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Houston's Dizzy Pilot spends a good deal of their time basically sounding as though they emerged from a time capsule that went underground in summer 1991, and that's meant as...
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On the surface, the imagination boggles when confronted with a musical collaboration between two such seemingly polar opposite talents as Americana/bluegrass goddess Alison...
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Unlike most singers cast in the diva role, who are all about pipes and persona, Alicia Keys is a multifaceted artist adept at songwriting and arranging as well as vocal...
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In his spare time, when he's not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel girlfriends, habitual drug abuser Pete Doherty makes music. But he really hasn't...
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Sorry, '80s nostalgists, but Duran Duran was never a great band, or even a particularly good one. The boys from Birmingham gained fame as sleek, sleazy showmen with a strong...
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As evidenced by the reissue treatment given to the Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape and Dave Grohl's current reign atop Clear Channel playlists, not much has really...
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Get over the Deliverance bib overalls and the Ozark ax-killer faces. The five guys in Springfield, Missouri, outfit Big Smith have long cultivated the Ozark hillbilly look,...
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This is hardly news, but it bears repeating every so often: Houston's punk, indie and noise communities, accustomed to being ignored or spurned outright by the more staid...
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Femme Fatality's sound may veer toward electroclash, but they're from St. Louis, and things get to the Midwest late, so leave them alone, all right? Actually, the group has...
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The leather-harness-clad teddy bears gracing Black Leather Jesus's MySpace page are a bit intimidating. In fact, BLJ scares me a little bit, not that I'd expect any band...
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New Orleans food writer Pableaux Johnson and I ordered our first dozen oysters of the season at Danton's, the new Gulf seafood joint on Montrose. We were tingling with...
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Some see lasagna as an outdated potluck dish from the '70s. But at Prego (2520 Amherst, 713-529-2420), the lasagna ($8) reaches new heights. Layers of homemade pasta, which...
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here are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie's star, Will Smith — but more about him in a minute. The other is by...
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Paul Schrader's cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he's added a striking new character to his gallery of loners.
Carter...
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Among the charms of December in Houston is the Alley Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens's amusing, sweet tale about an old man who finds his...
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Annie This wonderfully tuneful throwback to '50s Broadway hit the jackpot when it opened in 1977 and has been a moneymaking classic ever since. It's based oh-so-loosely upon...
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"The Buffalo Hunters" Eric Michael Jones should be applauded for thinking big. His digital photos, some printed as large as five feet tall, uphold my general thinking...
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Dear Mexican,
I'm sad that there aren't more Mexicans here in the Detroit area. We're one of the few areas in the country that is predominantly Catholic. We've welcomed wave...
