Howard Hughes

Tunnel Mole on the Have Nots

The East End Trek

Drenched in Blog: Dr. Pepper, Axl Rose and Chinese Democracy

Requiem for the Balinese Room

Best Place to Take a Stroll with Your Camera

Glenwood Cemetery

A Shudder of the Soul

Cronos makes something new from old-fashioned horror

Autopsy

Since Dr. Joe retired as Harris Countys chief medical examiner, the morgue itself has been undergoing a critical examination. Whats been uncovered botched postmortems, illegal tissue-harvesting, double-dipping pathologists reveals a county office thats op

The Happy Hero

The Phantom delivers a comic-book masked guy from the days before angst

Punk and Precious

Rasputina offers up a trio of not so mellow cellos

To Coldly Go

Contact is more like a close encounter of the turgid kind

Sweet Deal

Why did county commissioners agree to subsidize a swanky golf resort that will benefit a wealthy Harris County developer?

A Last Bite of '97

Why did county commissioners agree to subsidize a swanky golf resort that will benefit a wealthy Harris County developer?

River Oaks Runs Through It

Why did county commissioners agree to subsidize a swanky golf resort that will benefit a wealthy Harris County developer?

Daddy's Money

In probate court, the sons of oilman J. Howard Marshall II air a high-stakes family feud a fight about loyalty, betrayal and whether their dad played favorites

21 Jump Street

Washington Avenue's newest venue adds cachet by subtracting pretense

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Marvel

Mighty Avenger

The Wendell Baker Story

Wendell Baker is a dysfunctional Wilson family affair

Good Clean Smut

Wendell Baker is a dysfunctional Wilson family affair

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Letters

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Hell to the Chief

You too can "Inaugurate Yourself"

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

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Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Use Your Illusion

Velvet Revolver is the best hope in a dismal lot of Guns N' Roses substitutes

All Aboard

Since 9/11, tanker sailors are having a tough time making it to dry land in Houston

Strings Attached

Operatic popster Rufus Wainwright exits "gay hell" and enters his most fertile period

Visitors' Guide

Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

Best Cemetery

Glenwood Cemetery

Write On

Jim Maxfield's Tanglewood Pharmacy is home to the autographs of the rich and famous

Scene's From A City's Soul

Houston failed to preserve much of its heritage. Now the fight is on to protect the priceless photographic images of that vanishing past from the same fate.

Out on the Town

Cars full of scavenger hunters dart across town, all for a good cause

Best Fusion Street

Washington Avenue

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Texas Gothic

A timber baron's descendants head into courts and crypts in their decades-old effort to reclaim their birthright and big bucks from an arch-nemesis: his secretive third wife

Staying Alive

Reborn, rejuvenated or retooled, live music venues learn to survive the changing times

Houston 101: Where Howard Hughes Learned To Be Kinky And Germophobic

​Some Houstonians -- mostly University of St. Thomas grads -- know that Howard Hughes lived for a while as a teen at 3921 Yoakum, now a campus building called the Hughes House. It's home to the theology and archeology departments.But before that Hughes and his family lived in the Beaconsfield ... More >>

Montrose Is One Great Neighborhood, Experts Say, Despite The Things That Are Gone

Photo by @Hella​The American Planning Association, an organization that no doubt takes planning very seriously, has named Montrose one of the ten "great neighborhoods" in America.Says the APA: One of Houston's original streetcar suburbs, Montrose has a sliver of everything. Eclectic and urbane, th ... More >>

Cap'n Kittens and Friends

Whatever its name, Avant Garden is a cornerstone of bohemian Houston.