Let the bloodsport begin: The Millennial Biennial's roster of artists has been announced, and everyone's worst fears or best hopes have been... More >>
In 1995 Bill Davenport glued four cardboard toilet paper rolls together in a little cluster and called it sculpture. In the mid-'80s he cast the... More >>
Pastor Leon Spivey thinks he knows what black people need: a basic education and some spiritual guidance. Problem is, he says, the black people... More >>
It was a scene of art culture-meets-street culture that could almost have been lifted from the '80s, a few years after a celebrated Soho street... More >>
Since the street is something we city dwellers can appreciate every day, bringing the street into the gallery seems potentially weird and fakey,... More >>
At first glance, "Politics and Elliptical Visions" seems schizophrenic. The exhibit, curated by photography graduate student Anderson Wrangle,... More >>
Every inch of Kingwood -- the bedroom community that used to be 25 miles north of Houston before Houston reached up and swallowed it whole -- ... More >>
LeaAnna McConnell is one of those people who's fascinated by death and human remains, and the more exotic the better. Like a Texas cousin of the... More >>
Shin Higashiura, whose female shiatsu clients say he gave them "inside treatments" that involved sexual touching and intercourse, has agreed to... More >>
Like most of the clients who visited Shin Higashiura's shiatsu therapy clinic, Stella (not her real name) is a middle-aged, upper-middle-class... More >>
The great photographer Diane Arbus once claimed that if she didn't take her pictures, no one would ever see the things she photographed. She was... More >>
From the time I was six to the time I was 11, my dad worked at Texas Southern University. There, perched on a high stool in front of a computer... More >>
It was a certain morbid curiosity that drew us, two artists and me, to the Westin Galleria one afternoon in late March to witness a personal... More >>
On the afternoon of April 27, M. Martin climbed the stairs to a small office above the Texas Hemp Company to use the phone. There, he answered a... More >>
"It's really funny," says 34-year-old Rick Lowe, hunching over fried catfish at Luddington's in the Third Ward, the neighborhood where he now... More >>
For a while now I've been mentally mapping out what I call my Color Tour of Houston, a project whose merit I hope our Convention and Visitors... More >>
When the new year began, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing about Y2K. Even daily newspapers and the Red Cross were advising people to hoard... More >>
Houston Independent School District last week asked a principal and three teachers to resign for alleged TAAS testing irregularities, which were... 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.
