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Fitz & the Tantrums

48th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival

Athlete, Carney

Warpaint

Top 11 Houston Restaurant Openings of the Decade

Since I started my job as restaurant critic of the Houston Press in May of 2000, I've had a chance to observe the Houston restaurant scene for just about the entire decade. Our fine dining scene has evolved in the last ten years, and so have our ethnic cuisines. Houston became the birthplace of some ... More >>

Dengue Fever

Since I started my job as restaurant critic of the Houston Press in May of 2000, I've had a chance to observe the Houston restaurant scene for just about the entire decade. Our fine dining scene has evolved in the last ten years, and so have our ethnic cuisines. Houston became the birthplace of some ... More >>

Leaving L.A.

West Coast honky-tonker Mike Stinson shocks his peers by moving to Houston.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Blacktop Gypsy and Shurman

Two fine bands who don't come through much are playing just blocks apart tonight. Dallas's Blacktop Gypsy will be knocking the audience out with their amazing harmonies and the virtuosity of fiddler Heather Stalling (wife of Max Stalling) and former Lake Jackson resident Rodney Pyeatt. Stalling was ... More >>

Aftermath: Tremoloco at Under the Volcano

Photos by Vera Mitchell  Los Angeles roots band Tremoloco brought Doug Sahm-type Mexican soul to an enthusiastic audience Wednesday night at Under the Volcano. After warming up with a brand-new song called "Old Man," the band sucked the eager crowd in with a stellar country version of Warren Ze ... More >>

Missy Higgins

Photos by Vera Mitchell  Los Angeles roots band Tremoloco brought Doug Sahm-type Mexican soul to an enthusiastic audience Wednesday night at Under the Volcano. After warming up with a brand-new song called "Old Man," the band sucked the eager crowd in with a stellar country version of Warren Ze ... More >>

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Changeling

Go Ahead, Make Her Day

...and L.A. Is Burning

Revisit the L.A. riots in a brand-new comedy (yes, a comedy) in Y. York's ...and L.A. Is Burning at Main Street Theater

Drenched in Blog: Happy 25th, Thriller

Revisit the L.A. riots in a brand-new comedy (yes, a comedy) in Y. York's ...and L.A. Is Burning at Main Street Theater

No Place Like Home

Revisit the L.A. riots in a brand-new comedy (yes, a comedy) in Y. York's ...and L.A. Is Burning at Main Street Theater

Ready, Break!

The beats are back at the MFAH

Beautiful Creatures

Thursday, January 19, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

Reach for the Stars

Astra Heights returns from L.A. with a major-label deal in hand

The Warlocks, with the Gris Gris and Architects

Saturday, October 8, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.

Donny Hathaway

These Songs For You, Live! (Rhino)

Best Hipness Quotient

Mixture Contemporary Art

Anny Celsi and Kaz Murphy, with Tish Hinojosa

Friday, June 20

Year of the Yao Woo

The crazy times in 2002 — Kmart raids, Olympian losses, stadium mania and more —- now make sense. Houston was just mining Ming.

Best Breakfast

The Breakfast Klub

Thou Shalt Not Pee

Yates trial judge makes a captive audience of the media

Ballads Nuevo

Corridos get updated with drugs and guns

Disorganized Crime

A pair of Swingers gets whacked in the witless mob comedy Made

West Coast Cool

L.A. curator turns "The Big Show" into a breezy stroll along Santa Monica Boulevard

Three-peat Heat

Start your engines: The latest pollution pennant race is on

In Cold Blood

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

Toothless Croc

Paul Hogan aims for the family crowd with this tame installment

Best Band to Leave Houston

I-45

Best Car-Commercial Jingle

Mossy Nissan

Best Reason Not to Take Public Transportation

Smog ranking

Rotation

Music Reviews

Metal Manifesto

Rage Against the Machine preaches anticapitalism, sells millions of records

Three from Texas

With a spate of independent movies, the state once again leaves its mark on film

1997, by the numbers: Our film critics' "ten best"lists

With a spate of independent movies, the state once again leaves its mark on film

Hail to the '80s

A rash of new compilations makes a case for the Me Decade's place in rock history

Hats Off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

I Lava L.A.!

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection

Static

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection

Press Picks

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection

Looking for Billy Zoom

X was the West's great punk hope. But now they're finding more fun in their new worlds.

Splendid Isolation

For Warren Zevon, it's all about how he looks in the hat

No Escape

For Warren Zevon, it's all about how he looks in the hat

Static

For Warren Zevon, it's all about how he looks in the hat

Clever Criminals

The Borrowers take from anyone they can in order to find themselves

Generations

The Borrowers take from anyone they can in order to find themselves

Beck's Prime

The Borrowers take from anyone they can in order to find themselves

Noise Doctors

The Borrowers take from anyone they can in order to find themselves