Arts and Entertainment

Pluko draws on various influences to deliver a beautifully crafted first album

Rating: 4.5/5 Pluko’s first album, “Sixteen” is relatively short, with a collective 36 minutes of new music.

‘Searching’ successfully brings parental fears to digital life

Rating: 4.5 / 5 In photographer Allan Sekula’s open letter to Bill Gates, he asks, “When you’re on the net, are you lost, or found?” This question is etched into every scene of Aneesh Chaganty’s new thriller “Searching” with remarkable results.

Tingles & Triggers: Delving Into the Calming World of ASMR

Ever open a can of soda and feel satisfied by the pop and sizzle? Or get chills throughout your spine when someone plays with your hair?

Troye Sivan's musicality blooms in sophomore album

Some students combat September storms with lots of blankets, napping and Netflix, but perhaps they should consider dancing around to Troye Sivan’s sophomore album, “Bloom.” Both thrillingly delicate and heavy-hitting, Sivan’s newest work features his characteristic reflective lyricism coupled with a diverse mix of exuberant classic pop sounds.

Houston Restaurant Week update: Fine dining for less

Rice colloquialisms explained as urban dictionary terms

To All The Boys I've Loved Before review

Rating: 5/5 I almost never forgave Netflix for “The Kissing Booth,” but then came “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” The film focuses on 16-year-old Lara Jean Covey (played by Lana Condor), an awkward and naive Korean-American teen who prefers to stay invisible.

​VADA alumnus transforms house into art studio

Embedded in Houston’s Third Ward lies Project Row Houses, a group of shotgun houses that includes converted Summer Studios for seven local art students and emerging artists.

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​So matcha love: Matcha Café Maiko, Hawaiian cafe, opens

“Everything in Texas has to be bigger, so we couldn’t just have a stand,” said Thinh Quach, one of the partners of Matcha Café Maiko, which opened on July 17 in Chinatown.

Summer EDM releases

In a summer where electronic music seems to be shifting toward pop, there are a few artists whose unique tracks introduce new electronic styles and push the boundaries of the genre.

​Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” portrays anxiety and social stress as a universal experience

In performance art, passion projects are rarely successful. With so much creative authority consolidated in one person, the final product is generally too much of one thing – too cerebral, too eccentric, too preachy, etc.

‘Crazy Rich Asians’: more than just a rom-com

Rating: 4/5 The last major Hollywood film featuring an all-Asian cast, Joy Luck Club, was released 25 years ago.

“Puzzle” affords a deserved spotlight for Kelly Macdonald, but nothing else shines

There’s not much to solve in Marc Turtletaub’s new film, “Puzzle.” The film follows Agnes, a suburban housewife who can best be described by the word “beige,” as she realizes her independence and self-worth through – you guessed it – jigsaw puzzles.

ASTROWORLD brings listeners on the rollercoaster of Travis Scott’s mind

One might find a giant golden head by the roadside jarring, but Travis Scott finds it the best way to introduce an album.

Houston Restaurant Week for the College Student

While the heat outside might not feel like a blessing, Houstonians are blessed with something else: world-class food at cheaper prices than those of New York or Paris.

On a Tangent: How to design your room

“Big Bambú” exhibition celebrates the beauty and dynamics of natural design

In their installation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú,” the Starn brothers use 3,000 bamboo poles tied together with rope to depict a dynamic sea, described by the MFAH as “an emblem of great age, continually new and changing.” The size and complexity of the piece is certainly astounding, as bamboo stalks rise in a wave 30 feet above Cullinan Hall, a large single-room gallery space at the center of the museum, and crash into the Upper Brown Pavillion.

Houston, we have a Kapoor bean

The Museum of Fine Arts expansion includes the first public appearance of Cloud Column, a metallic sculpture by Anish Kapoor.

Despite location shift, the KTRU show must go on