Queen Victoria

Dickens on the Strand

5 Houston Food Fans to Follow on Twitter

​For this post, I picked five interesting Twitterers who neither blog, write professionally or have food-related careers. There are many more that fit the criteria, so feel free to add your favorites in the comments. These Twitterers chime in on where to find ingredients, share input on their ... More >>

Spotlight On: The Mangosteen

​A couple months ago, I ventured out to 99 Ranch Market and saw some fresh mangosteens parked in the middle of the fruit section. Although I was curious about how they tasted, I was put off by the price ($8.99/pound) and the fact that they looked pretty tired in comparison to the surrounding a ... More >>

Band of the Irish Guards

These musician-soldiers go from the stage to the battleground and back again

Last Call For Art: Mack The Knife, French Film And Invisible Billboards

​Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera. The grand story by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill is being touted as "a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!" Meant to satirize traditional opera while creating an new kind of musical theater, Threepenny is ... More >>

Get Lit: Buckingham Palace Gardens, by Anne Perry

​Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera. The grand story by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill is being touted as "a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!" Meant to satirize traditional opera while creating an new kind of musical theater, Threepenny is ... More >>

Carmen Suite

Bolshoi principal dancer Marianna Ryzhkina makes her Houston debut

What's Underneath

A seamstress makes Intimate Apparel at Main Street Theater

Night & Day

April 1-7, 1999

Night & Day

December 24 - 30, 1998

Christmas Casts

Houston productions give Yule a varied look

Royal Pain

Mrs. Brown fails to interest us in Queen Victoria's grief

Press Picks

Mrs. Brown fails to interest us in Queen Victoria's grief

Press Picks

Mrs. Brown fails to interest us in Queen Victoria's grief