Rome

Director's Block

Fantasy meets harsh reality as Rob Marshall takes on a Fellini classic.

Game Time: The Week In Tweets

​Maybe I'm biased because I use it all the time, but I'm going to make the bold statement that Twitter has surpassed "fad" status and that it's here to stay. Even at this point, people who don't use Twitter recognize kinda sorta how it works, and even recognize a Tweet when they see it -- "it's go ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: "Sexyclectic" Philly DJ King Britt, at La Strada Tonight

​He's been around the world. He has played in locales as exotic as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubai. He has probably shagged women who would sooner cross the street than look at you. And yet, DJ/producer/remixer King Britt doesn't mind coming down to Houston and entertaining us mortal folk with his h ... More >>

The Chronicle's Columnist Does BARC Again, And Again The Result Is WTF?

​If you heard what sounded like a sonic boom this morning, it was the thunderclap of Hair Balls's head exploding. And why would that be? Because one of the nation's biggest newspapers -- the daily for the fourth-largest city in the country -- allowed a columnist to print the bizarre evangelic ... More >>

Dustin Welch: Whisky Priest

What If They Gave A Horse Show And Nobody Came?

The Kantemirov family calls its famous Russian circus, which has toured all over the world for the last 62 years, a "celebration of life and of man's love for horses, demonstrating the harmony between mankind and nature."So when the troupe needed a city to host its first show in the United States, H ... More >>

The Man with the Golden Horn

Photo by John Nova LomaxMilton Martin downtown on the corner of Main and McKinneyMilton Martin spends his days blowing his soprano sax from his wheelchair in the bright sun at the corner of Main and McKinney, hard by the assemblage of broken dreams and frustrated town planning that is Main Street Sq ... More >>

Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

The Bourne Comedian

2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

Is Your Band in Trouble?

Heads Up

Last Night: The Slits and Friends at Numbers

Sister Act: The Other Boleyn Girl

Sibling rivalry in all its royal glory

Capsule Art Reviews: "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976," "Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome,"

"A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s," "Traci Matlock and Ashley Maclean: The Much-To-Consider Season," "Will Boone: A Man's House Is His Coffin"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976," "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," "Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,"

Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Traci Matlock and Ashley Maclean: The Much-To-Consider Season," "Will Boone: A Man's House Is His Coffin"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Devendra Banhart: Some Drawings," "Kirsten Hassenfeld: Dans la Lune," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Ryan Geiger: Secret Garden"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Kirsten Hassenfeld: Dans la Lune," "Monster Show 2," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Devendra Banhart: Some Drawings"

Art Capsule Reviews: "Ken Little: Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks & Dough," "Michael Bise: Birthday," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Tom of Finland: Drawings from the '70s and '80s"

Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

Venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.

Sylvia, A Masked Ball

Despite some leg humping, A. R. Gurney's fable gets best in show

"RED HOT: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection"

Collecting on the quick with the Chaney family

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Cannes and Abel

Ferrara's beloved New York, this time via Rome.

What Can Brown Do for You?

New Orleans is about to find out

Fight the Power

Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not?

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 15

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

Big Mac

TV huckster McIngvale moves hearts as well as mattresses

Ballsy Bikers

Supercross riders crash 'n' burn for your pleasure at Reliant Stadium

Blizzard of Oz

Dubya, Ashlee and Bill O'Reilly have spun Racket's mind into the twilight zone; also, two local retro-cool institutions bite the dust

How Hospitable

Scoring the Super Bowl

NFL Films' music may be stirring, but these songs tell the real story of the big games

Are You There, Ethel?

The creators of The Last Session bring The Big Voice to Stages

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bayou Dreams

The Chronicle dares to dream -- again

Rock Me, Again

A restored Amadeus reveals a truly beautiful mind

It's Still News

What's the statute of limitations for rip-n-read violations?

Cy for Him

The reverence surrounding Twombly's sculpture exhibit at the Menil inspires little more than weariness

Click Art

Three photographers transcend the cult of personality with their revealing celebrity portraits

Literary Pretensions

Based on Maugham's novella, Up at the Villa is little more than trash fiction in a nicer locale

Heart Condition

Minnie Driver has a problem with her ticker - and with the cinematography - in the awful Return to Me

The Once and Future King

Galveston Mardi Gras

Silver and Gold (and Green)

Some artists make holiday records for the beauty, not the bucks

Letters

Wagner for Beginners

Arias for All

Ebony Guild excels for diverse opera fans

Shtick Figure

In Barbara Kopple's documentary, Woody Allen plays Woody Allen

Unchecked Egos

Press Picks

Caesar in Sneakers

Innocent on the Lam