For one glorious spring day, students get out of class to watch as priests mumble their way around the church. Legend has it the collars are talking about the vari...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/the-passion-of-victoria-osteen http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/not-easy-being-green The City of Houston may be promoting all things eco-friendly these days, but that doesn't mean that it's easy to go green.

At least that's what one local business owner is finding out.

Chris Toman is trying to open a Pizza Fusion restaurant, part of a chain with franchises in 12 o...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/not-easy-being-green http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/anita-bump-michael-phelps-and-harris-county-jail From Anita: I grabbed a copy of the Press yesterday to check out the dish on my new grill ["All That Glitters," by Jason Kerr, August 14]. I was pretty excited when I opened...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/anita-bump-michael-phelps-and-harris-county-jail http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/bayousphere Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/news/bayousphere http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/born-again-shock-rocker-and-golfer-alice-cooper Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of shock rock credits the game for helping him maintain his sobriety, replacing a fondness for heavy boozing with the decidedly healthier obsession of birdies and bogeys after his second stint in rehab.<...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/born-again-shock-rocker-and-golfer-alice-cooper http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/welcome-back-toadies ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/welcome-back-toadies http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/who-stole-the-roll

Hopefully you recognize those lines as the opening verse to the Rolling Stones' 1974 hit "It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)." If you d...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/who-stole-the-roll http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/civil-disobedience-at-scout-bar Scout Bar (18307 Egret Bay Blvd., Clear Lake) is not what we were expecting.

 See, the combination live-music venue and dance club was opened by Thomas Wilson in 2004. Wilson is keyboardist and vocalist for The Hunger, the still-­performing local electronic-rock band with ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/civil-disobedience-at-scout-bar http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/indian-jewelry-free-gold There's something inherently oceanic about Indian Jewelry's Free Gold, the densely layered second disc from the (mostly) Houston-based collective headed by ex-Japanic/Swarm of Angels provocateur Tex Kerschen and wife Erika Thrasher. The rolling, tribal rhythms of several songs create an ef...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/indian-jewelry-free-gold http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/yung-berg-look-what-you-made-me Chances are you've had a Yung Berg song stuck in your mental craw without even knowing who he is. On debut Look What You Made Me, the Chi-town rapper and producer is smart enough to stick to polished, chunky and melodic soundscapes. He deploys both known and unknown R&B talent to bolster s...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/yung-berg-look-what-you-made-me http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-hold-steady-stay-positive "Me and my friends are like the drums on 'Lust for Life,'" sings Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, opening both "Constructive Summer" and fourth CD Stay Positive with what is almost certainly the perfect rock-and-roll analogy. The line captures the Brooklyn-via-Minnesota band's essential na...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-hold-steady-stay-positive http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/electric-touch-electric-touch Electric Touch, the eponymous debut album by the Austin-based four-piece — two of whom hail from Houston — reaches a level of sophistication to which most new(ish) bands can only aspire. In opener "Love in Our Hearts," lead singer Shane Lawlor's gritty voice — easily comp...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/electric-touch-electric-touch http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-octopus-project Austin's favorite foursome, the Octopus Project, has had a busy few years. After the success of its independently released second album, 2005's One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, gave the four-piece a much-deserved nationwide buzz, the Project capitalized on its newfound fanfare with a set ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-octopus-project http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-mighty-hannibal-barbara-lynn-archie-nbsp-bell Maybe it's throwback acts like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Amy Winehouse pricking the ears of a younger audience (and more than a few older listeners), but it's clear fresh interest is now stirring in the soul sounds of yesteryear. Fortunately, Texas has always been blessed with soul royalty...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/the-mighty-hannibal-barbara-lynn-archie-nbsp-bell http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/jeremy-enigk The chance of a conversation about emo not including an in-depth analysis of Sunny Day Real Estate's impact on the genre is slim indeed, because Jeremy Enigk and his SDRE co-conspirators completely revamped the way indie kids listened to music. That band's distinctive sound helped create a moment...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/jeremy-enigk http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/ludo Even though Ludo's theatrical strut "Love Me Dead" screams novelty hit, the Moog-buoyed, pop-rock quintet is no flash in the pan. The St. Louis band formed in early 2003, when ex-theater kid Andrew Volpe and metalhead/meditation enthusiast Tim Ferrell decided to hop in a van and play shows wherev...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/ludo http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/gza Wu-Tang Clan is the closest thing rap has ever had to the Beatles. As Please Please Me kick-started the British Invasion and flipped the meaning of rock and roll on its axis, the Wu did the same for '90s New York rap. Featuring nine rappers gunning against the world, decapitating a soundtr...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/music/gza http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/fleming-s-old-fashioned I was in the mood for something simple and classic. I wanted to dial it back a few years. I wanted bourbon. I wanted mahogany, low lighting, Sinatra...you get the idea. So imagine my surprise when we got to the bar at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar (2405 W. Alabama; 713-520-595...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/fleming-s-old-fashioned http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/go-to-town-at-terlingua-texas-border-cafe www.texasonline.com. It's also the inspiration for the chicken Lajitas ($13) at Terlingua Texas Border Cafe (920 Studemont, 713-864-3700). A ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/go-to-town-at-terlingua-texas-border-cafe http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/bbq-on-tcj-pierson-company-bar-b-que Pierson & Company, the new barbecue joint on T.C. Jester in Acres Homes near the ruins of William's Smokehouse, owner and pit boss Clarence Pierson reached inside a stainless steel warmer and extracted some meat that was sealed in cellophane. He unwrap...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/bbq-on-tcj-pierson-company-bar-b-que http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/pine-nut-cookies-at-drew-s-pastry-place Andrew Rogers, owner of Drew's Pastry Place (10300 Louetta, 832-717-3530) in Cypress, truly has created what they call in Italy a pasticceria. The pignoli (pine nut) cookies are wonderful. "They are made from a recipe that my mother-in-law gave me," says Rogers. Even the...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/dining/pine-nut-cookies-at-drew-s-pastry-place http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/logic-goes-out-with-the-intrigue-in-ho-hum-thriller-traitor Trait...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/logic-goes-out-with-the-intrigue-in-ho-hum-thriller-traitor http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/roman-polanski-wanted-and-desired-argues-the-case Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO a month before its theatrical release — grinds some blunt axes, makes some dizzying leaps to judgment and does a lot of silly editing ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/roman-polanski-wanted-and-desired-argues-the-case http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/the-edge-of-heaven-can-wait The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin's intercontinental, cross-cultural ensemble piece a Best Screenplay statuette makes perfect sense — it's not brilliant, but it wears current...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/film/the-edge-of-heaven-can-wait http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/25th-annual-labor-day-cup Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/25th-annual-labor-day-cup http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/johnny-cash-returns-the-living-tribute Johnny Cash Returns: The Living Tribute. The musical revue features Whyms and the Rock Island Band — which now includes Cash’s piano man Earl Pool...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/johnny-cash-returns-the-living-tribute http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/clinton-jackson Dharma & Greg are no minor tasks, but Clinton Jackson doesn’t come across like a man bearing a burden. The L.A.-based comedian/actor eschews the blue with style, relying instead on earnest energy and a ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/clinton-jackson http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/heroes-alter-egos Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/heroes-alter-egos http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/aiga-50-books-50-covers Alter Ego<...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/aiga-50-books-50-covers http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/iconoclastically-yours Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/iconoclastically-yours http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/an-evening-with-emily-giffin Love the One You’re With does. Ellen is happily married — she thinks. Then she runs into an old flame, Leo, who left her heartbroken with no explanation eight years ago. Is he the one that go...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/an-evening-with-emily-giffin http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/alive-in-necropolis-author-doug-dorst Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/alive-in-necropolis-author-doug-dorst http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/b-l-a-c-k-i-e Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/b-l-a-c-k-i-e http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/happy-birthday-houston Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/happy-birthday-houston http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/a-murder-of-crows A Murder of Crows, making its Houston premiere. The story takes place in an America where the toxic air is “mustardy” and the ocean so polluted it looks like custard. In this land gone grotesque, a young woman, Susannah, ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/a-murder-of-crows http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-goonies The Goonies. The film follows a group of misfit kids — Mikey, Data, Mouth and the truffle-shuffling Chunk — on their quest to find an ancient pirate treasure. The timin...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-goonies http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-conversation The Godfather, he had the clout to make pretty much whatever he wanted for his next project. The result was not another mafia potboiler, but 1974’s unlikely The Conversation. It follows the story of Harry...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-conversation http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/moscow-and-st-petersburg-a-tale-of-two-cities Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/moscow-and-st-petersburg-a-tale-of-two-cities http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/louis-c-smith-ambiguous-places Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/louis-c-smith-ambiguous-places http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-killing The Killing, showing today at Alamo Drafthouse, is still dark, quirky and c...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/the-killing http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/luxury-car Luxury Car,...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/luxury-car http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/warren-mackenzie-legacy-of-an-american-potter Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/warren-mackenzie-legacy-of-an-american-potter http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/swing Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/swing http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/gipsy-kings Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/calendar/gipsy-kings http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/the-shape-of-things-fall-together s I was leaving the intimate surroundings of Ace Theatre after an intriguing rendition of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, co-produced by the new National Repertory Theatre and Ace, I got stuck behind two slow-moving, gray-haired ladies. They were in no hurry, oblivious to the cru...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/the-shape-of-things-fall-together http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/death-and-destruction-reign-at-end-game Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/death-and-destruction-reign-at-end-game http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/capsule-art-reviews-defending-democracy-drapetomania-a-disease-called-freedom-dust "Defending Democracy" "Defending Democracy" displays work by artists who share the belief that art can be a catalyst for change. The show includes political graphic art of former Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, the murals and prints of the anonymous artist collective ASARO...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/capsule-art-reviews-defending-democracy-drapetomania-a-disease-called-freedom-dust http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/capsule-stage-reviews-always-patsy-cline-baby-with-the-bathwater-electile-dysfunction-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean-smoke-on-the-mountain-homecoming Always...Patsy Cline Stages Repertory Theatre's favorite cash cow is back and as much fun as ever. Created by Ted Swindley, the Stages founding artistic director, 20 years ago, Always...Patsy Cline is one of the theater's biggest crowd pleasers. With the current two-woman cast, whic...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/capsule-stage-reviews-always-patsy-cline-baby-with-the-bathwater-electile-dysfunction-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean-smoke-on-the-mountain-homecoming http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/striped-donkeys-hep-pachucos-and-defensive-driving Dear Mexican:

Why do Mexicans paint stripes on their donkeys in Tijuana?

Avenida Revolución Reveler

Dear Gabacho,

Same reason we put worms in tequila bottles, celebrate Cinco de Mayo and star in Beverly Hills Chihuahua: to ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/culture/striped-donkeys-hep-pachucos-and-defensive-driving http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/home-entertainment/braid-changes-the-game In the 25 years or so I've been playing games, never once have I encountered an earnest conversation about what a game means. You see every other sort of discussion — people talking about how a game looks, or how it plays, how long or short or difficult or easy it is, or whether the ...]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-08-28/home-entertainment/braid-changes-the-game