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  • Dining

    December 22, 2011

    Finger Licking Good

    If you like Cajun and Southern food, try this West African restaurant.

  • Dining

    September 8, 2011

    Desert Couscous

    Casablanca worth a visit in a city with so little Moroccan food.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Oasis in the Desert: Casablanca Brings Moroccan Food to Houston

    Photos by Troy FieldsSee more photos from Casablanca in our slideshow.​When it opened late last year, Casablanca Couscous & Grill became only the second Moroccan restaurant in Houston. And the truth is, for a city that prides itself on being such a melting pot of ethnicities and cuisines, ther ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    iFest's First Weekend Thick With Music, Humidity

    GroovehouseJimmie Vaughan (left) and his band gave the large iFest crowd some saxual healing Saturday.​Lots more iFest in our slideshows: The bands, the performers, the crowds and even the food. For something that was still going on 24 hours ago, the first weekend of the Houston International ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2010

    Shakira

    GroovehouseJimmie Vaughan (left) and his band gave the large iFest crowd some saxual healing Saturday.​Lots more iFest in our slideshows: The bands, the performers, the crowds and even the food. For something that was still going on 24 hours ago, the first weekend of the Houston International ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Giving Up the Greens

    ​If you had been a devout vegetarian (or even a pescatarian, or a vegan) for the past decade of your life, what would be the first meat you'd want after deciding to revert back to your carnivorous ways? That's the question currently being pondered by my significant other, who's decided to ret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    iFest Closes To An Afro-Cuban-Reggae Beat

    Eggs/ breakfastontour.comBaba Maal​ If the first weekend of the Houston International Festival felt like a detour down Canal Street, the second evoked the festival's emphasis on "Spotlighting the Caribbean." Summer picked this weekend to descend two months early, as it tends to do, resulting in in ... More >>

  • Music

    April 22, 2010

    Houston International Festival

    Eggs/ breakfastontour.comBaba Maal​ If the first weekend of the Houston International Festival felt like a detour down Canal Street, the second evoked the festival's emphasis on "Spotlighting the Caribbean." Summer picked this weekend to descend two months early, as it tends to do, resulting in in ... More >>

  • Film

    December 10, 2009

    Maniac Cop

    New Orleans as breeding ground for one Bad Lieutenant.

  • Culture

    July 30, 2009
  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Bronx Cheer: Black Music Allowed at Rice Village Bar. Black People? (Allegedly) Not So Much.

    The weekend visit to Houston had been going well enough for Army Sergeant Mohammed Sesay. Now stationed at Killeen's Fort Hood, he'd been back in the States for less than a week, after serving for over a year at Camp Bucca prison in Iraq, where he had helped guard the estimated 20,000-30,000 d ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 16, 2009

    Beauty in the Abandoned

    Leonardo Drew turns cast-off and decayed items into strong artworks.

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Muxtape Monday: African Diaspora

    Leonardo Drew turns cast-off and decayed items into strong artworks.

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    Floating over to Monarch Lounge

    New Money douches and Amazing Race winners at Monarch Lounge

  • Calendar

    January 17, 2008

    Les écailles de la Mémoire (The Scales of Memory)

    Brooklyn’s Urban Bush Women and Senegal’s Compagnie JANT-BI join forces in a collaborative dance performance

  • Best of Houston

    September 28, 2006

    AFRICAN SOUNDS TAPES, CDS AND VIDEOS

    Other record stores have bitten the dust, but not this one

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2006

    Worldly Moves

    Other record stores have bitten the dust, but not this one

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2005

    Sweeping Riddim

    Check the African-spun grooves at Fagilia Houston

  • Music

    December 2, 2004

    Get Back, Honky Cat

    Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

  • Music

    April 15, 2004

    Relying on Reliant

    IFest makes the jump from downtown to South Main

  • Music

    February 5, 2004

    Pop-Punk Penance

    A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

  • Music

    April 18, 2002

    Sacré Bleu Bayou!

    France takes center stage at the Houston International Festival

  • Music

    August 9, 2001

    Racket

    Searching for the First Rock Song

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Out of Africa

    In a small office off the Southwest Freeway, an editor carries on his crusade against public corruption and press censorship in his native Nigeria and other African countries

  • Film

    February 10, 2000
  • Film

    February 10, 2000

    Reel Worlds

    Houston mines international gold with the Pan-Cultural Film Festival

  • Music

    December 17, 1998

    Rotation

    Houston mines international gold with the Pan-Cultural Film Festival

  • Calendar

    October 1, 1998

    Night & Day

    October 1 - 7, 1998

  • Music

    October 1, 1998

    Rotation

    October 1 - 7, 1998

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Rotation

    October 1 - 7, 1998

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 16 - 22, 1998

  • Music

    April 17, 1997

    African Electric

    April 16 - 22, 1998

  • Music

    October 3, 1996

    No More Mush

    April 16 - 22, 1998

  • Music

    May 25, 1995

    Sound Check

    April 16 - 22, 1998

  • Film

    August 4, 1994

    Out of Africa

    April 16 - 22, 1998

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