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Issue: April 23, 2009
Page: 3
50 stories found - 41 through 50
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  1. Cafe

    Roast Beef and Fried Rice

    Calliope's turns out authentic New Orleans food with an Asian twist

    By Robb Walsh
    Published: April 23, 2009

    "Nobody in Houston knows how to make a roast beef poor boy," displaced Crescent City  native Tim Turner said to me the other day. Turner's eyes lit up when I told him...

  2. Hot Plate

    A New Falafel Frontier at Falafel Frenzy

    By Paul Galvani
    Published: April 23, 2009

    Famous falafel: Ayman Jarah, the owner of Falafel Frenzy (914 Prairie, 713-237-8987), decided he wanted to get in the kitchen and invent something. We are forever grateful that...

  3. Dish

    Loggia Brings Uptown to Sugar Land with an Ultramodern Sports Bar

    By Paul Galvani
    Published: April 23, 2009

    Tim Proto, the co-owner of the new Loggia (2248 Texas Dr., Sugar Land, 281-903 7324), may be a newcomer to the restaurant business, but his partner, Alfred Bonilla, more...

  4. Film

    A Disciplined Duet

    Foxx and Downey's performances nearly save The Soloist from visual excess and shameless exploitation

    By Ella Taylor
    Published: April 23, 2009

    The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events that inspired it took place within...

  5. Film

    Sugar Sidesteps Sports-Movie Clichés

    Boden and Fleck find the sweet spot.

    By Melissa Anderson
    Published: April 23, 2009

    Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most clichéd genres with smarts, nonscreechy politics, superb acting and visual beauty. Though, on...

  6. Film

    Dito Montiel's Fighting Lacks Punch

    Down for the Count

    By Scott Foundas
    Published: April 23, 2009

    Writing about A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the 2006 debut film by director Dito Montiel, I likened it to the sort of crude but fascinating object one might find in an...

  7. Theater

    Mauritius at the Alley

    You'll never look at a postage stamp the same way again

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: April 23, 2009

    It's been quite a while since a play has actually silenced the audience, leaving it clutching its candy wrappers instead of unwrapping them. Many scenes in Theresa Rebeck's...

  8. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements"

    By Troy Schulze and Beth Secor
    Published: April 23, 2009

    "Face Off: A Selection of Old Masters and Others from The Menil Collection" This is a relatively small exhibition at The Menil Collection which, according to museum materials,...

  9. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: The Seven Year Itch, "The Share of the Future", Rigoletto, Working

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: April 23, 2009

    The Seven Year Itch Hurry to Theatre Southwest if you want to see a star being born. Come to think of it, there may be more than one. None are novices, to be sure, but they...

  10. Ask a Mexican

    Mexican Moors?

    More likely than you think

    By Gustavo Arellano
    Published: April 23, 2009

    Dear Mexican, First of all, please don't think that I'm a self-­loathing Mexican; I was born in the U.S. to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is just...

Issue: April 23, 2009
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