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Leave it to the ever-interesting, never-sitting-still Chuck Prophet to begin a record with the wonderfully suggestive line, "I like the way you freckle, I like the way...
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Chicago-based DJ Felix Da Housecat takes a journey back to disco with his new release Virgo Blaktro and the Moviedisco, navigating through various sonic textures from...
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Miranda Lambert may be blond, and she did get her big break on a musical reality show (American Idol's twangier cousin Nashville Star), but otherwise she's completely out of...
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There's absolutely nothing complicated about Peter Bjorn & John. Comprised of three guys named — you guessed it — Peter, Bjorn and John, the Swedes wear this...
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It's tempting to refer to the brooding punk of Balaclavas' two EPs as goth, but the band lacks proper goth's showiness, melodrama and fashion sense. They better recall the...
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Otep Shamaya says "Art is war." The singer for her namesake L.A.-based metal fusion band considers herself a revolutionary, and makes artistic catharsis via visceral screams...
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As the proprietor of Bistro Provence on Memorial approached our table, I started getting nervous. My tablemate had just sent his veal shank back because it was cold in the...
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After 29 years on Buffalo Bayou, the Rainbow Lodge recently relocated to the century-old log house on the banks of the White Oak bayou where Tour d'Argent was once...
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In the Low Country of South Carolina, "breakfast shrimp" is a staple of fishermen and locals alike. At Vin (530 Texas, 713-237-9600), this lowly dish has been taken to a new...
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I had the brilliant idea to surprise my man with a Brazilian bikini wax. Coming from a generation that was a tad bit hairier, I knew I needed to get liquored up before letting...
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Something about that movie though, well I just can't get it out of my head /
But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play.
— Bob Dylan,...
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As one of what novelist Stephen King calls his Constant Readers, I was as jazzed as every other monster-lovin' geek when word came that filmmaker Frank Darabont was making a...
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The term "performance art" is cringe-inducing for a lot of otherwise enthusiastic art people. Too many performance artists labor under the belief that if something is...
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One of the greatest of all musicals, Gypsy (1959), by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, is also one of the most idiosyncratic. There's nothing like it in the...
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"Michael Bise: Birthday" Michael Bise's work just keeps getting better and better. With pencil, paper and a cinematic sense of narrative, Bise records moments from his life....
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Christmas Tree-O In a world that seems overwhelmed by ever-encroaching secular progressiveness, it's refreshing to find Christ plopped firmly back into Christmas at A.D....
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Dear Mexican,
What's the deal with Spanish-language car dealership commercials that feature bikini-clad porn star-wannabes copulating with used cars? I just saw one where...
