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Tim Hogan tugs at the curled brim of his camouflage cap, his hands remarkably grime-free for a mechanic who runs a busy auto-repair shop. But it's early yet, and along with...
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In its own special way, White Zombie is the perfect state-of-the-art rock band for the '90s, priding itself on its ability to fit in anywhere, penetrate any scene, appeal to...
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It would be hard to find a better metaphor for the last decade of Lower Westheimer -- a regrettable decline followed by a revitalizing and funky renaissance -- than the...
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Given the current state of high-tech trickery available to filmmakers, just about any director with an adequate budget can give you maximum bang for your box-office buck. Add...
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thursday
february 15
A Tribute to El Vaquero and El Ranchero Casa Ramirez presents its annual rodeo show -- photographs celebrating the dusty history of vaqueros...
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A recent revival of Carousel, Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic but problematic musical about Billy Bigelow, a strapping young barker for a small-time carousel, and Julie...
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In a cramped pocket of a shop on the Eastex Freeway recently, Joe Coleman, co-owner of Coleman's Men's Wear, stepped back to watch a suit turn a regular man into a prince.
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Gin Blossoms
Congratulations I'm Sorry
A&M
The Gin Blossoms lost more than they realized when founding guitarist Doug Hopkins put a gun to his head in 1993, ending his...
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Mohammed Kamara remembers vividly the first time he saw a movie. He was a teenager living in Liberia, and a Land Rover bearing representatives of the Red Cross and the World...
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Metaphors are useful in art as well as writing, and if you were looking for a metaphor to explain just what's right -- and also, unfortunately, just what's wrong -- with...
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If It Were Up to the Jury ...
State District Judge Carolyn Garcia and medical malpractice specialist Caroline Baker had the opportunity to get to know each other much...
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Playing Possum... Like any great band, Possum Dixon sounds like something, but damned if you can place it. With a chilly anti-image just rock and roll enough to keep part of...
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The regular January meeting of the local MENSA chapter was over, but some members of the high-IQ society stuck around at the Rock Bottom Brewery to chat up the evening's guest...
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For such a brazen bunch of foul-mouthed antiheroes, the Supersuckers are certainly capable of groveling with the best of them when it comes time to face a true icon.
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Make no mistake about it," wrote Doc Lawson, the director of the Houston Metropolitan Area Youth Soccer League, in a January 10 memo to his staff. "We are in a war and what is...
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When, in 1988, the musicians of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra voted to ask Italian Riccardo Chailly to become the first non-Dutch conductor in the Netherlands orchestra's...
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Hotel Dud
Following your story ["Hotel Hell," by Brian Wallstin, January 18], we discover that Wayne Duddlesten will get the contract to build the convention center hotel....
