The girl of my dreams spent as much time leaving as she did coming. She'd been gone for only a few hours, but the pain of her absence was killing... More >>
Whoever thought of drinking gin and milk at the same time must have been drunk. I almost fell off my barstool at Los Tios (14006 Memorial Drive,... More >>
"They come early and they come late," says the regular sitting next to me at Clayton's Restaurant and Club (198 North Sam Houston Parkway East,... More >>
The night was rainy and the streets of downtown were nearly deserted. I parked my heap at Old Market Square and ambled across to Warren's Inn (307... More >>
By their very nature, blind dates are supposed to entail a certain amount of surprise. So I waited and waited and waited in the reception area of... More >>
It was a night like no other at the Next Door Art Gallery (2020 Waugh Drive, 713-520-1712). A band called Felix Madison was playing Zeppelin to... More >>
Otilia's (7710 Long Point, 713-681-7203) is a media darling. In fact, the restaurant lists its newspaper accolades on the first page of its menu.... More >>
It may not be Four Farthings, but Cahill's on Durham (903 Durham, 713-864-9400) does a hell of a job making transplanted Chicagoans feel at home.... More >>
In the afternoon they answer the phone "Duke's," as in Duke of Hollywood, the tailor shop that's been holding its own downtown since the '30s. But... More >>
Legend has it that the two brothers who opened St. Pete's Dancing Marlin (300 Main, 713-227-1511) funded it by reeling in a really big fish. First... More >>
The line of people coming out of the Continental Club had us peering through the windows to catch Billy Joe Shaver and Kinky Friedman on stage.... More >>
It was a hoity-toity affair, an opening celebration of the city's visual arts scene on the Terrace at the acclaimed Warwick Hotel (5701 Main... More >>
For lovers of smoky, windowless, hole-in-the-wall dives, the Spot (1732 West 18th, 713-864-4485) rules. A crowd of regulars was hanging out along... More >>
It's clear from the sign out front that the Old San Francisco Steak House (8611 Westheimer, 713-783-5990) is in a time warp. But I still can't... More >>
The cars seem to never go away. At first I thought it was some kind of opening celebration that went on for weeks and weeks. But apparently,... More >>
I'm not sure if it was the number of patrons with long hair and beards, the sunken room layout or the cover band belting out Jimi Hendrix tunes,... More >>
It was Monday night, and my kidneys were aching from my drinking all weekend. The last thing I needed was fast food or a chicken-fried steak... More >>
The rain was coming down in buckets when we left the Latin American Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts, but we managed to stay dry enough to... More >>
It was almost midnight, and the movie had just let out at the River Oaks Theatre. I was damned if I was going home to broken air conditioners and... More >>
It's Saturday evening at the elegant Lancaster Hotel (701 Texas Ave., 713-228-9500), and the dining room is all set for the theater crowd. With... More >>
It was a scorching late afternoon, and my day had been filled with rejection. I needed a drink, but more important, I needed a cool, dark place... 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.
