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What She Does: Kristin Warren is a professional actress and choreographer with a host of credits both regional and national under her belt, but she is also the associate artistic director of the Wildf... More >>
Chris Martin and Chris Phillips as IAmDynamite is one of the great modern duo-bands that manages to make two guys sound like an army, easily putting them up there with acts like Chromeo and our own Mo... More >>
Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge. Chew #31 Tony Chu is an FDA agent who has the ability to get psychic impre... More >>
If you ever want to have a real good time, hide on a rooftop somewhere and blast the sound of the TARDIS landing from a set of powerful speakers. I promise you that you will see at least a couple of p... More >>
Songs are like babies. Some of them drop into the world with barely a push, while others require yanking out with a wicked set of tongs after a long labor. Generally the latter is more common than the... More >>
I was strapping my daughter into her carseat when she said, "Daddy, I want my favorite book." She was pointing at the floorboards in the back, where a stratified layer of various toys, books and ran... More >>
Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>
Game: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Platform: PS3 Publisher/Developer: Level-5 and Studio Ghibli/Namco Bandai Genre: RPG Describe This Game in Three Words: It's Almost Perfect. Plot Sy... More >>
The ability of average people to make a video that can instantly be seen by almost anyone all of the world is simply mindblowing. One day you're singing into a camera and uploading it and the next you... More >>
Back in October of 2011, I was chasing the story of promoter Mike Kelley, who once seemed like a bright hope for a rejuvenated live goth music scene in Houston, but instead ended up leaving a trail of... More >>
The two greatest endings in television are Angel and Six Feet Under, and they are defined as endings that leave everything forward, and endings that close the book forever. In Angel our heroes stand l... More >>
Have you ever fallen in love, or just supreme hump fever with someone you worked withr It makes sense, you're around them a lot, you share a lot of the same experiences, maybe it's not allowed so ther... More >>
Benefit concerts are great. The practice of bands playing to raise money for a cause can be as local as helping a fellow unsigned musician pay for their son's hospital bills to as international as wor... More >>
The Sony Playstation 2 is no longer being manufactured. The sixth generation system lasted a good 13 years, and is actually the best selling home console of all time so far. Roughly one person in ever... More >>
I was messing around on the Internet the other day when I found the material possession I want more than anything else in the world. This picture is part of a series of minimalist works done to celebr... More >>
Let me define a mini-game for you at the outset. It's when some sort of mechanic or goal in a video game is introduced as a new challenge for a short time which may or may not be instrumental to conti... More >>
The Beatles is my favorite band. Not because of their albums, but because they are the greatest urban-legend generators in rock and roll. All around them, stories sprang up that sounded possible but w... More >>
Over the course of the week, Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music and exactly what they meant for the genre. Arguably the last big goth album by a new band to make a crossove... More >>
What He Does: Watch more than three horror movies that have been produced or shot in Houston you will likely stumble across the name of Joe Grisaffi in some form. His IMDB page lists 62 appearances as... More >>
There's a rule I used to strictly abide by when I was a wrestling fan. Never shell out cash to watch the last match before the pay per view. It's always pointless set-up. It has to be. I understand th... More >>
Over the course of the week, Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music and exactly what they meant for the genre. Nineteen ninety-four was a good year for a new kind of goth. Prev... More >>
Today would have been comedian Andy Kaufman's 64th birthday... assuming of course he isn't playing a really long practical joke on us all. Anyone else in the world and such a claim would be rightfully... More >>
The latest entry in the God of War series comes out in March. Up until now it's been more or less of a perfect franchise. Sure, God of War III suffered a bit, it was the Return of the Jedi of the thre... More >>
There's something that happens every holiday season that always causes me to damage my eyes through excessive rolling. The Wife With One F is a tremendous baker, known far and wide for her ability to ... More >>
Over the course of the week Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music and exactly what they meant for the genre. Goth history does not have a lot of supergroups, unfortunately. Ro... More >>
