Meg Ryan

The Perils/Pleasure of Online Ordering

I'm the first person to admit that I am technologically challenged, which is probably why up until last week I had never ordered takeout/delivery online. (Oddly enough, I do use the interwebs for purchasing almost everything else). My aversion to online food ordering stems in part from the fact tha ... More >>

Kiss Me Baby: Macy's Bringing Giant Mistletoe To Houston

As part of Downtown Houston's annual Holiday Spectacular, Macy's is bringing 15-foot candy cane with a 4-foot hanging piece of mistletoe to Houston for a five-stop tour. Beware ladies, creepsters all over town will no doubt be doubling-down to somehow get your unsuspecting ass under this thing to g ... More >>

5 More Sudden Awful Musical Marriages We'd Like to See

Rewind: So Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne Are Engaged: How Should You Feel? Boy, that Avril Lavigne/Chad Kroeger engagement announcement came out of left field, huh? Who knows which other terrible music makers are secretly seeing one another right now? Why, it could be anyone! Even... Ke$ha and Sc ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian -- Can the Celebrity Marriage Be Saved?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Is No Celebrity Marriage Sacred?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Top 5 Movie Quotes About Food and Drink

Robb Walsh blogged about food and sex in movies, and Katharine Shilcutt provided us with the ten most disturbing food-related scenes in horror flicks. And while a picture (or some footage) is worth a thousand words, sometimes a passing reference to food and drink in film can be just as rich. Here a ... More >>

Gravy: A Love Letter

sisterbeer​The best laid plans of bird and yams often go astray. Despite the onslaught of tips and tricks that surround the Thanksgiving feast, there will inevitably be dry turkeys, bland dressing, and questionable side dishes. Luckily, these are all treatable afflictions, and the remedy is gr ... More >>

Beef Pavilion Burger at Polk Street Pub

​Jason Kerr's review a few months back on the "black jack burger" at Polk Street Pub put this restaurant on my burger radar. After forcing my "meating" companion to navigate through is downtown Houston, we arrived at Polk Street Pub just at the end of happy hour (Monday through Friday, 4 to ... More >>

Taylor Swift, Neo-Feminist Keyhole To The Future

Photos by Marco Torres​The waves of the audible bubble bath wash over you as they gurgle their way to the milk veins of your heart, and then your mom tucks you in to the sound of the woosh woosh cherry wind while you dream your little dreams of a smile. Taylor Swift makes us feel like adject ... More >>

Pop Rocks: With Friends Like These

​Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski remains under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting possible extradition to the United States for fleeing sentencing after pleading guilty to "unlawful sex" with a 13-year old in 1977. His attorneys are, naturally, fighting this possibility, while a numbe ... More >>

Stirred and Shaken: Roeder's Pub's Dragon-Ass

The Women

"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."

More Trouble For Bellaire's Randy Quaid

​Who ever though that Dennis Quaid -- the guy who got in a custody battle with Meg Ryan over their guru -- would turn out to seem the sane one in the Quaid family? Dennis' older brother Randy has stepped in it again, missing a court appearance in California and thus engendering an arrest w ... More >>

For Valentine's Day: The Five Best Romantic-Comedy Moments

So you've decided to go the lame-ass "dinner and a movie" route for Valentine's Day, only you can't get even get a reservation at the 59 Diner and going to the movies these days just makes you wish you'd applied for that concealed handgun permit. Buck up, little camper, for even ordering a pizza an ... More >>

For Valentine's Day: The Five Worst Romantic Comedies

With Valentine's Day approaching, tbe best most of you poor single bastards can hope for is to get through the night with your bank account relatively intact. Married folks are better off, as all they're really expected to come up with is a perfunctory gift and maybe an evening spent watching a drea ... More >>

Attention Passengers: Forget Bush Intercontinental, Here Are The Five Best Karaoke Movie Scenes

If Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ joined hands and strolled down Westheimer turning automobiles into unicorns while singing "Blasphemous Rumors" I don't think it would get as much coverage as that infernal karaoke machine at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (including right here at Hair Bal ... More >>

Thank You Lord, For These Thy Gifts: Five Movie Thanksgivings

Thanksgiving isn't just about federally subsidized gluttony and a spike in domestic disturbance calls, it's about slipping into a tryptophan-induced coma while watching TV. This year, instead of enduring another slapstick performance by the Detroit Lions, how about checking out a few Turkey Day them ... More >>

Ladies Light in The Women

Once grand, this story is now just another chick flick

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Heiress, Mr. Marmalade, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues

Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues, You Can't Take It With You

High Spirits

The haunted (or is it?) history of 3700 Main

Jimmy Eat World

Futures (Interscope)

Ringing from the Rooftops

Microcinema International gets political

Ryan's Hope

Jane Campion guides Meg Ryan through a stunning career transformation In the Cut

With Her Gloves Off

Pound for pound, Jackie Kallen's just tough

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

Eastern Bloc-heads

Harrison's Flowers reveals -- duh -- that war is bad

Playbill

Willie Nelson's Family Picnic

Nobody's Here

You probably don't remember actor Marco Perella. Neither does Hollywood.

Hostage Crisis: Day 143

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience and makes it beg for mercy

Dial M for Monotony

Despite the talented cast, Hanging Up never connects

Murfreesboro Rocks

The next Seattle is in...Tennessee?

A Star in Reborn, Again

Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.

L.A. Pass

The Hollywood of Hurlyburly has moved on to better places

Return Mail

Ephron offers an appealing update of a classic charmer

History in the Faking

Anastasia plays fast and loose with the truth

Perfect Mess

What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

Press Picks

M(eg) I(n) A(ction)

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Sound Check

Letters

Letters

Drunk, But Not Disorderly

Meg Ryan battles the curse of cuteness