Pulitzer Prizes

Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Knock Me a Kiss, The Lion in Winter, The Young Man from Atlanta

Capsule Stage Reviews: Memory House, The Mountaintop, Private Lives, Ubu Roi (King Ubu), The Young Man from Atlanta

Larry McMurtry: Houston Is the Best Big City in Texas. Dallas Sucks.

Author Larry McMurtry knows a thing or two about the Lone Star State, which is why when he talks, much like EF Hutton in the '70s, people listen. In this case, he was talking to Texas Monthly in an essay about Texas's biggest cities for their February issue, and, as reported on DMagazine.com, he is ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Boys in the Band, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Submission, The Young Man from Atlanta

Mamet’s November Lacks Bite

The Alley Theatre's production is funny — and forgettable.

True Blood: Flailing Blindly

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood -- which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. If I had to describe last night's episode in one word it would be ... More >>

Smithsonian Magazine: Making History with First Annual Food Issue

Smithsonian Magazine, in its more than 40 years of existence, has rarely been of interest to us foodies. Sure it's always full of nifty inventions, complicated science and fascinating history, but food was never on its front burner. That all changed this June. The first-ever Smithsonian Magazine ... More >>

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: Junot Diaz

Death of a Salesman

Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue

Clybourne Park

John Sandford: Silken Prey

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Foreigner, King Hedley II, Made in America, Next to Normal

Ace Atkins: The Lost Ones and Lullaby

Long Live King Hedley

Each character gets a center-stage aria in this most operatic of August Wilson's cycle plays.

Next to Normal

What We’re Up Against

Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series: W.S. Merwin

Capsule Stage Reviews: Il Trovatore, Crimes of the Heart, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Crimes of the Heart

Me, Myself & I

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Proposals, Seussical the Musical, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

Grand Forks, North Dakota, Gets an Olive Garden

Since I first read the Grand Forks Herald article last night -- "Long-awaited Olive Garden receives warm welcome" -- it's made its way around the Internet as an object of fascination faster than faked cell phone pictures of Christina Hendricks's breasts. "An Onion-worthy, rave review of...Olive Gar ... More >>

Molecular Gastronomy and More: Modernist Cuisine, Volume 1

Modernist Cuisine is not your grandmother's Joy of Cooking. It establishes a new language by which chefs can communicate the complexities of their intellectual work. Authors Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet have produced a beautiful and fascinating cookbook that explores the possibili ... More >>

Banning Books in Arizona

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Late Nite Catechism, Oscar in the Box, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

Death To The Academy Award For Best Original Song

Being both a music nerd and a movie geek, my interest was piqued when it was revealed that this year only two songs were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. I wondered how the Academy decided that there were only two songs worthy of competing for the award, and how those songs we ... More >>

Inprint: Rae Armantrout and Christian Wiman

Dinner with Friends

Top 10 Films to Celebrate Black History Month

In 1926 historian Carter G. Wilson began what was known as Negro History Week in an effort to make the African American story more prevalent in our culture's consciousnesses. The week evolved into an entire month-long celebration and promotion of African American history, which we recognize this mon ... More >>

Authors Talk: Van Gogh: The Life

Stephen Hunter: Soft Target

Jim Parsons on Broadway in Harvey, but Who Will Play Harvey?

It was just announced that Houston's favorite nerd, Jim Parsons, will return to Broadway this coming spring. Parsons, who made his big stage debut this past year in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, will now take on the lead role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Harvey. Harvey is about a seemingl ... More >>

Light Up the Sky

Anna in the Tropics

Brutal Blood

The Back Porch Players present a startling, sterling production.

Sampler Plate: This Week in Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Sunset: Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winner and food critic for our sister pap ... More >>

Top 5 Musician Novelists

Ted Barron/New West RecordsSteve Earle: What's up, Doc?​Despite what our paychecks and sometimes even our diplomas say, the perception persists that music journalists are not "real" journalists. Similarly, no matter how literate their lyrics, some folks think musicians could not possibly put p ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: To Kill a Mockingbird, Opening the Box, Wonderland! The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice

Essential Self-Defense

The Monster at the Door

How Do Mexicans Propose Marriage?

And we finally stop insulting Guatemalans!

Killer Joe

August: Osage County

Capsule Stage Reviews: Bus Stop, Gee's Bend, Triple Focus, Weekend with Pablo Picasso

Crimes of the Heart

Capsule Stage Reviews: Driving Miss Daisy, Romeo and Julian, Among the Thugs, Auntie Mame

Capsule Stage Reviews: Man from Nebraska, Reefer Madness, Stick Fly

Capsule Stage Reviews: Southern Rapture, The House of the Spirits, Night of the Giant, Seven Guitars