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Playbill
By Chris Gray
Two years ago, Rilo Kiley played a set to a sold-out Warehouse Live ballroom that left more than a few of the L.A. band's fans wishing their sardonic Saddle Creek soft-rock...
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Playbill
By William Michael Smith
I've always loved the story that the 13th Floor Elevators were the one band the Grateful Dead didn't like to follow. Anyone who saw the original Elevators, and especially the...
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Feature
What are you really eating when you order fajitas in a Tex-Mex restaurant?
By Robb Walsh
The front end of a cow carcass was dangling from the ceiling. With a butcher's hook and a boning knife in my hands, I regarded the bright-red expanse of raw meat. The day...
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Feature
By Robb Walsh
Here are some of the newly popular cuts of beef you might find in the grocery store meat case. We grill them and eat them fajita-style in Texas, but they are known as "bistro...
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Cafe
Customers love to get coddled at this new neighborhood grill in Spring Branch.
By Robb Walsh
The crab cake Benedict on the Sunday brunch menu at Hollister Grill is my new favorite version of the old-fashioned egg dish. It starts off with two slices of salty prosciutto...
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Hot Plate
Peli-Peli prepares their liver with an expert touch.
By Paul Galvani
Chicken livers can have a strong taste if they're not prepared correctly, but the Peli-Peli chicken livers ($8) at South African restaurant Peli-Peli (110 Vintage Park,...
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Dish
Simple yet delicious food rules at this cozy coffee spot.
By Paul Galvani
Retired teacher Ingrid Syam and her husband Deep Syam recently opened fast-casual Blue Planet Cafe (1330 Wirt, 713-681-9800), which offers pizza, panini, gelato and coffee....
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Film
The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.
By Robert Wilonsky
Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other...
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Dance
Stanton Welch's production of Swan Lake at the Houston Ballet is easily one of the best around.
By Marene Gustin
Houston Ballet's Swan Lake reminds us just why we love this ballet of love, betrayal and death. It will make balletomanes swoon and novices sit up in their theater seats and...
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Theater
The fight over who pioneered the TV plays out in The Farnsworth Invention
By D.L. Groover
Is it good planning or just good luck that the Alley Theatre programmed Aaron Sorkin's breathlessly entertaining television history pageant The Farnsworth Invention during the...
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Encore
By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
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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Artbeat
By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze
"Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum" Novus ordo seclorum ("New Order of the Ages") is one of those bits of Latin written on your dollar bill, as well as the title of...
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Ask a Mexican
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican,
I write to you with a doubt similar to the one that Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in...
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