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A long time ago, in another era of TV land, there was a show called The Millionaire. It wasn't reality TV so it didn't really happen, but it played to the daydreams of many...
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Here’s what you need to know about Houston author Sheila Dansby Harvey: She writes great sex scenes. Her latest release, Aww Sookie Sookie: Omar’s Revenge, features...
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Brad Pitt might be a suave, socially responsible Mr. Angelina Jolie these days, but back in 1995 he was just another very pretty actor trying to make a buck. That year he...
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Before you go to the Opera in the Heights’s presentation of Macbeth, maybe you should brush up on your Verdi. Ann Thompson, well-known local music expert, leads the...
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Go from King George to George Bush in under an hour with the InterActive Theater Company’s The History of the USA. It’s a funny version of American history on...
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Enjoy an especially happy happy hour at the Alley Theatre during today’s ActOUT pre-show mixer with the Greater Houston GLBT Chamber of Commerce. Theatergoers will enjoy...
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There’s something about the American psyche that seems forever young, and that’s not always a good thing, especially in Azazel Jacobs’s Momma’s Man, a...
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Vickie Shaw looks like your typical effervescent Southern belle: Her bright blond hair is teased, sprayed and occasionally fluffed for emphasis with her manicured fingertips....
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Danny and Sandy are at it again during Stage Door’s production of Grease. The rock and roll musical has the bobby socks-wearing, gum-chewing Pink Ladies and their...
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Combining the cutthroat machinations of a competitive cooking event with the boozy fun of a beer festival, the second annual Saint Arnold One Pot Showdown should make...
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When born a misanthrope, you really have but two choices. One: struggle through life while silently noting the worst of humans’ antics. Or two: build a career out of...
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One of the most caustic comedians out there today, Bill Burr wields his mike like a weapon — especially when it comes to matrimony. “Why do people get married?...
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Get to know the complex, volatile and sometimes dangerous oil and gas industry that’s been an integral part of Houston’s history for more than 100 years during the...
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Most of the characters in the Brazilian film City of God are pretty godless. They’re hoodlums, gangsters, thieves, drug dealers, rapists and killers. In the middle of...
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The films in Festival of New Spanish Cinema take an unblinking look at the lives of today’s Spaniards, complete with terrorist attacks, isolation, violence, love and...
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Who knew one song would take Gloria Gaynor from Newark to the Houston Symphony stage? Yes, she’s had other hits (“Never Can Say Good-Bye” and “I Am Who I...
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This is not a typo: The Tango Festival’s Saturday-night Milonga (dance session) runs from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. That’s a lot of twists and turns. Saturday’s is...
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Adam Shepard is outrageously good--looking, fabulously young and scratching his way toward fame in that hunky-writer way, with his controversial new memoir Scratch...
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In Jami Attenberg’s debut novel, The Kept Man, Jarvis starts off as a trophy wife for an up-and-coming artist. When he falls into a coma, Jarvis’s life is put on...
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Journalist David Sheff took a personal tragedy and turned it into Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, a story of hope for others. His son...
