being president of the United States. Even before he first wandered into the...
Embittered convicts sometimes remark in derision to their prison overseers, "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have a job." And so it is with the new Texas Prison Museum in...
Late last year, Interscope Records at long last released Nirvana, a 14-song best-of that features not only tracks from Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero and Unplugged, but the...
"No liquor, no limes," said the bartender at the downtown wine bar La Carafe (813 Congress, 713-229-9399). The joint has always been one of my favorites, but what's a poor...
According to various unreliable sources on the Internet, Just Married co-stars Ashton Kutcher (forever to be known as the star of Dude, Where's My Car?) and Brittany Murphy...
Photographer Ricky Powell could have ended up a substitute teacher with an interesting hobby. But besides having talent, the New York native had a little luck. In the mid-'80s,...
Not since the final Hair Ball, its defunct fund-raiser, has Lawndale Art Center been responsible for such wonderful weirdness as is currently on display in its galleries. The...
Barely two months after he abruptly resigned as Mayor Lee Brown's chief of staff, former city parks director Oliver B. Spellman has returned to the public arena with a new job...
Like fellow punk forebears the Ramones last year, the Clash, which dissolved amid drug abuse and splintering musical agendas in the mid-1980s, found itself among the list of...
Just when you thought you had experienced all possible dessert epiphanies, the raspberry shortbread tart ($6.95) rolls along at Mark's American Cuisine (1658 Westheimer,...
Cops die daily and they die bad," barks manic police lieutenant Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) to undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric), revealing both his hardened...
Judging by the success of Will Rogers, Jeff Foxworthy and Rodney Carrington, comedy has always had room for funny men with a little red around the neck. Cowboy comedian John...
Texas Gallery is showing works by Rembrandt, Mantegna, Rubens and Holbein -- sort of. Kathleen Gilje paints dead-on Old Master facsimiles, but with subversive twists. Her...
The Houston Chronicle took time out from its busy holiday schedule to thank its readers for making Houston "the vibrant city that it is." In a full-page ad on New Year's Day,...
"We can't forget why we're here today," said the lead singer of Katy emocore band Soul Harbour from the stage at the Sidecar Pub. "It's about protesting the Houston Press, and...