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Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last year to shoot the bird at the oil companies.
"I felt so...
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It’s anniversary time! One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin shifted the cosmic order with his book On the Origin of the Species. Mildred’s Umbrella...
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Poor Anthony. Poor Adam. Poor Gwen. The trio is still hungry and still can’t pay the Rent. You got it — the Tony award-winning musical about young starving artists...
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Pico Iyer has an enviable job: Magazines like The New Yorker, National Geographic and Time pay him to travel the world and write about distant places and fascinating people....
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“Let’s see — should I blow up a bridge or kiss you?” We’re sure Hemingway said it better, but that neatly sums up the dilemma Gary Cooper’s...
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Madeleine Crozat-Williams’s casa es su casa — if you’re traveling on the Orange Show’s SouthSide H-town Tour, one of the center’s quirky Eyeopener...
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Look into the eyes of Houston’s most in need at “Who are the Homeless? — Photographs by Bob Levy” and you’ll see strength, determination, sass, fear...
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The gong karaoke contest at the 16th Annual Japan Festival is expected to be fierce this weekend. At stake — bragging rights until next year. The festival transforms...
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If you think politics are interesting nowadays, imagine what it was like when the prize was the moon. Sputnik Declassified details the 1950s race for space between America and...
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Shop at the only Texas show of its kind at the 14th Annual 20th Century Modern Market. Up for grabs is art, of course, along with vintage clothing and furniture from the last...
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Zombie ballerinas — what the hell else do you need to know? Zomberina! The Movie sees usually graceful ballerinas turn into always clunky zombies at a dance competition....
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Megan Frazier Salch is introducing her guidebook 100+ Activities for Houston Kids, 2009 edition at today’s signing. Organized by months, 100+ is comprehensive,...
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Thrown together by circumstance, Benjamin, a Jewish watchmaker, and Hans, a larger-than-life homosexual, share quarters in a Nazi concentration camp. Both are considered...
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For all the coverage Palestine gets in the media, it’s remarkably difficult to get a true sense of what its culture and people are really like. To fight what they call...
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Have an itch to put on a big red rubber nose? Floppy feet? Or maybe you have an unquenchable desire to cram yourself, along with a score of strangers, into a Yugo? Burst out...
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The Golden Dragon Acrobats return to the Miller Outdoor Theatre today to assume the pretzel positions for which they’re famous. The group has traveled around the world...
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The gridiron is a social microcosm in Kevin Rafferty’s (The Atomic Cafe) ultimate sports documentary, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which features a cast of characters who,...
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In her new novel The River Flows North, author Graciela Limón tells a story common to most immigrants crossing the dangerous Sonora desert into the U.S. While fiction,...
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Longtime listeners become first-time viewers at the screening of This American Life - LIVE! The rare theatrical experience allows fans of the popular National Public Radio...
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Remember that teen angst you thought you’d outgrown? It’s back with a vengeance at today’s midnight screening of The Breakfast Club. The 1985 John Hughes...
