You can bet that the champagne flowed freely in the Starbucks corporate offices the day it was announced that Michael Gates Gill was publishing a book called How Starbucks...
Its a day that Houston Texans superfans look forward to every year the chance to stuff their gullets and mingle with freshman footballers at the Pancakes &...
Paris Falls continues to please us with its fuzzy 60s/70s rock. Married couple Jennifer and Ray Brown (who collectively handle the Rhodes organ, guitar and vocals)...
Get in the mood for September 16 with MegaFest 2008, a catch-all concert for Latin music fans of every persuasion. Like salsa? Theres Mr. Jennifer Lopez, uh, we mean Marc...
Kathy Reichs wrote her first novel ten years ago, just to do something different. A successful forensic anthropologist and professor, she was tired of writing textbooks and...
Its easy to get the best seat in the house at Fort Bend Symphony Orchestras An Evening Under the Stars just bring your lawn chair. The concert is outside...
The terrifying power of colonialism is at the heart of The Center Cannot Hold, an adaptation of Chinua Achebes classic African novel Things Fall Apart. Focusing on a...
Mitch Fatel has a stage persona that suggests the speaker is rarely allowed to use big-kid scissors and an arsenal of material focused on boobs, blowjobs and other heady...
In the world of publishing, 2005 was the year of the dog that dog being Marley, of the best-seller Marley & Me. But in 2007, there came another dog-centric best-seller,...
Jack Gantos started as an author young. As a kid, he read his sisters diary and decided he could write as least as well as she did, and a career was born. That was almost...
Whats the best thing about Wes Andersons Rushmore? A.) The killer British-invasion soundtrack; B.) Jason Schwartzmans career-launching performance...
Dominic Walsh Dance Theater is bringing its celebrated modern-day version of the medieval tale Sleeping Beauty to Miller Outdoor Theatre. Catapulting Aurora, danced by...
If any orchestral group can get away with giving a program a name like Strings of Fire, its Mercury Baroque. With its period instruments, and, well, a baroque flair for...
Threes certainly a crowd in Opera Jawa, the acclaimed Indonesian film. Based on The Abduction of Sita, Opera is a musical portrayal of a couple shaken by marital...
Artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright laughs when asked to explain the title of the exhibit Big Kids, Little Kids. A few of us had the concept that the guys from the...
Shannon Duncans black binder holds a rather hefty list of houses inside the 610 Loop that were demolished from January 1 to June 30. Duncan traveled to most of these...
Theres more to Italian film than just the contours of Sophia Lorens body, as the MFAHs third annual Italian Film Retrospective proves. It brings together...
Everywhere we look - USA Today, iTunes, the CW - we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegeles face. There she is - singing songs from, talking about, and...
These are political times, and Wendy Wassersteins Third (2005) speaks directly to the issues of today. Her story concerns Laurie Jameson, a left-wing professor teaching...
When Laurie Frey found a lump in her breast, she waited a full year to go to the doctor. She was too busy, she kept telling herself. Of course, by the time she went in, the...