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If we’ve learned anything from more than two decades with the fictitious (though shockingly rednecky realistic) Singing Fertle Family of Dumpster, Texas, created by Radio...
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If you can’t remember where you’ve seen comedian Greg Giraldo, we’re going to guess it was likely on Comedy Central. Giraldo has been all over the station in the...
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The Rice Gallery will be transformed into a treasure trove for Kirsten Hassenfeld’s “Dans la Lune.” Hassenfeld, an artist based in New York, is obviously...
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Forget the Beatles. Whatever, Metallica. And never mind, Nirvana. The biggest musical influence on musicians today is the Nintendo Entertainment System. For an entire...
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Local popsters The Western Civilization are hitting the road and hoping fans will help out. “We have all kinds of expenses coming up with the tour in October and could...
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While the rest of the Riff Tiffs are off at college, frontman Chris Rehm is taking a backseat to his music, literally. The singer/guitarist of the local experimental rock group...
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Though the schedule might say The Georgian State Dance Company, don’t expect a hoedown or interpretative dance on the life of Jimmy Carter. This program of folk dances...
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“Turn Off the Radio” is not just a clever name – it’s an order. “Turn off the radio, come to the show and check out the work,” says Robert Hodge,...
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Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos set out to report news, not make it, but his bestselling books keep him in the headlines anyway. Ramos (think a Mexican Anderson Cooper), who is...
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Cy Coleman is a Broadway legend. One of musical theater’s most prolific songwriters, he wrote the tunes for Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, Little Me and Seesaw, among...
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When Brooklyn denizen Keith Bunin dropped by the Rothko Chapel while visiting friends in H-town, it got him thinking. What came of that visit is The Busy World Is Hushed, a...
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Rockbox, the weekly dance installment at the Proletariat, is getting a little help from HoustonSoReal hip-hop guru (and former Press contributor) Matt Sonzala for the Punky...
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From the heroic imagery of propaganda posters and memorial statues to the raw brutalism of Picasso’s Guernica and Goya’s Disasters of War, art and war have always had...
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If you think the 8-track tape is an ancient form of recording sound, wait until you discover the cylinder. These small devices from the late 1800s were played on mechanical...
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“If you’ve been reading the papers, there is a lot of media slanting on professional wrestling and the steroid use,” says Tex Lonestar. The local promoter, who...
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Most of us know Jehovah’s Witnesses as door-to-door non-secular salesmen, but, as PBS’s documentary Knocking testifies, the real Witnesses are a breath of fresh air:...
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Electroma is the first film by French DJ duo Daft Punk. The flick follows two robots as they travel across the U.S. in a quest to become human. They reach a town where...
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You’ll be part of an international jury at today’s Manhattan Short Film Festival. Houston is one of 99 cities around the world screening 12 shorts (culled from 456...
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How does a French photographer wind up in West Texas? But of course, for zee bluebirds. The Blaffer Gallery is presenting work by Jean Luc Mylayne, the artist’s first solo...
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Anthony Arnove doesn’t expect a knock-down-drag-out fight during his upcoming appearance at Rothko Chapel, but he does admit it might be a good idea to bring your own...
