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Michael Jordan's $29,000,000 Mansion Is for Sale -- 6 Fun Facts

With his divorce over five years old and his kids now all grown up and college age, I guess it's time for Michael Jordan to officially pull up stakes in Chicago and sell the old homestead. And it appears he's doing just that, as Jordan placed his Highland Park, Illinois, mansion on the market today ... More >>

The 10 Oddest Super Bowl Halftime Performers

The Super Bowl seems to be running out of stadium-sized performers who can attract eyeballs (the Black-Eyed Peas?), and this year they're hoping that faded scandalist Madonna will do the trick. It's not like they haven't been desperate before. In the early days of the event, producers regularly tu ... More >>

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

Bye Bye, Black Eyed Peas. And Take _____________ With You

I suppose "taking a break" before that Super Bowl performance was too much to ask: The Black Eyed Peas have denied rumors that they are breaking up but say they are taking a break from making music together for a while. "We are not breaking up," band member Taboo told Reuters on Monday at a lau ... More >>

Why Shouldn't Mexicans Speak Proper Spanish?

And is Spanglish something to Celebrate?

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

10 Sequels That Don't Need To Happen

Please god, no...​For those who've been pining for the return of the "Blue Steel" and the "Magnum," your patience is about to be rewarded: Ben Stiller is dead in the middle of promoting "Little Fockers," out Dec. 22, but he's already got his eye on yet another sequel: "Zoolander 2." Stiller ... More >>

Eight Delicious Goth Covers Of Mainstream Hit Songs

​The Halloween season is upon us, which means that the powers that be have let Gothtopia run amuck just a bit in bringing you music of a darker persuasion. Usually, Gothtopia and the Wife With One F would be at Numbers on Halloween vaccinating ourselves for snakebites with vodka and cranberr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Time Is Now For A Friends Movie

​It's been a dark six years since we said goodbye to Central Perk and the Rembrandts dropped off the face of the earth. Now, in Year 6 AF, dawn looks like it's finally breaking; we could be getting a Friends movie. Now, I don't want to get anyone's hopes up. Will a film catching up with Monic ... More >>

Idol Beat: That's All, Folks

Um...really? This was it? This was the best you could do, America?​And so, the ninth season of American Idol comes to a lumbering and terrible end. The show is frequently boring and often aggressive in its desire to force viewers to sit through bad guest performances, but even by the show's ow ... More >>

American Idol: That's All, Folks

Um...really? This was it? This was the best you could do, America?​And so, the ninth season of American Idol comes to a lumbering and terrible end. The show is frequently boring and often aggressive in its desire to force viewers to sit through bad guest performances, but even by the show's ow ... More >>

Y'all Musta Forgot: Slim Thug's Already Platinum

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or not, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. Slim Thug Already Platinum (Geffen, 2005) ​Already Platinum was Slim's official debut album, but mor ... More >>

Midwinter Graces

The sounds of Christmas 2009 from Bob Dylan, Sting, Tori Amos, Rob Halford and more.

It's a Wacky Life

Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People.

The Remaining Summer Blockbusters: Who Will Win, Who Will Lose

The "official" start of summer -- two weeks' worth of upper-90 degree temps notwithstanding -- isn't until this Sunday. For Hollywood however, the summer blockbuster season kicked off in May with the release of Wolverine.In the ensuing month-and-a-half, we've had some box office successes (Star Trek ... More >>

Busted Rhymes: The Top Ten Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or ... More >>

Big Daddies in Role Models

This movie is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

Westheimer Block Party Crib Notes

This movie is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

This movie is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device

A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Wedding Singer, You Can't Take It With You

A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Skinny Is the New Fat in Run Fat Boy Run

Simon Pegg may not have the ideal physique to play hefty, but he's a good fit

The Passenger

MFAH caps off film series with a little Jack

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Freeloader

You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome

Craig List

Stephen Lynch unleashes twisted tunes from his new album

Deuce Is Wild

Hilarious Rob Schneider flick? Who'd have seen it coming?

Houston's Gone Gaaga for Haaga

A former king of the Texas metal world unites Houston's warring rock tribes and wins a passel of Music Awards

The Fat Man Cometh

Comedian Joey Diaz is big on laughs, and on Houston

What a Ruckus

Monkey around at Theatre Illuminata's cabaret

Playbill

Monkey around at Theatre Illuminata's cabaret

What Was That?

Horton hears a Who in Seussical

The S-Word

Bad Santa is crude and rude and the jolliest Christmas movie ever

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Schmidt Happens

Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

See, Hear

Without Elmer Bernstein, scores of movies wouldn't have sounded the same

The Un-Church

Finally, a church for non-believers

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

Mount Coy

South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

A Punk Looks at 50

Billy Idol's mind is still the devil's workshop

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

Dumb and Dumbest

Saving Silverman takes Hollywood's juvenile craze to a new low

Just for Laughs

Spike Lee's gloriously unpolished concert film focuses on the yuks -- to our great amusement

Geek Orthodox

Superstar's Shannon makes a strangely affecting nerd

Easy on Friday Night

Superstar's Shannon makes a strangely affecting nerd

Rotation

Superstar's Shannon makes a strangely affecting nerd