February 2, 2012
- Check out Portugallia's lush patio and elegant dining room in our slideshow. Sunday afternoon at Portugallia is the place to be in Houston if you're Portuguese, Angolan, Brazili...
Antonia Rivas didn't want much out of life. She loved her family: two daughters living in Houston and a son in the U.S. Army stationed in Louisiana. She liked cooking for them and their children on Saturdays. She loved the school where she worked — Shadowbriar Elementary — the only jo...
- Since their first few tracks began leaking out last fall, we've been heavily interested in Bang Bangz, a new electro-pop project from Mario Alberto Rodriguez of prog-rock surrealists Tax The Wolf, and co-vocalist Elizabeth Salazar. Heavy on the synths and atmosphere, Bang Bangz features Rodriguez an...
- With her charming Deep South voice and aw-shucks manner, Nashville chanteuse and disc jockey Elizabeth Cook comes off as a pixie-ish, barefoot, girl-next-door country cutie. But Cook, whose father did a stretch in prison, comes with a dark side that one seldom encounters in anyone trying to do busin...
- Anna Bolena Opera girl power is in full swing at Opera in the Heights as it mounts an exciting and dramatically sung production of Donizetti's first major work, from 1830. Anna put him on the international opera map. Donizetti had been slaving away in Naples and had composed at ...
- English punk rock band The Adicts has managed to stay true to its signature Clockwork Orange motif (minus the disturbing, violent pillaging) since 1981. And the band's stage shows also have reserved that signature theme. During their shows, the six band members dress in all white, sporting bl...
- Is any band in America more revered or respected than East Los Angeles roots vatos Los Lobos? An American musical treasure, the core band — David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, Steve Berlin, Louis Perez and Conrad Lozano — have produced 19 albums and played everywhere from an Angeleno quin...
Indianapolis is bracing for war. It's Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire's advance on Crete in 1647, though with considerably more nudity.
Yes, one of America's great urban legends is again being...
- "And even though I sound different, you can motherfuckin bet this: I'm repping this for Houston, Texas." — Marcus Manchild
Twenty-two-year-old Marcus Manchild's career is accelerating quickly, only a few years after he got started as a rapper. Manchild is the marquee artist of A...
- Kent Dorn's paintings give us a natural world that feels unnatural: It's as grungy as a back alley and kinda icky. "Dweller," his show at Bryan Miller Gallery, features cigarettes in the grass, cars parked in the forest and a '70s vibe.
Dead End (Water's Edge) (2011) is a lands...