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5 Ways to Tell If You've Politically Lost Your Damned Mind

If you're a sane person then you are dreading the next four months leading up to the presidential election. Every single election cycle has gotten more and more crazy, but I have a feeling this is going to be the one where we end up developing airborne thorazine to try and chill folks the holy hell ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Foreigner, Magdalene, One Kiss: The Music of Sigmund Romberg, Travelsty

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, The Foreigner, Magdalene, The Unexpected Man

SXSW 2012: Our Inner Monologue (Day One)

Rocks Off has only been here in Austin for SXSW for a little more than a day, and our brains are already swimming in confusion. Taco Bell hotels, gigantic Doritos stages, girls dressed like Roseanne, everyone wearing ill-fitting cold-weather clothing, and somewhere in the din of it all, your new fav ... More >>

Teenage Mutant Arkham City? 5 Turtle Bosses We Hope Make It In

Rumors began circling this week that Rocksteady would not be following up Batman: Arkham City with another Dark Knight adventure, and would instead be working on using the same style to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For those who may only know the Turtles from their '80s cartoon, we can a ... More >>

The Top 5 Video Game Hitlers (sNSFW)

Okay, weird confession time. We have this...thing about Hitler. We fully recognize that he is singlehandedly responsible for some of the gravest atrocities of the last century, and that his very image is enough to strike fear into the hearts of men and women everywhere. We get that, and we are very ... More >>

Top 5 Musicians Whose Art Trumps Their Politics

Once again we have yet another example that if a musician opens his or her mouth without the benefit of a guitar or piano close by, trouble is usually not far behind. In this case it's Rockin' Randall Hank Williams Jr., who compared this year's Obama/John Boehner "golf summit" to Adolf Hitler hittin ... More >>

Kanye West Vs. Adolf Hitler: Tale Of The Tape

Photo illustrations by Monica FuentesActual line from Watch the Throne's "Who Gon' Stop Me": "This is something like the Holocaust/ Millions of our people lost"​Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies, formulated by humorist and writer Mike Godwin, states that eventually, any heated discussion (especi ... More >>

What Dead Passenger?

Driver caught with corpse in front seat.

Be A Smarty: Birthday Boy Mel Brooks' Best Musical Numbers

Mel Brooks, "The Hitler Rap" "I cut my finger. That's tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That's comedy." Such is the philosophy of comedy icon Mel Brooks, who made a career out of making light of the heaviest of subject matter, including racism, the Spanish Inquisition and, perha ... More >>

No Franklin's BBQ for Hitler

If you aren't already familiar with the now-viral "Hitler Reacts" meme, please head over to Know Your Meme and familiarize yourself. Macht schnell! Now then. Found on the Houston Chowhound boards yesterday was a Hitler Reacts video that I couldn't believe I'd never seen. Anyone familiar with the ea ... More >>

Hitler's Desk: Houstonian Still Trying to Sell It

Der Fuhrer's desk​When last we talked to Houston lawyer Jack McConn, he was eagerly looking forward to selling Hitler's desk, which he had acquired while being part of an Army unit that was guarding the Fuhrer's Munich headquarters. Apparently the market for Hitler desks isn't as lively as it ... More >>

Five Oprah Secrets That Would Have Been More Interesting

​Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>

American Grocers: Joins A Stellar List Of Companies Ripping Off Troops

​This week's cover story in the Houston Press details the case of Houston-based American Grocers and its owner Samir Itani, charged with shipping expired food to troops stationed in the Middle East and ripping off the government with bogus shipping costs. As noted in the story, "the case stretched ... More >>

In Dreams: 15 Songs For Mr. Sandman

Rocks Off Sr. is curious why Rocks Off Jr. chose a picture of Christina Hendricks for an article about dreams.​For some reason, Craig's Hlist has been sleeping way too much lately. Blame the booze, fear of the sun, or just plain lack of giving a rat's ass about the daylight. With sleep comes d ... More >>

Finally! Someone Auto-Tunes A Pack Of Wolves!

In the past year we have heard people Auto-Tune most everything you can think of: Winston Churchill, Chris Crocker, a teary-eyed family reunion, and the late Billy Mays are just some of the clips we have been sending and posting for any one who will listen, mainly late at night or while we are at s ... More >>

"The Inner Space of War. The Blockade of Leningrad in Photographs"

This art exhibit comes straight from the vaults of Russian museums to downtown Houston

Un Pueblo Unido: Scenes From Houston's Immigration Protest

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​An estimated 7,000 people took to the streets of Gulfton on Saturday afternoon, part of a coordinated series of national protests against the passage of Arizona's SB 1070, a bill which many Hispanics in Arizona and across the nation have decried as racial profil ... More >>

For April 15: The Bloodthirstiest Donald Duck Video Ever Urges You To Pay Your Taxes

Last year on April 15, we offered you the five best tax-related movies. This year we need only offer one.A violence-filled, stereotype-strewn wonder from Donald Duck, urging all Americans to "Pay your taxes to bury the Axis."Politicians today would give their left arm to be able to use one of the l ... More >>

Avoid The Cyber Monday Crowds By Shopping At These Sites

Today is Cyber Monday, a special day drummed up by the National Retail Federation to trick people into thinking there's some special reason people should shop online today, as opposed to yesterday. Or two weeks from now. The Federation's idea was to drive people to www.CyberMonday.com, which f ... More >>

The Producers

Talk about having a fear of success

Sam Houston Race Park Welcomes The Teabaggers

​Sam Houston Race Park has a new way of trying to entice customers to the park: radical, extreme political events wherein the office of the President of the United States will be disparaged and its occupant compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and whatever other figure talk radio comes up with.Th ... 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 >>

Blind Boys of Alabama

Quentin's Final Solution!

In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds.

The Producers

Web exclusive!

Brentano String Quartet

Baritone Leon Williams adds his voice to the mix

From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

Risky Business for Valkyrie

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

Hitler's Desk, Death of a Bookstore, and Premium Problems

For sale in Houston, slightly used

Houstonian Selling Hitler's Desk

"Dr. Seuss Wants You!"

The creator of Horton Hears a Who also spent time drawing anti-Nazi political cartoons during

If His Name Was Chet Smith, He'd Be a VP Candidate Now

Paradise Lost in Surfwise

Parenting off the grid — and eventually off the reservation — in this alt-family portrait

Drenched in Blog: C'mere Miley Ray…

The Rape of Europa

This film documents how Hitler plundered museums and art collections

Them’s Fighting Words, Broseph!

17 + 6 - 5 + 1 - 3 + 7 = 23!

Shocking numerical revelations await in Jim Carrey's totally freaking random thriller

Torah! Torah! Torah!

Protocols of Zion takes a hard look at those who fear Jews

Out Like a Lamb

Downfall chronicles Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

Love It, Fear It

A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

Achtung, Baby

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin revealed the tip of the Nazi iceberg

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Max Factors

Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, what if Hitler were once a human being?

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Butthole Surfers

Saturday, July 13

The American Scream

A hysterical Tamarie Cooper rescues herself from suburbia in the free-association comedy Tamalalia 2000

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Letters

Denial of the Will

Leni Riefenstahl looks at her past, but fails to confront it