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Pope Francis I: Five Questions We Want Answered About The New Guy

We've got white smoke; we've got cheering crowds, habemas papem, as they say. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio got the gig and, even though his name ends in a vowel and looks like it should be preceded by a nickname, he's not Italian. For the third time in a row, the College of Cardinals has elected ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend

Scooter Brown Band Firehouse Saloon, January 4 Few bands on the Texas country circuit -- a scene largely made up of affable college dropouts -- can say that they have a true-blue U.S. Marine up front, but the Scooter Brown Band can. Lead singer-songwriter/Iraq war combat veteran Scott Brown chose ... More >>

HPMA 2012 Showcase

One night. 11 venues. 55 minutes.

Lose Your Illusion: 5 Lowlights of the Tour That Tore Guns N' Roses Apart

On May 24, 1991, Guns N' Roses embarked on its Use Your Illusion Tour, a massive 192-date concert spectacular that took the band to every place on the planet with electricity. The string of shows marked the very height of Guns' popularity, with more than seven million people in 27 countries plunkin ... More >>

More Than 40 Food Vendors Will Feed Your Face at iFest

I love iFest so much, I typically go on both weekends of the festival each year. This time around, I'll be missing the second weekend of the International Festival in favor of appearing in a bright blue bridesmaid's dress at a mansion in Las Vegas (HOLLA), but you lucky people will still be able to ... More >>

A Carnivore's Paradise

Bring your own wine, order the parrillada and enjoy a civil bacchanalia at Pampa Grill.

Express Yourself: The 10 Best Deep Tracks of Madonna's Career

Daniel KramerPhoto by Daniel Kramer.​Madonna is one of those artists that does it all: she sings, dances, acts, and occasionally writes. The main thing that keeps her fans begging for more is that she always seeks to reinvent herself - whether it be her 'Borderline'-era '80s street-style or th ... More >>

MFAH Set to Launch Titanic Latin American and Latino Art Archive...and It's Free

Like many ideas that are actually executed, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston didn't exactly anticipate the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) having the legs that it does. "This is the only center of its kind in the world," says Dr. Mari Carmen Ramirez, Wortham Curator of Lat ... More >>

Top 5 Guns N' Roses Riots

More literal than metaphorical.​"The World's Most Dangerous Band." That was the tag applied to Guns N' Roses in their late '80s heyday, and though the smacked-out bad boys of Appetite for Destruction have largely mellowed into comfortable, safe middle age, Axl's crew can still lay a claim as ... More >>

10 Odd Things Left At Elvis Presley's Grave

Chris GrayAs close as Rocks Off has ever come personally to Elvis' grave. Graceland was already closing for the day by the time we got there in April.​Today is the 34th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, which means that even as you read this, Graceland workers are hard at work sorting, cat ... More >>

Leon's Opening Again Soon

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttLeon's by the light of the moon.​Been missing Midtown's favorite dive bar? Don't fret; Leon's will be open once again soon. The bar has been closed since January, when Scarlett Yarbrough -- daughter of the eponymous Leon Yarbrough -- sold it to Pete Mitchell, who a ... More >>

Luis Angel Landin And The Dynamo Show DC United Who's Boss

Photo courtesy Houston DynamoDynamo are in second place, with two other teams​It was a display of speed, and a little Luis Angel Landin on Saturday night, as the Houston Dynamo cruised to comfortable of 2-0 victory over DC United. The victory keeps the Dynamo in second place in the Western Confere ... More >>

Music Cities

Texas has its own brand of March Madness

Food Fight: Battle Empanadas

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttEmpanadas with a side of chimichurri sauce.​It's not often that we get so grossed out by a certain food item that we nearly immediately throw it in the garbage, walk away from the entire plate and go off to sulk angrily, our appetites lost for the rest of the day. U ... More >>

International House of Sandwiches

Juan Mon's youthful swagger is endearingly silly, and his sandwiches are very tasty.

Top 10 Ice Cream Experiences in Houston

This week, Robb Walsh explores the vast world of Houston's ice cream parlors in the feature story, "The Scoop." In the course of writing his article, he ate more ice cream than Napoleon Bonaparte did at the Ziggy Pig in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (but didn't get a pin afterwards). He imparts t ... More >>

Summer of Salvation

The Terminator is back. Plus lots of other movies we can't wait to see this season.

2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend

U23D Marq-E = OK

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

The Orange Show

Spain Colored Orange takes home four Press Music Awards

The Crudo at Bice

A new excuse to go to the Galleria and play dress-up

Johnny Demonic

Kill the holiday crap with some caustic rock at the Proletariat

Ready for a Rumbo?

News wars return as two Spanish papers go mano a mano

The Importance of Being Ernesto

The Motorcycle Diaries explores Che Guevara's formative years

The Meat Market

Photogs and reviewers cruise each other at the Meeting Place

The Class of '03

Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

The Luck of the Gnocchi

Italian-South Americans can take pride in chef Ricardo Giannotti

Independents' Day

WorldFest is back with the best films you've never heard of

Tick Tock, Your Time Is Up

Foreign students at the Glassell School of Art get a stipend, studio space and three years to make it really big. They've had a huge impact on Houston's art scene. But if the INS isn't impressed, they've got to go.

Brave Nuevo World

Last in a six-part series

The French Connection

Part 5 in the six-part history of Tex-Mex

The Authenticity Myth

The Mex-Mex issue

Combination Plates

Legendary restauranteur Felix Tijerina mixed Mexican food and Texas politics

Pralines and Pushcarts

A six-part history of Tex-Mex

Not a Pretty Picture

Are Dominique de Menil's children radically changing her museum?

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Lights, Action, History

A century ago, France's Lumiere brothers started something big -- the movies