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Warnings and updates were coming in moment by moment. The city of New Orleans was about to get slammed by a hurricane. At Abstract House, a group home that for 20 years has...
A winter Sunday night, 1978. A blue norther howls. Snow has been drifting all afternoon and evening. Inside some shithole bar in Odessa, Texas, the patrons move beyond...
My dining companion scrunched up her nose when our "Singapore fish head vermicelli soup" arrived. We were eating dinner at Cafe Malay on Westheimer near Beltway 8, and I'd...
Writer and director Noah Baumbach has made three light films -- one so slight (1997's party- hopping Highball), it didn't see release till five years after its completion, and...
The portraits seem to have exactly the same color and background. It's the people -- their faces and their expressions -- that separate each image from the next. Their fear,...
Musicals aren't supposed to make us think; they're just supposed to make us happy. But Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's powerful Wicked, now playing at the Hobby Center...
American Chopper: Third Season (Columbia/Tristar) Attack Pack (Commando, Predator and Kiss of the Dragon) (Fox) Bill Maher: I'm Swiss (Image Ent.) The Brady Bunch:...
It was a normal day for Merrilee Littlewood, starting with 6 a.m. Bible study, then school and volunteer work at a home for seniors. Later that Thursday evening, after watching...
John Rich likes to tell a story about his preacher dad and Mötley Crüe, a group that embodies rebellious fun for a whole generation of heartland Americans. About four...
Fennel, a plant of the parsley family, is native to the Mediterranean. It looks a little like celery, except that it has a broad, bulbous base and tastes like anise. The fennel...
If Jarhead, director Sam Mendes and writer William Broyles Jr.'s adaptation of Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir, seems at all familiar -- like, say, a DJ's mash-up of...
Thursday, November 3 If you're one of those ultra-prepared (ultra-anal) folks who like to have their Christmas shopping done by early November, you'll find nirvana at the...
Boris Godunov To open its 51st season, Houston Grand Opera has picked a royal winner, Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece Boris Godunov. Watching Stein Winge's dusted-off,...
Pity the videogame zombie. He spends his short afterlife dodging self-righteous heroes hell-bent on peppering him with buckshot, setting him on fire, or blowing him to...
Weeks into our Houston "evacu-cation," our New Orleans landlords call, wanting to know if we're coming back. Their phone messages (we haven't been brave enough to answer) claim...
Don't look now, but in Nashville, there's a new moon (pie) on the rise. The big-city glitz and suburban kitchen-sink melodrama of Shania Twain and all those sensitive hot-tub...
Does Steve Martin have multiple personality disorder -- or is he just brilliantly in tune with some things and wildly out of touch with others? Shopgirl, the movie based on...
Filmmaker Tyrone Dixon has a mistress -- a harsh, unforgiving, but ultimately satisfying mistress. It's an affair he cannot stop gushing about. It's a love that he just can't...
Wood, wood and more wood is at the center of James Surls's art. Eyes stare out from charred trunks; chunks of wood are carved into the shapes of petals and knives; twisted tree...
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucasfilm Ltd.) The final installment of the Star Wars saga actually plays better at home: You can watch it, then pop in the...