Email Author John Nova Lomax

2007 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• The Head of the Class

  published February 22, 2007

  Allen Hill, Houston's High Priest of the Oldies, never thought of himself as an American Idol kind of guy. Like a lot of hip people, he... More >>

• Idol Chatter

  published Feb 16, 2007

  Sundance Head, the son of Gulf Coast music legend Roy Head and the pride of Porter, has already seen his American Idol stock soar and tumble like the gone-but-not-forgotten Texas Cyclone. After ... More >>

• Talk to Mee

  published February 15, 2007

  A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the "cultural cringe" -- the ingrained belief that nothing from Houston is as good as stuff from other, more... More >>

• That's Cool, That's Trash

  published Feb 09, 2007

  As some of you know, I like to walk. Since Houston is not a particularly scenic city and I have lived here for most of my life, I don't really waste much time looking around. What I do instead is keep... More >>

• Fadin' Renegade

  published February 8, 2007

  On that magic March night in 1994, new country sensation Doug Supernaw had the whole world at his feet, damn-near literally. This was the era of... More >>

• Bad Advice

  published Feb 02, 2007

  Imagine you are a tourist here in town. You have a room at one of the seeming dozens of swanky new downtown hotels. You've been to the zoo and the museums and now you want to see what Houston's a... More >>

• Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

  published February 1, 2007

  Nobody in Houston was ever worth a shit," writes Houston-bred honky-tonk legend Johnny Bush in his forthcoming autobiography Whiskey River... More >>

• Gift Rap

  published Jan 26, 2007

  Sweet! Those of you who think that the American Idol auditions are a little too mean, but still love to watch talent contests are in luck. Gifted begins tonight on TBN. From the show's Web site: ... More >>

• Idol Chatter

  published Jan 25, 2007

  If there's a sadder commentary on the state of celeb-obsessed, endlessly validated American youth than the deranged Sarah Goldberg, I have had the good fortune to avoid it thus far. You'll remem... More >>

• Goodbye Joe, Me Gotta Go

  published January 25, 2007

  For a downright miserable cold and rainy Thursday night, there's a decent crowd at the Continental Club. They are here to see the Lost Bayou... More >>

• Idol Chatter

  published Jan 18, 2007

  Seattle — what happenedr I remember there was once a day not too terribly long ago when you heard no more about that rainy northwestern metropolis than any other large American city. It wa... More >>

• Idol Chatter

  published January 18, 2007

  College football season has ended, and the Super Bowl is a few weeks away. Hockey and basketball are in their January doldrums of well-nigh... More >>

• Idol Chatter

  published Jan 16, 2007

  "To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best." -- Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Ol' Genghis coul... More >>

• Rogue Waves

  published January 11, 2007

  Ho hum, another year has come and gone, and Houston's commercial FM pop and rock radio -- both contemporary and classic -- is still, on the whole,... More >>

• Papa Didn't Take No Mess

  published January 4, 2007

  Spike Lee, in his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing, managed to examine the whole of black thought on the race question. You had the... More >>

• DISConnect: Turntables

  published January 4, 2007

  Even as the packaged compact disc approaches death, vinyl, the music medium it was supposed to have completely destroyed, is showing signs of a... More >>

• DISConnect

  published January 4, 2007

  Last month, EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy walked up to a podium at the London Business School and told an assemblage of... More >>