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The Year the Smurfs Attacked

Eastern Bloc-heads

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

Get It Straight

The road to Ellen was paved with the best of intentions

Rock and Roll Dream Team

Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

Changing Channels

For decades, 13 ruled the Houston airwaves. Now 11 is coming on strong. Is KTRK's broadcast dynasty losing its hold?

Losing Focus?

Once groundbreaking, this year's FotoFest just tilled old soil

Cook Gets Two Beards

Once groundbreaking, this year's FotoFest just tilled old soil

Full Nelson

With a new disc and a boxed history, Willie Nelson wonders who'll buy his memories

Moving History

With a new disc and a boxed history, Willie Nelson wonders who'll buy his memories

Loungette

Combustible Edison makes the listening easy -- with a straight face

Letters

Combustible Edison makes the listening easy -- with a straight face

Classic Rock Corner: Kind of Blue is 50

According to a recent appreciation in Newsweek, if an American household has just one jazz record on the shelf, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. And we were thinking it was Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Kind of Blue contains only five trac ... More >>

The Insider

According to a recent appreciation in Newsweek, if an American household has just one jazz record on the shelf, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. And we were thinking it was Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Kind of Blue contains only five trac ... More >>

Stiffed

According to a recent appreciation in Newsweek, if an American household has just one jazz record on the shelf, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. And we were thinking it was Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Kind of Blue contains only five trac ... More >>

Grrrls No More

What happens when ariot grrrl grows up? Ask Sleater-Kinney.

Civics Lesson

Steven Spielberg's Amistad aims high, but oversimplifies

Clinton Without Contrasts

Primary Colors gets the libido, misses the idealism

First in the Nation

Primary Colors gets the libido, misses the idealism

Breaking Through to the Mainstream

Primary Colors gets the libido, misses the idealism

Johnnie B. Bad

Lobbyist's comments bite Bush

Darkness Palls

...beside food as good as Thai Cafe's

Best Newsstand

SuperStand

Workers Comp and Rescued Dogs

Mutual Decisions

Fareed Zakaria

The editor of Newsweek’s international edition says we’ve seen the “rise of the West” and now it’s time for the “rise of the rest”

Desi on Deck

The editor of Newsweek’s international edition says we’ve seen the “rise of the West” and now it’s time for the “rise of the rest”

SXSW

At South by Southwest, there's a lot of light shown in the dark

Absolutely Fabulist

A subdued thriller considers the ominous power of storytelling

Freeloader

You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome

MC Lars

Saturday, May 20, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513

School's Out

Dallas outshines Houston when one magazine rates education

Houston's Best Public High Schools

Counting down: Our sixth- through tenth-place finishers

Planes Mistaken for Stars, with the Ronin King, Bullet Train to Vegas and Sharks and Sailors

Saturday, June 11, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.

Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

Ground Zero

Houston's been the No. 1 city in America in the obesity crisis. But hype doesn't mean help.

Yngwie Malmsteen

Friday, March 5

The Vines

Saturday, July 27

Letters

Residency Woes, Good God!, Organ-ic Giver

The Woman George W. Bush Didn't Marry

The question is why

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

The question is why

Secession and "Insurance Opportunities": No Place But Texas

​If you haven't had a chance to read Newsweek's cover story on Rick Perry, don't worry. You don't have to immediately drop whatever you're doing, out of the misplaced hope that the pages will yield anything you haven't already heard Perry say. But it may be a good primer for people who live outsid ... More >>

Houston Is Under Attack

Bedbugs threaten our slumber.

Five Memorable Artist-Audience Altercations

Chris GrayWilco's Jeff Tweedy in a much better mood, March 2008There may be a very good reason Van Morrison said practically nothing from the stage Saturday night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Judging from the plentiful comments here, here and over at the Chronicle's review, it would have ... More >>

Glee: We're Gonna Keep On Rockin' Forever...Forever

​The theme this week was the loss of the glee club's voice -- both literally (Rachel has laryngitis) and figuratively (Puck gets a haircut, followed by a corresponding loss of mojo). Will asks everyone to solo in front of the whole group with a song that represents where they are in in their l ... More >>

Glee: We're Gonna Keep On Rockin' Forever...Forever

​The theme this week was the loss of the glee club's voice -- both literally (Rachel has laryngitis) and figuratively (Puck gets a haircut, followed by a corresponding loss of mojo). Will asks everyone to solo in front of the whole group with a song that represents where they are in in their l ... More >>

Newsweek Picks Officially Troubled HISD High School As One Of Nation's Best

It's failing, but it's great!​Newsweek has come out with its latest ranking of the nation's best high schools, and the Houston school district is crowing that a record number of HISD highs made it.The usual suspects are there -- DeBakey, Carnegie, Bellaire and Lamar -- but joining the list this ye ... More >>

What Happened?

HISD head, councilmember get crosswise.

Charlie Sheen's New Drug Ad

It's all been a crazy marketing scheme!! Expect to see this ad in upcoming issues of Newsweek, AARP Magazine, Reader's Digest and High Times.

Pop Rocks: By the Dumb's Early Light

Apu chose an alternate path to citizenship​There's a scene in The American President -- Aaron Sorkin's pre-West Wing exercise in wishful liberalism -- when President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) describes America as "advanced citizenship." It's a nice thought, especially in the fantastical conte ... More >>

From Rendering to Reality: Architectural Drawings from the Studio of Patrick Lopez, 1964 to 1995

Apu chose an alternate path to citizenship​There's a scene in The American President -- Aaron Sorkin's pre-West Wing exercise in wishful liberalism -- when President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) describes America as "advanced citizenship." It's a nice thought, especially in the fantastical conte ... More >>