This past weekend was the last for this year's edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which started way back on April 27. The festival runs over two weekends, usually Thursday through Su...
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"Simple. Fifteen years have gone by."
Nineteen ninety-seven may have been one of the most magical years in trash-pop history. You had the Spice Girls, Hanson, Shania Twain, Puff Daddy, Toni Braxton ...
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The 2012 Springboard South Music Festival makes its debut this weekend, starting today and running through Sunday at CityCentre Houston. The event, boasting three days of music from 45 bands on two st...
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Sometimes an idea comes from the basest regions of your brain. Sometimes you think of something so stupid that you need to share it with your art director. Sometimes the snow comes down in June, and s...
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Our own Pete Vonder Haar checks out the other end of things with Pop Rocks today.
The Avengers has already racked up in excess of $218 million in ticket sales globally and it hasn't even hit Americ...
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It's hard to separate the music of the Brian Jonestown Massacre from
the public persona of the band's stubborn leader Anton Newcombe, so we
won't.... More >>
Time was in the '90s that every big summer action movie came prepackaged with a great hard-rock soundtrack. As the industry went through growing pains it died off a bit, reducing a soundtrack to maybe...
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Since its first release in the summer of 1977, Star Wars and the rest of the films in the series' canon have been fetishized by mega-fans. They have devoted much of their lives to collecting anything ...
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What do younger people have against cruisesr You can (sometimes) gamble, drink, eat all you want, and there is always tons of grim people watching to do. You don't have to drive anywhere, and if you...
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Jane's Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell just spent an afternoon in his hometown of Santa Monica, California, eating "miracle berries," those... More >>
Last night a new trailer for this summer's surefire The Dark Knight Rises hit the Internet, featuring more footage of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a new face in the story, Batman...
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Two Star Symphony: Tue., May 22, 8 p.m., Free. Leon's Lounge, 1006 McGowen, Houston.
Bad Romance (Lady Gaga Tribute): Fri., May 25, 8 p.m., $13-$20. House of Blues, 1204 Caroline, Houston.
Black Bre...
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Creed
Bayou Music Center
April 30, 2012
Villains are infinitely more interesting than heroes, and have way better origin tales. All human mythology features roguish baddies, who are actually more eng...
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Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez and Wisin Y Yandel are heading to Houston's Toyota Center on August 26. This marks the third time that Iglesias has been in Houston in the past year, logging a RodeoHo...
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This year the 1987 teen classic Summer School, starring a pre-Navy Mark Harmon and a svelte Kirstie Alley, turns 25 years old. The film, released on July 22, 1987, was directed by comedy legend Carl ...
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Sunday night, Titus Haag, owner of record store and part-time venue Vinyl Junkie, announced on Facebook that he was closing the doors on his east downtown location.
I had last talked to Haag for rece...
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In news that will make us all feel a tad older, actress Michelle Pfeiffer turns 54 years old today. Last seen trying to sex up Zac Efron in New Year's Eve, Pfeiffer will next be in Dark Shadows, comin...
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I have to admit that when I read this headline around 3 a.m. on Friday night, I couldn't stop laughing for a good 30 minutes. I may have even laughed myself to sleep. I may never feel that much joy ...
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By now everyone has seen Entertainment Weekly's new stills from Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western, Django Unchained, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Sacha Baron Cohen and, ...
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Local music fans are all waiting intently for Grandfather Child to drop their self-titled debut on New West Records some time in early June, so this Big Star Bar gig is the best chance for you newbies...
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Last week the world mourned the loss of famed television producer, idol maker and eternal teenager Dick Clark, who suffered a massive heart attack and died at the age of 82.
Today, one of his contem...
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I first learned about Pinterest over last Christmas when the girlfriend would spend hours staring at her phone or laptop while we were being all domestical, looking at pretty pictures of puppies, food...
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In a move that shouldn't surprise anyone, especially in the wake of the Tupac Shakur "hologram" at Coachella, the surviving members of '90s R&B group TLC are looking into a 2012 tour -- with help from...
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Buckcherry, James Durbin
Warehouse Live
April 25, 2012
Check our photos from last night's Buckcherry and James Durbin concert in our slideshow.
I confessed I walked into Warehouse Live last night s...
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There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
