John Grisham

Bo Knows Bo: Bo Jackson Turns 50 Years Old, Smashes Old Age Over His Knee

Today Bo Jackson turns 50 years old. The former baseball and football star was one of the most exciting players to watch in the late '80s and early '90s. He was able to incite excite in not sports fans young and old. Dem legs, you guys. And he knew how to sell shoes. He did double-duty with t ... More >>

Jeremy Geffs, "Street Pharmacist": Tomball Hustla and Rockin' Facebooker, in Jail Again

There ought to be a Failbook-like website for knuckleheads like Jeremy Geffs: oft-convicted criminals who continue to advertise their shenanigans on Facebook for all the world to see. With a criminal record as long and impressive as Geffs's, you'd think he'd try to keep things a little more on the ... More >>

Bet on the Rockets

What will the second half bring?

Judge Samuel Kent WikiLeaked: Had Halliburton Conspiracy Theory About His Sex-Abuse Scandal

Today, WikiLeaks released the first few hundred of what promise to be 5 million e-mails belonging to Austin-based global security think tank Stratfor. One concerns not one but two Houston-area shit magnets, one formerly high-powered and one still very much high-powered: Halliburton and disgraced f ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Pocket Full Of Kryptonite

Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.​I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>

Pop Rocks: A World Without Oprah

So long, suckers.​The 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show kicked off yesterday with a John Travolta dance number, an appearance by Paul Simon (of "and Garfunkel" fame, not the deceased U.S. Senator), and an announcement that Oprah would take the 300 studio audience members in atten ... More >>

Author Steve Berry: An Evening of Thrills Tonight At The Houston Museum Of Natural Science

Photo by Kelly Campbell​It's been a good year for author Steve Berry. His new release The Paris Vendetta debuted at Number 9 on The New York Times bestseller list (no little feat since the list was already filled with heavy hitters like John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Stephen King and Sue Grafton) ... More >>

She Almost Killed Stump!

A close call for a champ

An Opera About Houston's Anna Nicole Smith? Why The Hell Not?

World, you have waited long enough -- you are finally getting your Anna Nicole Smith opera.Britain's Royal Opera House has announced it will produce an opera based on the life of Houston's favorite stripper/golddigger/Rusty Hardin antagonist in 2011.The libretto will be written by the guy who did Je ... More >>

John Royal's New Year's Resolutions for 2009

In honor of the New Year, I thought I would go the cliché route and give you my Ten Resolutions for 2009. 10. I'm going to continue to be as objective as I can when it comes to my coverage of Houston sports. 9. I'm going to find some way to get the Houston Press to pay for my MLB Extra Innings pa ... More >>

Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

Michael Clayton

Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

Scooby-Dooby-Done

The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

The Price Is Wrong

Freedomland turns a rich, complex book into a poor, simple movie

Roam the Iles

It's Been Reel

John Pierson brings film culture to Fiji

Flirt for the Cure

Peddling flesh in the fight against cancer

Skip It

This holiday movie will make you very, very Kranky

Case Closed

Wal-Mart finds the ultimate bargain: beating a family's $20 million verdict

Writer's Block

Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

Takin' It to the Street

A Scottish mystery novelist steps out of the drawing room

Global Warming Is Good for You!

Cheap heating bills! Great gardens! Thriving civilizations! In energy-crazed Houston, friends of greenhouse gases abound

POD People

A new publishing method attracts first-time authors. Will it do the same for readers?

Hart Failure

Audiences are the real POWs in this unoriginal and ponderous Bruce Willis effort

Oxford Punks

Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

Class Action

A true case offers testimony to the talents of Travolta and Duvall

Gore Tex

Baby, It's Him

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Down by Law

Even Francis Ford Coppola can't make much of John Grisham

Computer Terror

Duane Franklet programs a cyberthriller into Houston

Black & White, By the Numbers

Blasts from the Past

Geena Davis and Gene Hackman exhume some explosive histories

Secrets of the Sphinx?

Big money, big lawyers, bizarre allegations: it's Sarofim v. Sarofim, the divorce from hell

Black, White and a Few Shades of Gray

A Time to Kill does John Grisham proud

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

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The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Another Grisham thriller hits the screen, with middling results

Pretty Woman, Bad Movie

Julia Roberts picked the wrong vehicle for her comeback