At first glance, they look like perfectly ordinary first-graders scribbling feverishly on the blackboard, but there is something striking about... More >>
Tim O'Brien has a problem: His fiction about the Vietnam War has made him famous. Worse things could befall an author, but it's an injustice to... More >>
To measure the scope of J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy, consider the breadth of the fantasy genre, which includes novels about anything science can't... More >>
Every clique has an "out" group that insiders make fun of. For stoners, it's kickers; for kickers, it's hipsters. When I was a research assistant... More >>
Hard day at the office? The frantic pace of modern life got you down? A few hooks in the back may be just the thing you need to give you a "lift."... More >>
Attend enough art events in Houston, and the faces start to look familiar. You'll spot the same theatergoers fanning themselves with programs at... More >>
Above all, Gerald T. Westbrook is a man concerned with truth. For hours he works at his computer in the small office of his Memorial-area home,... More >>
If you can't be bothered to track down the odd little church-turned-art-house-theater on Aurora Street, here's your chance to see what all the... More >>
Books, music, Web sites, video games, they all fall under the big umbrella known as media. If you want to sell an idea through any one of these... More >>
Scott Hill Bumgardner's lifelong passion for cowboy poetry began when his horse fell on him and broke his pelvis. He began penning poems to keep... More >>
The problem with doing a sidebar on a book by one of your colleagues is that there are certain questions you can't ask for the sake of office... More >>
The past few years, 19th Street Association merchants had prided themselves on their unique promotional events. They hosted a New Orleans-style... More >>
The vast majority of Kemp's ridley, the most endangered species of sea turtle in the world, nests along Rancho Nuevo beach in Mexico. This month,... More >>
How many Aggies does it take to turn a multimillion-dollar gift into a multimillion-dollar dispute? Just one: Chester J. Reed.
Reed couldn't... More >>
When you're born in Kansas and raised in Colorado Springs, there are only two ways you can go: Either assimilate into the Borg Collective or flee... More >>
Actors and audiences have a shaky relationship. If actors are going to work virtually for free, they occasionally want to venture outside the... More >>
Some might deny that Galveston is a center of aviation history. But those naysayers have never heard of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, the man who... 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.
