Eugene

Playbill: Eugene Chadbourne

Better Days

Former Houstonian Jerry Lightfoot goes deep inside the blues to save himself

Manners To Die For

Former Houstonian Jerry Lightfoot goes deep inside the blues to save himself

Loose Gravel

Pavement walks the tongue-in-cheek line between genius and junk

Dave's World

Pavement walks the tongue-in-cheek line between genius and junk

Animal Crackers

Pavement walks the tongue-in-cheek line between genius and junk

Consummate Gentleman

Pete Mayes, Houston blues' premier nice guy, finally gets busy

The Sleaziness Of The Door-To-Door Magazine-Subscriptions Industry Continues

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

The Walkmen: You & Me

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway Bound, Electile Dysfunction, Unbeatable: A Bold New Musical

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

SPECIAL TORTILLA CONTEST EDITION

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

Documentary's Year-Long Study Of Bolivar Characters Ends With Ike

Photo courtesy www.themessengerthemovie.comThe man who directed the new documentary The Messenger, Shawn Sterling Welling, is a self-described "self-absorbed, amateur film director" who happened to have a friend with movie-making equipment laying around. He literally stumbled upon The Messenge ... More >>

Local Motion

Photo courtesy www.themessengerthemovie.comThe man who directed the new documentary The Messenger, Shawn Sterling Welling, is a self-described "self-absorbed, amateur film director" who happened to have a friend with movie-making equipment laying around. He literally stumbled upon The Messenge ... More >>

There's Something About Chris

Elliott presents his new novel and screens a film favorite at Alamo Drafthouse

Eugene Mirman, with Woozyhelmet, the Slurpees, Andy Blitz and Langhorne Slim

Friday, June 3, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

Dead Again

There's fresh meat for the reaper in Final Destination 2

The Immigrant's Song

Carroll Robinson has been running for something ever since he arrived in Houston. Now he may be nearly out of track.

Onegin, Off Again

Tchaikovsky's opera follows a fickle aristocrat and the woman who loves him

Hammond of the Gods

Eugene Hawthorne ditches his bass and goes barefootin' with soul-jazz

Paid In Full

Sensitive, saccharine and practically messianic, Pay It Forward works like a charm

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

This Bud's for John

John McCain's family

Poor, Pitiful Me

Even the great Alan Parker can't save Angela's Ashes from sappy self-absorption

On the Blues Highway

Trudy Lynn recalls her journey to musical acclaim

Things That Make Us Feel Old: Enter The Vaselines

Don't ask Rocks Off to explain how it came to be that we hadn't listened to the Vaselines in such a long time. It is what it is. Fortunately for us, Sub Pop just gave Eugene and Francis the deluxe double-disc treatment, and we've been listening almost non-stop since it arrived. How this band manage ... More >>

Comrade Ambassadors

Mumiy Troll, the biggest rock band in Russia, hopes for a belated U.S. breakthrough.

SPECIAL YEAR-END EDICION

Mumiy Troll, the biggest rock band in Russia, hopes for a belated U.S. breakthrough.

Music Cities

Texas has its own brand of March Madness

The Way of The Vaselines

Indie-pop cult heroes never planned to reunite.

Candida

Indie-pop cult heroes never planned to reunite.

August: Osage County

Indie-pop cult heroes never planned to reunite.

In The Flesh: 10 Semi-Obscure Facts About Pink Floyd

​(Cue heartbeat sound effect) This week we turn our fact-finding spotlight on of the most successful cosmic rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd. The band is going through another period of rediscovery by fans young and old with a new set of remastered reissues, along with last year's extremely ... More >>

Rape, Scandal, Greed and Cockfighting -- The 2011 Sports Year In Review

2011: Penn State's horrible year​You know how, in the series 24, the way a season unfolds? How just when you think there has been some sort of resolution to the bad guys being bottled up, right then and there a new (often worse) layer is introduced, and ultimately in like Hour 22 Jack Bauer wi ... More >>