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At a packed public meeting early this year, Abel Davila's relatives walked down an aisle and squashed into a momentary traffic jam. Holding his baby son, Davila told them to...
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When Robert Smith commissioned his nieces and nephews to scribble the artwork for the Cure's new self-titled album, he had three simple requests: Draw a good dream, draw a bad...
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We're seated near a wall of glass that looks out onto a dense stand of pine trees. The rain has left a fog on the windows, so the greenery is soft and out of focus. The...
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Garry Marshall's at it again. The director of Pretty Woman, Beaches and the original Princess Diaries has returned to peddle his particular brand of überschmaltz in The...
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To the naked eye, San Francisco and Houston don't have very much in common.
One smells of salty Pacific air; the other, barbecue. One has been immortalized romantically in...
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Hoot and holler all you want. Director Sidney Berger's Western take on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is more fun than a hoedown on a Saturday night. Purists might be...
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Dairy Queens are so ubiquitous in the Lone Star State that the familiar red logo is sometimes referred to as a Texas stop sign. So naturally we were interested when the...
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Clearly a lot of time and effort goes into selecting the music for Democratic and Republican campaign events. The two camps must have teams of people sitting around long...
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Even though Chef Michael has moved on, his legacy lives on at La Strada (322 Westheimer, 713-523-1014) in "Michael's favorite chicken" ($12.95). Thin slices of chicken...
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A good friend likes to say that there's only one kind of great pop song -- the song that someone had to create, as if the writer and performer had no choice. The song can be...
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Thursday, August 12
In Beatriz Rivera's latest novel, Playing with Light, two groups
of Cuban women -- one in bustling present-day Miami, and the other in 19th-century
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It's just past the midpoint of another Houston summer, and in the art world, that means it's time for someone to ride into town, survey the local talent and stir up trouble....
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Flanked by shaggy lawns and empty malt liquor cans, Catherine Roberts stands in the center of the last surviving brick street in Freedmen's Town, closes her eyes and raises...
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Well, the Music Awards season is finally at an end, so that means you can expect two things from Racket: One, faster response time on e-mails and phone messages, and two, a...
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Pity poor Aisha Tyler. No, not because she was forced to play love scenes with David Schwimmer on Friends, nor because she had to endure my-wife-has-a-meat-fetish clips from...
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All Female Cast Western Musical First, the good news: Slump's All Female Cast Western Musical lasts one hour. Then, the bad news: It lasts one hour. In the guise of...
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Your Friendly Serial Murderer
Slay bells ring: I was absolutely shocked when I read your article with
my coffee this morning ["The
Killer Next Door," by Sarah Fenske,...
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Two years ago, the campy New York-based quintet Scissor Sisters took Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" to the dance floor, shoved the prog rock chestnut in a box and sent it...
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SAT 8/14
Before the '60s, most Texas literature was exactly what a non-Texan would've
expected it to be: full of cattle drives, campfires and tumbleweeds. But then
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"Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America" If you go to this exhibition expecting to see works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, you'll be disappointed. By...
