<![CDATA[Houston Press | Complete Issue]]> http://houstonpress.com en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 03:41:23 -0500 Sun, 26 May 2013 03:41:23 -0500 http://houstonpress.com/about/syndication Village Voice Media XML Feed Generator <![CDATA[Conduct Unbecoming: One Officer's Struggle with the Texas Air National Guard]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/conduct-unbecoming/ For almost every workday over the past ten months, a 35-year-old first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard has done little more than sit in the Lackland Air Force Base library. His security clearance, accrued through 14 years of stead...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/conduct-unbecoming/ <![CDATA[The Signature Sandwiches of Bocca Deli Are Fancier Than Usual]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/bocca-deli/ Take a tour through Bocca Deli in this week's cafe slideshow.

Situated in the endcap of a new stucco-clad strip mall that also houses a liquor store, the prim and tidy Bocca Deli wo...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/bocca-deli/ <![CDATA[The "Ag-Gag" War: Big Ag Declares War on Whistleblowers]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/ag-gag-war/

Now he was standing in a bleak barn at New York's largest dairy farm.

There ...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/ag-gag-war/ <![CDATA[Hard Road: The True Believers Reunite]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/music/true-believers/ In an industry littered with tragic stories of bad luck and poor decisions, the True Believers' tale ranks right at the top. The band's brief rise toward the heights of fame and fortune, coupled with their sudden demise, has gone down as one of the biggest what-might-have-been legends in recent T...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/music/true-believers/ <![CDATA[The Sublime Dumb Play of Fast & Furious 6]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/fast-furious-6/ There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts face can be solved by doing the one thing these lugnuts love most: driving really fast. It's like if you could deal with your taxes by hunkering do...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/fast-furious-6/ <![CDATA[The Hangover Part III: The Heart of Fartness]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/hangover-three/ Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves the "Wolf Pack" without anybody ever making fun of them.

In the slobs-versus-snobs comedies of the 1970s and '80s, the snooty rich kids were ...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/hangover-three/ <![CDATA[The Hopefulness of Frances Ha Is Constant.]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/frances-ha/ New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's feeling the weight of both. Frances is an aspiring dancer who has reached the age when "aspiring" really means not cutting it. Life with her best friend ...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/frances-ha/ <![CDATA[Cannes: Heli Is Family Drama Set Against Mexico’s Drug Wars]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/heli-movie-review-cannes/ One of the most exciting things about attending the Cannes Film Festival is being among the first people to see the films the world will be talking about. That’s one of the terrible things, too: There’s no one to warn you when you’re about to see a puppy murder, a 12-year-old gi...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/heli-movie-review-cannes/ <![CDATA[Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in their Dresses Hoping for?]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/cannes-2013/ Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird’s-eye view of a kiss between a young Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward — has been crazy about it. The couple’s lips meet in the center of a perfect sunburst. She’s...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/cannes-2013/ <![CDATA[Capsule Art Reviews: "Colony Collapse," "Halls without walls, room to feel in. The door awaits you, your return within.," "Pastmodern," "Salt House," "Shambhala," "Unwoven Light"]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/capsule-art-reviews-colony-collapse-halls-without-walls-room-to-feel-in-the-door-awaits-you-your-return-within-pastmodern-salt-house-shambhala-unwoven-light/ "Colony Collapse" Nicola Parente has a way of getting your attention. Four years ago, it was with giant mushrooms made of peat moss that sprouted from Art League Houston's patio. The piece, a collaboration with Divya Murphy, was in response to a New York Times article that named Housto...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/capsule-art-reviews-colony-collapse-halls-without-walls-room-to-feel-in-the-door-awaits-you-your-return-within-pastmodern-salt-house-shambhala-unwoven-light/ <![CDATA[The 10 Best Downtown Restaurants]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/10-best-downtown-restaurants/ Top 10

New restaurants and bars are opening in downtown Houston faster than we can keep up, thanks to a renaissance around the Market Square Park area that's bringing new life to downtown's north side. But that's not the only part of downtown that's blossoming — nor are those ne...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/10-best-downtown-restaurants/ <![CDATA[Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/he-bling-ring-review-cannes/ The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have loved every one of Coppola’s movies: I love her sure and delicate touch, and she’s better than any other contemporary filmmaker at capturing the...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/he-bling-ring-review-cannes/ <![CDATA[Dead and Apathetic]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/school-board-election/ Highlights from Hair Balls

Political Animals

In these highly charged political times, it's easy to forget that for the most part, the average American is fairly apathetic when it comes to politics. ...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/news/school-board-election/ <![CDATA[Cannes: Young & Beautiful Is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/young-and-beautiful-movie-review-cannes/ François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story about a family in crisis: Isabelle (played by Marine Vacth, a stunning-looking if ultimately inert actress) is a student who still lives at ho...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/young-and-beautiful-movie-review-cannes/ <![CDATA[Capsule Stage Reviews: Race, Spamalot, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Warrior Class]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/capsule-stage-reviews-race-spamalot-there-is-a-happiness-that-morning-is-warrior-class/ Race The title of David Mamet's last successful play is a four-letter word. Surprise? Mamet is the Shakespeare of the scatological, the poet of the profane. He's the only contemporary playwright who can drop the F-bomb with such gleeful aplomb, as well as other earthy, Chaucerian depictions o...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/capsule-stage-reviews-race-spamalot-there-is-a-happiness-that-morning-is-warrior-class/ <![CDATA[Lady in Red]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/music/taylor-swift-houston/ Live Shots

There was a moment about a minute and a half or so into last Thursday night's concert where Taylor Swift stopped, looked straight into one of the many cameras filming her show and smiled. The crowd roared as if they had seen a miracle. It was the type of loud that you're...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/music/taylor-swift-houston/ <![CDATA[For the Love of Guns]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/mexicans-and-guns/ Dear Mexican,

Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt in supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. Now, if I say any more, I might be talking about facts that I don't know, and...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/culture/mexicans-and-guns/ <![CDATA[Cannes: The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/inside-llewyn-davis-cannes-review/ I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We’ll Get to the Coens)

Someday I’m going to write a song and call it “Ballad of the Blue Badge.” I haven’t figured out a rhyme scheme yet, let alone a melody, so please allow this outline to suffice: At Canne...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/inside-llewyn-davis-cannes-review/ <![CDATA[A Brief History of the Lens Flares Technique — and the End of Film]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/lens-flare-star-trek/ Daniel Mindel, A.S.C., is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that he “will be forced” to do it eventually by “the corporate entities that drive our industry,” but he believes “there is no...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/lens-flare-star-trek/ <![CDATA[Cannes: Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/behind-the-candelabra-hbo/ Ladies and gentlemen—anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug—step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one of the festival editions of The Hollywood Reporter a few days back, the beauty product to buy while in Cannes is Avibon, an “only-in-France agi...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/behind-the-candelabra-hbo/ <![CDATA[Cannes: Refn’s Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn’t in the Same League as Drive]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/only-god-forgives-movie-review/ Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, in which Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Gosling play a mother-son duo with what might politely be called unresolved issues. Gosling’s Julian has always pl...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/only-god-forgives-movie-review/ <![CDATA[Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs]]> http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/justin-lin-fast-and-furrious-6/ Justin Lin may strike some as out of place in the pantheon of contemporary auteurs. The Taiwanese-born American filmmaker, best known for having directed Fast Five and its sequel, Fast & Furiou...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-23/film/justin-lin-fast-and-furrious-6/