We know that American Idol Mania is almost a religious experience in certain parts of this country, but we will not, cannot recommend that you buy Blake Lewis’ new album. We just… can’t. Sorry. What have you wrought, Doug E. Fresh?! Listening to Alive 2007 will give you a sense of what the Daft Punk concert experience is all about. Well, you won’t have beer spillage on your shoes, or dudes smoking trees all up......

::Maurice Manning and Emily Fox Gordon Poetry Reading at Diverseworks:: Giving Houstonians a chance to hear tomorrow’s great writers today. The Inprint Studio Series, presented by Inprint in association with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Diverseworks, features some of the best young writers in the country, as well as alumni from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and leading local authors. Now in its second season, the 2007-2008 Inprint Studio Series,......

Houston native and country music legend Johnny Bush will be appearing at Brazos Bookstore tonight, to sign copies of his memoirs Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk. Bush was born in Houston, but found himself traveling to central Texas as a teenager, trying to make it as a country singer. A decade later, Bush played with several different bands, including Ray Price’s and Willie Nelson’s – where he became a......

It's a big week for DVD releases — two of this week's movies, Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong, won Academy Awards earlier this month, but it'll be hard to tear yourself away from the Ingalls clan. Head to your local movie store to rent these: Memoirs of a Geisha: Directed by Rob Marshall; starring Zihi Zhang, Li Gong and Ken Watanabe. A young girl undergoes the transformation from a maid to a......

It's officially Christmas weekend, and that can only mean one thing... well, that actually means quite a few things, come to think of it, but in the context of this -ist List it could only mean one thing: the movies. Tons of them. There are so many movies opening over the next three or so days that Houstonist can't even fit the highlights into one entry. The Golden Globe nominations are out and families......