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As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September, a crowd of people enter the side entrance of the Jewish Community Center in North...
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Director Raymond Gayle will be in attendance during a screening of his documentary film Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker. In making the film, Gayle traveled...
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Here's your chance for your life story to become part of the permanent record at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps Historias, an independent oral history project based in New...
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According to journalist and author Hank Stuever, Americans spend some half a trillion dollars on Christmas every year, accounting for one-fifth of all shopping purchases in the...
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In 2007, the artists of the Mariinsky Ballet mounted a spectacular production of one of the most well-known holiday stories of the last century, The Nutcracker. Choreographed...
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For most people, George Lucas's 1973 American Graffiti was just a movie - a really good movie, to be sure, but just a movie. For a few people, though, it became a way of life;...
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The 13 artists of "Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush]" are in the business of resurrection. For the sculpture-centric exhibit, they've transformed mostly found or recycled...
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The charismatic, striking-looking Gragoire Colin showed off his glistening torso as a French legionnaire in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. But he's practically unrecognizable as...
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Revolve Dance Company's offering up a bargain - three dance companies for the price of one. The program's called Fall Mosaic, which makes perfect sense, considering Revolve's...
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Masquerade Theatre's gift to local audiences is the Houston premiere of the Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens musical version of A Christmas Carol. It's the same story you already know...
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No matter how many times we see Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, it always has a timely - and much needed - message. (Thanks, Black Friday.) Get your annual reminder about...
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It's nature vs. outdated technology in "Vicious Venue," in which artist Shawn Smith sics pixilated vulture sculptures on a 1940s-era office. "[They're] eating the obsolete...
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There's going to be plenty bloodlust at today’s Twilight/New Moon double feature. Fans of the teenage vamp flicks can see a repeat of Twilight at 9 p.m. and then stay in...
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PechaKucha: Houston is perfect for those who love to hear from artists...just not for more than, um, 400 seconds. The Japanese-derived event (the name translates to "chitchat"...
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Stages Repertory Theatre is mounting a slightly different holiday show this year, Panto Sleeping Beauty. "Last season, Panto Cinderella was a great success," says Eva Laporte,...
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The art will hit the asphalt in Sam Houston Park when more than 200 artists create colossal masterworks on the ground for Via Colori¨ Houston 2009. Returning to the...
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How much noise do you think two saxophonists and a guitarist can make? Okay, now imagine ten times that. Imagine a screeching ululating fuzzed-out roar that reduces your teeth...
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Mormonism and South American leftist politics don't exactly mix like chocolate and peanut butter, but Rice student Michael Adair-Kriz will bring them together for his...
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Get a look at the work of creative giants Kimsooja, Bach Yiso and Do Ho Suh in the multimedia exhibit "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea." The Museum of...
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Crime
36 Years On, a Victim Buried
Unknown teen killed by The Candy man put to rest
By Richard Connelly
Just a couple of weeks ago we went on a Houston 101 nostalgia trip...
