Invader Cass of CHAIRS explains it all – “shipwrecked extra-terrestrials”, “conduits for the universe”, “child eating underground creatures”, oh yes, and some wild, wild music.

Join the Free Press Department of Arts & Leisure in getting your craft on at the Free Press Summer Fest!  For the first time in 2012, FPSF will have art making workshops and hands on …

By Alex Wukman
For most people in Houston performance art is a little like a mountain lion: easy to read about but hard to see. The last time performance art received any notice in …

By Alex Wukman
This isn’t…there’s no way it can be real. I mean not in two-thousand-and-fucking-twelve. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. The Harris County District Attorney is actually being investigated for using county resources …

by Mills McCoin
When Texans combine two of our favorite things- fierce competition and chili- a certain spicy nirvana erupts and takes hold of the appetites of everyone in attendance. So if you think your chili recipe …

By Alex Wukman
After months of speculation, and an almost unending deluge of hype, the first issue of Marvel Comics’ Scarlet Spider hits stores this week. The series is set in Houston and marks the first …

WORST OF HOUSTON 2011

” The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
They say sunlight is the best antiseptic. They also say …

 
by M. Martin
I am, be it freely admitted, older than dirt.
When I first started hanging out in Montrose, Sid Vicious was still alive, Ronald Reagan was merely an embarrassment to the state of California…and Montrose …

Story and photos by Alex Wukman
Like protests before it the Occupy Together movement is a litmus test, telling readers more about the writers covering the demonstration than anything about the actual protests. Part of the …

OccupyHouston happens tomorrow. At 8:30am people will gather at Market Square and at 9am they will begin to march to the JP Morgan Chase Tower and end up at Herman Square Plaza outside of City …