A coming of age tradition like a quincenera has evolved from being a family's way of celebrating their daughter to now a complete industry where some families spend hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Yeltsin in Texas" is a mostly absurd reflection on the day the future Russian president visited a Randall's in Clear Lake and the role that moment played in ending communism.
As a young student, Houston writer Chris Cander was the victim of a violent attack something she hardly spoke of for years. She's opening up about the experience and using it as the basis of her latest novel, "The Young of Other Animals."