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Juan Ramon Aguillar came to the United States two and a half years ago, traveling by train from his native Honduras to Nuevo Laredo, where he paid a coyote $1,600 to take him...
"I got bored 'cause I didn't have a band / So I started a band, man / And we're gonna start it with a positive jam." -- the Hold Steady, "Positive Jam" The whiz and screech...
Karl Camenzind, the kindly chef and owner of Karl's at the Riverbend, presided over his extensive Sunday brunch buffet from a spot between the chafing dishes and the...
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault....
Today, the staff and patrons of Walter's on Washington will brace themselves for a visit by a musical act that's been dubbed Austin's most dangerous band. Yes, the quartet of...
Is your date a bloodthirsty feminist? Is your man-friend a bumbling alpha-male type? Here's a quick and relatively painless way to find out. At today's 15th annual ComedySportz...
Okay, we all know how ridiculous things get around Valentine's Day, what with all the "He went to Jared!" commercials and price gouging of long-stem roses. Thankfully, a group...
You've probably seen the stickers and the posters plastered on public property: a sad-looking face with deep-sunken eyes and the word "Obey." You may have wondered what it...
Valentine's Day is both a blessing and a curse for guys. Sure, it's an excuse to buy lingerie for your honey. But where to start? And how do you tread the line between ho and...
Maybe you don't care when it was that Conestoga wagons were all the rage, but Elizabeth Crook sure does. The Houston author of the historical novel The Night Journal is a...
Raise your hand if, as a kid, you ever leaped for joy when Grover popped on your TV screen during Sesame Street. Keep that hand up if you dressed up like Super Grover, making a...
Tradition meets tragedy in Emakhaya, this year's version of Kuumba House Dance Theatre's annual African Heritage Month Dance Concert. Emakhaya, which means "back home,"...
At 37, comedian Eddie Griffin is honest about many things. He's honest about doing those Deuce Bigalow movies for the money. (Thank God he took the checks â?” he's...
As a member of the Bellydance Superstars, Ansuya makes almost inhuman use of her body, creating emotional expressions and musical interpretations via a softly gyrating belly...
After last fall's dramatic and doleful production of Bent, set against the Holocaust, Theatre New West artistic director Joe Watts wanted to go in a different direction. Yes,...
Grandmaster Flash is an international legend. The man helped break hip-hop ground in the mid-´70s from a street corner in the Bronx. Back then, it was an entirely...
Chances are you're probably not too familiar with David Campbell's repertoire. But if you've seen Amadeus, Titanic, Harry Potter, Showgirls, Mr. Holland's Opus, Apollo 13 or a...
This year, skip the stuffy restaurant routine and take your lovebird to the Houston Zoo's "Go Wild for Love" Valentine's lectures. Indulge yourself in more ways than one with...
In the riveting world of word association, "feminism" does not typically conjure "hilarity." Which is too bad, because all politicizing is better when spiked with humor (see...
Once upon a time, before TV and videos stoppered up our collective imagination, we sat around our fires telling stories. They were often dark and lurid: Ravenous wolves stalked...