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T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Rice University, he's hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to...
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Every year, 11 lucky art students are given Core residency at the Glassell School of Art (that’s the Museum of Fine Arts’ teaching arm). After a year of working and...
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Sharks get a bad rap as ruthless killing machines. Yeah, yeah, they do eat people every once in a while, but the truth is that bees kill more people each year than sharks...
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NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu reads from his new book, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess today. The book, arranged in small sections, recounts an imaginary...
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Are you sure the government is watching you? That there’s a secret organization tasked with keeping the truth from us? Then you’re going to love this pair of...
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At the center of The Fortune Cookie is Whiplash Willie, a.k.a. William H. Gingrich, the mother of all shyster lawyers. As described by director/co-writer Billy Wilder,...
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The title says it all — Steel Magnolias. Playwright Robert Harling’s most well-known work, Steel Magnolias is the touching story of a group of Southern women who...
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Religion, memory, gender identity and the taco trucks that populate Houston are just some of the heavy subjects that the senior B.F.A. candidates at the University of...
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What comes after size double-zero? Lia and Cassie are eager to find out in Wintergirls, the newest novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Best friends, the girls are in a race to...
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The innovative cartoon fable The Triplets of Belleville is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Maybe if you mixed Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock and Tim Burton you’d...
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Terri Adams has a problem in The Clean-up Woman. While she’s off building a career, her husband is left alone at home. And because Terri’s busy with other...
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Meet writer/mixed-media artist Lovie Olivia and painter Shannon Duckworth during this installment of Slide Jam! at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Find out what these...
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Writer Antonya Nelson, who reads at today’s Poison Pen Reading Series, lets her characters take the lead. “I might create characters whose actions I don’t...
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Join Nuestra Palabra and author Sandra Cisneros as they celebrate the 25th anniversary of her most famous work, The House on Mango Street. The coming-of-age story, based...
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Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s farce Hunter Gatherers is about modern couples — and it isn’t. Pam and Richard are having their friends Wendy and Tom over for their...
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Houston Grand Opera continues its build-up to the upcoming world premiere of the André Previn opera Brief Encounter with an outdoor screening of Gigi. The 1958 film,...
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Join in on the biggest backyard cleanup in the state — the 16th Annual River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash. Sixteen sites have been selected around the Houston...
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The exhibit “Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave,” the first-ever mid-career exhibition for the painter, covers the years from 1980 to the present. Dumas is...
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See homes in a variety of sizes and styles on the Woodlands Heights Home Tour, a visit to six private residences that are examples of the best architecture in one of...
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The FAQs on the Texas Fetish Ball Web site have some questions/answers you rarely see anywhere else: “May we bring a toy bag?” Answer: “Absolutely! There...
