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A native son is finally getting his due at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “John Alexander: A Retrospective.” Born in Beaumont, educated at Dallas’s...
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Doña Rosita is thinking about calling it quits. After 23 years of serving up Mexican food in her restaurant, the Jalapeño Kitchen, she’s considering selling...
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The Houston International Festival’s theme “Out of Africa: The Three Journeys” celebrates the history of African peoples and their contributions to the world....
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Une Soirée Pelouse: A Garden Party, a fund-raiser for the Houston GLBT Community Center, has a strict dress-code policy. Patrons are required to sport Moulin...
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What’s better than a great movie? How about a great movie with live music? Wait, wait, how about an Academy Award--winning great movie about blood, guts and revenge with...
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Lisa Qualls grew up in racially diverse Louisiana, so it’s no surprise that her artwork deals with issues of identity and ethnicity. The multimedia works in her current...
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With its focus on modern dance, contemporary classical music and new media, today’s Fresh Fridays performance could be considered the future of Houston’s arts scene....
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Comedian Wanda Sykes has a lot to say about the upcoming presidential election. “I’m torn — Hillary, Obama. Woman, black. I’m a black woman so I’m...
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All Brent Green knows about the film and visual arts world is what he has to do with it. “I never watch films and, really, I’m not interested in visual art at...
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It’s hard to squeeze three years’ worth of work into an hourlong talk, but artist Ariane Roesch says she’s willing to give it a try at the Contemporary Arts...
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In Mi Bandera es la Tierra (My Flag Is the Earth), performance artists Nicolás Ramiro Valdez and Maria Alejandra Ibarra mix poetry, dance, music and video to show the...
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There is a small army in this country whose members devote an hour a day to journalist Amy Goodman, longtime host of the public radio show Democracy Now! Even the staunchest...
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Sure, art deco is usually associated with Miami, New York and Los Angeles, but Houston has a wealth of examples of the 20th-century architectural style, too. Of course, given...
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The Kids in the Hall aren’t kids anymore. “I guess we’re not the young punks of comedy anymore, but we still feel like we are,” says Dave Foley, one-fifth...
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No matter what your musical tastes, there’s a good chance the Texas Crawfish and Music Festival will satisfy them. This annual event features three stages of music all...
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Long before Ed Wood flopped into theaters in 1994, moviemakers had a fixation with the man both mocked and applauded as “the world’s worst director.” It’s...
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Brian Regan doesn’t play comedy clubs too often anymore — a couple of Comedy Central specials and albums have given him big-theater status. This means he no longer...
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The consensus of the literary establishment is that Robert Hass is, quite simply, the greatest poet alive. Whether you agree or disagree, odds are you’ll be at once...
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If you don't remember a game called The Typing of the Dead, you're not alone.
Released on the failed Sega Dreamcast system, this gory, hilariously titled arcade-style shooter...
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Sadie sits on the therapist's couch, whimpering.
She's somewhere between two and three years old, and already the most horrible things have happened to her. That finger...
