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As with most genre-blending acts, purveyors of melodic death metal usually lean toward one camp or the other. This tendency has odd results, frequently leaving such bands...
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Ever wondered what happened to '80s piano-man cheeseball Richard "Right Here Waiting" Marx? Well, he shared the 2003 Song of the Year Grammy for co-writing Luther Vandross's...
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In Ladytron's slick sonic terrain, artificiality rules over all. While it's been almost ten years since the shadowy English quartet first began manufacturing its icy...
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The elegiac, altogether soul-shaking Mogwai has kept audiences stirred for two decades of critically lauded post-rock shimmer. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead," which opens last...
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Compared to airbrushed, frosted-bang pretty boys like Rascal Flatts, Atlanta's Zac Brown Band looks like they came straight to Nashville from a bare-knuckled dust-up with the...
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The duck confit salad I had for lunch at La Brocante Cafe on Kirkwood was a plate with three items. There were lightly dressed field greens, a preserved duck leg quarter that...
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When you order the muffaletta burger ($4.99) at Hubcap Grill (1111 Prairie, 713-223-5885), you get the best of both worlds. Not only do you get one of the best and juiciest...
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I had not been to the Jet Lounge (1515 Pease, 713-659-2000) since its reinvention a short time ago. I was pleasantly surprised by the change in format. The current permutation...
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Shai and Ely Tsaig are brothers and fourth-generation bakers from the ancient port city of Ashkelon in southern Israel. They own Super Pita Bakery & Deli (9806 Hillcroft,...
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Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly regarded BBC miniseries first telecast...
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This much is for sure about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture 17 Again: They know their audience. Scientifically engineered for maximum shriek-and-squeal value among...
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After a gross misstep with its previous exhibition of New York-based artist Paul Villinski's useless response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath ("Emergency Response Studio"),...
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"Get a Rope" Named after that famous retort in the picante sauce commercials, "Get a Rope" pulls together nine New York City-based artists with varying connections to Houston....
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Little Women If only the stagehands at Country Playhouse would cease moving scenery after every scene, we could really appreciate the exceptional performance of Erin Stallings...
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Dear Mexican,
In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can't have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against...
