Iran

Break the Silence

Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

Recommended Reading: The New Yorker’s Story About T. Don Hutto Residential Center

Stirred and Shaken

Old Heidelberg's Special

Seven Blind Women Filmmakers

Consider the title truth in advertising

16th Iranian Film Festival

Don’t mind the dictator

The United Nations of Food at Phoenicia Specialty Foods

Don’t mind the dictator

2008 in Plastic: Seven inches at a time...

Don’t mind the dictator

“We the People”

The Art League Houston takes on Hispanic and Muslim immigration in a multimedia exhibit

Glenn Gould, The Russian Journey

This documentary film captures the Canadian pianist's visit to Leningrad and Moscow

The Fish Fall in Love

The Global Lens Film Initiative screens two movies about women and destiny

Honoring Sally Yan Yan Ng

The MFAH remembers a film fan

Analyzing While Waiting (for Time to Pass): Contemporary Art in Tehran

Treibsand magazine, via the Aurora Picture Show, delves into the other Iranian film scene

Iranian Film Festival

Treibsand magazine, via the Aurora Picture Show, delves into the other Iranian film scene

Comida sin Fronteras

In 21st-century Houston, it's getting hard to tell the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex

The Show Band that Wouldn't Die

Three things you didn't know about Vince Vance and the Valiants

Hot Plate

My Kebab; No, Mine

Gang Signs

Booker-Lowe Gallery showcases "Hot" young aboriginal art

Best Barber

Booker-Lowe Gallery showcases "Hot" young aboriginal art

No PAL of Mine

The doors indeed will close on a respected program

Reverberations

A stunning video exhibit goes far beyond the Iranian culture it uses as its base

Best Pastry Shop

Epicure Cafe

Waves of Fascination

Shortwave radio: Where the lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes

Welcome Home, You're Busted!

A watch and a pair of earrings come between two close socialite friends

The Silent Treatment

Woman needs only a few words to condemn an entire culture

From the Mouths of Babes...

Horses focuses on the children whose actions speak volumes about the persecuted Kurds

Come See the Paradise

This gentle Iranian import proves that children speak louder than fundamental ideologies

Allah My Children

Thank Heaven and Iran for a solid kids film

Fatwa This

Ayatollah you once, ayatollah you again: Abbas Headline:Kiarostami's movies just aren't that interesting

Lemon Sorbetto with Noodles

Last summer's obsession was Greek Gods chocolate fig flavor ice cream. So far, our favorite weird ice cream flavor this year is Golnazar lemon sorbetto with crunchy noodles. The rice noodles give the refreshing lemon sorbet an unexpected, but interesting texture. Golnazar is a California ice cre ... More >>

Social Distortion: The Little Election That Could

Note:  Feel free to sing along with John Denver at any time.  This is wholesome social media activism the whole family can enjoy! There was a land of Persians with loads and loads of hope,All gearing up to elect a new President that was not a dope,And as the polling stations began to chug ... More >>

Iranian Cuisine at Darband Shish Kabob

Photo by J.C. ReidOne of the oldest and most well-known Iranian restaurants in Houston is Darband Shish Kabob on Hillcroft between Westpark and Harwin. Darband is a counter-service restaurant that serves inexpensive Iranian fast-food dishes. It's located in a neighborhood teeming with ethnic restaur ... More >>

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: Joseph O'Neill and Marilynne Robinson

Two acclaimed authors stop in Houston to read for Inprint Series

Private-Security Firm Sued Here For (Allegedly) Shooting Up A Cab In Iraq

​It was the morning of October 18, 2007, and three Iraqis were taking a cab from the city of Erbil to Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq, near the border with Iran. About halfway through the journey, at about 10:30 a.m., the taxi passed through the village of Kara Hanjir, when the road started to slope ... More >>

17th Iranian Film Festival

See The Song of Sparrows during today's installment of the Middle Eastern film fest

Forbidden Iran

Now you know: Tehran's underground music scene in No One Knows About Persian Cats.

Persian Cats, 3-D Phish And Houston Zydeco

​No One Knows About Persian Cats, the pseudo-documentary about the underground music scene in Tehran that Rocks Off first told you about in January, opens in wide release today and is now screening at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre. The film was featured at the MFAH earlier this year as part of t ... More >>

Spotlight On: Meade

​When you hear the words "golden delicious," think mead (not apples!), the drink of choice for various peoples throughout the ages, including ancient Greeks, twelfth-century Slavs, and modern-day Ethiopians. Loosely defined as any beverage made from honey, water and fermented yeast, mead is ce ... More >>

Happy Anniversary, Appetite For Destruction

​July 21, 1987 began as a day like any other. The Reagan Administration told The New York Times that any discussion of presidential pardons in the Iran-Contra affair were "inappropriate at this time." Iran announced it would ignore the cease-fire with Iraq unanimously approved by the United Na ... More >>

Hikers Imprisoned In Iran Getting Houston Support Tomorrow

Music and a vigil this Saturday​Ben Felleman is hoping that the vigil he is hosting this Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of his cousin Josh Fattal's arrest and imprisonment in Iran's infamous Evin Prison is canceled: "I would be thrilled to get that call that could transform the event fr ... More >>

Imprisoned Iran Hikers: Mom Still Has Hope, And Obama, On Her Side

Photos courtesy Ben FellemanShane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fatta: The three hikers​Ben Felleman is almost a typical Millennial or Gen Y young man: a 25-year-old who digs the local Houston music acts, enjoys steady employment as an SAT instructor and his own freelance work as photographer, and ... More >>

Anousheh Ansari

An author shares her story of how her childhood dream of spaceflight came to be

Ten TV Shows That Need To Go Away Now

​We're barely a month into the fall TV season and have already lost three new network shows. My Generation, the show that was to catch us up on a group of high school graduates ten years after the fact (and presumably set to the music of The Who) pulled a Keith Moon after two episodes. Lone St ... More >>

Yo-Yo Ma with the Silk Road Ensemble

​We're barely a month into the fall TV season and have already lost three new network shows. My Generation, the show that was to catch us up on a group of high school graduates ten years after the fact (and presumably set to the music of The Who) pulled a Keith Moon after two episodes. Lone St ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Morty Parsa of Kasra Persian Grill

Matthew DresdenMorty Parsa in the kitchen of Kasra Persian Grill ​Since chef/owner Morteza "Morty" Parsa opened Kasra Persian Grill in 1999, the Westchase restaurant has become one of Houston's best-known Persian restaurants, winning numerous accolades in the process (including a 2007 Best of ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 3: Morty Parsa of Kasra Persian Grill

Photos by Matthew DresdenThe Sultani platter at Kasra Persian Grill​After our conversation (included in Part One and Part Two of this Chef Chat), Chef Parsa brought out a few of his specialties. We started with the house-made flatbread called taftoon, a warm, slightly puffy disc the size of a ... More >>

The Film Issue: Team Margaret

Photos by Matthew DresdenThe Sultani platter at Kasra Persian Grill​After our conversation (included in Part One and Part Two of this Chef Chat), Chef Parsa brought out a few of his specialties. We started with the house-made flatbread called taftoon, a warm, slightly puffy disc the size of a ... More >>

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Gelareh Bagherzadeh: $5,000 Reward for Information About Her Murder

Ali Bagherzadeh and his family are seeking answers in the shooting death of his sister Gelareh.​The younger brother of a Texas Medical Center student who was slain outside her parents' Galleria-area townhome Monday issued a tearful plea for anyone with information about the incident to come fo ... More >>

Iranian Film Festival

Ali Bagherzadeh and his family are seeking answers in the shooting death of his sister Gelareh.​The younger brother of a Texas Medical Center student who was slain outside her parents' Galleria-area townhome Monday issued a tearful plea for anyone with information about the incident to come fo ... More >>