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Animal Collective's ninth record, named after a Maryland concert venue, is grounded in the Floydian tradition of creepy, spooky psychedelia, but the product of modern-day...
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How has T-Pain done it? He's not attractive, his fashion sense leaves much to be desired (at least for those lacking Dr. Seuss/LSD fetishes) and his voice is nothing special...
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Single File
Foxboro Hot Tubs, "Dark Side of Night": I know, I know — big-time rock superstars get restless and bored. So between radio-friendly unit-shifters, they go...
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone, or KRS-One as he's known to his close personal friends, is a towering and seminal figure in hip-hop. He's often praised for...
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Since 2002, the Trinity Jazz Festival has brought some of the top names in jazz (Ellis Marsalis, Jason Moran) to Houston in a most sanctified setting: Trinity Episcopal Church...
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Who doesn't love a good buffet? Or a good sequel? This second installment of Leave Your Genre at the Door — the stylistic hodgepodge of local acts that audaciously aims...
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Long Beach-based ska-punk band Sublime was on the verge of becoming a national success when front man Brad Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996, just after the band...
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Buzz listeners, don't forget your own backyard. Houston's The Last Place You Look is rockin' it just as hard as — if not harder than — any radio-ready Warped Tour...
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"When I opened on Monday morning at ten-thirty, there were people standing in line out front!" George Sarikhanian, the gregarious cashier/owner at Cafe Rita, told me when I...
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Better than candy: Insiders know that there are two schools of thought when it comes to eating the foie gras bonbons ($11) at Catalan Food and Wine (5555 Washington,...
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BEAVER'S
BELT STRAP
The brunch special lured me to Beaver's (2310 Decatur St., 713-864-2328) a few Sundays ago. Reading over the Bloody Mary menu, I considered writing...
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Sabrina Samemy, who moved to Houston from Turkey 20 years ago, just opened Sultan's Mediterranean Grill (12280 Westheimer, 281-493-0034). "My father is Turkish and my mother...
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Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex day care as "Mo" Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart's opening chapter, he's...
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Woe be to the mother who raises an unappreciative daughter. Mrs. Warren, the title character of Alley Theatre's firecracker production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's...
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"Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings" Raised in the Netherlands, Hedwige Jacobs must have drawn upon the sprawling landscape of Houston — she currently resides here...
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Arms and the Man G.B. Shaw's sparkling romantic comedy from 1894 takes on manly soldiers who are praised for desertion, a middle class as snooty as the upper class, headstrong...
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Dear Mexican,
Mi hermano y yo tenemos un dispute. We all know that Mexicans love their bistec sliced muy thin, but why? My brother is adamant that the diet of free-range...
