William Faulkner

David McGlynn: The Door in the Ocean

American Falls

A dark, funny new work from Catastrophic Theatre goes behind the white picket fences.

Psych Legends Fever Tree's Final Show Mysteriously Materializes

savagesaints.blogspot.com​"The past is not dead," William Faulkner once said. "It's not even past." Rob Landes, organist for '60s Houston psych-rockers Fever Tree, found this out a couple of years ago when he discovered some old boxes labeled "Fever Tree Live Session." Inside were some reel-t ... More >>

Last Night: Lucero At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​Lucero Fitzgerald's February 23, 2011 See more amber-colored images in our slideshow. About 12:30 a.m. this morning - we know because we wrote it down - Lucero front man Ben Nichols had a question. "Is there any more whiskey left backstage?" That he had to ask at all ... More >>

Five Graduation Speeches Better Than What You'll Hear This Year

It's Graduation Season, and that means it's time for commencement speeches.Usually delivered by someone you at best only vaguely have heard of, they all start with rueful self-deprecation about how "Once, long, long ago, I too sat at a graduation ceremony and listened to some long-winded boring spe ... More >>

The Great Guillermo Arriaga, On Writing, Directing And What He Wants Houstonians To Do

​Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada -- all these movies have one thing in common: Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer Guillermo Arriaga. He's in Houston this week and you'll have two chances to meet him and check out his films at the Houston Ci ... More >>

The Big Sleep

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Get Lit: Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child

Crab Man

Meet Doug Sartin, onetime heir apparent to a Texas barbecued crab dynasty

You Can't Stop History

The Colored Museum should be listed in everyone's guidebook

Swamp Thing

The Skeleton Key unlocks a house that's haunted by camp

Breakdown Lane

Chevy's unlikely new pitchman

A Trip to Bountiful

The Innkeeper is the best country venue in town. Too bad it's 50 miles away.

Leatherface to Picasso

UT's Harry Ransom Center has it all

Americana Psychos

Mixing Nashville craft with gothic content, David Olney is a songwriter's songwriter

Oxford Punks

Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

News Hostage

One Little, Two Little, 40 Little Indies

Worldfest-Houston offers movies you won't otherwise see

Baby, It's Him

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

The Unchanging Face of Milby

For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

Light Lesson

The Ensemble does too good a job of finding the fun in August Wilson

Heavenly Fire

Jason and the Scorchers reunite, and get hot in the process

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Journey to the South

Keith Carter's poetic, earthy images capture the tragic, lyric, lonely voice that is the South