Sean Thomas

1 month ago | houstonpress.com | Tom Richards |Sean Thomas |Bob Ruggiero

click to enlarge Emmit's owner Susan Davis and Jeremy Parzen Photo by Bob Ruggiero Jeremy Parzen had never set foot in Emmit’s Place before earlier this year. Sure, he’d heard about the neighborhood bar serving mostly Westbury/Willow Bend locals since he lived nearby. But he’d been warned by his daughter’s piano teacher that it was a “rowdy” place to avoid at all costs.

Nov 13, 2024 | houstonpress.com | Tom Richards |Bob Ruggiero |Sean Thomas

You would think that, after all this time, we would realize that it pays to be careful and get that URL exactly right. A case in point occurred just recently, when Mattel released an action figure connected with the mega-hyped movie version of Broadway’s Wicked. It seems that, if an intrepid fan were to go to the web address printed on the box, he or she would end up at a site that had nothing to do with the forthcoming release.

Nov 12, 2024 | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Sean Thomas

click to enlarge Book cover It’s always something of a jolt for fans of a band when its first original or classic member dies. A reminder that even “ageless” rock stars face mortality—and that the listener’s own march toward death is keeping up at the same pace. Still, it was something of a shock in late 2022 when news of Christine McVie’s sudden death at the age of 79 broke. Most didn’t even know she had been ill when she died of a stroke brought on by metastatic cancer.

Nov 10, 2024 | houstonpress.com | Sean Thomas

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Oct 30, 2024 | houstonpress.com | Sean Thomas

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