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"Take that thing off your face!" The command came out of nowhere, but it was loud and it was angry. Heidi spun around to see who was issuing it. There, pulling up in a car...
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The Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood was hardly a typical white Alabama kid. Born on the cusp of the state's agonizing "New South" rebirth, his perceptions were skewed by the...
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A fierce clay warrior stands guard over a grand piano in the foyer of Qin Dynasty restaurant. The statue is a replica of a terra-cotta soldier, like the ones found buried with...
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Lovely magic, this. An enchanting family classic. If you believe in magic, you'll love Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. And if you don't, you will, and you will. True,...
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The art of storytelling is the anti- Hollywood: no special effects, no technology, minimal props, if any, and all story. That kind of flash-free performance takes talent, which...
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Obie Award-winning playwright Maria Irene Fornes is one of director Jason Nodler's "playwriting heroes." It says so, right in the program of Mud, Infernal Bridegroom...
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In this time of hyper-patriotism, is a charcoal drawing of George W. Bush trapped behind a metal trellis really enough to send out the feds? Apparently somebody thinks so --...
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Sometimes it's hard not to root for the rock 'n' roll second fiddle. Take KISS. Sure, Paul Stanley gets to stand in the middle of the stage with his shirt off and sing most of...
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Mm-mmm good: With such a long list of fabulously fresh seafood -- hardly any of it fried -- it may seem odd to focus on a soup dish at Clary's (8509 Teichman Road, Galveston,...
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It takes a nimble mind to mix light and dark, to wed humor with treachery, and in Novocaine newcomer David Atkins is not always up to the task. Neither is Steve Martin, who...
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"Welcome to Chicken Boy World Headquarters," reads the large sign over the entry to 24-year-old Michael Andrews's studio. With its yellow face, droopy eyes, disinterested...
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One of the more curious aspects in the history of photography is the quixotic, and lasting, interest in photographing what can't be seen. No sooner did the daguerreotype confer...
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Rodger Peters suffers from a hereditary disease that has left him functionally quadriplegic. If both parents carry the gene, it is passed on to half their offspring, a roulette...
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It seems somehow fitting to talk with the Allen Oldies Band's Allen Hill about vintage video games. We're munching on oyster poor boys and fries in the far corner of the Zydeco...
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It is the 83rd anniversary of the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd, November 7, New Style, the day the Soviet Union was born. It seems a fitting day to lift a glass ...
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October 29 was shaping up to be a fairly typical day for Lott Brooks III, a veteran criminal defense attorney. He made some appearances in the Harris County courthouse and...
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"Shepherd Plaza is kind of an interesting gig at the moment," says club launcher John Finlay about the new drama circulating around the once-flourishing near-southwest...
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There are two ways to analyze the implications of last week's election on the December 1 mayoral runoff campaign for incumbent Lee P. Brown and At-Large City Councilman Orlando...
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The waters in the sea of punk are pretty monochromatic. Shades of gray replace distinct colors. The weather here is predictable, if severe. Even the stiffest noise-gales take...
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As the mayor's race swung into the home stretch last month, the candidate who was first out of the gate started getting disquieting indications that the breaks weren't going to...
