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  • 1. Feature

    The Sole of Houston

    By John Nova Lomax
    Published: October 12, 2006

    I've read that you can see Westheimer from space. I've also read that it is the longest commercial thoroughfare in Texas. I've always thought of it as the soul of the west...

  • 2. Music

    The Buzz

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Mosquitos singer Juju Stulbach may be the only woman anyone ever picked up by using the line, "Hi, you're a musician." Stulbach was working in New York on a film when...

  • 3. Cafe

    Montrose Vindaloo

    By Robb Walsh
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Maybe I was staring too intently at the hot foie gras and sweet fig chutney appetizer my tablemate ordered at Indika. He was dying to dig in, but instead he sat back and...

  • 4. Film

    Absolute Power

    By Ella Taylor
    Published: October 12, 2006

    In The Last King of Scotland, an adequate thriller redeemed by Forest Whitaker's sensational turn as Idi Amin, freshly qualified Scottish physician Nicholas Garrigan (James...

  • 5. Theater

    Smooth as Silk

    By D.L. Groover
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Once upon a time in the world of American pop music, smooth was cool. Subtlety reigned, and young love was sung, fully dressed, with tight melodic harmony and background moves...

  • 6. Halloweenguide

    SPOOKY SPOTLIGHT

    By Melissa Richter
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Don't look now, but that noise behind you is growing louder -- and closer. It's the season to jump at every shadow and run from every black cat. You can drown your fears in...

  • 7. Game On

    Brush With Greatness

    By Chris Ward
    Published: October 12, 2006

    You've seen Bob Ross -- the afro-sporting TV artist who painted "happy trees"? Well, if he had redesigned Legend of Zelda, it would look a lot like Okami. That may sound like...

  • 8. News

    Faking College

    By Ruth Samuelson
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Last October a group of new Rice University students went to Six Flags AstroWorld. Among them was David Jovani Vanegas, a sophomore transfer student from UT. No one knew him...

  • 9. Racket

    Leaving the Wolfe Pack

    By John Nova Lomax
    Published: October 12, 2006

    So the last couple of weeks have found me in email conversation with maverick Nashville/Austin/Mississippi record producer/songwriter R.S. Field, a guy who has worked with...

  • 10. Hot Plate

    Nutty Fish

    By Paul Galvani
    Published: October 12, 2006

    The pecan-encrusted redfish ($26) at River Oaks Grill (2630 Westheimer, 713-520-1738) is a welcome addition to the menu. Redfish is tasty -- not too fishy -- and when it's...

  • 11. Film

    Voter Fraud

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Barry Levinson hasn't made a movie of note in almost a decade -- since 1997's Wag the Dog, to be precise, and even that was less a work of substantial relevance than a bit of...

  • 12. Encore

    Capsule Reviews

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Captain's Outrageous Playwright and industrial communications consultant David DeBoy began his acting/writing career in Baltimore's dinner theater scene. "With so many dinner...

  • 13. DVDish

    The Delightful Dud

    By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
    Published: October 12, 2006

    A Prairie Home Companion (New Line) This all-star sing-along -- with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Woody Harrelson, etc. -- that wears its...

  • 14. Hair Balls

    Tears of a Klown

    As told to Richard Connelly
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Almost everyone out in the boonies hates those countless signs that homebuilders and sellers illegally put up on private property and street medians. Few people, though, hate...

  • 15. Wack

    Tech? No!

    By Craig Hlavaty
    Published: October 12, 2006

    Ten years ago, music industry wags were telling us that techno music was going to take the rock world by storm. Guitars and drums would be abandoned, we were told, children...

  • 16. Stirred and Shaken

    SANGRIA

    By Chris Boyd
    Published: October 12, 2006

    At the entrance to Hans' Village Bier and Vino Haus (2523 Quenby, 713-520-7474), I'm greeted by a dog named Taylor who appears to be pulling double duty as both bouncer and...

  • 17. Film

    The Harder They Come

    By Jim Ridley
    Published: October 12, 2006

    The sex is real in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus; only the setting -- an animated New York cityscape, benignly watched over by a fluorescent Statue of Liberty -- is fake....

  • 18. Art

    Text Messages

    By Keith Plocek
    Published: October 12, 2006

    "In a sense, every work is itself its best description." These words are part of Joseph Kosuth's Essays #7 (2000), currently on view in Deborah Colton Gallery's "Word"...

  • 19. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks for the week of October 12:


    Published: October 12, 2006

    The Andy Milonakis Show: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) The A-Team: Season Five, the Final Season (Universal) Bloodied but Unbowed: Bloodshot Records' Life in the...

  • 20. Been There, Done That

    The Good, the Blog and the Ugly

    By Steven Devadanam
    Published: October 12, 2006

    I've always heard that bloggers are a self-absorbed, self-righteous and self-referential bunch. Then I became editor of the Houston Press's HouStoned and entered the...

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