Marvels from Ethiopia and China on view at HMNS
· Unless you belong to that rare breed of zealous museum types, it is unlikely that the Human Museum of Natural Science ever crosses your radar screen. Rice students live in a city that contains more weekend opportunities than can fill even the most ambitious of admissions brochures. So when we do peek over the hedges, it is not usually to look for a "wild frogs" exhibit or collection of ancient wine pitchers.
Girard's Silk stuns with visual beauty, disappoints with plot
· Silk is a visually beautiful film, taking viewers on breathtaking tours of quaint French villages, Russian mountains and placid rivers. It is a pity that, due to poor acting and a dull story, the movie is so terribly boring.