Email Author Troy Schulze

Awards

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 14, 2007

  "Black Box Office"

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2003 Stories by Troy Schulze

• Close Collaboration

  published September 11, 2003

  What makes up a face? From a distance, we recognize people by shape and basic forms, trying to focus the blurry edges. As the person gets closer,... More >>

• Vodka Venue

  published August 28, 2003

  THU 8/28 If you don't know Lenin from Lennon, you're in luck. Red Star Night Club and Martini Lounge, the Russian-themed Midtown joint... More >>

• Fishing Trip

  published August 28, 2003

  Why bother with the glorified lobster tanks at the Aquarium mega-restaurant downtown? Flee the concrete heat and take the kids down to Surfside... More >>

• Big Balls

  published August 28, 2003

  Let's get one thing out of the way: The cremaster is a tiny muscle that raises and lowers the testicles according to temperature, fear and sexual... More >>

• Rock 'n' Roll

  published August 21, 2003

  Let's say you're out on the southwest side of town. You wanna find a place where you can hang out and sip martinis with friends, but you also ... More >>

• Comic Prophet

  published August 21, 2003

  In the late '70s, at Houston's Stratford High School, a prophecy was set in motion. "We started a band called 'Stress' with Kiss s's,... More >>

• Tough and Well Preserved

  published August 7, 2003

  THU 8/7 Here's a truly inspired double bill: '80s ladies Joan Jett and Pat Benatar. Both could grind the current crop of female pinups... More >>

• Teenage Scribeland

  published August 7, 2003

  Wonder what teenagers think about? If this year's Alley Theatre Houston Young Playwrights Exchange program is any measure, then try '50s... More >>

• Female Fear

  published August 7, 2003

  THU 8/7 When most people think of the concentration camps run by the Nazis, it's the large, sprawling death camps like Auschwitz,... More >>

• Hair Today...

  published July 31, 2003

  You're coming off like you're Van Damme / You've got Kenny G in your Trans Am / You've got names like Billy Ray / Now you sing "Hip Hop Hurray"... More >>

• University of Life

  published July 17, 2003

  Michael W. Dean's new book, $30 Film School, isn't just a crash course in independent moviemaking. It's also an inspiring handbook... More >>

• Personae of Persecution

  published July 3, 2003

  If we base our perceptions of Palestine on news accounts, we imagine ruined towns, rubble and people throwing stones at Israeli tanks. We view... More >>

• Accidental Tourists

  published June 19, 2003

  Accidents will happen. Jason Trachtenburg struggled as a solo songwriter in Seattle before a trip to an estate sale changed his life. "I was... More >>

• Analyze This

  published June 5, 2003

  Director Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock begins with the words of Edgar Allan Poe: "What we see and what we seem are but a... More >>

• Whip Team

  published May 22, 2003

  Elizabeth Ann remembers when her social circle disbanded. They were a group of women into bondage, domination and sadomasochism, but the politics... More >>

• Art Cars Unleashed

  published May 8, 2003

  After 15 years of living in the Houston International Festival's shadow, the Orange Show's Art Car Parade is finally free to cruise solo.... More >>

• An Evening of Torture

  published April 24, 2003

  The crowd at Amnesty International Theater Project's "Torture Watch" is likely to be more aware of human rights violations around the globe... More >>

• Pass the Salad

  published April 17, 2003

  4-17 If you toss it, they will they come -- at least in the case of Dance Salad, one of the best-kept secrets in international dance.... More >>

• Egg Beaters

  published April 17, 2003

  Easter egg hunts can be unseemly events, with kids ruthlessly tossing aside traditional hard-boiled eggs and each other in the mad search for... More >>

• Short Stuff

  published April 17, 2003

  The Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts 6 isn't a snooty film festival. "It's open to anyone with a camera," says Andrea Grover, Aurora's... More >>

• Good Folk

  published April 3, 2003

  SAT 4/5 Caroline Herring may have been raised in the small agricultural community of Canton, Mississippi, but she doesn't have the... More >>

• Learn a Lot from a Dummy

  published April 3, 2003

  SUN 4/6 While puppets' voices are hidden, dummies are inextricably tied to their masters -- which is, of course, one reason why... More >>

• Pulling Stunts

  published April 3, 2003

  Houston may not be known for its film industry, but it's here all right, and we've got the Houston Stuntmen's Association to prove it. Need... More >>

• Special Delivery

  published March 27, 2003

  Patti Smith may have almost single-handedly launched punk rock in the late '70s, but she originally wanted to be a visual artist. "She really... More >>

• Suchu Goes to Hell

  published February 20, 2003

  Don't be thrown off by the fact that the new Suchu Dance show Mouthpiece has nothing to do with mouths or pieces or spokespeople.... More >>