Tommy Forgue: Deputy Constable Fondled Woman’s Breasts While She Dialed for Help, Cops Say
Remember how your mom always told you that if you ever got lost in a crowd, one of those guys in uniform would be happy to help? That turned out to allegedly be a little too true at the Houston Rodeo Cook-off. Precinct 5 Deputy Constable Tommy Forgue was arrested…
Those Billboards Work! Multiple-Rape Suspect Charles Davenport Arrested
A man who cops think beat and raped at least seven escort workers has been found, arrested and charged, officials say. A large composite sketch of Charles Davenport, 25, was posted on a billboard in north Harris County. That billboard, along with investigative work and a lucky break, helped cops…
Chef Chat, Part 1: Travis Lenig of Liberty Kitchen, on Leaving Fine Dining for Comfort Food, and Eating Foods with Lots of Heat
This is the first part of a three-part chef chat series. Come back to read parts two and three in this same space Thursday and Friday. Every single time I’ve been to Liberty Kitchen in the Heights, it’s packed. There’s something about the space — the decor, the layout, the…
Fake Vuitton, Prada and Versace: Yintang Cao & Hong Zhang Had 14,000 Counterfeit Luxury Items
When you get a really good price on luxury goods, it’s best to check those goods closely. And if you bought them from Yintang Cao or Hong Zhang, well, welcome to the world of Rotex watches. Cao, 48, and Zhang, 46, entered guilty pleas this morning in connection with their…
Last Night: Carrie Underwood at Toyota Center
Carrie Underwood Toyota Center April 23, 2013 It’s different at the top of the world. Because critics are the spoiled little creatures that we are, we are traditionally given seats that cost most fans quite a bit of coin. Hell, Alicia Keys’ people put me on the third row. Get…
Lobster Rolls Are the Main Attraction at Maine-ly Sandwiches
One of the first known recipes for lobster comes from Apicius, a Roman cookbook dating to around 400 A.D. that’s organized quite like a modern cookbook into ten chapters. In “Thalassa,” the chapter on the sea, Apicius provides recipes for dishes including boiled lobster with cumin sauce, lobster with wine…
Willie Nelson’s Houston Years — Struggling to Get By in the Murder Capital of the Nation
We usually let our sister blog Rocks Off handle the music business, but in case you don’t regularly check them out (for shame!), allow us to point you to a story worth reading. William Michael Smith takes a long and deep look at Willie Nelson’s early years struggling to get…
When Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey Pours at Uchi, Houston’s Top Sommeliers Listen
Houston, is that a frico dropping? By my count, there were roughly forty of our city’s top wine professionals in the room, all listening with rapt attention and relishing savory nuggets of wine wisdom imparted by Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey (above). And I’m not talking benchwarmers. This was an A-list,…
Working With Willie Nelson: Houston’s Joe Sample Takes Us In the Studio
Working on this week’s cover story on Willie Nelson was a blast — and a blast from the past. One minute I’d be typing and the next the phone would ring. “Hey, this is Johnny Bush, I hear you’re doing a story on Willie. Why didn’t you call me?” Stuff…
Reality Bites: What Would Ryan Lochte Do?
There are a millions reality shows on the naked television. We’re going to watch them all, one at a time. Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte’s dream is to have his own fashion line. As dreams go, it’s not that terrible, I suppose. Certainly it’s a more original post-Olympic career path…
10 Best Video Game Trailers of All Time
There’s no argument that many games rival big-budget movies now in terms of production, and just like the movies, they know that you’ve got to use a little sizzle to sell the steak. The art of the game trailer has progressed in ways we never could have imagined, and today…
Lunch Parisian-Style at Étoile Cuisine et Bar
My first experience at Étoile Cuisine et Bar happened a few months ago, my girlfriends and I chose a new restaurant at random and went in without any expectations or preconceived notions. We left that dinner enamored of the space, the front-of- house service by Monique Bui, and the simple…
Houston, You’re Damn Mellow When It Comes to Finances (Really?)
A new study claims Houston is one of the best cities in the country when it comes to not getting too stressed about personal finances. This “Houston” that CardHub.com is talking about is apparently the one right here in Texas — the one where we don’t know too many people…
Soo Sunny Park’s Pretty Patchwork of Light at Rice Gallery
Soo Sunny Park’s installation at Rice Gallery is unapologetically pretty. It’s a glistening, iridescent canopy of shimmering pinks, purples, blues, greens and yellows that resemble anything from a fish’s scales to a spider’s web wet with raindrops. Despite the apt comparisons, this creation is anything but organic. “Unwoven Light” is…
This Week In Food Blogs: Whataburger and H-E-B Just Made Your Day
Houstonia: The absolute worst news of the week comes to us from Robb Walsh, who writes in Houstonia’s Gastronaut food blog that the cozy little Olde Towne Kolaches in Memorial has baked its last poppyseed kolache. No word on why the bakery closed, but the original location on 12037 Northwest…
2013 NFL Draft: Prop Bets to Keep It Interesting on Thursday Night!
The NFL Draft has always been an event that’s required an incredible amount of patience. With ten minutes between picks in the first round (and for you ADD-afflicted youngsters out there, be glad — it used to be 15 minutes), with the proceedings spread out over three days, and for…
Five Essential Willie Nelson Albums
This week and into next, the State of Texas and the rest of the world will join together in saluting American hero Willie Nelson on his 80th birthday. Rocks Off would certainly like to add our congratulations, but we woke up today — well, yesterday — looking to start an…
A Newbie’s Guide to Eating Ramen, with Sushi Club of Houston Founder Carl Rosa
If you’ve been keeping up with the Houston happenings in Japanese cuisine, you will notice that ramen dishes are popping up all over the place. Carl Rosa, founder of the Sushi Club of Houston, started the Ramen in Common group less than one month ago as a response to ramen’s…
Rock’s Best Fiction Novelists and Poets
We writers are a masturbatory bunch, if you don’t mind me saying so. We love to talk about our own work, the works of others, and generally just get into a huge hubbub over the art of the written word. So I don’t think it should come as any surprise…
Creationists Ruined My Ability to Enjoy Watching My Daughter Ride a Dinosaur
The Wife with One F is in nursing school with finals approaching, so it’s my job to take my sweet but concentration-shattering three-year-old daughter out of the house so that when my wife is actually in a hospital setting later on saving your life, she doesn’t forget where the hell…
Five Ways How Not to Cover the Tiresome Westboro Church As It Protests Outside the West Blast Services
The Westboro Baptist Church, that nutty band of protestors that has been besmirching the fine name of Westboro for decades now, is coming to Waco to protest outside the memorial service for victims of the West blast. Why? That’s one question you need never ask about the activities of Westboro…
Musicians, Music Offer Sweet Relief After a Terrible Week
Life can get pretty dreary at points, and last week was, without a doubt, the dreariest week in a long time. From the massive fertilizer-plant explosion that devastated West, Texas to the Boston Marathon bombing and everything in between, our nation faced some pretty horrific tragedies in which many, many…
100 Creatives 2013: Justin Garcia, Artist
Artist Justin Garcia explores every aspect of his art, from its message to the way the human eye sees colors he uses. “Color is a viewable energy, if you will, that the eye can see. When you think about it, color is really made up of wavelengths and frequencies that…
Two Surprise Ties and Fantastic Food at the Inaugural Big Taste of Houston
As far as tasting events go, the Big Taste of Houston, which debuted this past Sunday night to a crowd of about 700, was all that it promised to be and then some. Billed as a premier foodie extravaganza and fund-raiser for the Houston chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters,…
What the Hell Are These “Human Directionals” Listening To?
Ed. Note: Some people in this article chose to only be identified by first name. James Minor’s workday begins a lot like yours. He arrives at a work station, checks his materials, puts on a smile and readies for another day of being the face of his employer. For the…
Cheap and Cheerful: Three Meals for Two People from One Rotisserie Chicken
“Cheap and cheerful” is a phrase I picked up while traveling in northern England, used to refer to a quick, inexpensive and tasty meal. I immediately pocked the phrase, loving the connotation that cheap meals don’t have to be depressingly awful (i.e., most fast food and frozen dinners). One of…
Like Them or Not, Dove’s Real Beauty Ads Are a Step in the Right Direction
This past week, woman and advertising have come under the microscope. Dove released a new ad campaign telling women that they are more beautiful than they think. The “Real Beauty Sketches” campaign features several women describing their appearance to a court artist without him seeing their actual looks. The same…
Guy Tries to Rob Colonel Sanders, Gets Busted on the Roof
Those KFC #iatethebones commercials have probably gone too far. Monday, at 3:55 a.m., a man who could have been battling rage and confusion simultaneously due to maybe eating the bone or not went to exact his revenge on the fried chicken food chain location at 2701 Yale. According to Houston…
Get Half-Price Tickets to the Great Tequila Shootout, Plus Daily Deals for Gigi’s Asian Bistro, Nelore, Chez Nous and More
Today’s Houston Press Voice Daily Deal is good for more than half-off (51 percent) a general admission ticket to the Great Tequila Shootout on April 27, 2013 at Hughes Hangar. Included in the (half) price of admission is a sampling of over 50 tequila spirits and cocktails, plus live music,…
Houston Once More Shows America Exactly Where the Country Will Be in 20 Years
Stephen Klineberg is animated. He’s twirling his arms, and he’s shuffling his feet, and his voice is jumping and falling and tripping over itself in anticipation of what he’ll next say. He’s as excited as a Rice University sociology professor could rightly be, sharing his latest findings of the most…
Five Reasons the Rockets Playoff Run Isn’t Generating More Buzz
I listen to a lot of sports radio and talk to people online and off about sports on a regular basis. Despite the fact that the Rockets are in the playoffs for the first time in three years, there just isn’t the buzz about the team Houston has seen in…
Fun in the Sun with Food and Wine: Brenner’s Wine Fest
Brenner’s on the Bayou is definitely one of Houston’s best-kept secrets. Set against a hillside off Memorial Drive at Westcott, the gem of a restaurant directly overlooks the bayou, with extensive grounds that boast trickling water features, lushly rolling hills, a gazebo and winding walkways. It’s a place that takes…
Weather Week: One More Bit of Cool Weather, Then, I Swear, Spring
A funny thing happened on the way to summer in Texas 2013. We’re not used to, you know, “seasons” here in the steamy jungle we call Houston. Generally, we have about six seasons starting in May: HOT AND HUMID REALLY FREAKING HOT AND HUMID HURRICANE RAIN FOREST HEAT MILD AND…
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: The Soundtrack (With Endnotes)
One of Time magazine’s Top 100 English-language novels of the last century, the late David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a gargantuan book. Its cutting, comedic views cover a broad swath of American life, but focus on family dysfunction, chemical dependency, depression, entertainment saturation and the notion that everything in…
Have a Friend Who Hates Broccoli and Anchovies? Take Them to Vinoteca Poscol
Maybe it’s the contrarian in me — the endless debater who loves a good, healthy, productive argument — but there are few things that bring me more pleasure in this world than finding a food someone claims to hate and then finding or making an amazing dish with that food,…
Zapruder Analysis of A.J. Clemente’s (F-Bomb-Dropping News Anchor) 15 Minutes of Fame
As I wrote about yesterday, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz kind of recalibrated the acceptability scale for the F-word on Saturday when he dropped it in the middle of his brief speech welcoming Bostonians back to baseball in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Hell, even the FCC…
Say It Ain’t So: Chick-fil-A Salads to Go…for Good
To be honest, I enjoy a Chargrilled Chicken Garden Salad from Chick-fil-A more than a Chick-fil-A sandwich. Not only do I get the fix of eating Chick-fil-A chicken, but I feel good about myself because it’s chargrilled, so I can actually eat something healthy at a fast-food chain. If I…
Yet Another Springsteen Book, This Time In the Boss’ Own Words
Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters Edited by Jeff Burger Even editor Burger himself poses this question in his intro: Does the world really need another book on Bruce Springsteen? Especially in recent times when Boss Books have been flooding the marketplace (and Yours Truly would know, having covered…
Five Reasons Peter Dinklage Is Totally Hot
Peter Dinklage, the small-statured Game of Thrones star, has an interview in the upcoming May Playboy magazine, as well as a photo spread with a host of scantily clad ladies fawning all over him. The interviewer veers into “blue” categories and brings up Dinklage’s new sex-symbol status, calling him a…
The Rocks Off 100: Jacqui Sutton, Houston’s “Jazzgrass Lady”
Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community — a lot more than just musicians, but of course they’re in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Jacqui Sutton is the…
Burger King Takes a Swing at “Healthy” Turkey, Veggie Burgers
“Being lazy” and “eating healthy” do not exactly go together like peanut butter and jelly. So imagine my excitement when I saw Burger King advertising both a turkey and a veggie burger. Huzzah! I can exert zero effort and enjoy healthy-ish fast food? Sounds too good to be true!* I’m…
IRS Warns of Charity Scams in Wake of Boston and West, Texas
Apparently because there are just too many a-holes in the world, the IRS has issued a warning about charity scams that have popped up in the wake of the Boston and West, Texas tragedies. “It’s sad but true,” the IRS tells us. “Following major disasters and tragedies, scam artists impersonate…
The Eating…Our Words 100: Gary Adair, Restaurateur, Owner of Los Tios and Skeeter’s Mesquite Grill
Who is he? Owner of Los Tios Mexican Restaurants and Skeeter’s Mesquite Grill, and, co-owner (along with his son Nick and daughter Katie) of Adair Kitchen. “I used to think of myself as a general manager, but now, with three different concepts, I guess I’m more of a restaurateur,” says…
Upcoming: Wiz Khalifa, Alice in Chains, Saving Abel, The Turtles, etc.
Alan Haynes: Last Saturday of every month, 8 p.m., $5. The Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby, Houston, 713-523-9999. Allen Stone: Fri., May 17, 8 p.m., $18/$20. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston, 713-225-5483. Austin Lounge Lizards: Fri., May 3, 7 p.m., $20/$22. McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk,…
Pop Rocks: Reese Witherspoon’s Mugshot Is a Thing of Beauty
Is anything as undignified as a mugshot? There you are, maybe it’s late at night/early in the morning, maybe you’re drunk, with all the physiological side effects that confers (bloodshot eyes, unkempt hair). Whatever the reason for your booking, the harsh fluorescent lights of the police station give everyone an…
Jeannine’s Bistro Temporarily Closed, but Sorrento Has Reopened
A mix of good news and bad news from Lower Westheimer: After a small kitchen fire in late March shut its doors temporarily, Sorrento reopened last week. “We are very happy to announce that after recent renovations and repairs due to the fire, we have re-opened our doors,” said manager…
Ten Unexpected Rap Love Songs
There’s nothing better than a great love ballad to make you think of that special someone and smile. Love songs are meant to be beautiful and heartfelt expressions to let that person know how you really feel. Rap songs are bit different because although they come from the same place…
Alissa Blumenthal Retrospective Is Not Real
Let’s get this out of the way. In “Alissa Blumenthal: A Small Retrospective,” currently up at Art Palace, Alissa Blumenthal is not real. The gallery text may try to tell you otherwise. Press materials describe Blumenthal (1899-1995) as an “under-appreciated American painter of the 20th century.” Among the highlights procured…
Thrill! Chill!! Walk the DANGER BRIDGE at the George W. Bush Library!! (If You DARE!!)
You thought the George W. Bush presidency was a thrill a minute, what with the pointless Iraq war, the tax gifts that nearly shattered the economy and Dick Cheney waving around his shotgun? Kid stuff. Get ready to head to Dallas and experience the thrill of a lifetime when you…
Today’s DVDs & Blu-rays: Pierre Etaix, Any Day Now, Richard III and Pawn
Legal woes kept French director/actor Pierre Etaix’s cache of comedies from being seen for years but happily those issues have been settled and Etaix’s complete works are being released in a box set by Criterion Collection. New digital masters of the recently restored films, including his five features — The…
Happy World Book Day! Five Albums Named For Books
In 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared every April 23 to be World Book Day, and encouraged us to celebrate by reading. The date was chosen as the anniversary of the deaths of both Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. However, in actuality neither man actually…
Here, Eat This: A Beginner’s Guide to Offal
Thanks in large part to the fact that “awful” is a homonym for “offal,” there’s no terrific English word to refer to the entrails of an animal — the tender, delicate bits that were, until a few generations ago, still regarded as some of the most prized cuts of a…
Mark Sanford Needs to Shut Up and Get the Hell Away from the Alamo
Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford stands as one of the largest piles of schadenfreude most political observers have recently seen. Traipsing the Appalachian Trail, chasing some Argentinian tail along the way, accused of trespassing by his ex-wife — it was one of the most enjoyable political rides we’d seen…
RIP Richie Havens: Bearded Folksinger Icon Dies Suddenly at 72
Richie Havens, the gentle-giant bearded folksinger who became a fiery voice of protest in the 1960s and christened the 1969 Woodstock Festival with a three-hour set that was later highlighted in the 1970 movie Woodstock, passed away earlier today. He was 72 and died of a sudden heart attack at…
Jail Officer Dies in Motorcycle Accident
A Harris County jailer died Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding clipped an SUV that had made too wide a turn into traffic, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office says. J.C. Godby was traveling westbound in the 5900 block of FM 2920 about 12:30 Saturday afternoon when the accident happened…
Another Baby, Another Shootout: The Car-Seat Killer
Last week it was a baby hiding in a blood-spattered apartment where two were killed and another injured. This week it’s an infant who not only sees a shotgun pointed at his father, but (presumably) watches as Dad pulls out his own gun and blasts the guy in the head…
State Education Board Adds to Conservative Voices Coming Out Against Patrick’s Voucher Plans
As if there weren’t already enough public voices coming out against Sen. Dan Patrick’s neo-voucher scheme — Republican Rep. Joe Strauss, the Speaker of the House, already noted that a bill diverting public dollars to private education would never make it pass his chamber — there’s another prominent conservative organization…
Disney on Ice Presents Rockin’ Ever After at Reliant Stadium
It was while pondering the somewhat bizarre concept of ice skating as entertainment that I realized this stuff has been around for a really long time. The Ice Capades started in 1940 — and folded in 1995, lousy Gen X-ers — while Disney on Ice started up in 1981 and…
The Best Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two
Ed. Note: This is the final post of our piggyback Coachella 2013 coverage, with an eternal debt to our friends at LA Weekly and OC Weekly. Photo by LP HastingsButterfly?!The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella’s art installations — the ones designed to impress you while you’re high,…
Astros Outfielder Rick Ankiel Gets a Popcorn Shower (w/ Hilarious Baseball Fan Vids)
When it comes to your Astros, it’s hard to find wide sweeping bliss in a team that’s 5-13 with a total payroll of $20 million (not sure if you’ve heard, but that’s $8 million less than Alex Rodriguez makes…BWAHAHA!! Hilarious…). If the early part of the 2013 season is any…
Game of Thrones: “What Happens When the Nonexistent Bumps Against the Decrepit?”
While I assume GoT show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss made an executive decision early on to beef up the role of Tyrell matriarch Lady “Queen of Thorns” Olenna, played by Diana Rigg, I’m going to go ahead and take credit for her increased magnificent presence in this week’s…
Pop-Ups Are Back: Will They Continue to Predict Houston’s Culinary Future?
Restaurants such as The Pass & Provisions, Oxheart and Goro & Gun are already so firmly affixed in Houston’s culinary firmament that it’s sometimes difficult to believe the restaurants which are bringing so much attention to our city’s food scene have only been open for a year — or less,…
The Worst Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two
Ed. Note: Brought to you by our tired, dusty and very tolerant friends at LA Weekly and OC Weekly. Photo by Timothy NorrisHere’s everything that bothered us about Coachella’s second weekend. Hey, at least there was no dust storm! Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact,…
Doctor Who: The First Woman in Space/Time
There are really two ways to look at the latest episode, “Hide.” One is that it is objectively the best episode in this half of Season 7 so far. It’s the first truly frightening episode since “Blink.” I mean, “Night Terrors” was scary as hell, but the warm ending sort…
Are You Experienced? Rockets Take Beating in Game One Against the Thunder
At the end of his rookie season, Kobe Bryant missed a lot of shots. In one particular game, he heaved up a series of air balls with the game on the line. He was 18 years old. This is how it goes with young players. They come into the league…
An Interlude In Coachella Jail
Ed. Note: This is part of our sister papers LA Weekly and OC Weekly’s coverage of the Coachella festival’s just-concluded second weekend. Creative CommonsWe told you earlier about the ways folks try to sneak drugs into Coachella. Also, we told you about how to avoid trouble with the police. But…
Jean-Philippe Guy Bids Adieu to Bistro Provence and Bonjour to French Country Wines
After weeks of behind-the-scenes maneuvering to get his importer license and divest himself from French restaurant Bistro Provence, owner Jean-Philippe Guy is switching from one French venture to another. Guy owned Memorial-area Bistro Provence with his wife, Genevieve, for 15 years and the couple have now decided to divide and…
(UPDATED) W[t]F? WorldFest Founder/CEO Hunter Todd Searches Fest Attendee’s Bag “Because She Is a Muslim.”
Update: We just received a statement from Hunter Todd about the event in which he confirms that he did search the backpack of a woman because she was wearing a hijab and says he had to do it to protect his audience. Find his entire statement at the end of…
Date Night for Very Little Dough at Doshi House
When I’m not eating out on official paper business, I’m on a budget just like most people my age who are still paying student loans on top of car notes, mortgages, ridiculous cell phone bills and more (how do I use so much cell data just browsing Reddit?). For occasions…
Ashley Nicole Richards and Brent Justice: Federal Judge Says Videos of Chopping Dog’s Head With Meat Cleaver is “Protected Speech.”
Update: To find out more about this story, read our cover feature: Open Season: Do Laws Against Animal Crushing Videos Violate Free Speech? A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Houston couple who sold videos of them torturing animals — including beating a dog with a meat cleaver and…
The Best of iFest’s First Weekend: The Wailers, Fatoumata Diarawa, etc.
Forro In the Dark Fans expecting to hear gentle renditions of the lilting folk melodies of northeastern Brazil from Forro In the Dark were probably initially shocked, but ultimately awed, by the New York City quintet’s high energy and relentlessly rhythmic live set. The group played both days of the festival’s…
Saturday: Buzzfest XXX at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Buzzfest XXX feat. Shinedown, Bush, Stone Sour, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Hollywood Undead, The Dirty Heads, etc. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion April 20, 2013 Zombies, alt- and jock-rock, new-age reggae, tank tops and tribal tattoos abounded at the Woodlands Pavilion Saturday for Buzzfest XXX, local radio station 94.5 FM’s semi-annual concert…
Teach Your Kids That Cows Don’t Make Artificially Sweetened Milk
Let’s face it — kids are not consuming enough milk today. Most children would rather drink sugary juice or a soda rather than a glass of milk. The reason for these choices can be attributed to the fact that kids like foods with lots of sugar — one ingredient that…
Friday Night: Curren$y, etc. at Warehouse Live
Curren$y, Young Roddy, Corner Boy P, Monster Beats, Doughbeezy feat. Killa Kyleon, L.E.$., The Kid Named Breezy Warehouse Live April 19, 2013 Friday night, stoners from across the area came out pre-rolled and lighter-ready to participate in the large-scale smoke-out that doubled as a Curren$y concert. Spectators stood shoulder to…
The Eating…Our Words 100: Brane Poledica, Quattro and Vinoteca General Manager
What does he do? Brane Poledica is the general manager at Quattro and Vinoteca at the Four Seasons Hotel. A native of Bosnia, he moved to Houston in 1996 after fleeing the war in his home country. His duties include everything from increasing revenue, promotions, marketing, booking bands for the…
FrenetiCore’s The Sacred Harp: Stunning But Spotty
Ten years ago, the modern dance troupe FrenetiCore presented to the world their first full-length performance, and to celebrate their decade of dance, they reimagined this piece in a grand production this past Friday night. The Sacred Harp, which was choreographed by FrenetiCore’s Artistic Director, Rebecca French, was presented as…
Because the HCSCC Doesn’t Have Enough Ideas, Here Are 5 More Things We Can Do with the Astrodome
Let’s see if I’ve got this: The Confederacy of Dunces charged with making decisions on the Astrodome are once again acting like they want to make decisions on the Astrodome. Decisions that will involve them punting the ultimate decision to a higher authority that has, time and again, punted the…
How To: Make Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches
It’s that time of year again; time for cold treats and sweets that will cool you down in the summer heat and satisfy your sweet tooth cravings. Ice cream is definitely one of the best cold treats. It’s smooth, creamy and always hits the spot. If you want to kick…
As You Like It Combines the Bard and Body Language for Comic Riches
The Setup: As You Like It is one of William Shakespeare’s most pastoral comedies, with most of the scenes played in the Forest of Arden and with not one, not two, but four intense courtships proceeding apace. While there is a struggle for political power, this is very minor indeed…
The History of The Beatles In Doctor Who
Perhaps no band in the real world has had quite as much of an impact on the world of Doctor Who as the Beatles did. Both were of course fantastic products of England in the ’60s, but some of the connections go far deeper than a contemporary complementary pop-culture acknowledgment…
Updated: George Flynn, Who Worked for the Houston Press and Both Dailies, Dies at 65
George Flynn, a veteran newspaperman who worked for the Houston Press, the Post and the Chronicle, died of a heart attack at age 65 Saturday. Flynn experienced chest pains and was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he died about 4 a.m. April 20. Flynn grew up in Dallas, graduated…
What’s Cooking This Week? Baked Chicken Milanese & More
I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don’t make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient’s I’ve bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter…
New Doctor Who Puppet Show Is Just Amazing
Five years ago an animator and puppeteer named Alisa Stern of New York City was working in an animation studio where her coworkers were big fans of Doctor Who. The constant talk and clips that were shared around the office intrigued her, and she’s been a dedicated fan of The…
Boston Red Sox’ David Ortiz: “This Is Our Fucking City”
When real tragedy like the bombings at the Boston Marathon last Monday occurs, one of the phrases that gets uttered seemingly every time is that “sports helps the healing process.” Now, most of the time we hear this, it’s uttered by someone who makes their living in sports, so the…
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Carrie Underwood, Filter, Paramore, etc.
Carrie Underwood Toyota Center, April 23 Seemingly shoved off the queen-of-country throne by Taylor Swift’s ascendancy, Carrie Underwood may have taken the title right back now that Swift has crossed over completely into the pop realm. No one will ever mistake Underwood for Loretta Lynn, of course, but her Oklahoma…
Tristan and Isolde at the Houston Grand Opera Is a Feast for the Ears
The Setup: Hail, Nina Stemme, goddess of opera! Hail, Houston Grand Opera for bringing her here! Hail, maestro Patrick Summers for a thrilling ride! The Execution: If you are, as I am, an unregenerate Wagnerite — or for that matter a lover of any type of exceptional operatic singing, be…
Seven Things You Need to Know About Chechnya and One Thing You Really, Really Need to Remember
Nearly a century ago, Civil War veteran and satirist Ambrose Biece wrote, “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” Even with the advent of Tomtom’s, iPhones, and — finally! — a GoogleMap view of North Korea, the sentiment remains true. As such, it seems a proper time to run…
The 7 Most Idiotic Things to Tweet If You’re Allegedly a Criminal
Joshua Gammage is in jail on a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, but the only reason he isn’t facing more charges is because there’s not a law (yet) against idiotic tweeting. Court documents show Gammage is accused of robbing a guy in an apartment near UH on…
About the Central Asian Link to those Boston Bombers
This might be a bit redundant, seeing as the readership at Hair Balls — unlike, say, those who work in front of the camera at CNN — are among those able to differentiate between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but I thought it might be worth a quick run-down of how a…
Top Five Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: one step promenade, please, Voyager, Houston Improv Festival, Outspoken Bean, and Tristan and Isolde
Hope Stone Dance Company Artistic Director Jane Weiner has enthusiastically worked to bring contemporary dance to a wide audience. Her latest endeavor, one-step promenade, please, running Friday and Saturday, is perhaps her most ambitious effort yet. The show is set in and around the 19th Street boutiques and galleries in…
UPDATED: Last Night: Wavves at Fitzgerald’s
UPDATE (April 23, 8:30 a.m.): This review has been correctED to reflect that Wavves’ name is just “Wavves,” and to remove references to “the Wavves.” Wavves Fitzgerald’s April 18, 2013 I didn’t get the memo, but apparently we were celebrating 420 early at Thursday night’s Wavves show at Fitz. That…
Electrifying: The Week in Photos
It’s time again to check out the Houston Press Flickr Pool and see what kinds of art shots our talented photographers have added. We love street art, unique perspectives and beautiful photos of Houston’s creative community. If you think you’ve got a good eye, drop your pictures in the pool…
BARC’s Cat of the Week Dares You to Adopt It
Friday brings another pair of allegedly adoptable pets from BARC and Mayor Annise Parker. And if you think you’re bored with the routine, you’ve got nothing on today’s Cat of the Week, Mason. What could his expression here be saying? a) “What’re you looking at, loser?” b) “Forget it –…
Community: This Day in Christmas History
Finally, the Community Christmas episode! Given the chilly weather we’ve had the past two days in H-town, a Christmas Community seems just about perfect. I will now sip brandy in a snifter and eat sugar cookies. The study group has their first ever “grown-up Christmas party”; recall that last year…
P.L.X.T.X. Explores an Inner Scream on Selective Mutism
Do not download Bradley Munoz’s, better know as P.L.X.T.X., album Selective Mutism. In fact, don’t call it an album at all, because that is in no way what it is. Munoz’s insistence on sending me a physical copy to review irked me in the digital age, but I played along…
The Great CSN Houston Tax Scam
Everybody’s pretty damn tired of the CSN Houston situation. Tired of being screwed out of Rockets games. Tired, maybe, of not being able to see the Astros get swept by the Oakland A’s. Tired of watching CSN’s Matt Hutchings constantly on the television and lying out of his teeth about…
Antonio Gianola’s New Italian Wine Program at Houston Wine Merchant
It’s only been a few short weeks since a handsome Floridian swooped down from the sky and snatched up one of Houston’s most beloved wine professionals, Marcy Jimenez. Hers is a tough act to follow: Since moving to Houston in 2005, she was a buyer and floor manager at Houston’s…
Upcoming Events: Cinco de Malo and a Wine Dinner at a Gastropub
L’Olivier, the subject of a very recent (and mostly glowing) cafe review, is celebrating its one-year anniversary this coming Tuesday, April 23. In honor of that milestone, the restaurant is hosting its inaugural Soiree de Printemps — a springtime soiree — with an all-day happy hour menu, live music and…
Reviews for the Easily Distracted: Oblivion
Title: Oblivion Is It a “Beautiful Oblivion?” You know, it kind of is, and…wait, are you quoting Eve 6? You disgust me. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant to the Film: Three mutant Moes from “The Homega Man” out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: Introspective drone repair guy prepares to turn…
The Grotesque Beauty of The Elephant Man at the Alley Theatre
The setup: Strapping, handsome and near naked, actor Jay Sullivan is sculpted under the white hot light of a medical school lecture hall. His immense and gruesome physical deformities, like some sort of human nightmare, are described in scientific, unemotional detail by Treves, a Victorian surgeon and teacher (Jeffrey Bean)…
The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Social Hour at Étoile, Wine Fest at Brenner’s, Barbecue at Killen’s and More
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk once said: “The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” Here are five hand-picked things to tell your friends you did this weekend. The catch is that you actually have to go and…
Slip Slidin’ Away: My Life as a Rock Journalist With the Houston Press
I had a hernia operation in the early summer of 2006, and had nothing to do all day but hobble around with cool cane a borrowed from Grandpa Hlavaty and play on the Internets for two months or so. I had developed the injury while working at Domino’s, but it…
Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Depressed Aeros Edition
Well, it’s official. The Houston Aeros are moving to…Iowa. I’ve been to Des Moines. It’s a nice town. But losing our only tie to professional hockey pretty much sucks. I’m depressed. But I have to suck it up because there is lots more to do and I can’t get bogged…
David Koresh & the Branch Davidians: 5 Odd Facts from the Debacle on Its 20th Anniversary
It was 20 years ago today (as the Beatles might say) that a crazed religious kook sparked a debacle of a federal-government raid that left 83 dead, including 28 children. Arguments have raged endlessly since that Waco raid, with a hard core of people saying the blame for the deaths…
Happy Birthday, Tim Curry, Here Are Your Six Best Moments
The first time Tim Curry scared the crap out of me, I was four years old. He played Rooster Hannigan in Annie and I was stunned at how evil a human being could be. The next time Tim Curry scared the crap out of me, I was somewhat older but…
The Eating…Our Words 100: Trancito Diaz, Chef and Owner at La Guadalupana
Who is he? La Guadalupana Bakery and Café is a small unassuming restaurant tucked away in the corner of a small lot that it shares with a convenience store and a washateria. It’s easy to miss if you’re driving down Dunlavy any given day of the week and not actively…
Why Has the Strokes’ Comeback Tanked?
The great hope of rock and roll critics at the start of the 21st century, the Strokes, released their newest record Comedown Machine last month. It was met with the sort of lukewarm reviews that the band has been receiving for years now; about the greatest compliment anyone can give…
Feel Like Donating Pet Food and Supplies for Animals Hurt or Displaced in the West Explosion?
Bark’s 5th Avenue is hosting an emergency food and supply drive Saturday for pets injured or displaced in the West explosion. “Given the widespread impact and the high volume of people who appear to be displaced by the explosion, we knew that this would have a direct effect on family…
Your 2013 Houston Record Store Day Rundown
Your financial situation be damned, Record Store Day 2013 is coming this Saturday, April 20, to drain your wallet of life and those little green pieces of paper. This Saturday your dance card should be full with all the major indie record stores in Houston and the surrounding areas offering…
Health Department Roundup: Bad Day at a Tortilleria, and the Montrose/Midtown Question
It’s hard to define exactly when an inspection turns bad, but like Potter Stewart said, you know it when you see it. And El Maizito Tortilleria (4912 Airline) had a bad time. Seventeen violations lead to a citation; it might be a good idea to get your tortillas somewhere else…
100 Creatives 2013: Buck Ross, Dilettante and Director of Moores Opera Center
What He Does? Buck Ross is the director of the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston. He’s the director and producer of the school’s productions, and also teaches acting for singers. Ross, a New Jersey native, got his start studying music and theater as a double major, but…
The Texans’ 2013 Schedule Is Here!
In 2011, the Texans finally broke through with their first double-digit win season in franchise history. They took home the AFC South crown and beat the Cincinnati Bengals at home in a playoff game before losing on the road to the eventual AFC runner-up in the divisional round. In 2012,…
Openings & Closings: Welcome Montrose’s Midtown Bar & Grill
La Guadalupana is one of Montrose’s most beloved Mexican restaurants, a charming family-run bakery that also happens to turn out top-notch Mexican breakfasts every day of the week. And soon, it could become one of Pasadena’s most beloved restaurants too. Owner Trancito Diaz told our own Francisco Montes that he’s…
Dominic Walsh Dance Theater Heads to NYC for Ballet v.60 Festival
Houston dance enthusiasts are lucky in that not only do we have Houston Ballet to satisfy our desire for classical story ballets, but we also have a contemporary ballet company that creates cutting-edge work that’s pushing the boundaries of dance art in Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. This fall, the company…
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Cave Singers, Buzzfest, Crystal Castles, etc.
Cave Singers Fitzgerald’s, April 19 The Cave Singers are hard to pin down. Made from parts of Pretty Girls Make Graves and the Blood Brothers, among other decidedly less folky bits, the Singers cut a languid, soulful stance that roars only rarely. Even still, their catalog satisfies those who wish…
Eric & Kim Williams: Charged with Capital Murder in Kaufman County Prosecutor Killings; They Don’t Seem to Be Part of the Cartels Rick Perry Speculated About
The weirdest episode (we hope) in the history of Kaufman County law enforcement took a major step today as a former Justice of the Peace and his wife were charged with killing the DA, his wife and another prosecutor who had helped convict him on a theft charge. Eric and…
UPDATED Paul Kevin Curtis: Read the Brave Facebook Posts from Elvis-Impersonating Whistleblower Who’s Being Questioned over Alleged Ricin-Laced Letters
UPDATE: The AP is reporting that Curtis has been charged. His attorney, Christi R. McCoy, says Curtis denies the charges. CNN and the Jackson Clarion-Ledger are reporting that the FBI has arrested a part-time Elvis impersonator in Mississippi in connection with letters sent to President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator…
UPDATED with Confirmation: Say Goodbye to the Aeros & Pro Hockey: The Team Is Moving to, Ummm, Iowa
The Houston Aeros, it now seems assured, will not get to celebrate their 20th anniversary of being the only hockey game in town. The Minnesota Star-Tribune, which covers the Aeros’ parent team, the Minnesota Wild, reported today that Wild officials have all but ended negotiations with the Toyota Center and…
Acts You Shouldn’t Miss at iFest’s First Weekend
Rocks Off asked our staff members who will be covering the Houston International Festival for us this weekend to give us one or two choices for artists they don’t want to miss. Forro In the Dark Bud Light World Music Stage, 2:30 p.m. Saturday/Center Stage, 6:30 p.m. Saturday As one…
Preview: U of H Marching Band performs “En Masse” at Discovery Green
If you happen to find yourself near Discovery Green this Saturday, April 20, prepare for a musical invasion by the University of Houston Marching Band. From 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the park, the band will be performing a world premiere of a new, avant-garde work by Haitian-American composer…
The 5 Best Farmers’ Market Products to Freeze (and How to Freeze Them)
I don’t know about you, but my favorite food is in season during the spring and the summer. Fruits and vegetables are super fresh, the legumes and beans are scrumptious and the herbs make everything taste so much better. Unfortunately, because weather changes and the seasons change, you can’t buy…
Last Night: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo at Stafford Centre
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Stafford Centre April 17, 2013 If you grew up during a particular window of the early 1980s, there were certain things you couldn’t escape: economic malaise, the San Francisco 49ers, and MTV. If you were an early enough adopter of Music Television, you were more…
Baby Survives Bloodbath That Leaves Two Dead, One Critically Injured
A bloody scene, and a baby who lived through it.We can only hope this baby has the memories of most babies, which is basically none. A baby girl was found alive in a blood-spattered apartment yesterday afternoon, hiding under a bed near two dead bodies and a critically injured man…
The Americans: Covert War
I am covering this week’s recap of The Americans while Pete is vacationing in Cuba with his wife Beyoncé. Given all that has happened to the brotherhood that is the FBI, specifically the death of Agent Chris Amador, it’s no wonder that thems is pissed! The agency is so angry…
Officials Promise iFest’s Security Needs Will Be Met
With nerves on edge after Monday’s Boston Marathon explosions, officials at the Houston International Festival and City of Houston say they are up to the challenge of meeting the security needs of an event that organizers believe will bring some 200,000 people to the streets of downtown Houston this weekend…
Rich Food, Poor Food Authors on Choosing a Nutrient-Rich Diet and Avoiding Pitfalls at the Grocery Store
I’m not much for diet books. I’m not much for diets, period. They’re too often nonsensically restrictive and disappointingly uneducational. So you lost ten pounds on the Atkins diet — what did you learn from that other than how to avoid potatoes and Cinnabons? So you dropped a pant size…
Ask Willie D: Hanging Onto Photos of My Exes; Rich Girl, No Man
Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off’s advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! HANGING ON TO PHOTOS OF MY EXES Dear Willie D: I have several pictures of me…
West, Texas Explosion: 5 Things You Might Not Know About the Town, Including Willie Nelson & Kolaches
Dire news coming out of West, Texas — an explosion at a fertilizer plant has rocked the town, killed five to 15 people and possibly injured scores of others. Hair Balls has a father-in-law who lives on a farm a few miles from the explosion. The house shook, he said;…
Pop Rocks: Admit It, the New Man of Steel Trailer Is Pretty Badass
I’ve been on the fence about the upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel, pretty much since it was announced. I mean, Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns was — minus the airplane rescue — such a colossal disappointment, it’s hard to imagine any subsequent efforts being worse. But if anyone was up…
Rockets Lose in LA, Drop from 6th to 8th in Two Games, Will Open Playoffs in OKC
Ultimately, it makes little difference where the Rockets play this postseason’s opening series. As much as fans would like to see them survive and advance, the chances of doing that are extremely slim. Now, opening up against the current Western Conference champions, that task gets even more difficult. The Rockets…
The Rocks Off 100: Robin Kirby, Silk and Sandpaper Songwriter
Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community — a lot more than just musicians, but of course they’re in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Singer-Songwriter Robin Kirby entered…
The Eating…Our Words 100: Randy Evans, Chef at Haven and Farm-to-Table Godfather
Randy Evans has an exuberant personality that comes through in his cooking at Haven: passionate about local products and seasonal produce, expressive of its Texas roots. There’s no mistaking where you are when you’re eating at Haven: It’s Houston all the way. Evans’s cooking at Haven is also highly influenced…
HCSCC Releases Timeline for Plans on Astrodome, Saves Demolition for Last Resort
A week after confusion first settled around the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation’s forthcoming decision on the Astrodome — with some alleging an unspecified plan set to befall an unsuspecting populace — we now have a better idea of what the HCSCC is preparing to provide. Just as officials…
National High Five Day: The Houston Arts Deserve a High Five
Thursday, April 18, is National High Five Day. Allegedly, in 2002 a group of students at the University of Virginia thought it would be a good idea to stand in the middle of campus and give out high fives and lemonade, and National High Five Day was born. One would…
First Look at Local Pour, Now Open in River Oaks
Stepping foot into newly opened Local Pour, you wouldn’t recognize the space as that of the late Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub. The revamped bar and restaurant is now more — in a word — open. The walls between the old front and back bars have been torn down, making way…
The 10 Greatest Rock Bassists in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Geddy Lee Edition
I could sit here and write paragraphs about my appreciation of Geddy Lee. He was the first true influence I had as a bass player when I was in high school. For years after, I admired not just his talent as a musician, but his ability to improve and grow…
Awesome National Anthem from Boston to Start Your Day Off Right
Back in the day, before there were 800 channels on television that all went around the clock every day all year long, television stations would actually have a beginning and an end to their programming day. On the air at 6:00 a.m., off sometime shortly after midnight, with a few…
The Rest of the Best: Top 10 Places for Video Games in Houston
Gamers of one form or another have long since become the majority of Americans. Some 60 percent of people play everything from Candy Crush on their iPhones to console adventures to puzzle games on the PC that may lead to the cure for AIDS. You have to get those games…
Transcribing Is a Bitch: The Collected Craig Hlavaty Interviews
My last official day at the Houston Press is tomorrow, so these past two weeks I have been sifting through my body of work here at Rocks Off, almost seven years of words. I’ve been gleefully overdosing on nostalgia here at my desk, and I have (almost) no regrets. I’ll…
How to Spot Hollywood’s Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)
Last week, America received two embarrassing reminders of its doting but asexual love for the Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM). First, professional cowboy-hat-wearer Brad Paisley and Kangol connoisseur LL Cool J unintentionally trolled the entire Internet with “Accidental Racist,” a country song that argues that access to necklaces today totally makes…
Seven Depressing Things About Scary Movie V That Have Almost Nothing to Do with the Movie Itself
Picking up a mere seven years after the previous installment, Scary Movie V features no original cast members, no Wayans brothers producing (they bailed after No. 3) and a new director (first-timer Malcolm D. Lee). It’s still terrible. Why, you may ask, does one even bother to review Scary Movie…
Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed
Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is still kicking up shit, this time via cross-media trickle-down. TV’s LL Cool J, not long before declaring Confederate flag apparel A-OK with him, dared to express in ”Accidental Racist” one hard-edged complaint about the life of a black…
The Devil’s Auteur: Rob Zombie Faces His Fans — and His Art
After working a packed auditorium into a frenzy at last September’s premiere of Lords of Salem at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rob Zombie anxiously took his seat and watched his audience watch his film, his first independently financed feature. It’s also the first film he’s made following a messy…
Flashback: 1983
Only in Houston I went to see Paul McCartney at Minute Maid last year. A friend bought the tickets, and Iasked if he’d mail mine so I could hold it in my hand and marvel at this new, treasured souvenir. He said he would just e-mail it to me as…
We Come in Peace!
Dear Mexican, What do we need to do to make the güeros understand we come in peace As Mexicans, we are from this great American continent as well, but in the average close-minded English-speaking folks’ definition of “American,” it’s amusing to see they don’t understand what it really means, as…
Capsule Art Reviews: “Bert L. Long Jr: An Odyssey,” “Cats, Bunnies, and The Surface Value of It All,” “A chain of non-events,” “Janice Jakielski: Constructing Solitude,” “New Work: Drawings, Collages, and Tiles,” “Plain Sight”
“Bert L. Long Jr: An Odyssey” If you can look on the bright side, this was some fortunate timing. The UAC Contemporary Art Gallery at Houston Baptist University was putting together a small show of Bert Long’s work late last year when the Fifth Ward artist was diagnosed with pancreatic…
Lone Star College Stabbings
Highlights from Hair Balls CRIME A day after themass stabbing at the Lone Star-Cy Fair campus, it appeared that all 14 victims in the attack on Tuesday, April9, would recover. According to Lone Star-Cy Fair President Audre Levy, seven of the victims have already left the hospital, and the four…
Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, The Night of the Iguana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Dollhouse Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House remains hugely popular, and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre commissioned Rebecca Gilman to create an updated version. The parallels to Ibsen’s play are strikingly successful and brilliantly integrated, but this is a sparkling contemporary comedic drama that stands on its own hind legs and…
Shakedown: The HCAD Appraisal Game
Missouri City resident Glynda Williams, a career letter carrier for the United States Postal Service, has invested a little here and there in real estate. Nothing fancy for the African-American woman who isn’t raking in the big bucks — just some small houses in Harris County’s foreclosure-driven markets that include…
Fat Bao: Bao Wow
Check out a behind-the-scenes look at Fat Bao in this week’s slideshow. First things first: The bao at Fat Bao are indeed fat. The puffy, oval-shaped steamed pancakes — the type that fold over, not the type of bao that contain hot soup or char siu pork — are nearly…
World Beat: The Music of iFest
No matter what language you use to say it (Portuguese is the official tongue this year), it’s party time downtown for the next two weekends as the Houston International Festival takes over the streets around City Hall and Sam Houston Park with a sensory overload of exotic sights and sounds…
Oblivion: A Boy and His Drone
The good news: Here’s a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance against grandeur. Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, based on his own graphic novel, is one of those futuristic puzzlers whose dramatic energies are most invested not in the characters or their fates, exactly,…
To the Wonder: Spinning in Place
I have rarely enjoyed watching Terrence Malick’s movies. But I really wouldn’t want to be him. When you’re a reclusive perfectionist who has made only six movies in some 40 years — with gaps of six, seven, even 20 years between — each new project is received as a holy…
Here, Eat This
On the Menu For this week’s edition of Here, Eat This, we venture into South America, where hardy Houstonians possessed of a hearty appetite will find much to love in the pampas of Argentina. Much like Korea, Argentina is yet another beef-obsessed nation, one where the cowboys routinely consume 150…
