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SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

Maria Dueñas

''Tejiendo los restos del naufragio/Weaving the Remains of the Shipwreck — Photography by Linarejos Moreno''

Tina Madrid: Mother Charged with Murdering Her Special-Needs Son, Found in a Box

The bizarre, tragic story of ten-year-old Jonathan Singer took another turn yesterday when police arrested his mother for his murder. The body of Singer, who had cerebral palsy, was found in a cardboard box in his father's Kia about one year ago. The boy's father said he had drowned in a bathtub, b ... More >>

An Auspicious Dinner at Nardino Ristorante

I am usually not one to predict the future. When it comes to prognostication, I am far too conservative and neurotic to articulate publicly my thoughts on upcoming fads, fashions, movements, etc. Seriously, identifying the Big Cupcake as a 2012 food trend was really going out on a limb for me. But ... More >>

Gothic Council Makes Its News Year's Resolutions

Well, Christmas is over, as is Festivus for the rest of us, and now 2012 is barreling down at us like Donkey Kong threw it. Some people say that this year will be humanity's last, but since we say that as often as we can we're not too worried about it. Personally, we think the Mayans were just too b ... More >>

A Night in Madrid

Aluminum Show

One Cocktail, Please, Heavy on the Garnish

Anvil. ​When I became interested in cocktails, especially rarer and more creative varieties of mixed drinks, I focused almost entirely on flavor, strength and composition. I judged cosmopolitans on their icy smoothness, sidecars on their subtle orange notes, and corpse revivers on that little ... More >>

Top 10 Last Words By Famous Musicians

​Musicians tend to be a mouthy lot. It takes a certain kind of soul to want and express your own inner world to the outer world at large. So when the time comes for them to shuffle off this mortal coil, they often have some very interesting exit lines... 10. Ludwig Van Beethoven, "Friends a ... More >>

The Week In TV: Charlie Sheen's Career Not Hurt By Punching Women

Back, for some reason​The dog days are here, people keep dying, and there's plenty of static on the dial. This was the week in TV Land:• When I was very young, my heart and soul were ruled by Thundercats. I even at one point made the regrettable decision to wear a watch featuring Lion-O to schoo ... More >>

Blind Faith

Pedro Almodóvar still believes in Pedro Almodóvar.

Andalucia Tapas & Taverna

​We felt pretty smart nabbing a spot near the kitchen for the standing-room-only grand opening of Andalucia Tapas & Taverna last week. The waiters had to get through us to reach the rest of the crowd (the poor suckers by the door surely went hungry). The cavernous restaurant, in the Downtown ... More >>

Andalucia Tapas and Taverna

We've Been Had: The Enduring Wisdom of Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne

Anodyne: Noun. Anything that relieves distress or pain. (dictionary.com)​When Son Volt goes onstage tonight at the Continental Club (we've heard around 11 p.m.), there's an outside chance the band might pull out Doug Sahm's "Give Back the Key to My Heart" - we are in Texas, after all. Otherwise do ... More >>

The Man, The Myth

Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control.

Last Call For Art: Shows Closing This Weekend

Art by Jesse LottThe must-see shows Jesse Lott: "The Urban Frontier" and Javier de Villota: "DeHumanization Echo" close this Sunday at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Lott and de Villota, both based in Houston, share not so much a style as a purpose -- to express a belief in humanism.Lott's ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Javier de Villota," "Round 30: Home. Space"

Welcome to the War

Javier de Villota's bold re-creation of a marketplace massacre in Sarajevo is installed at the Station.

Can't Get It Out of My Head: "New Madrid"

Wilco, "New Madrid," live at the Fox Theater, Boulder, Colorado, May 1995 Rocks Off is never really not on an Uncle Tupelo kick, but it sure came flooding back after he heard "New Madrid" on Fred Imus' Saturday-morning Trailer Park Bash satellite-radio show last weekend. Even among such fut ... More >>

Was Jimi Hendrix Mexican?

Compañia Flamenco José Porcel

Spain's most exciting performers bring their mix of gypsy, Indian, Arabic and Jewish dance to the SPA stage

Am I the Only One Craving Chinese Food While Watching the Olympics?

A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

The Return of the Kashmere Stage band

Tales from Transit: Proxima Estacion

Luis Fernando Roldan

Sicardi Gallery presents “Drawings”

Who Is Chapulín?

Fight the Power

Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not?

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Un-American Dream

Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy

¡Viva Eléctrico!

Spain's answer to Devo brings the Korgs

Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

Looking back on the '05 and dreaming in the '06

Texas Burger Binge

Our food critic reports on the state of the Texas burger -- and recommends 18 you need to try immediately

Train in Vain

A bomb scare at a Midtown light-rail stop

Den of Iniquity

A gay "bear" learns to parent his nephew in a delightful Spanish drama

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Ready for a Rumbo?

News wars return as two Spanish papers go mano a mano

Rev Up

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Barandúa / Sisters Morales

Nuestras Canciones/Our Songs (Self-released) / Para Gloria (Luna Records)

Stirred and Shaken

Mi Luna's sangria

Screwball Drama

Almodovar leans toward the dark side in this often funny meditation on the bond of all women

Class of '98

A reluctant retrospective

Dish

After the Obsession

Is Pedro Almodvar at an awkward in-between stage? Or is he just lost?

Press Picks

Despite its Oscar,

Fernando Trueba's new film isn't a prizewinner