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When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential campaign, his Web-savvy campaign team created keatingeconomics.com. The main video showed Charles...
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When it comes to entertaining little kids on Halloween, it can be tricky to strike a balance between inspiring giddy glee and total terror. Leave the spooking to the pros at...
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Even if you've never stepped inside a symphony hall, chances are you've heard Itzhak Perlman. The violin virtuoso performed on the soundtracks of The Color Purple, Scent of a...
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After stints as a high-school teacher and a tax accountant, Sarah Cortez decided to become a patrol cop, and it was this move that ignited her true calling: writer. "You see...
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"Death is everywhere, so you have to stop worrying about it," says artist Armando Rodriguez in press materials. The end of life is among the subjects Rodriguez tackles in "Viva...
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According to Hal Niedzviecki’s book The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, "Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, Twitter,...
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More than 150 masks, weapons, pottery pieces, costumes and intricate feathered headdresses make up the "Spirits and Headhunters: Vanishing Worlds of the Amazon" exhibit...
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For Domy Books' "Halloween Monster Show 4," a simple call for entries leads to a diabolically diverse assortment of art. "I just ask my friends, and people that I like their...
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Houston artist Perry House, considered one of the city's early pioneers of abstraction, has a new exhibit at Nau-haus Art Space, "Happyville." House is described in press...
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When it first screened in 1963, Jason and the Argonauts was like nothing moviegoers had ever seen before. And even though today's audiences don't find special effects all that...
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In the 2006 flick Mr. Hell, director Rob McKinnon circumvented one aspect of the typical horror film plot - no one has to kill the monster, because he's already dead. Larry...
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We're pretty sure Mary Shelley didn't have Young Frankenstein in mind when she wrote her classic horror story. The Mel Brooks film written by Gene Wilder is a parody that...
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A young witch named Tammy Jo is at the center of Kimberly Frost's newest novel, Barely Bewitched. Seems Tammy Jo, who came late to the witching game, isn't a very good conjurer...
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The new exhibit "rock, scissors, paper" features collages, installations, illustrations and even paper clothing created by a quintet of artists using commercially printed found...
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If the works in "L'heure bleue" could speak, they'd say "Boo!" "I'm sort of making a ghost of an object," says Michael Crowder. The artist works with molding glass to create...
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Hip Poles have a word for the 12th Annual Polish Film Festival playing at the Angelika Film Center: spoko. It means cool, neat. You'll be saying it a lot during the festival,...
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Ah, The Montrose Crawl: It's like trick-or-treating on the rocks. The annual bar-to-bar tour allows you to don your scariest, cleverest and most scandalous apparel and hit up...
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Maybe Lizzie is just a common mass-murderer name, because in addition to Lizzie Borden (she of “40 whacks” fame), there’s Lizzie Alberti. The mother of eight...
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Houston's own glam-baiting Roky Moon & Bolt sets up shop tonight at The Continental Club to play a free gig and to test out new tracks from their upcoming rock opera. Lead...
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Trick, treat, tired. That’s usually the order of events on Halloween. One minute you're out on the street; the next, your kids are in a candy coma and you sink into the...
