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Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. Bushy eyebrows arch over his half-open eyes.
As a Bolivian...
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Local flamenco dancer La Tempestad is used to being onstage, but she says she’ll gladly relinquish the spotlight in favor of today’s performance by Arte y Pureza....
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In Hanan Peled’s richly evocative world, the past is never truly in the past, nor is it ever easily forgotten. As the final movie of the Jewish Community Center’s...
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Apama Mackey Gallery’s “Paramilitary Show” at the Houston Fire Museum features contemporary art sharing space with the museum’s impressive collection of...
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On her Web site, author Shauna Glenn writes, “If you stick around long enough, you’ll probably hear me say the word vagina (but only really positive things about it)...
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You can call her brash and make as much fun of her facelifts as you’d like — but you can’t deny that Joan Rivers is one-of-a-kind. The stand-up comedian,...
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You could say Pablo Francisco is a sound man. The comedian buzzes, zings, rings, thumps, toots, hoots and hollers his way through a vault of pop culture musings. In a style...
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It’s cool enough that two Samuel Beckett shows are on the program. But Ornery Theatre is actually producing two “very rarely produced” fragments not published...
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In writer/director Rashid Masharawi’s light-hearted Palestinian romp Laila’s Birthday — yes, Palestinians actually laugh and have fun — proud Dad (Mohammed...
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The 2nd Annual Frenetic Fringe Festival is all about timing. “It’s a very concentrated type of festival that requires absolutely no patience,” says co-creator...
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What happens when Vera Carp, a proud member of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order, ends up in Las Vegas? A whole lot of laughing, at least that’s what Jaston Williams,...
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Oliver Twist may be one of the luckiest characters ever to step on the stage. The star of the musical Oliver!, Twist goes from rough times at an orphanage to a cushy life with...
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H-town has made its way into one of comedian Ken Rogerson's bits: "I was in Houston, Texas, in January. I thought, 'January, Houston. It's near the Gulf of Mexico, it's gonna...
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See the ones that almost got away at today's First Thursdays at Dean's. Sponsored by the Houston Film Commission, the program features shorts that didn't make the cut the first...
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The Concord Blue Devils marching band bested a field of 22 a couple of weeks ago to earn their spot in today's 2009 Drums Corps International World Championship Quarterfinals...
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The Red Door Theatre Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream isn't exactly what Shakespeare had in mind. This Dream, written by local playwright Louis B. Moore...
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Curator Andrea Grover selected Touched by Water for today's edition of Jacuzzi Movies at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. It's an exploration of our connection to water...
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Seeing the ever beautiful Jacqueline Bisset would be reason enough to watch Day for Night. But seeing her in the first film that she says ever used her properly, makes it...
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Hurricane Ike
Nine months later, no flood of "Ike Babies"
BY RICHARD CONNELLY
Whenever a city suffers a blackout for any extended period of time, you can be sure that...
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The Mexican
Not a fan: I am writing in regards to the recent Ask a Mexican debacle in hopes of shedding some light on the subject. I am what is considered a "Latino writer,"...
