Natalie de la Garza

It seems like every couple of years, without fail, the media remembers to remind us that we’re potentially consuming around 20 spider legs per peanut butter and jelly sandwich – and that’s just in the peanut butter. Per the FDA’s Food Defect Levels Handbook, of course. If the idea of FDA-allowed spider legs, grasshopper wings, or maggots in your food grosses you out, just wait for the surprise secret ingredient used at the titular pastry shop in Aaron Mark’s Empanada Loca ...

Elvis Presley once said, "Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it.” While only one of the works on the Houston Ballet’s Rock, Roll & Tutus mixed repertory program used what could be considered rock music, the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, with all its unrestrained emotion and risk-taking, thrums through each piece, commanding movement from four choreographers with an undeniable ferocity.

We live in an age of antiheroes – or at least we did. Though Frank Underwood lives to scheme his way around the Oval Office another day, Walter White has gone to that big meth lab in the sky, Dexter’s fled to the Pacific Northwest, Jax Teller met up with a big rig and Tony Soprano cut to black.

But while the thought of losing your home and all your worldly possessions is certainly awful, what happens if you actually lose something even more precious, something that can never be replaced, like your child? What if that incapacitating death grip grabs hold of your mind, the answer to the most important question you’ll ever receive eluding you – and there’s no Lifehacker tip to help you remember?

Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, says the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s newest exhibit, “Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950,” is “like a textbook of Mexican art,” one that shows a revolution not televised, but painted, printed, written, photographed and sculpted.

Matt Adams, Houston art blogger and president of the Visual Arts Alliance, wants to be very clear: “The First 100 Days: Artists Respond” is not an anti-Trump art show. It just so happens that no artist submitted pro-Trump work.

An admittedly angry millennial, who also happens to be a Houston Chronicle arts critic, walks up to the mike at a panel on race and representation that he helped catalyze and…what do you think happens next?

The next time you're sitting alone in your middle-management cubicle, staring at your illicitly open Facebook page, trying to decide which emoji best captures that post-lunch feeling of ennui that never fails to overtake you, stop and take a second to really think about those round little faces. You may suddenly find it quite curious, like composer Alexander Miller.

Houston's concrete jungle is a little less gray after the unveiling of public artist Reginald Adams’s “Tree of Life” mural on the side of Skanska's Capitol Tower development site at the corner of Travis and Rusk.