Email Author John Nova Lomax

2004 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Scoring the Super Bowl

  published January 29, 2004

  Cue the godlike voice of NFL Films narrator John Facenda: "Early every year, 22 brawny men with grit, guile and poise join in gladiatorial... More >>

• Bash-ing the Bigwigs

  published January 22, 2004

  As some of you may have heard, on February 1 there will be an athletic contest over at Reliant Stadium pitting the Carolina Panthers against the... More >>

• Love Bites

  published January 22, 2004

  Let's play a word association game. I'll give you the name of a country, and you give me the image it conjures. Switzerland? Alps. Holland? Legal... More >>

• Songs of Freedom

  published January 22, 2004

  Fifty musicians, dozens of different instruments from every continent on earth, and three and a half years in the making. Eighty minutes of music,... More >>

• Baby Rosebud

  published January 15, 2004

  Baby Rosebud appears Monday, January 19, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive. For more information, call 713-521-0521. More >>

• Midtown Honky-tonkin'

  published January 15, 2004

  As the sleek new trains swoosh past down Main on a cool winter's night, the Continental Club is filled with some of the oldest (and best) sounds... More >>

• A Clean Brake

  published January 15, 2004

  In this business, now and then you have a day when you feel like the teacher in A Christmas Story. You know the scene -- the one where... More >>

• Rock Star 101

  published January 15, 2004

  Panic in Detroit is a band that does a lot of things right, on and off stage, in the studio and out. It starts, of course, with the music -- big... More >>

• Heard It Through the Grapevine

  published January 8, 2004

  "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." -- Robert Fripp If that's true, then music criticism is the belch that follows a draught... More >>

• Rock Death in 2003

  published January 1, 2004

  Live fast, die young and leave a pretty corpse. That juvenile commandment used to be one of rock and roll's golden rules. But today that attitude... More >>