Liza Minnelli

ACL 2012: Saturday's 9 Best & Funniest Moments at Zilker

The return of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad rain made Saturday a muddy but fun mess. Thankfully, the downpours didn't dampen the spirits of the crowd on day two of ACL, but it did seem to thin out the herds. Aside from remembering how to walk in inches-deep goop like we did back at the Dillo ... More >>

Quietly, For a Dance Club, Rich's Reopens Under New Ownership

Rich's, the popular but troubled Midtown dance club, has quietly reopened under a new ownership group after the landlord evicted previous tenants in May. The venue at 2401 San Jacinto is now operated by a group of investors calling itself Rich's Sacred Ground Inc. According to Texas Alcoholic Bever ... More >>

You Better Run: 10 Other Great Pat Benatar Songs

Pat Benatar is one of the greatest vocalists of all-time, the woman behind numerous memorable hits such as "Heartbreaker," "You Better Run" and the ever-popular "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." However, she has had many other great songs throughout her career, from albums such as In the Heat of the Nig ... More >>

Upcoming: Delta Spirit, GZA, John Legend, Guttermouth, Waka Flocka Flame, Etc.

Akron/Family: Fri., Sept. 7, 8 p.m., $12/$17. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston. Alanis Morissette: Sun., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., TBA. Bayou Music Center, 520 Texas Ave., Houston. Balmorhea: Mon., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., TBA. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston. Blaggards: Sat., Sept. 15, 10 p.m., $10. Co ... More >>

Liza Minnelli: Confessions

Girl Gone Wild: Madonna's Top 10 Dance/Club Chart-Toppers

For the past two weeks, Madonna's latest single, "Girl Gone Wild," has been sitting pretty at the top of Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play chart. That's the chart that tabulates which songs are getting the most spins in discos and dance clubs. It's a cool, upbeat track about losing control of your de ... More >>

Unhinged Productions Mounts a Festival of New Plays, Drama-rama-thon

Joe Angel Babb, the artistic director of Unhinged Productions, doesn't mind if the group's latest project doesn't make any money. In fact, he pretty much expects Drama-rama-thon, a festival of new plays, not to. "I knew that this was not a moneymaking venture, this is a mission-driven thing," he t ... 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 >>

Diva-licious

Music Box Theater brings big-city, high-style cabaret to Houston.

TV Dinner: This Week in Food TV

​With so many food-related shows on television, it's hard to keep up -- it's not just the Food Network anymore. I don't know what I'd do without my DVR. This week gave us premieres, finales and Liza Minelli. Here's a roundup of some of the shows this week. Spoiler alert! The Great Food Truck ... More >>

Top Five Christmas Movies From Alternate Realities

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn GrayChristmas in an alternate dimension has the potential to be significantly more badass.​If, as so many quantum physicists and dubious science-fiction shows suggest, there are infinite alternate dimensions, then of course that means there are infinite poss ... More >>

Roger Ebert's Descent Into Twitter Madness

Tweet addiction -- a growing problem ​Let it be established for the record that Roger Ebert is a gift to America.Whether you agree with his opinions all the time or not, his movie reviews are gracious, insightful, funny and erudite. His profiles are equally terrific.But we think the guy's go ... More >>

Aging Disgracefully

Sex and the City 2 struggles against nature to stay forever young.

4 Summer-Movie Soundtracks We Already Hate

​Last week, we told you of some upcoming summer-movie soundtracks that look like they're going to be fantastic. If positivity is your thing, go read that article. This one is going to be all about the upcoming soundtracks that make us wince so hard it feels like someone's chopping our balls with a ... More >>

Upcoming: 50 Cent, Aventura, Hole, Jonas Bros., Liza Minnelli, Octopus Project, Etc.

​50 Cent: Sat., June 12. Arena Theatre. Agent Orange: Wed., June 30. Rocbar. Asleep At The Wheel: Fri., May 28. Cypress Saloon. As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between The Buried And Me, Blessthefall, Cancer Bats: Tue., July 27. Verizon Wireless Theater. Aventura: Thu., July 1. Toyota Center. Barringt ... More >>

Get Lit: Queen - The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock by Phil Sutcliffe

​Coffee-table books on rock bands usually fall into one of two categories; either they're chock-full of great visuals with very little textual information, or the book looks like the U.S. tax code with a few snapshots thrown in. Thankfully, music journo Sutcliffe got it right both ways with this w ... More >>

New On The Web! More Party Pics and Coverage of Rich People!

​Heartbroken fans of Clifford Pugh, Shelby Hodge and Heather "Shopgirl" Staible take solace -- the trio of ex-Chron lifestyle scribes have a new home online at Culture Map Houston, which debuted a few hours ago. "CultureMap, a new online magazine and "mapazine" -- the first of its kind -- headqua ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Elixir of Love, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, The Rocky Horror Show

Dive Bars

A handcrafted tour of the best, most obscure places to lean on a stool in Houston.

Last Night: King Khan & BBQ at Rudz

The King of Houston Sports Anthems

Idlewild

OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

The Oh in Ohio

Parker Posey and Paul Rudd get their Oh faces on

Jeans Pool

Nature vs. nurture, billiards and mixed signals on a dive-bar Monday night

Barbez

Friday, September 16, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.

Cranked

Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

Gear Head

Ron-E fades into the night

Christmas Miracle

A media benefit helps a charity that's been questioned

You Don't Know Mac

Get your recliner and No. 2 pencil

Creative Interpretations

Vindication comes a year after "Agent 307" prevented Mahotella Queens from performing at I-Fest

A Lavender Christmas

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston sings out for Santa Claus and the baby Jesus

Riding Out a Dot-com Downturn

Nobody's getting paid. There are no investors left. The rent money is running out. But George Molho and company are hanging on, hoping that with a good product and just a little luck they'll strike it rich.

Goodnight, Miss Moonlight

Maxine Mesinger departs for the big swankienda in the sky

Charity Case

After the big split, HCC goes for the glamorous giving

Practicing Judyism

Funny Gay Men

Sexual Concealing

Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

Presidential Kids' Charity

Call to contribute to the Bush bid, and guess who answers?

Press Picks

Variety Club Follies

How the curtain came down -- for the time being -- at the "show biz" charity

Press Picks

Lives in Song

Stages gives Kander and Ebb the brilliant turn they deserve

Singin' on the Screen

Press Picks

Fight to the Finish

A bout at the Arena leaves one promoter flat on the canvas

Lady Sings the Pinks

Self-created disco-diva Pinque: If this is camp, it's camp with a guilelessly straight face