By Dusti Dawn Rhodes
Justin Townes Earle has moved from the front porch to the honky tonk. In his latest effort, June’s Harlem River Blues, the country/blues man traded his folky fiddles and banjos for swinging …

There are many urban myths about Walt Disney. Some of them are addressed directly in the documentary Walt & El Grupo. As much as I enjoyed this look at the nascent Disney company in the …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Veteran rock act the Posies are back on the scene with their first album in five years “Blood/Candy” and will be gracing Houston with their presence at Ground Hall on Nov. 27th. …

Let me sleep all night in your Soul Kitchen the Doors sung back in the days of vinyl. A new film from German director Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen updates that mood for today’s Hamburg and …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Last weekend, Roger Waters performed the whole Wall at the Toyota Center here in Houston and it was fantastic. The only thing that would have made it better is if Rick Right …

by Andrea Afra
I met George Molho six years ago through his cousin Dora who owns Byzantio, the Greek cafe on West Gray. She had laid a book face down on the counter while she …

By Omar Afra
Bianca Montalvo is fickle in the best kind of way.  One moment she is this quasi-violent front woman and the next moment she shifts gears into bubbly songstress. Her new album Humans are …

If this were the 1950s The Next Three Days would be a fast paced film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis or Fritz Lang. As it is, it’s 2024 and The Next Three Days remains …

A long time ago I had the occasion to see a medical film. Medical films are a strange kind of voyeurism. This particular film was an operation on a baby that had been born imperfect.
I …