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Obama's Best Campaign Strategy: Keep Singing The Blues

After President Obama crooning Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at a Harlem fundraiser became an unlikely iTunes sensation, even topping the ringtone chart, history is now repeating itself with his version of "Sweet Home Chicago" caught on an episode of PBS' In Performance at the White House Tuesd ... More >>

Super Bowl XLVI: M.I.A.'s Bird Is The Word

On its best day, you can say the musical portion of the Super Bowl ranks somewhere below the fifth time you see the latest Go Daddy commercial and somewhere above that pre-game segment featuring an offensive lineman and his mother. I mean, who really looks forward to a halftime show, post Nipplegate ... More >>

Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts

On its best day, you can say the musical portion of the Super Bowl ranks somewhere below the fifth time you see the latest Go Daddy commercial and somewhere above that pre-game segment featuring an offensive lineman and his mother. I mean, who really looks forward to a halftime show, post Nipplegate ... More >>

Failure Breeds Success

Alexander Payne's pessimism is good for business.

Fine Fellows

This year's Core Exhibition brings good and not-so-good work.

Carlos

This year's Core Exhibition brings good and not-so-good work.

Echoes from Ugarit: The Oldest Music Notation in the World!

Malek Jandali captures the spirit of music more than 5,000 years old

Mo's Knockout Grill & Mediterranean Food

Malek Jandali captures the spirit of music more than 5,000 years old

Rumor to Rest

Who says Houston has bad shawarma?

Food Fight: Battle Baklava

No matter who loses Battle Baklava, we all win!​Several years ago I found a letter from the early 1970's handwritten from my great-grandmother to my grandmother. The paragraphs alternated between Serbian and broken English, some expressing open joy that my uncle had returned safely from Vietna ... More >>

Israeli TV Show Is Taping In Houston And Honoring Right-Wingers

Live! From Houston! It's Tuesday Night Live In Jerusalem!!​Houston is the first stop for Israeli TV hosts Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel as they take Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem across the United States. "We want to give an empowering, uplifting, inspiring message about Israel. And the ... More >>

Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

William Dalrymple explores the music at the heart of Sufism

Spy Story

Con man or super spook — either way, Roland Carnaby wasn't supposed to meet his death on a Houston highway in a high-speed chase with the cops.

Mexican Moors?

More likely than you think

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

The United Nations of Food at Phoenicia Specialty Foods

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Al Green Goes All Rambo

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Representative Al Green Fights His Own Vietnam War

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Walid Raad and his Fake Foundation Show Real Art at the Glassell School

One Man Group

We Can Believe In Body of Lies

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

Universal Soldier: 'Rambo'

Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going

Spy Stories

Edwin Wilson said he was still in touch with his former employer, the CIA, when he shipped explosives out of Houston to the Middle East. The CIA denied it. The CIA lied

Assassination Tango

Controversial docu-drama imagines a post-Bush scenario

The Plane Truth

Houston minister Dr. K.A. Paul flies around the globe using Jesus to pull in worldwide donations -- unfortunately spending more money on jet fuel than orphans

Schlepp to the Cinema

Houston minister Dr. K.A. Paul flies around the globe using Jesus to pull in worldwide donations -- unfortunately spending more money on jet fuel than orphans

Houston's Gone Gaaga for Haaga

A former king of the Texas metal world unites Houston's warring rock tribes and wins a passel of Music Awards

Call Him Al

An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

The Reorient Express

Some churches are still trying to "cure" homosexuals. And some people are still lining up to trade in their sex life for eternal life.

Peace Through Art

"Made in Palestine" humanizes the Middle East conflict

Business with the Unusual

Bill White steps into his own political spotlight

Is Zin In?

Zack Ateyea gives up the ghost of continental cuisine and bets the bank on a California red

From the Mouths of Babes...

Horses focuses on the children whose actions speak volumes about the persecuted Kurds

Real Life

A Burning (Bush) Issue. When Christmas rolls around, some Houston Jews get a little green with envy

To Bloom Again

Quiet, intellectual John Bloom transformed himself through his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, into a drive-in-movie critic on TV. Now a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself.

Gypsy Woman

Gadjo Dilo dances with dark tragedy and humor

Pleasure Palace

Aleppo's Grille offers more good food than can be negotiated in one visit

Press Picks

Aleppo's Grille offers more good food than can be negotiated in one visit

Press Picks

Aleppo's Grille offers more good food than can be negotiated in one visit

Press Picks

Aleppo's Grille offers more good food than can be negotiated in one visit