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Click Art

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

Fannypack

Saturday, July 12

Celebrity Photographer, Photographer Celebrity

Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream

Sweet Jane

Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream

Mad for Art

Examining Werner Herzog, the director who ate his shoe

Rotation

Examining Werner Herzog, the director who ate his shoe

Time to Kill

Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Love Bane of Cobain

Kurt and Courtney overcomes serious flaws for an intriguing, offbeat documentary

Adam and Eve Hit the Sauza

Kurt and Courtney overcomes serious flaws for an intriguing, offbeat documentary

Night & Day

July 9 - 15, 1998

Bryan Burrough

The Vanity Fair writer gives us a cure for mogul envy

The Collector: The Hoodoo Curse

Bluesman Robert Johnson's shadow stretches long and large

New North Heights Hipster Hang: Big Star Bar

Bad Motor Scooter

Two Mediocre Adaptations: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Two movies by directors who really should have known better

Manda Bala

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

Leaving His Mark

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

Star Powered

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

The Namesake

The immigrant experience meets a generation gap in Mira Nair's The Namesake

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither.

Music to Cover Your Eyes To

Houstonian Nick DiFonzo has one of the world's finest collections of bad album covers

Reese's Piece

Mira Nair's Victorian England bursts with sensuality, but not impact

All the Way to the Bank

What does it take to get a celebrity chef to put his name on a Houston restaurant?

So Many Faces

The Hotel Play is huge

Wild Kingdom

The furries are fighting like animals, just for a little respect

The Fire Next Time

Nobody knows what AFI's next album will sound like, least of all the band members

Buenos Aires Virus

Continental Club dweller Glover Gill would sooner starve to death than give up playing tango. Not that guys who back Pavarotti and score Hollywood films waste away that often.

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Say Cheese

Movie producer Robert Evans preserves his golden myth in The Kid Stays in the Picture

Moment in the Sun

Clem Snide's Eef Barzelay talks about God, Zionism and rock and roll manners

Doorman for a Day

Freshly Febrezed, The Nightfly mans the velvet rope

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

The Caged Birds Sing

Twins rage against the bars that have imprisoned them in Silver's satirical Captivity

Almost Famous

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell isn't Carrie Bradshaw. Like, really.

Tobacco Toad

Mann elevates The Insider to Oscar-level suspense

Chipp Kidd

Meet one of the “greatest living graphic designers” (according to Domy Books’ Russell Etchen)

John Goodman, Bazillionaire Polo Patron, Awaits Possible Charges In Fatal Palm Beach Bentley Wreck

Randall Patterson's 1998 feature on Houston / Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman ends with the billionaire playboy getting a champagne bath. Right now, Palm Beach police want to know if he also soaked in a little too much booze last Thursday night. That was when Goodman, the founder of the Palm B ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Camelot, True Love Lies, The Women

Randall Patterson's 1998 feature on Houston / Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman ends with the billionaire playboy getting a champagne bath. Right now, Palm Beach police want to know if he also soaked in a little too much booze last Thursday night. That was when Goodman, the founder of the Palm B ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Flu Season, Machinal, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Women

Randall Patterson's 1998 feature on Houston / Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman ends with the billionaire playboy getting a champagne bath. Right now, Palm Beach police want to know if he also soaked in a little too much booze last Thursday night. That was when Goodman, the founder of the Palm B ... More >>

Captured in Afghanistan

American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.

KLOL Lives; DJ Shortee Benefit Sunday; Dallas Loves Indian Jewelry

• The always-entertaining video blog Keep Houston Rich shared with us this early-'90s television commercial for "Houston's only album rock station," KLOL. "Word on the street is that this ran during a Miami Vice episode," the bloggers write, which reminds us of this epic TV spot covering Morriss ... More >>

Top Five Musician/Journalist Feuds

"Like, what is your problem?" Jason Nocito​Hell hath no fury like a spurned musician, but a critic's vengeance doesn't lag far behind. This week in the Houston Press, you can read an interview Noah Bailey at our sister paper the Dallas Observer did with Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken, who says he h ... More >>

Alex Beard: Monkey See, Monkey Draw

"Like, what is your problem?" Jason Nocito​Hell hath no fury like a spurned musician, but a critic's vengeance doesn't lag far behind. This week in the Houston Press, you can read an interview Noah Bailey at our sister paper the Dallas Observer did with Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken, who says he h ... More >>

Musical Dads & Daughters: The Good, The Bad & The Awkward

OK Magazine​Blood, they say, is thicker than water. When Matthew Knowles and Beyonce ended their business relationship earlier this week, both stressed the fact that family is still family. "He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly," Beyonce said in her statement. "I love my daughter ... More >>

River Oaks Monster

Readers react to dramatic high society tale

Our Idiot Brother

Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings.

Conroe Native Courtney Smith Crashes Rock-Lit Boys Club

​Introducing music journalism's latest female-penned release, Courtney E. Smith's Record Collecting for Girls. Following suit with like-minded veteran writers like Sara Marcus and Jessica Hopper, Smith's first book boldly tackles the music memoir, a literary genre historically saturated with ... More >>

An Afternoon with SEARCH Leads a Writer to Recall His Own Homeless Mother

A different side of life.​As a guest of local homelessness advocates SEARCH, I spent last Friday afternoon pretending to be homeless. Sort of...At any rate, it was a strange afternoon for me as my experience of homelessness is far more up close and personal than that of most people. The afte ... More >>