Winter will end, one day, and when it does, you should go to Tabaq’s rooftop lounge to enjoy the lovely weather. The whole bar is wrapped in glass, with a retractable roof (!) they close in case of rain. Don’t let the stout buildings of its U Street locale fool you; Tabaq has one of the ...

Mi Ami’s sound is variously described as dub-punk, funk, Afro-pop, minimal techno or just “banshee yowls,” depending on who’s doing the describing. Improbably, Mi Ami actually is all of these things, and will be playing at the Velvet Lounge tonight for anyone curious to see h...

A young woman with the pen name “Lulu Taylor� has written a novel about the love triangle between a mama’s boy, his lover, and his mother. It is called “Stop the Mama’s Boys� and is a response to the number of grown men who live at home with their mothers out of financial necessity but w...

Grandma's hands Soothed a local unwed mother Grandma's hands Used to ache sometimes and swell Grandma's hands Used to lift her face and tell her, "Baby, Grandma understands That you really love that man Put yourself in Jesus hands" Grandma's hands -- "Grandma's Hands" by Bill Withers Whatever happen...

Thanks to Erin from Cohn & Wolfe, I received a GelPro floor mat to review in my kitchen.  I chose the small mat in the basketweave pattern and the color called “Coquina”. After standing on it once while washing dishes, I came to this conclusion: I would like my entire kitchen floor ...

  It's been just over one year  from our move to rural life from the city. I joke that we arrived with our personal belongings, furniture, a snow shovel and a push mower. Of course, I am lying about the push mower. We knew it would be useless here and it was left behind for the...

I recently overheard a man talk about how often the arguments with his wife have to do with her apparent need to be right. It seems she is always correcting what he says and how he does things. And if he is “caught� having been wrong when she was right, she has to make sure he knows she was righ...

How will George W. Bush's presidency be treated by history? Sunday morning at 11am, KUT's "Best of Public Radio" will air a co-production of the radio station and Texas Monthly, The Final Exam: Grading the Bush Years. The special report, hosted by Texas Monthly Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith and produce...

The theme of China’s annual National People’s Congress taking place this week – the proceedings of which remain highly secretive beforehand – has been largely an economic one. Although the environment is hardly the priority issue du jour, China has not entirely changed its course with re...

I finally went to see the movie, “He’s Just Not That Into You,� expecting it to be a downer. I mean, that’s a pretty negative title. It says it all, doesn’t it? It points to how single women are prone to read entirely too much into the smallest crumb of affection or attention from a man, d...