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As Hurricane Rita thundered towards him, Garrett Deetz lay terrified and confused on his bunk, locked up inside a cell at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont.
For the...
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When Mount Vesuvius exploded above Pompeii, Italy, in late August A.D. 79, it sent a fury of boiling mud and gases down its slopes at nearly 100 miles per hour, burying the...
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Houston’s Suchu Dance has been putting on thoughtful and creative modern-dance shows since its conception nearly ten years ago. The brainchild of artistic director...
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Since we just gave the friggin’ Best Actress Oscar to Marion Cotillard, does that mean it’s safe to love the French again? Let’s hope so, because Houston’s...
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If you ever participated in one of Jacob Calle’s video scavenger hunts, prepare to get a (pleasant or unpleasant) reminder. Calle saved the videos from his contests, which...
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For the fourth year in a row, the Jewish Community Center has scooped up the best recent films with a Semitic theme for the Jewish Film Festival. It kicks off today with a...
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In Dagoberto Gilb’s latest novel, The Flowers, 15-year-old Mexican-American Sonny Bravo is what high school counselors call “overly sensitive.” When his mom...
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In 1979, the photographer Geoff Winningham visited Pozos, a tiny mining town near Mexico City. Nearly 30 years later, Winningham and his wife now spend at least half the year...
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The last time we saw Athens, Georgia’s We Versus the Shark in Houston, the group seemed headed into a more instrumental territory. But luckily, the members didn’t...
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When Arthur Bates and Christopher Cascio aren’t rocking the crowd, they’re decking the halls. The locals known in the music scene as Wicked Poseur are part of the art...
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As new construction floods the East End, dozens of buildings are being torn down — buildings that photographer Michael Monreal says are “filled with memories.”...
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This year, the rechristened Solo Zydeco Festival moves the party to its new home in Humble. The fest kicks off Friday night with a dance featuring Chris Ardoin and NuStep at...
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Dan Zanes is known for making actual family music, not kids’ songs adults can somewhat tolerate. With his trademark green jacket and ringleader’s hat, Zanes has the...
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Part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “FotoFest: Pan-Chinese Cinema Now” series, the Cantonese-language flick Exiled is an intense but often humorous homage...
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It’s been four years since Houston has experienced Lang Lang, and classical music fans are jonesing for a fix. Who can blame them? The 25-year-old pianist is one of the...
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It’s time to wake up, wake up, wake up: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are going onstage. For those twenty- and thirtysomethings who’ve forgotten, Bone Thugs were all over MTV...
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Take one down; pass it around — and it won’t make much difference. More than 50,000 cans of beer make up the walls of the Beer Can House. John Milkovisch began...
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One of the main problems facing activists who hope to get the public to take action against global warming is that the message often comes across as preachy — thanks in...
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From hushed museums to stylish -department-store windows, crowded coffee shops to sophisticated corporate offices, FotoFest is taking over walls all over Houston....
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The character Cinderella has seen many incarnations, from Disney’s wistful songbird to Drew Barrymore’s defiant dreamer in Ever After. The latter version disposed of...
