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Issue: May 14, 2009
Page: 2
48 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Night & Day

    Parlami d’amore (Let’s Talk about Love)

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Silivio Muccino’s 2008 comedy Parlami d’amore (Let’s Talk about Love) features Sasha, a twentysomething man hopelessly in love with the young and beautiful...

  2. Night & Day

    Happy Days — A New Musical

    Web exclusive!

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Talk about an odd couple — one’s a too-cool-for-words chick magnet, the other’s a hopeless innocent. But somehow the Fonz and Richie are best friends. And in...

  3. Hair Balls

    Mature Strippers and Lottery Money:

    Not coming to anywhere near you

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Courts Too Old To Demean Herself Feds file age-discrimination suit against strip club Now this is the kind of federal government you're getting now that Obama's in office...

  4. Letters

    There Will Be Blood:

    Kidneys for sale & METRO police shootings

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Kidney Money Heartbreaking work: These are just two of your stories I've read. Very seldom does an article move me to even wonder who wrote it "You Want a Piece of Me?" by...

  5. Music

    Going Viral

    The infestation of classic-rock threatens the cultural legacy of an entire generation and must be stopped.

    By Ben Westhoff
    Published: May 14, 2009

    A virus is currently spreading among today's young people. Like swine flu, it has made life extremely unpleasant for many, but unlike the H1N1 strain, it is exclusively passed...

  6. Noise

    Vinyl & Compilations

    Alternatives to the full-Length CD are back with a vengeance.

    By Chris Gray
    Published: May 14, 2009

    It seems like the last thing local guitar-type bands or musicians want to do these days is release a full-length CD. So far this year, the lion's share of notable Houston indie...

  7. Nightfly

    Frat Friendly Fun

    Relive those Greek glory days (if you had them) at Midtown's Vintage Lounge.

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Half an hour isn't much time, but sometimes — in Night World, especially — it can mean a world of difference. Get to Vintage Lounge (2108 Kipling) around 11 p.m.,...

  8. Chatter

    Creep Show

    O Pioneers!!! turns growing up into unrelenting punk rock.

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Minimalist Houston punk-rock trio O Pioneers!!! creates a pulsating, unrelenting, yet thoroughly engaging wall of sound. The trio tours throughout the southern U.S. pretty...

  9. Local Rotation

    Mike Jones: The Voice

    By Shea Serrano
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Here's the thing about The Voice, Mike Jones's follow-up to double-platinum debut Who Is Mike Jones?: People automatically want to hate it. Perhaps even more...

  10. Rotation

    Bob Dylan: Together Through Life

    By Bob Ruggiero
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Nearly as interesting as his musical progression is Bob Dylan's vocal progression: the nasal whine of Freewheelin'; warm tones of Nashville Skyline; full-throated roar of the...

  11. Rotation

    Young Jeezy: The Recession

    By Detrick, Ben
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Fuck Huey Long: Young Jeezy is the master of populism. Here's a self-made millionaire who empathizes with the day-to-day troubles of the working class, preaches distrust of the...

  12. Rotation

    Steve Earle: Townes

    By William Michael Smith
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Considered by many to be the best Americana songwriter, living or dead, Townes Van Zandt certainly never made it the way Steve Earle has. But on Townes, Earle mines Van Zandt's...

  13. Playbill

    Live

    By Craig Hlavaty
    Published: May 14, 2009

    In the beginning of its nearly three-­decade career, the almost un-Googleable Live was hailed in late-'80s college rock circles as the second coming of U2, or at least a...

  14. Playbill

    Olga Tañón

    By Olivia Flores Alvarez
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Early in her career, Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón was the queen of merengue, but with an expanded repertoire that includes ballads, pop and all types of...

  15. Playbill

    Edgar Winter

    By Nicholas L. Hall
    Published: May 14, 2009

    If you have a thick skull, nimble feet and a proclivity toward violence, you become a prizefighter. If you have a bluesman's soul, a musical family and a tendency toward...

  16. Playbill

    Jason Aldean

    By Eddy, Chuck
    Published: May 14, 2009

    The riff in Jason Aldean's latest smash, "She's Country," as far as I can tell, comes from AC/DC. He's easily got the hackiest cowboy hat in today's crop of country hunks, but...

  17. Playbill

    Fischerspooner

    By Zaleski, Anne
    Published: May 14, 2009

    In hindsight, the idea that people once considered Fischerspooner an electroclash act is laughable. NYC duo Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner have always been a synth-pop band...

  18. Playbill

    The Dears

    By Levack, Chandler
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Montreal's The Dears have always been a curiosity. While front man Murray Lightburn ignored pesky "Black Morrissey" comparisons, the rest of the band was reshuffled in a...

  19. Playbill

    The Vibrators

    By David Ensminger
    Published: May 14, 2009

    The Vibrators are year-zero godfathers of singalong punk who shook the world in ten days; that's how long it took to record their iconic, hook-filled 1977 debut Pure Mania....

  20. Cafe

    Pork and Beans on a Bun

    Pick up a sack of inexpensive sandwiches at the laid-back Tortas El Angel on Shepherd.

    By Robb Walsh
    Published: May 14, 2009

    The steak, onion and raw jalapeño sandwich called the "Pepito" at Tortas El Angel in the Heights was my unexpected favorite. The crunchy fire of the chiles sparked every...

Issue: May 14, 2009
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