Elizabeth Taylor

Godzilla and Flowers

The films of Kim Jong Il

The End of the Road: Digital Mourning in 2012

At the Houston Press office, I am usually the first person who finds out when a celebrity or musician dies, usually from a wire or, these days, the fine folks at TMZ. Hell, sometimes even when I am away from my desk I have to be the bearer of bad tidings, like when Adam Yauch passed on a few weeks a ... More >>

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

Ann Arbor Film Festival

12 Celebrity Chinese Zodiac Signs Explain All

This week the Chinese community parties hard to celebrate its Lunar New Year. The Chinese New Year is spread out over a 15-day period and the Houston version is jam packed with traditional merriment. Two thousand twelve marks the year of the Dragon, which is said to be one of the most fortunate yea ... More >>

Five Other Reality Shows We Wish Clay Aiken Would Guest On

ClayMates, start your engines! Your hero and American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken just joined the cast of the next cycle of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice set to premiere on February 12 on NBC. This cycle, filmed a few months back, is sure to have some proverbial fireworks, with the opinionated ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian -- Can the Celebrity Marriage Be Saved?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Is No Celebrity Marriage Sacred?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Why the Long Face? Eight Famous Horses We'd Like to Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be u ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The "Mane" Course -- Eight Famous Horses We'd Like To Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up a ... More >>

World AIDS Day: Artists Who Have Contributed to the Cause

​Today is World AIDS Day. The theme this year is "Getting to Zero," focusing on zero AIDS related deaths. In hopes of achieving this goal, there has been many a celebrity to endorse AIDS awareness and various charities around the world. Quite a few musicians have used their celebrity status ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Totally Serious Career Advice for Lindsay Lohan

And starring as "Vampira"...​Hey, haven't heard much about Lindsay Lohan recently, maybe she's finally on the right...oh: Lindsay Lohan will be headed back to court -- yet again. During a hearing in Los Angeles Wednesday, Judge Stephanie Sautner ordered the actress' probation revoked, and ru ... More >>

The 11 Sexiest, Coolest-Looking Cold War Jets

The F-106: The delta wing in all its glory​Jet aircraft, particularly the fighters, represent a Freudian's play date. Long, slender, blisteringly fast, spewing bullets out the tip and, until recently, powered as much by testosterone as by kerosene (the main ingredient in jet fuel -- what a dis ... More >>

Inmates Diss Web Dating

Metro Etiquette

Five rules that should be added to light rail.

Pop Rocks: Bill Shatner And Liz Taylor -- The Throwdown

Two classic thespians at the top of their game.​This week saw two milestones in the entertainment world. The first was the 80th birthday, on Tuesday, of Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner. The second was the unsurprising yet still depressing death yesterday of one of Hollywood's last true ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: 9 to 5, The Good Body, The Little Dog Laughed, To Cross the Face of the Moon

Saturday Night: Danzig At Warehouse Live

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​Danzig Warehouse Live October 30, 2010 For some reason over the past few years, Glenn Danzig keeps reminding us of Randy "The Ram" from The Wrestler. He's this hulking, aging entertainer who may be slowing down and have a strained relationship with his family and fans, ... More >>

Local Spotlight: Wood Duck Farm

​WHAT: Gorgeously fresh local produce from a guy who's had more careers than Liz Taylor's had husbands. Yes, Van Weldon has had a rather unorthodox career path. He's gone from tractor salesman to oil purveyor to stockbroker to energy trader to farmer. If that last one sounds odd, keep in mind ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Day 2 Of Exploring West Texas

Photos by Brittanie Shey​Ed. Note: Read about Day 1 of our West Texas travels here. Hotel hunting in Del Rio doesn't turn out as I expected. Our guidebook recommends Amistad Lodge, a place built in the 1960s right on the water of Lake Amistad, with porches that face the lake. It's a bit north of ... More >>

Continental Airlines, Like Foreigner, Wants To Know What Love Is

Eminem and Kim Mathers could do it. So could Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Richard Burton and Liz Taylor elevated it to an art form. Of course, we're talking about revolving-door couples; putting cyanide in each other's wine one minute, dancing to "Endless Love" the next. Rinse, wash, repeat.And as ... More >>

Real Deal Q: Barbacoa de Borrego

This is some awesome barbecued lamb. It's the result of a fairly complicated process--a hybrid of braising and smoking. But I figure this is the season for a challenging barbecue recipe, what with the Rodeo BBQ Championship coming up and all. I figure Houston barbecue enthusiasts are ready to show ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, A Murder of Crows, Onegin, Pal Joey, Unbeatable: A Bold New Musical

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Maggie the Cat heats up the night in Tennessee Williams’s classic Southern tale

Cover Story: The Heimlich Maneuver, Drowning and Potsie

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release on July 12

Crazy Love

Rosy portrait of abuser-victim "love" is some kind of crazy

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 7

Palfrey Sum

Age trumps beauty when Dame Plowright visits the Claremont

Bling It On

Bloody Biking

The MS 150 is a war zone, one activist claims

Best Road Trip

Cry of the Wolves

These rescued animals needed protection -- from their own sanctuary

Go West

Manifest your destiny in Marfa

The Mother Flavor

With its fresh masa and mole straight from Puebla, La Bamba Meat Market gets in touch with its ancestral tastes

The World (Fest) Is Not Enough

In its 33rd year -- or is it the 22nd? the Houston International Film Festival still barely registers with the people it's suppose to serve

Boots and Hoots

Rocky Carroll crafts footwear for presidents and popes -- but not the Houston Rodeo

Rao Now

A new owner drags the River Oaks Grill into the '90s -- or at least the late '70s

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Lost in the Cause

In the early 1960s, Eldrewey Stearns was a powerful force for integration in a segregated society. Then he forgot his way, and history forgot him. Until, that is, he met writer Thomas R. Cole.

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The Song of Jackie O

What becomes a legend most? HGO's Opera Studio tries to find out.

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World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

The Insider

Family Matters

Old Boys at Play

Gay society steps out at the Houston Club

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