Amsterdam

Jason Gandy, Houstonian Busted for Taking Teen Rent Boy to London for Olympics

Take it from someone who knows: British customs and immigration officials are a suspicious lot. Sometimes it's a major pain, like when they tear your bags apart for an hour in a fruitless search for drugs because you've arrived from Amsterdam looking scruffy and fatigued. Other times, it's damned i ... More >>

Brigitte Martin: Humor in Craft

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn's first ... More >>

The Four Best Books with Corresponding Soundtracks

​It goes without saying when you're talking to a music journalist, but music can be the greatest inspiration for a writer. Even if you're not writing about the music itself, it can still be an indispensible catalyst for the written word. More and more in modern literature, the afterwards featu ... More >>

NoTsuOh Ultimate Frisbee Team Immortalized in Celluloid

www.facebook.comThe boys from NoTsuOh at Paganello.​The Houston-based ultimate team NoTsuOh may not have been a legend around these parts, but mention the name to beach Frisbee players in Rimini, Italy, and you may very well hear somebody utter the word "dynasty." Formed by Sean McCall in 20 ... More >>

Robert Wade Prince: A-Hole Passenger Gets Six Months

Robert Prince: A raft of bad ideas nets him six months​A year ago we told you about Robert Wade Butler, an Alabama man arrested at Bush Intercontinental after getting drunk and disorderly on a Continental flight home from Amsterdam. Prince not only hassled female flight attendants and passeng ... More >>

Patrick Ita: The Genius Who Combined Medicare and Katrina Fraud

Like combining chocolate and peanut butter​In the Southern District of Texas, U.S. Attorneys often deal with two kinds of fraud: scams involving a) Medicare, or b) Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. It takes a special genius to combine the two, and apparently Patrick Ita is that man. Prosecutors un ... More >>

Bluefinger on Broadway?

World-premiere musical could be Catastrophic Theatre's next smash hit.

Bluefinger: Rock & Roll Tragedy, One Comic Moment At A Time

Pnotos by Anthony Rathbun/ Courtesy of Catastrophic TheatreMatt Kelly (prone) and Troy Schulze as Herman Brood and Koos​Plenty of rock stars have shown that there's a fine line between fuck-up and folk hero. Herman Brood, the central figure of Catastrophic Theatre's Bluefinger, doesn't bother ... More >>

Bluefinger: The Bald Truth

Our Art Attack blogger on the slippery role of editor/actor.

Bluefinger

Catastrophic Theatre stages a rock opera redemption.

World Cup 2010: David Villa Goes For The Golden Boot

No need to play: The octopus has chosen Spain​It's been almost one month since South Africa and Mexico got the FIFA World Cup started in Soccer City. This Sunday - 63 games later - the Netherlands and Spain close up shop with what could be an instant classic.This will mark the first time tha ... More >>

Run Through The Jungle: A Zoological Field Guide To SXSW 2010

​ Even if you've never pulled a trigger in your life, SXSW is, on some level, an exercise in hunting. Rocks Off had no idea how true this was until earlier this afternoon. As we were looking over the schedule at sxsw.com, we got the brilliant idea to note every band named after any kind of animal, ... More >>

Aren't You Supposed To Be Pretty Mellow Coming Back From Amsterdam?

​Robert Wade Prince, 47, is from Alabama. We have a feeling he's called "Bobby," if not "Bobby Wade."He was coming back from Amsterdam when he got a little annoyed with things, and began making a series of seriously bad decisions that ended up with him getting arrested at Bush over the weekend and ... More >>

One to Grow On

What we'd like to see happen in Houston music this year.

International House of Sandwiches

Juan Mon's youthful swagger is endearingly silly, and his sandwiches are very tasty.

Houston: From Moron Metropolis to Genius City In Two Short Months

​Two months ago, the Daily Beast ranked all American cities according to their estimation of each place's municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher education, and political engagement, as measured ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petrol ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Graffiti, The Body And A Beauty Queen

Photo by Olivia Flores Alvarez"Street Tempted" at Aerosol Warfare There are two arts shows and a play that warrant your attention before they close this weekend. First is "Street Tempted," an art exhibit at Aerosol Warfare by Galveston-based artist Gabriel Prusmack. After starting as a graffiti arti ... More >>

Judge Not

Marlene Dumas makes her paintings and leaves the rest to you.

The King of Tex-Mex Is Dead

photo by Will van OverbeekThird-generation Tex-Mex legend Matt Martinez, Jr. died last Friday at the age of 63. With his family, he owned Matt's Rancho Martinez and Matt's No Place restaurants in Dallas. He also had an interest in Matt's El Rancho, the legendary Austin Tex-Mex restaurant founded by ... More >>

Virgil Grotfeldt, 1948-2009

Photo courtesy Wade Wilson ArtArtist Virgil Grotfeldt died today from cancer. Born in Illinois in 1948, he was part of the Houston art community for many years. "I've always thought of him as a terrific painter, one of the best in the city," longtime friend and HBU Gallery Director Jim Edwards tells ... More >>

Flock to "Flicker Fusion"

Don't miss the powerful, curious animation screening at DiverseWorks

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

The College Football Preview, Week 12: Now with 84 Percent Fewer References to Erin Andrews

Catch the Wave

Lance Fegen's "New American Surfer Bistro" is like, epic, dude!

Monkey Business

Primates -- destined for laboratory research -- are being brought into a compound in Houston so carefully and quietly that no one knows they're here

Family Ties

Ex-members of a cult that once advocated sex between adults and children want the group's leaders exposed and punished

Un-French Frites

Mussels and fries, monk beers and Belgian pride abound at Cafe Montrose

Deuce Is Wild

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

Christmas in July

Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

Playbill

Bad Deeds

Thinking about renting out your vacation home in Galveston to defray expenses? Think again.

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Playbill

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Late Night with Dave Attell

Big John and Little Joe

Space City's tallest and shortest musicians rule the 2002 Houston Press Music Awards

Patriotic Excess

Luxurious Vallone’s most interesting new menu items arean early casualty of the war

Kane Mutiny

The industry's initial reaction to Welles's masterwork should serve as a lesson to WorldFest filmmakers

Keeping the Faith

The Invisible Circus remains loyal to the author's limited but earnest vision

Have Gavel Will Travel

Campaign cash carries a retired judge around the world

Letters

A Star in Reborn, Again

Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.

Play It Again, Sham

A band reunion becomes gentle satire in Still Crazy

Magic Flutes

Dutch group makes music the old-fashioned way

Rotation

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