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  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Tommy Lee Jones For Senate: Congressman Gene Green Says Why the Hell Not?

    Senator Tommy Lee Jones?​Geoff Berg, host of KPFT's Partisan Gridlock show is leading the improbable battle to draft Tommy Lee Jones as a Democratic candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. They've got a Facebook page and everything, including a petition with an op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Elvis: 30 Famous Quotes About The King

    ​Rocks Off is celebrating Elvis week this week - the King would be 76 years old on Saturday. (Or hell, maybe he will be 76 years old on Saturday.) That's more than three-quarters of a century, but it just doesn't seem like a very long time. Maybe that's because whether or not he actually died ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Rappers Vs. Uncle Sam: N.W.A., Eminem, Kanye...

    ​Mike Myers will probably go down in history as the most uncomfortable white guy next to a black guy in TV history, thanks to Kanye West's unscripted outburst during that infamous Hurricane Katrina telethon. It began with Myers reading his part of the script verbatim. Two-thirds into the PSA, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    The James Baker Monument: Five Things It Needs

    James Baker: Not related to Velvet Revolver​Finally, there will be a reason to visit downtown Houston: A statue honoring former Secretary of State James Baker will be unveiled Tuesday.Why Baker? As the monument's official website so modestly puts it, he's "A Magnificent American."Some people might ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Texas Rangers: Five Things To Know About Them As They Begin The ALCS

    Thanks for the Iraq War, Rangers​If you're an Astros fan, you might be surprised to learn that the baseball season did not end back in July -- that was just when the Astros season was deemed over. Baseball has continued to be played and, for the first time ever, the Texas Rangers are within a step ... More >>

  • Film

    October 7, 2010

    Remedial Ed

    Davis Guggenheim ignores too many inconvenient truths in Waiting for "Superman."

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Ten Fun Facts About "God Bless The USA"

    ​As America (fuck yeah!) prepares to celebrate its 234th birthday over the long July 4 weekend, our proud yet troubled nation is about to be inundated once again by Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." About as innocuous as a song can be on the surface, it's become one of the most polarizing t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Author Gwendolyn Zepeda On Not Hating Men And Being The Actual First Latina Blogger Ever

    Rejected title for Zepeda's first book: To the Last Man I Slept With and All the Jerks Just Like Him​Inprint ends its 2009/2010 Margarett Root Brown Reading Series season tonight with a Cinco de Mayo bang featuring two literary greats from Texas.The reading series, responsible for bringing four No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Shooter Jennings On The Tarot, Stephen King, Crappy Radio And Frankenstein

    Gabrielle Geiselman​ ​Here at Rocks Off, we like to make sure all our bases are covered. That's why we asked Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon, a few questions about his band Hierophant's spooky, deep, spooky-deep new album Black Ribbons (right) and put them in this week's print edition of the Pre ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2009

    The T. Boone Pickens Road Show

    A former wildcatter and corporate-takeover tycoon preaches alternative energy across America.

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Five Other Rock-Star Presidents

    A former wildcatter and corporate-takeover tycoon preaches alternative energy across America.

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    If Only I Had Bashed Houston, I'd Have Been President

    A former wildcatter and corporate-takeover tycoon preaches alternative energy across America.

  • News

    December 27, 2007

    The Year In Film

    Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    Kyoto Protocol: You're Getting Warmer

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2007

    Rockets-Spurs from Press Row: Now with 75 Percent Less Jumping to Conclusions!

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    The Nuge. ‘Nuff Said.

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    Harry Potter and the Sisters of Mercy, or Goth Like Me

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Film

    June 21, 2007

    Evan Almighty

    Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

  • Film

    March 1, 2007

    Spoiler Alert

    Doc reopens the Nader debate: Is it his fault?

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    Command Performance

    Bill Clinton wakes 'em up, for a while, at Rice

  • Music

    March 25, 2004

    Moby for Veep

    John Kerry should hit the decks for his running mate

  • Music

    November 20, 2003

    Neil Young & Crazy Horse

    Greendale (Warner Bros.)

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Greendale (Warner Bros.)

  • Music

    June 12, 2003

    Mauled Eagles

    The hipster’s First Commandment: Thou shalt not dig the Eagles

  • Culture

    May 29, 2003

    Dem Blues

    The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Reality Bytes

    The White House-cracking cybergang is gone. Now Houston’s most notorious hacker hopes to reboot his life and return to his love: computers.

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Trading Places

    Who wants to be interim city controller?

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Mayoral Minority Report

    Who can avert the 2003 runoff from hell?

  • News

    June 27, 2002

    From the Grass Roots Up

    A new Houston voting bloc reaches toward empowerment

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Before the Fall

    The Chron plays catch-up on the biggest local business story of the year

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    When Will They Learn?

    GOP label doesn't sell in mayoral races

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    GOP Mayoral Pipe Dreams

    West U rejected them, so how will they ever win Houston's City Hall?

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    How Dare You?

    The White House gets offended by a Chron question

  • Culture

    April 26, 2001

    Shearer Delight

    The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  • News

    April 19, 2001

    We Are Terrific!

    Houston's latest image-boosting campaign gets a big hand from the Chron

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Spring Time for Ben and Betti?

    Time's running out on commutation efforts

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    From Cells to Souls

    Chuck Colson and his evangelical Christians team up with a local prison for a divine intervention program

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Blocking Shots

    We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    He's an Out-of-Comptroller!

    Former city tourism official accused of paying mom's nursing home bills out of agency funds

  • Dining

    May 18, 2000

    Pie in the Sky?

    Former city tourism official accused of paying mom's nursing home bills out of agency funds

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    The Day the Democrats Died

    Learning to love the one-party state

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    Letters

    From the week of January 27, 2000

  • Calendar

    October 14, 1999

    The Compassionate Consumer

    From the week of January 27, 2000

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Double Image

    Does selling George W. Bush mean Mark McKinnon has sold out?

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Working the Rails, Part Two

    Does selling George W. Bush mean Mark McKinnon has sold out?

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Business As Usual

    The State Bar of Texas tries again to KAYO John O'Quinn but can't lay a glove on him

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Which Bug Gets the Gas?

    Will the next house DeLay fumigates be that big White one or his own?

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    GOP Sweeps Week

    Republicans complete Texas political reconstruction

  • News

    July 21, 1994

    The Watchman of the Electronic Frontier

    As the cyber-future creeps toward Houston, one group stands guard: EFH

  • Film

    February 17, 1994

    The Celluloid of the President

    A winning documentary about the Clinton campaign's inner circle

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