Uh Huh Her
Spike Jonze has always been brilliant, but lately he’s become something more. You can see it in the tenderness that pervades both his previous...
SEALs on the Ground
I’m trying to figure out whether Peter Berg is a formerly promising filmmaker who has turned into a hack, or if that early promise...
Shaking Things Up
The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry in this state, is looking to add an in-house seismologist to its staff....
Flight Plans
Chow, Baby is into trying new things, both at restaurants and in this column space. With that in mind, I present the first ever...
Agh, Balls
At some point last year, some soccer fan e-mailed me asking where to go watch some Premier League games. I had no idea at...
Jacob Furr’s Trails & Traces
Jacob Furr dealt with his tragic loss the only way he knew how. In August, his wife of three years, Christina Mosley Furr, died...
The Other Obamacare Embarrassment
There is broad agreement that the glitch-filled rollout of Affordable Care Act enrollment was awful. Some have compared it to the botched response to...
All’s a Board
At some point in 2007, Drug Mountain bassist Britt Robisheaux picked up the phone and dialed a number. On the other end (eventually) was...
Toxic Torts
Texas property owners can post their land against trespassers. But what do you do when the interloper is toxic liquid spreading far beneath the...
Gallery
Just to be clear: It’s not Gallery 414 but Gallery 440 that’s hosting a show of paintings by Larry Townsend. The senior vice president...
