David Theis

  • A Poet Without Borders

    You can track Fady Joudah’s biographical trajectory along one of two appealing threads. The humanitarian strand goes like this: He’s a doctor who works [...] Full Story

  • Sino Eyes

    Under the guidance of co-founders and curators Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, FotoFest, the biennial Houston extravaganza that ranks among the world’s best photography [...] Full Story

  • The Devil’s Domicile

    There was much talk last fall about the box office failure of a handful of films that dealt directly with the Iraq War. In [...] Full Story

  • Everywhere Else, It’s Called Football

    I’ve had a hard time making a baseball fan of my 9-year-old son, Gabriel. The night Enron Field opened, I pulled an Astros T-shirt [...] Full Story

  • Out of Africa

    “A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary African Art Abroad” When you pull up in front of the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery, headed for the [...] Full Story

  • Killing Kid Care

    EDITOR’S NOTE: In a previous version of this story, the Observer stated that KTRK reporter Wayne Dolcefino failed to retract an erroneous reports that Kid [...] Full Story

  • Review

    In a 1981 Paris Review interview, Donald Barthelme averred that his life’s story “would not sustain a person’s attention for a moment.” Perhaps he [...] Full Story

  • The Man Without a Middle

    If you’re one of those people who grumbles that nobody in Hollywood takes chances anymore, take a moment to consider the cases of director [...] Full Story

  • A Quiet Life, but Not Desperate

    I wonder how many residents of Gonzales, Texas, are aware that a luminous work of art has been created on the streets of their [...] Full Story

  • Misfortunate Son

    Has anyone ever been more fascinating on account of his limitations, rather than his strengths, than George W. Bush has? The unreflective gut-player has [...] Full Story