David Lowery’s A Ghost Story Gets Lost in Time and Space
“Every love story is a ghost story,” David Foster Wallace wrote, more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, a film that occasionally reaches a similar level of eloquence. Lowery’s fourth feature reunites Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, the leads of his second, the…
City of Ghosts Lays Bare the Terror of ISIS’s Syria – and the Courage of Citizen Journalists
What might be most horrific about the horrors exposed in Matthew Heineman’s overwhelming City of Ghosts is their familiarity. The film documents the efforts of citizen journalists to alert the world to ISIS’s ravaging of Raqqa, their Syrian hometown, which Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and his extremist followers seized four years…
Houston’s Air Pollution Has Kept Its State Air Quality Program Off the Chopping Block
For once, the fact that Houston’s air is heavily polluted has actually done us a favor. Houston is infamous for its polluted air. Due to its proximity to the Houston Ship Channel, the beating industrialized heart of the carcinogenic coast, Houston has had an air pollution problem for decades, with…
Legendary Rapper Frost Returns to H-town to Show Some Love
There are so many things to know about the rapper Frost. Most people might think he’s special because he practically helped invent the whole art of rapping in Spanglish (Dale, Pitbull, dale.), or that he’s important because he was once signed to a recording deal with Eazy-E, or maybe they…
Laurenzo’s Midtown Shutters After Six Months in Business
Laurenzo’s Bar & Grill, the 300-seat offshoot of Washington prime rib and Tex Mex staple Laurenzo’s, just opened at 1910 Bagy Midtown in January 2017. But its six month run has already come to an end. A press release today, June 29, announced the restaurant’s closure. “Regrettably it never generated…
Boston and Joan Jett Take Smart Fans to Hyper Space
Boston and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Smart Financial Centre June 28, 2017 When’s the last time you went to a rock concert? I mean a real live extended guitar solo-wailin’, bassist leaping on the amp, giant gong behind the drum kit, lit Bics in the air, over-the-head hand clapping,…
