Chris Becker

British born, NYC-based painter Richard Butler is a Houstonian - he just doesn't know it yet. H-Town's vibrant, diverse and impossible-to-classify visual arts scene, as well as its plethora of experimental music makers, belies any preconceptions of conservatism those just passing through may carry with them like so much unnecessary...

Rock and roll without the Velvet Underground or the Stooges is as unimaginable as rock and roll without Chuck Berry. And you can be sure that the current crop of bands pillaging the music and visual flair of the '80s don't know "Sister Ray" from Shinola, let alone Robert Johnson...

Last week, Art Attack's 100 Creatives series profiled Houston opera singer Misha Penton. This Friday and Saturday, at her newly opened Divergence Vocal Theater , Penton presents the opera dance theater work Klytemnestra ("the original subversive female") that re-imagines of the story of the Greek anti-heroine. Klytemnestra is an especially...

Author, playwright and spoken-word artist David Sedaris isn’t interested in moralizing. His not-for-children book Squirrel Seeks Chip-munk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer) features animals acting out some of the less-than-admirable characteristics that make us, for better or for worse, human. Sedaris has called Aesop’s fables unrealistically black...

We're almost there, people! Your state representatives are working hard to make sure the Texas Commission on the Arts is eliminated so that sooner rather than later it becomes pretty much impossible for music organizations, orchestras, and chamber ensembles to fund anything beyond a season closer performance by an accordion...