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Last year, we decided to spread a little good karma (and a little cash), and recognize some locals on the cutting edge Houston's arts scene. It's not like we're the Houston...
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Anyone interested in the urban - and the urbane - will find a lot to like in the artwork of Barkley L. Hendricks, on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Visitors...
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Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir/phenomenon Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia may have finally hit the proverbial wall with the...
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The "Allan Rodewald: Three Styles, One Artist" exhibit includes art from three different series of works - Fabric, Plexi-Canvas and Dream. The Plexi-Canvas cycle came about...
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Doomsday Wrestling announcer Tex Lonestar is itching to throw down his microphone...and get into the ring. At the don't-tell-them-we-called-it-a-comedy wrestling troupe's 14th...
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Buying a family car to chauffeur her two young children around town made Jenny Schlief think about cars on the other end of the practicality scale. "Like the pimped-out,...
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Get a look at nocturnal wildlife at its busiest during the Houston Arboretum at Night: Family Owl Prowl. Among the creatures families might see are flying squirrels, owls and...
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Poet Paul Otremba, who's appearing at today's installment of the Poison Pen Reading Series, is changing his tone. "Not to say I want to take it lighter, but I want to have...
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Lubbock’s One Wolf makes razor-sharp jangle-pop nuggets using the best parts of Wilco and the parts of the Shins we don’t utterly detest. With Jon Brion-nicking...
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Two of today's best mystery writers, James W. Hall and Bob Morris, are getting together to discuss and sign their newest releases. In his book Silencer, Hall has his recurring...
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Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera has been controversial since its inception. Loosely based on the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, who was killed at a ball in...
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For the past several releases, it seems that the mad-scientist half of Fiery Furnaces has been winning, lending a strikingly experimental edge to the band’s usual grab...
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It's a little difficult to describe the Houston Press Artopia 2010. Is it a concert? An art exhibit? Tasting party? Awards ceremony? It's all those things and a little more....
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Austin is full of monster guitarists. Eric Johnson, David Grissom, Charlie Sexton, David Holt and Redd Volkaert are generally acknowledged to be some of the most innovative...
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Though he's best known for pissing off political conservatives on his HBO talk show, Bill Maher is also adept at angering meat-eaters, Christians, married people (with and...
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El Anatsui's work is about as trashy as it comes. For years, the African artist and professor worked in a variety of mediums, but it was only a decade ago that he gained...
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Seeing a live opera is supposed to be an emotional experience, but terror is rarely the emotion the cast is going for. The Turn of the Screw, presented by the Houston Grand...
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Everyone from California hippies to devout Eastern European Christians has sacred places. That's the theory behind California-based, Poland-born artist Roman Loran's...
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It might be the most anticipated tour by a conservative duo to hit the stage outside of a Ted Nugent/Toby Keith concert. Fox News kingpins Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck are...
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Though it sounds like the title of a movie a traveling businessman would order in a hotel, The Cunning Little Vixen reflects a wholly different kind of animalistic behavior....
