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During a tour of the States earlier this year, the four guys and three gals that comprise Cardiff, Wales, outfit Los Campesinos! absorbed some of the more off-the-wall...
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They said it couldn't be done, that no one in Houston would dream of spending two days in the punishing August heat at an outdoor music festival.
Rightfully (somewhat), the...
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Joe Mathlete puts most other local musicians to shame. The local musician, artist, producer, 29-95 blogger, videographer and comic-strip commentator
isn't releasing any old...
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About two weeks ago, local indie-folk quartet listenlisten made the up-and-comer "Hype Monitor" section of www.rollingstone.com — the first time a local band landed a...
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Although Blue October began playing around Houston almost 14 years ago, it wasn't until 2003's "Calling You" that audiences outside Texas really began to catch on. Then 2006's...
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Call it a coincidence, but as young local groups like Something Fierce, the Wild Moccasins, Three Fantastic and listenlisten (see elsewhere this issue) have begun attracting...
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If you dug New York Times writer Thomas Friedman's recent column about 59 being the new 30, you'll probably want to come out to Billy Joe Shaver's birthday party. It's...
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The mere sound of Fear lead singer/guitarist Lee Ving's howl makes us long for the days when Darby Crash puking on the floor at a basement show would be called groundbreaking....
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With big hooks, roaring guitars and coy humor, Cheap Trick were America's answer to AC/DC, a catchy, hard-rocking act boasting arena-size heft. They crashed Big Star into Thin...
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It's very likely there are Houstonians who are pleased as punch (please forgive us for using that expression) that Mos Def is coming back to Houston for another show. Some of...
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A few years ago, on a hot summer day, I took my friends John and Jan Bebout for their first visit to Hank's Ice Cream on South Main. Jan is trim and extremely fit, and also a...
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The stupendous cochinita pibil tacos are a buck and a half apiece at Tacos La Bala #2 on Bellaire, across the street from Pico's Mex-Mex. The shreds of fall-apart tender,...
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It's hard to decide which is better, the Bo's Baja Fish Taco ($3) or the Bo's Baja Shrimp Taco ($3) at Bohemeo's (708 Telephone Rd., 713-923-4277), so the only thing to do is...
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Vietnamese restaurant Hue recently reincarnated as the Japanese Kata Robata (3600 Kirby, 713-526-8858). Dish asked Yun Cheng, who also brought us Azuma and Soma sushi...
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The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses...
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As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden...
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"North Looks South: Building the Latin American Collection" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was pulled together in less than two months. And it's a great show, far better...
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"Detritus" Painter Angela Beloian and sculptor Jessica Moon Bernstein both employ discarded materials in their work. They're also both Colorado-based artists and take...
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Last Easter Bad English accents swirl through Bryony Lavery's confessional drama presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company, but that's the least of the problems....
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Dear Readers,
We begin, as we do each week, with cojones, although the huevos in question deal with my column a couple of semanas ago on why gabachos prefer the former term...
