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It's late October in Houston. That means, of course, the weather's nicer, the Texans are sucking, the Rockets haven't flamed out yet. Typical October.
There are some things...
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From Tristan and Isolde to the students at Hogwarts, forlorn humans have long sought to concoct a love potion — take the easy way, if you will. Today, the Houston Grand...
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Theatre LaB Houston presents the regional premiere of The Story of My Life. The moving musical centers on a writer, Thomas (played by Stephen Myers), and a bookstore owner,...
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After filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer were married in Canada in 2004, Wilson posted an announcement of the gay nuptials in his hometown newspaper in Oil City, Pennsylvania...
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Putting a man on the moon put a sleepy little Gulf Coast community on the map. The art exhibit “From Rice Fields to Rockets: JSC in Houston’s Bay Area, the Journey in...
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Being accepted into medical school temporarily interrupted Herb Keyser’s career in show business. Good thing for musical theater fans, he found his way back. Keyser will...
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Billboards: Love them or hate them, they are an inescapable reality of life in Houston. And while they can sometimes be less than artful (see the Do You Suffer from Excessive...
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The Fresh Arts Coalition wants you to know that the Theater District and Museum District aren’t Houston’s only sources of culture. To prove their point, the Coalition...
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When Emily Hagins set out to create zombie flick Pathogen, she was still years away from being able to buy a ticket to an R-rated movie. The 12-year-old Austinite was neither a...
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For more than 15 years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, the duo behind the Found Footage Festival, have scouted garage sales, warehouses, thrift stores and dumpsters in search of...
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Director Guillermo del Toro gives viewers a ghostly look at the last days of the Spanish Civil War in The Devil’s Backbone. Set in a gloomy wreck of an isolated orphanage,...
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Long-time Alley Theatre Company Member Paul Hope takes on directing duties for The Rocky Horror Show at the University of Houston. The fun begins when Brad and Janet, a young...
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Over the last 50 years, Korea has gone from being one of the least powerful countries in the world to being a major political player. That transformation is reflected in they...
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Some of the world’s best cyclists endure extreme conditions during the grueling Leadville Trail 100 Race Across the Sky Mountain Bike Race. This year’s race (100...
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Think Cirque du Soleil meets Charlie Chaplin, and you’ll have some idea of what the Circus Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory is all about. The 12-member company includes...
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Hope Stone Artistic Director Jane Weiner was so inspired by Antonia’s Line, a Dutch film about a woman who takes up with a village of “outcasts and losers because she...
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Diva Renée Fleming hosts today’s broadcast of Aida, part of the Met Live in HD series. Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana appears as the Ethiopian princess...
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See performances by Tiffany and Britney Spears (okay, not the real Britney, the female impersonator Derrick Barry) at the 3rd Annual Galveston Pride Fest. American Idol...
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Houston restaurateur Irma Galvan hosts a screening of Tortilla Soup, this month’s installment of Movies Houstonians Love: Meals on Reels. Hector Elizondo stars in Soup as...
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It’s been almost half a century since the superest super nanny of them all taught us that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Mary Poppins, that...
