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Feel-Good Video of the Day: Diner Customers in Texas Stand Up for Gay Couple

An undercover camera crew in Farmers Branch -- a small suburb of Dallas -- filming the ABC show What Would You Do? in a typically small-town diner found something they didn't expect in Texas: customers repeatedly standing up for a gay couple bullied by a waitress in front of their children. Althoug ... More >>

The 12 Biggest Food News Stories of 2012: The Year In Twinkies, Go-Go Juice and Guy Fieri

From eating like cavemen to redneck sketti, we're taking a look back at some of the biggest food happenings of 2012. 12. Singapore Serves Mashed Potatoes...From A Vending Machine? The internet was abuzz when a photo of a mashed potato vending machine surfaced. Eventually, the viral picture was tr ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Delivers Three Delicious Shows for Our Summer Viewing Enjoyment

When regular networks like NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX put their shows on hiatus, they line up mind-numbing, inexpensive-to-produce fare for us to consume while Mark Harmon, Alec Baldwin and Patrick Dempsey (and their expensive hair, wardrobes and sets) get a well-deserved vacation. CBS will bring back t ... More >>

Tim Gunn Joins ABC's Daytime Ensemble The Revolution January 16

Tim Gunn is coming to network television on January 16 with ABC's new lifestyle/reinvention daytime talk show The Revolution. ABC describes the new show as an "uplifting, inspiring, and groundbreaking new daily show about health and lifestyle transformations co-hosted by a stellar team of experts wh ... More >>

How Not to Text a Teen

Lewd sexts to 14-year-old

Pop Rocks: Chaz Bono Is Far from the Worst DWTS Contestant

Worse than her? Really?​As someone who doesn't watch Dancing with the Stars (note to self: watch DWTS for upcoming "Sight Unseen" blog), I'm not sure if I'm supposed to care about the announcement that Chaz Bono was added to the cast: Transgender activist Chaz Bono is speaking out for the fir ... More >>

An Egg a Day Is Now Okay

modomatic​I love eggs. I would eat them in a box, with a fox, in a house, with a mouse, here, there, and everywhere - if they weren't loaded with cholesterol. But earlier this week the USDA released surprising findings from a recent nutritional re-evaluation, reporting that modern-day eggs a ... More >>

Ally ASL Goes National Via ABC News, Yahoo!

​Rocks Off is a modest sort of music blog. We generally need both of our arms for typing, so we don't want to risk breaking one of them patting ourselves on the back. But once in a while, through hard work, dumb luck or (most often) some combination of the two, we push over the first domino in ... More >>

Lunar Eclipse: Viewing Tips That Might Or Might Not Be Useful

The lunatic is in the grass, trying to see an eclipse through the clouds​It's Lunar Eclipse Night!! Feel the excitement!! What? You're not on the edge of your seat? CHeck out this paragraph from ABC News: If the sky is clear, experts say the show might be extra spectacular, as the moon will ... More >>

Vote Quimby Bristol

​Is it really almost over? Why, it seems like only yesterday we were bidding farewell to "The Hoff" and Michael Bolton was taking offense at Judge Bruno's harsh comments about his "jive" dancing (while remaining curiously unaffected by similar criticisms of his music). But it's true: tonight s ... More >>

Top 10 Recent TV-Show Soundtracks

​A few choice adjectives come to mind when musing on bawdy Eastbound & Down character Kenny Powers. "Inspiring" is not one of them. However, as Rocks Off watched this week's season finale of the side-splitting HBO series, we were pleasantly surprised as we heard indie troubadour Kurt Vile's a ... More >>

Houston Cop Becomes National TV Star Tonight

ABC is premiering another newsmagazine, this one called Primetime:Crime, and the star in the first show is a Houston cop famous for his interrogation skills.(In case you're wondering, rejected names for the series included Primetime: Crime: Dime: Lime: Mime SUV.) HPD Homicide Sgt. Brian Harris, ABC ... More >>

Kinks DVD Shorts UK Celluloid Heroes

​The story of this most quintessentially English (and sadly underrated) of the British Invasion bands makes for a fascinating tale: The music, the stylistic changes, the concept albums, and the battling Davies brothers. Unfortunately, that DVD tale remains to be told. For while this rock doc techn ... More >>

Tera Trevino: She's Happy With How Tonight's Wife Swap Episode Turned Out

The place to go for subtlety and nuance​Tonight's the big night for Friendswood's Tera Trevino, if you're the type to describe "big night" as "putting my family out there on a pretty bad reality-TV show."She and her family will be appearing on Wife Swap, the ABC show where moms from two diametrica ... More >>

Tera Trevino Will Bring Friendswood's Low-Rider Culture To A Shocked America

Not the Wife Swap you see on ABC​Remember Nelson Muntz coming out of Naked Lunch with Bart Simpson et al? "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title," he says.That's the general sense viewers of ABC's Wife Swap get. The show is titillating only if you're turned on by whiny, self-ob ... More >>

Debate Over HISD's Plan To Fire Teachers Goes National

Houston school superintendent Terry Grier's plan to fire teachers whom he deems unacceptable got some national news time Sunday.ABC News looked at the issue in a piece titled -- wait for it -- "Houston, We Have A School Problem." (Fresh!!)It was a pretty straightforward look at things, with Grier ... More >>

Your New Year's Weekend Sports-Viewing Guide

​So you stayed up a bit late last night doing the whole celebrating the New Year thing. Now your head's aching, the room's spinning, and you just want to flop on the couch and watch some sports. But you don't want to have to think about what sports to watch. That's where I come in. Here's a little ... More >>

This Week In TV: Joss Whedon Is A Free Man

It's been nice knowing you, Dollhouse. Now how about that Serenity sequel, Whedon?​It's way too cold outside, I can't believe I'm back at work, and I've already braved one after-Christmas sale. This was the week in TV Land: • I watched the finale of The Sing-Off. That's how little there was ... More >>

This Week In TV: Horrible, Horrible People

I'm recovered from the snow, I'm trying to convince people that "Dick in a Box" qualifies as Christmas music, and I've got a hole in my heart from eating batteries. This was the week in TV Land: • 30 Rock was cute this week, though the bit about Frank turning into Liz was a little lifeless. But ... More >>

Pop Rocks: V For Valiant

Photo courtesy ABC​I've been watching V: The Series, more out of nostalgic fondness for the original than any hope the remake would be worth a damn (and I prefer a long-haired Morena Baccarin anyway). Despite solid efforts by Elizabeth Mitchell (Agent Evans) and Alan Tudyk (whose recent stri ... More >>

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss): Chris Brown and Other Infamous Musical Woman-Beaters

See the rest of Rihanna's 20/20 interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer here. Chris Brown brings his "Fan Appreciation Tour" to town this weekend, leading to several questions. Not the least of which are, "Who the hell is still a fan of this guy?" And, "Will his 'appreciation' of same take some form ... More >>

Now The Teabaggers Are Coming For The TV Stations

​We told you earlier this week that yet another Tea Party event was coming our way. Now we learn that the teabaggers will be taking steps to make sure they get the coverage they (think they) deserve.There are plans to picket the Houston affiliates of ABC, CBS and NBC (Fox? Fox?) in "Operation Can ... More >>

Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial

Daniel Kramer ABC News is reporting that Beyonce, who sang tributes to Michael Jackson at her Toyota Center concert and at New Orleans' Essence Music Festival over the weekend, will perform at Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles this afternoon. Also expected to attend are Justin Timberlake, P Diddy, Sm ... More >>

Michael Jackson Memorial Underway

The Michael Jackson memorial service is underway at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Although Smokey Robinson has already expressed his condolences to the crowd, so far it's been a lot of talking heads; right now ABC News is discussing the market for MJ memorabilia. Here's a few tweets from our fr ... More >>

The Bachelorette Kicks Houstonian's Ass

Photo courtesy ABCThe evil she-devil who broke Sasha's heartRecent additions to the list of Things We Did Not Know:1) The Bachelorette is still on TV.2) There was a Houston guy competing to be whatever it is you compete to be on The Bachelorette.3) He lost.Not only that, but the guy he lost to is "a ... More >>

Design Haters and Soccer lovers

ABC to Premier Dancing With The Guards

College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition

College Football Preview, Lisa Guerrero Edition

Jim McKay, R.I.P.

The Force Is Strong With This One

The College Football Preview, Week Six: The Red River Showdown, the Tears of Touchdown Jesus, the Glory of the Rice Owls

That Man Makes a Mean Lemonade

Be The Bachelor(ette)

Re: Blonde Ambition

Blonde Ambition

New releases available this week

Neil Hamburger, with Tennessee

Thursday, March 31, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

Nice to Be Nice

Once again, the Chronicle avoids a delicate subject

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Reality TV Bites

Shani and Chad Walter lost one of their twin baby boys. Thanks to Houston Medical, thousands of Americans got to witness their pain.

Get It Straight

The road to Ellen was paved with the best of intentions

Net Loss

The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

Conventional Wisdom

Houston media hit the GOP convention

Geek love

The men behind this season's best shows -- and biggest failures -- blame it all on Regis

Blowing Away the Competition

Bringing you the scoop on the Lewinsky interview

Shiny Happy Creatures