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Los Amigos Invisibles' stylistic self-pronouncement on its 1995 debut was misleading. The album was called A Typical & Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band, a title clearly meant...
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Does Houston have the next Hannah Montana in its midst?
It's too soon to tell, but Gabby Gillespie, 12, might have what it takes. A born charmer and seventh-grader at...
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First off, eff Edloe.
Edloe is your exit if you're coming down U.S. 59 intending to visit Highland Village hideaway Mercer (3302 Mercer). Somehow, depending on which...
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One of Nashville's most enigmatic figures, Webb Wilder is not only a balls-to-the-wall rocker in the Rockpile/Small Faces tradition, his series of movie shorts — Corn...
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Seemingly the byproduct of regular acid usage and too many Sparks albums, Digital Leather (a.k.a. Shawn Foree) has produced a body of experimental New Wave synth-punk as...
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It's not a stretch to say some of us have been waiting to see the Pogues for most of our lives; we witnessed their 1990 appearance on Saturday Night Live as a high-school...
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Without a proper "new" album, the Drive-By Truckers' output this year puts most other bands to shame. First came co-front man Patterson Hood's second solo LP, the hair-raising...
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MUTEMATH — yup, the name's all one word and contains all capital letters, and no, we have no idea why — has been one of rock's more unlikely success stories in...
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Like AFI and a handful of other acts, Brand New plied hardcore roots and mainstream ambition for a strain of dark, chart-conquering rock that was at the right place at exactly...
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While the history of the Meat Puppets is unusual, what's even rarer is that they lived to tell about it. The band started out punk, but eventually moved toward a more balanced...
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Berlin-based electroclash artist Peaches (Merrill Nisker) was working the whole sans-panties shtick light-years before Lady GaGa picked up her disco stick. The former...
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Dressed in a white chef's jacket, Simon Moon neatly arranged raw marinated short rib meat (kalbi), rib eye steak (bulgogi), shrimp and lots of cloves of garlic on the grill...
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The Oysters Barone ($7.95) at Ciao Bello (5161 San Felipe, 713-960-0333) are an example of an appetizer that showcases some of the best ingredients and flavors that the...
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I had been asked to leave establishments for unbecoming conduct, but never for trying to cover a place for the paper. So I was surprised when that happened at Dirt Bar (222...
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Chris Yeo is the owner and culinary director of Straits (800 West Sam Houston Pkwy. North, 713-365-9922), which just opened next door to the Hotel Sorella in City Centre. Yeo,...
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The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received in the "university of life"...
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Gruesome Playground Injuries, Rajiv Joseph's world-premiere play that opened last week at the Alley Theatre, is certainly compelling. Both the writing and the young...
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"Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas" Jason Villegas isn't old enough to remember the pinnacle of polo shirt popularity, but like some monomaniacal archeologist, he has excavated...
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The Elixir of Love It takes over an hour and a half before the magic potion finally takes effect at Houston Grand Opera and Gaetano Donizetti's sparkling opera starts to fizz....
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Dear Mexican,
For most of my life I was oblivious to the hate that Mexicans have for Salvadorans. I became aware of it when I made the huge mistake of marrying a Salvi. Once...
