| | | Innocent Bystander: An Innocent Man Wins in Court But Loses in the Long Run BY CASEY MICHEL  Roderick O'Bryant isn't surprised when he hears the knocks, thick and rapid, on his door. He knows the Houston Police Department wants him. After he returned from the morning's errands, his neighbor, Larry, had warned the 29-year-old that the law wanted to question him concerning a shooting a few blocks east. O'Bryant knows the those five cruisers turning onto his Trinity Gardens street are there for him. The knocks sound again. O'Bryant swells out his chest. He opens the door and makes eye contact with the lead officer. "Are you C-Note?" the officer asks. O'Bryant stands firm. "Never heard the name in my life." O'Bryant goes by Rock or Junior, depending on the crowd. Not a C-Note around ... more >>
| | | | | | | | Christmas in July BY NATHAN SMITH  1-2-3-4! With due respect to the Hates, Really Red, Spunk, and all the bands that have come before and since, for a certain generation of fans, 30footFALL is where Houston punk begins and ends. Thanks to years of nonstop touring, a string of uptempo albums and high-profile compilation contributions, perhaps no one has done more to spread snotty Houston attitude from coast to coast. Even those w... more >> | | | | | | New Roots: A Delicious Tug-of-War at Restaurant Cinq BY NICHOLAS L. HALL  My wife's appetizer of fresh chorizo-stuffed dates finally clicked in as I snagged a few of the thyme leaves from the corner of the plate and placed them atop a bite of the slightly meta-sausage. A casing of fruit, its textures ranging from papery to sweetly tacky to satisfyingly crunchy, swaddled a torpedo of mildly spiced fresh chorizo, hints of vinegar and paprika gently breaking against the d... more >> | | | | | | | | Half Fun, Half Rote, The Conjuring Offers the Same Old Spirits BY ALAN SCHERSTUHL  Something like half the running time of the engaging new don't-go-in-the-basement thriller The Conjuring is devoted to showing us characters proceeding slowly into the basement, or into the maws of basement-like places we know they shouldn't go, often with just matches or a flashlight to guide them. Twice, deliciously, they're blindfolded. This is not a complaint. Damned if director James Wan, t... more >> | | | | | | Eating Our Words While we anxiously await the birth of the British royal baby (I almost feel like Royal Baby should be capitalized 'cause it's that big of a deal), I wanted to take a second to let all of the othe... Hair Balls For those concerned about a soggy evening commute, you are in luck. The rain we've been getting throughout the day will continue in spurts for a few more hours, but should begin to clear out by ... Rocks Off When it comes to production, the general heuristic would be that the more money you have, the better production you can buy. That, oddly enough, is not necessarily true. While a lot of the riche... Art Attack It's either a sign of how far we've advanced as a civilization or yet another harbinger of society's inevitable collapse that the expression "wife swapping" now has a humorous context. Far from ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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