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Respected to Death

Jane Eyre has everything it needs to succeed -- except life

It's Not a Thyroid Problem

Are the sticks edible?...it's the Corn Dog Pizza you just horked down. One of modern society's greatest questions is now succinctly answered in a single website: This Is Why You're Fat.  Included in the website are such favorites as Rochester's world-famous garbage plate (I was not ... More >>

Bite This!

Sink your teeth into the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

Can Lil Wayne Overcome His Spotty Live Track Record?

Weezy Peezy

Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

Wild Rides

Between serious safety and environmental concerns, the Toyota Prius isn't the angel that everyone thinks it is.

Bond in a Bikini

Between serious safety and environmental concerns, the Toyota Prius isn't the angel that everyone thinks it is.

Free for All

The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Voodoo Chile's Slight Return

Greg Ashley resurrects the Mirrors for a summer tour; also: beware of Zipperneck

Mouse Bait

Shrek plunders the Magic Kingdom for empty laughs

Howard's End

Dallas ran Howard Stern out of town. Could Houston be any more hospitable?

News of the Weird

Dallas ran Howard Stern out of town. Could Houston be any more hospitable?

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Dallas ran Howard Stern out of town. Could Houston be any more hospitable?

Now It's Even A Bigger Deal To Win A Tommy Tune Award

The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Cheese Enchilada

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​"Cheese enchiladas served in chili con carne -- not thin, meatless chili gravy, or authentic enchilada sauce -- are the hallmark of real Tex-Mex, according to 78-year-old Fort Worth sportswriter and Tex-Mex expert Dan Jenkins," as Robb Walsh stated in his July 2 ... More >>

Graveside Songs for Edgar Allan Poe's Long-Overdue Funeral

​Kicking the bucket at the age of 40 is bad enough, especially when, to this day, nobody's really sure how you died (everything from syphillis to rabies to political "cooping" has been thrown out there as a possible cause). But getting buried in an unmarked grave after a three minute "service" is ... More >>

This Is Why You're Fat: Now In Convenient Book Form!

Back in February, we lauded one of our favorite food websites -- This Is Why You're Fat -- for bringing such monstrosities like the Corn Dog Pizza to our attention and for bringing the Deep Fried Mars Bar into the collective consciousness (we couldn't bear to be the only ones familiar with that abom ... More >>

Mark Twain's Vibrator: Five Other Bits Of Possible Literary Kinkiness

If you hear a humming, Mark Twain's a-coming​As ordered in his will, the three-volume autobiography Mark Twain wrote as he was dying is being published 100 years after his 1910 death.First reports note that the book note that it includes talk of a "vibrating sex toy" his mistress gave him as a gif ... More >>

What Makes or Breaks a Cheesesteak

Photos by Troy FieldsPaul finishes up a cheesesteak on the grill at Pappa Geno's.​Such is the importance of the cheesesteak in Philadelphia that John Kerry's infamously emasculating "dainty nibble" at his sandwich -- which he heretically asked for with Swiss cheese -- is counted among one of ... More >>

Italian Classic

George's Pastaria gives the people what they want.

The Pomplamoose Revolution

How a band with no CDs or record deal is changing the music industry

Gothic Type

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre stresses the pursuit of independence.

Aeros Poised To Make History -- The Wrong Kind Of History

John RoyalA despondent Matt Hackett lays on the ice after Hamilton gets the winning goal in the second overtime​Only twice in AHL history had a team had to go to a game seven in a playoff series after grabbing a 3-0 series lead. But things change. And when a team from Houston is involved in ... More >>

5 Food Trends to Watch For in Houston

F*** yeah, gourmet donuts.​Eater ran a list yesterday of 10 food trends that are -- at least in New York City -- officially dead. Among them included the obvious (the gastropub), the non-events (pie as the new cupcakes, which still hasn't happened) and the debatable (I'm pretty sure Houstonian ... More >>

Houston's Same-Sex Couples More Likely to Raise Children

And they may just live in Houston.​The Atlantic's blog has crunched some numbers from a recent gay survey and census data, and it's found that when it comes to raising kids, Houston's same-sex couples are near the tops in the nation. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area had the seventh-highest ... More >>

The X Factor: Boot Camp, Minus Sgt. Hartman

​The pace of the audition rounds was so fast, I didn't realize the judges put through 162 people in the first two weeks of The X Factor. When the field arrives in Los Angeles for "boot camp," they are informed that they will be shaved down to a field of 100, which will ultimately be reduced by ... More >>

Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

Photo by Jeremy Parzen.We just love it when Amy Corron Power, left with husband Joe, does "un-Amy-like" things!​Another Wine Blog: Love born in the blogosphere. It's a beautiful thing. A few weeks ago, when I shared a glass of stinky, delicious Cortese (from Piedmont) with tandem wine blogger ... More >>

The Film Issue: People of the Year

Photo by Jeremy Parzen.We just love it when Amy Corron Power, left with husband Joe, does "un-Amy-like" things!​Another Wine Blog: Love born in the blogosphere. It's a beautiful thing. A few weeks ago, when I shared a glass of stinky, delicious Cortese (from Piedmont) with tandem wine blogger ... More >>

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.