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Rotation
By Craig Hlavaty
Lily Allen would be the perfect girlfriend. She likes to drink and smoke. Growing up, family friend Joe Strummer played old ska records for her. Not to mention that she has a...
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Rotation
By Chris Gray
Western Swing is an enigma for people outside Texas and the Southwest, who — if they spare a thought for it at all — tend to write it off under "country" and move...
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Rotation
By Bob Ruggiero
Talk about laziness. Slide guitar genius Derek Trucks is pushing 30, and so far he's only worked as a professional musician for two decades — jamming with everyone from...
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Playbill
By Christopher Lopez
Hopeless Records and nonprofit organization Sub City have joined forces with music chain F.Y.E. to put on the eighth annual Take Action Tour. To date, this tour has raised over...
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Playbill
By Chris Gray
Southern Culture on the Skids' annual two-night Continental stand is becoming a local rite of spring that would make Igor Stravinsky proud. The late Russian composer knew a...
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Playbill
By Chris Gray
Since he's entering his eighth decade, Little Joe Washington gets a pass (for now) on any speculation about whatever bargain the iconic, dreadlocked local electric bluesman...
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Playbill
By William Michael Smith
Lovers of bliny — those toasty Russian pancakes served with sour cream and caviar — should be in carbohydrate heaven when the Russian Cultural Center of Texas...
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Playbill
By Craig D. Lindsey
For the next couple of weeks, Houston will be visited by a couple of soulful, award-winning Brit chicks. Booming-voiced, zaftig darling — and newly minted Best New Artist...
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Playbill
By Nicholas L. Hall
Tokyo Police Club is like the best children's literature: Energetic, fast-paced, whimsical, yet with a certain intellectual bent — as if the author is either catering to...
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Cafe
At this Sugar Land South African restaurant, you'll find a lot of delicious dishes you've never heard of before.
By Robb Walsh
Pap with trainsmash is a South African dish I encountered on the Sunday brunch buffet line at Out of Africa in Sugar Land. The pap was a yellow cornmeal mush, and the...
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Hot Plate
By Paul Galvani
If you've never eaten Indonesian food, the rijsttafel ($21.50) at Hazzard's Bar & Grill (1910 S. Dairy Ashford, 281-497-8783) is the perfect way to get to know this exotic...
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Stirred and Shaken
By W. Healy
Sometimes these things just write themselves...I knew it was karaoke night the moment I got out of my car at The Usual (5519 Allen St., 281-501-1478) on a recent Thursday...
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Dish
By Paul Galvani
Mike Jones, the general manager of the newly opened Brick House Tavern & Tap (12910 Northwest Fwy., 713-462-0576), says it's a guys' paradise. "It's the perfect basement...
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Film
Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic-novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it either.
By J. Hoberman
The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming...
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Theater
The Alley does a pitch-perfect rendition of a classic comedy.
By D.L. Groover
"Fabulous monster." "Spoiled baby." "Improbable...insufferable." "Fat duchess." "A scorpion." "God's big brother." And that's just what his close friends called him. He was all...
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Encore
By Lee Williams
Amadeus The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has fascinated the world since the child prodigy turned musical genius died in 1791, when he was only 35 years old, after producing...
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Artbeat
By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze
"Danny Rolph — Accelerator" Ostensibly, "Accelerator" is a kind of crash-'em-up homage to trucking culture and fast living. London-born Rolph's mixed-media pieces seem...
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Ask a Mexican
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Readers,
Before we move on to your spicy preguntas, a bit of housecleaning. Primeramente, gracias to all the Know Nothings who responded to my 100-word-essay...
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