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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...
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It’s 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 &...
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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)...
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Get in the mood for September 16 with MegaFest 2008, a catch-all concert for Latin music fans of every persuasion. Like salsa? There’s Mr. Jennifer Lopez, uh, we mean Marc...
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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...
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It’s easy to get the best seat in the house at Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra’s An Evening Under the Stars — just bring your lawn chair. The concert is outside...
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The terrifying power of colonialism is at the heart of The Center Cannot Hold, an adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s classic African novel Things Fall Apart. Focusing on a...
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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...
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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,...
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Jack Gantos started as an author young. As a kid, he read his sister’s diary and decided he could write as least as well as she did, and a career was born. That was almost...
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What’s the best thing about Wes Anderson’s Rushmore?
A.) The killer British-invasion soundtrack;
B.) Jason Schwartzman’s career-launching performance...
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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...
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If any orchestral group can get away with giving a program a name like Strings of Fire, it’s Mercury Baroque. With its period instruments, and, well, a baroque flair for...
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Three’s 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...
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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...
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Shannon Duncan’s 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...
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There’s more to Italian film than just the contours of Sophia Loren’s body, as the MFAH’s third annual Italian Film Retrospective proves. It brings together...
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Everywhere we look - USA Today, iTunes, the CW - we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele’s face. There she is - singing songs from, talking about, and...
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These are political times, and Wendy Wasserstein’s Third (2005) speaks directly to the issues of today. Her story concerns Laurie Jameson, a left-wing professor teaching...
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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...
