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America's most popular doctor doesn't have terrible handwriting and doesn't make you cool your heels reading tattered copies of last fall's golf magazines. He doesn't abandon...
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“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Nobody listened to Chicken Little when she ran around giving dire predictions, but it might be smart to listen to...
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If you’ve been watching the news, you know that evolution and whether it should be taught in schools is a major topic of discussion these days. Get beyond the emotional...
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We only have three minutes to make the world a different place,” says Houston slam poet Trinity. She says it’s a poet’s job to deliver the best thing...
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Soldiers and swans have a lot more in common than we might think. They’re both brave, strong and, sometimes, afraid. Monumental, the piece Australian choreographer/dancer...
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Spies and journalists share one rule: Never get too close to your subject. There aren’t any spies in the Italian film The Right Distance, but there is a journalist....
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“I am covered with 30 types of pesticides (even after washed)” is written across a ripe, red apple in Olivia de Salve’s photograph Apple. Oh, yum. De Salve, one...
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The original poster for Carrie back in 1976 said, “If you have a taste for terror…take Carrie to the prom.” We would change that to “…take Carrie...
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You might say it’s high time Jim Breuer settled down. The actor/comedian best known as Brian, the munchies-starved pothead from Dave Chappelle’s movie Half Baked,...
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The Aurora Picture Show pays weekend homage to those hazy nights of long ago with an audiovisual tribute to light shows during the Media Archeology Festival: Liquid Light to...
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The 7th Annual Houston Press Menu of Menus Extravaganza is food heaven. That may seem like a bold — and slightly sacrilegious — assertion, but the chance to sample...
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Did you know that 80 percent of the beer made in the United States is now controlled by two companies — Anheuser-Busch InBev in Belgium and SABMiller in South Africa?...
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Expensive home improvements may not be trendy these days, but good taste is still in vogue. Those looking for bargain art should be pleased to see the range of wares offered...
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Stand-up comic Bob Biggerstaff is a local favorite, so fans always look forward to his latest material. “I have a new mustache,” Biggerstaff says. “It’s...
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Ever wonder why, after all the millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into -Africa, very little seems to have changed? Author Kyle Mills does, and his answer...
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Fans of the mother-daughter writing duo Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark will get a double dose of suspense today when the pair sign and discuss their newest books....
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His mom was a schizophrenic — she killed one of her husbands and then committed suicide in prison. His dad (not the dead guy) was an alcoholic and thought letting his...
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Stefan Merril Block’s debut novel The Story of Forgetting intertwines the lives of two Texans, a teenager in Austin and an aged recluse in Dallas. The two have never met,...
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Nonfiction author Bill Bryson is an American, but he’s lived in England so long, the Brits named him an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order (kinda sounds like...
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For someone whose job is making other people laugh, the court jester Rigoletto doesn’t seem to have much fun. Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, the lead character of the...
