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Lil Wayne is scheduled to bring his "I Am Music" tour to Toyota Center Thursday, but be warned before you drop nearly $50 on a ticket. While the New Orleans native born Dwayne...
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Two thousand seven was a banner year for the album in Houston indie rock; with recession looming in 2008, local bands adjusted their ambitions, rediscovering the pithy charms...
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While social and political issues are not new to the music of this Colombian rock duo formed by Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, Rio is actually the first time they...
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Ludacris's strength as a rapper has been, and always will be, an unfortunate irony: he's a schizophrenic mess of disputatious bravado and wit. It serves him well on guest...
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With his final works in the American Recordings series, Johnny Cash had some of his biggest commercial and critical success, setting the bar ridiculously high for departed...
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It's not easy traveling the world with your tarnished sex-symbol girlfriend Lindsay Lohan while you are trying to DJ at dance clubs all over the world, but somehow Samantha...
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Bianca Noons, who passed away peacefully November 29 after lying in a diabetic coma for a year, was half of Houston sibling reggae duo the Neutral Sisters, memorably profiled...
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Anyone who saw 13-year-old Chris Masterson shredding a Strat at the Fabulous Satellite Lounge or Big Easy in the late '80s probably had a clue the little guy was going to grow...
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Simply put, King's X is a marvel. The Katy-based trio has been hanging around the margins of hard rock for nearly 30 years; next year marks the 20th anniversary of...
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Every meal at the King's Inn on Loyola Beach starts with a plate of sliced tomatoes and a dish of the restaurant's mysterious "tartar sauce." I usually eat huge gobs of the...
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In its simplest form, the Italian appetizer called bruschetta is toasted bread scraped with garlic, drizzled with olive oil and topped with tomatoes. The dish also can be as...
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Don't be surprised if you see lots of bikes parked outside The Broken Spoke (1809 Washington, 713-863-7029) — that's what the racks are for. Owner Ray De La Garza has...
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Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague. This man was a compulsive...
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For so major a movie star — at least, once upon a time — Jim Carrey seems to make a lot of awfully minor films, several of them over and over again. Isn't Yes Man,...
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Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent Hollywood movies,...
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I defy anyone to leave Gate of Heaven unaffected. Although this tremendously moving drama, a co-production between Nova Arts Project and The Asian/Pacific American Heritage...
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But Not Goodbye Main Street Theater's But Not Goodbye has nothing to do with Christmas except its family spirit and joy of giving, but George Seaton's fantasy comedy is...
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"Frank Zeni" New bar/gallery Khon's celebrates its grand opening on Milam with an exhibit of paintings by local artist/architect Frank Zeni. Known mostly for his Roman...
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Dear Readers,
A couple of columnas ago, I published a short list of my favorite books regarding Mexicans and Mexican Americans and urged ustedes to submit better choices so...
