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Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 7 a.m. Cyrus Rafizadeh, 17, wakes up and heads downstairs. The Rafizadeh house is full this morning; his parents, younger twin brother and sister, and...
Jana Hunter isn't in a talkative mood. She picks her words slowly and gives brief, sometimes ambiguous answers punctuated with odd pauses. "So, do you see any difference...
The osso buco at Nino's on West Dallas towered over the plate. It looked like a red lava-covered meat volcano rising from a sea of pasta. Sticking out of the crater in the top,...
At various times over the last decade, David Fincher, Sam Mendes and Michael Mann were attached to direct Scott Frank's screenplay for The Lookout, about a brain-damaged high...
It's not time that haunts the main character in Theater LaB's life-affirming production of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...BOOM! -- it's the all-too-real, aching absence of its...
In the poem "In Just-," e.e. cummings described the world as "mud-luscious" and "puddle-wonderful" -- words so perfectly befitting MotorStorm's gorgeously sloppy off-road...
When visitors leave Hobby Airport, they enter a neighborhood of nondescript apartment buildings and strip malls with cash loan stores. Like most gateway corridors, this area is...
So I was still in South By mode last week, still amped, still believing I could walk out of my house and into a night full of music. I checked last Wednesday's slate of bands,...
Richard Kaplan Pastry Chef: Acute Events & Catering Owner: Brown Paper Chocolates Richard Kaplan's Brown Paper Chocolates were recently nominated for the Gallo Gold...
No director works closer to his unconscious than David Lynch, and, stimulated by the use of amateur digital video technology, his latest feature ventures as far inland as this...
Don Giovanni With a sparkling production of Mozart's sublime masterpiece, Opera in the Heights has its most consistent hit in many a season. The lovely ensemble cast has a...
Children of Men (Universal) Set in a tomorrow that looks like yesterday, Alfonso Cuar�n's wrenching adaptation of P.D. James's novel feels more like documentary than fiction. In ...
The end of March usually brings at least a little hope to Astros fans -- after all, every baseball team starts the season undefeated -- but hope is in short supply this year....
Porterdavis likes being dirty, at least that's what guitarist/vocalist Daniel Barrett says. "Sometimes Simon [Wallace] will play his harmonica so nasty that you just want to...
On Tuesdays through Thursdays at t'afia (3701 Travis, 713-524-6922), there's a special surprise for customers who try the mini b3r ranch burgers (from the Bradley 3 Ranch in...
Neutrally retitled from the more pertinent Orchestra Seats, Avenue Montaigne is a French soufflé of the old school, a romantic comedy set in Paris's arty district, where...
In the 1960s and '70s, H�lio Oiticica was a major figure of the Brazilian avant-garde -- no mean feat, as in retrospect it seems avant-gardists were pretty thick on the ground. ...
Bow (Tartan) Comeback Season (First Look) Curse of the Golden Flower (Sony) The Eden Formula (Westlake) The Addams Family: Volume 2 (MGM) Errol Flynn: The Signature...
A veggie's take: Is there a chance you could give Robb Walsh more investigative assignments or feature articles? I enjoyed reading about Houston's taco truck industry more...
About a month ago, John Popper, vocalist and harmonica player for jam band Blues Traveler, was driving his black Mercedes SUV when he was pulled over by the Washington State...