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FRI 7/15
Oh, Harry, how you've grown! When we met you in J.K. Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, you were an orphaned but magically delicious child....
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"Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough act for any photographer to follow,...
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Kitchen Stories
The real world, Houston: I just wanted to thank you for your story ["Chefs Rule," by Brian McManus, July 7]. Until recently, I taught culinary arts at HCC,...
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Say it with me: "SOOF-yahn." Last year, you could still get away with mispronouncing the symphonic-folk songwriter's first name; his previous two records, the sprawling...
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If for no other reason, Happy Endings deserves its soft spot in our collective hearts for rescuing Tom Arnold from the where-are-they-now? scrap heap. The former Mr. Roseanne...
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SUN 7/17
Half the fun of soccer is the rabid, flag-waving, chanting fans in multicolored face paint. And it's hard to get any wilder than the tens of thousands of bloodthirsty...
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With Can's second quartet of albums (remastered and reissued by Mute/ Spoon), hints of fallibility seep into its mighty sound. Not surprising: Few bands can maintain...
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What Winged Migration was to birds, Deep Blue is to the ocean: a breathtaking nature documentary cheapened slightly by melodramatic voice-over. In an opening that swells with...
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THU 7/14
Most hip-hop MCs spit rhymes while their DJs spin vinyl -- and that's about it. Not so at a Bavu Blakes show. For the past five years, he's performed his brand of...
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"Lean Back" gave Fat Joe a chance to make the really big money, and now he's embracing the mainstream. He came across as a genial glad-hander while working the red carpet at...
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FRI 7/15
Poet Marie Brown is a smooth, jazzy poet who scats with a Billie Holiday-esque grace. But behind her grace is a subtle fury. The San Antonio native started writing...
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We all do it -- have those little what-I-shoulda-said internal conversations where we think up the perfect retort and verbally body-slam some dimwit who's messing up our...
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Many emocore groups alternate hefty and wimpy singers, but From Autumn to Ashes takes this approach to extremes. Grizzly shouter Benjamin Perri and comforting crooner Francis...
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Back in the day, Reel Big Fish was a real big deal. But folks don't care so much for its O.C.-blessed ska-punk anymore. That doesn't mean the Fish should be tossed back in the...
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Siblings always have the best harmony -- in music, at least. Cruiserweight is made up of three sibs and a friend, and the band tackles the peppy, ultraharmonic genre of...
