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It's strange to jump-start an airplane off the battery in a pickup truck, but that's exactly what Joshua Paul Calhoun attempted to do on March 4 of this year when he couldn't...
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Classical pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has never seen his instrument. Despite being born blind, the Japanese 20-year-old is creating a name for himself as a virtuoso. Fresh off a...
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Swing into fall at the Harvest Moon Ball. The Houston Swing Dance Society's annual bash is a chance for hepcats to strut their stuff and newbies to get into the swing of...
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They grow up so fast. Head coach Kevin Sumlin, in his first year ever helming a team, led the UH Cougars last year to their first bowl victory since 1980. Now the football...
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The found-art mavens from the blog Everything Is Terrible have spent years scouring the shelves of thrift stores and video-rental chains to find the worst that VHS has to...
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Australian stage company Strange Fruit has no problem performing high - its fusion of dance, theater and circus is done atop ultra-flexible poles that are more than 13 feet...
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Giacomo Puccini's Il Tabarro and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are classics of Italian verismo. The style blew into the opera house near the turn of the 20th century, and...
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The Poison Pen Reading Series raises its glass to three years of bookish boozing with Dean Young. Our 2008 pick for the Best Local Reading Series isn't skimping on guests for...
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Houston Ballet's Artistic Director Stanton Welch sees his shows like meals, which means "Without Boundaries" features an appetizer, entrée and dessert. The program...
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It's a time-honored right of passage: Turn 21, get 'faced and do things your friends will rib you about until you hit retirement age. We know a certain alternative weekly...
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Any aspiring artiste can set up a bowl of fruit to paint or set up an easel at the beach, but Alan Bean has much more impressive inspiration to draw on - his stroll on the...
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Forget the Astros - look to the Ensemble Theatre's production of Seven Guitars for a guaranteed home run. Whenever Ensemble produces any part of August Wilson's monumental...
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When local comedian Rob Mungle tackles topical issues, he goes after the right wing with liberal fire and brimstone. "I like making [my opinion] known with, shall I say,...
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Southern Rapture tells the story of a ruckus caused by a little angelic nudity. Eric Coble's 2009 play, which will make its regional premiere at Stages Repertory Theatre, is...
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Around the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Ike, The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake is presenting proof of its recovery in "Flotsam and Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane...
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The average American, thanks to the haunting memory of high school C's and D's, lives in abject terror of the terms "string theory," "Calabi-Yau manifolds" and "hidden...
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The 12-year-old protagonist in Talento Bilingüe de Houston's production of Bocón has seen more trauma than most adults. When Miguel flees the military regime in...
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It may technically be fall, but it still feels summery inside Wade Wilson Gallery, currently home to "Sixteen Street," a collection of works on paper by Jill Moser. A painter...
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Spaced City
Food Fight! (Maybe)
Houston foodies choose sides in radio war
By Richard Connelly
Cleverley Stone is a Houston food institution. Of sorts.
For some, she's a...
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What Happens in Jail...
Take a tour: In reading Randall Patterson's September 8 article "Jail Hell," one would think he's writing about a Soviet-era gulag. The unsanitary...
