Imagine you're a singer, and without any cause or explanation, the muscles that control your vocal cords begin to contract. As they slam shut,... More >>
There are 10,000 professional country musicians in Nashville -- and ten wanna-bes for every one of them. Sometimes it's a thin line between the... More >>
When a friend first heard the song "Mineral Wells," Tom Russell's tale about a faded Hollywood starlet and an equally washed-out film critic who... More >>
At an age when most performers think about retirement, not artistic redefinitions, Ray Price may have yet one more career makeover left in him.... More >>
Houston drummer Bubbha Thomas lays down such a deep groove that you could find it in a hurricane. The consummate power stickman, Thomas cracks the... More >>
The Kronos Quartet is backing Bela Lugosi. No, Dracula's not part of the band. He's biting necks on a special film screen developed for Philip... More >>
Clubs have personality as much as performers. Take McGonigel's Mucky Duck: The breath of a thousand Anglo-Irish pubs hangs in the air at the... More >>
Flash back to lower Manhattan in 1991. Brit Maurice Bernstein and South African Jonathan Rudnick, two guys who loved the European dance scene of... More >>
With pop music, the transcendent moment comes when a song helps you make sense of your life. As you get older, it seems that pop music provides... More >>
Ever since Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter entered the scene in the early '50s, the harmonica has been synonymous with the blues. In the... More >>
Patty Larkin is a literary songwriter. No, that's not some kiss-of-death label or backhanded compliment. It's a statement of admiration. In her... More >>
Here are some of the noteworthy performers taking the stage this year as part of the Houston International Jazz Festival, August 4 through August... More >>
All told, the four acts that'll be taking the stage at the '70s Soul Revue -- the Stylistics, the Dramatics, the Chi-Lites and the Delfonics --... More >>
When promoters book an act into the International Ballroom, it usually means they expect a mess. In the case of Slipknot, promoters undoubtedly... More >>
There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
