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>One thing you have to give Flatlanders Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock: Their hearts have always been in the right place. The trio's latest album, Hills &...
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It's so nice to type the words "Girl in a Coma" for something that has nothing to do with the San Antonio trio's altercation with some off-duty Houston police officers at...
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Few outlaw country legends come as hard-assed and grizzled as Merle Haggard, and even fewer have actually lived the shady, hardscrabble life he has. From an early age, Haggard...
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Jamey Johnson has proven a lot of people wrong. Not so much the people who thought Nashville wouldn't be interested in him at all; the Alabama native has,
after all, written...
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One Chinese legend says the accordion is as old as music itself, that around 3,000 B.C., Emperor Huang Ti sent a scholar into the Western mountains charged with reproducing...
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Between the haphazard hooks, ramshackle rhythm section, mumbled vocals and lo-fi lust for vintage psych, Black Lips comparisons are unavoidable for Austin four-piece the...
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Fans of the 1990s funk-metal band Primus can't forget that famous Woodstock '94 footage where the band's resident bass god, Les Claypool, dexterously covered Metallica's...
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Not one write-up about proud Floridians J.J. Grey and his backing band Mofro fails to mention how their music is a stew of Southern soul, swamp-rock and blues –...
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The Strokes have been on hiatus since 2006, but if the band's members keep making great records on the side, the New York quintet needn't hurry back to the studio. Guitarist...
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Seafood dealer Jim Gossen sat in the booth across from me at Boiling Crab. It was the first time I had ever seen him with tears in his eyes. No, Gossen wasn't overcome by his...
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If you're not careful, it's easy to overlook the crunchy chicken ($15.95) at benjy's (2424 Dunstan, 713-522-7602), since it's a little buried on the lunch menu. That would be...
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It was Riddell's birthday, so several friends met at Cedar Creek (1034 W. 20th St., 713-808-9623) for drinks after work. A few buckets of beer and some frozen Country Ass Teas...
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Yoichi "Yogi" Ueno opened the first Kubo's Sushi in the Village in 2001. "We wanted to expand into a fast-food restaurant serving healthy Japanese fast food with our new Cafe...
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What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that's what 2003's Old...
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I always thought Osama Bin Laden had strangely kind eyes. At least that's how he looks in photographs, and that's how he looks in The Pilgrim (2006), a portrait by Marlene...
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"The Art Guys: New Clichés" With "New Clichés," the Art Guys present recent work still rooted in the familiar blend of bizarre humor and smart, confident swagger...
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By D.L. Groover, Marene Gustin and Lee Williams Published:
June 4, 2009
Beauty Queen of Leenane If you know anything about the works of playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, Lieutenant of Inishmore), then you're well aware that his vision of...
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Dear Mexican,
I am a Chicano in Connecticut. I moved from Arizona to the East Coast for my dream job. I have to admit that I'm still homesick. Connecticut is a completely...
