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Babylon

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    August 2, 2001

    Tooned In To Anime

    Fans say there's nothing Mickey Mouse about these Japanese cartoons with their stories of love, sex, death and saving the world

  • Calendar

    May 19, 1994

    Press Picks

    Fans say there's nothing Mickey Mouse about these Japanese cartoons with their stories of love, sex, death and saving the world

  • Calendar

    February 9, 1995

    Press Picks

    Fans say there's nothing Mickey Mouse about these Japanese cartoons with their stories of love, sex, death and saving the world

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    Troubleshooter for the Millennium

    Suddenly, as the year 2000 approaches, Phillip Arnold's study of first-century apocalyptic Christians is more than a scholarly pursuit

  • Music

    July 3, 1997

    Rotation

    Suddenly, as the year 2000 approaches, Phillip Arnold's study of first-century apocalyptic Christians is more than a scholarly pursuit

  • Music

    August 14, 1997

    Hats Off

    Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

  • Music

    October 2, 1997

    Rotation

    Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

  • Music

    January 1, 1998

    Static

    Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

  • Calendar

    February 12, 1998

    Press Picks

    Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

  • Calendar

    June 11, 1998

    Night & Day

    June 11 - 17, 1998

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Rotation

    June 11 - 17, 1998

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Judicial Arts Endowment

    Devine converts plaintiffs' lawyers' cash into a courtroom gallery

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Devine converts plaintiffs' lawyers' cash into a courtroom gallery

  • Culture

    January 15, 2009
  • Culture

    August 30, 2007

    Mexican-American Culture

    Elvira Arellano = Jesus?

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Houston Music Map

    Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  • Home Entertainment

    August 2, 2007

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  • Calendar

    March 9, 2006

    Sunshine When It's Gray

    Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  • Culture

    August 24, 2000

    The Great Divide

    Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins splits the family (and politics) in two

  • Calendar

    April 13, 2006

    Gold Metal

    Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins splits the family (and politics) in two

  • Home Entertainment

    March 16, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of March 14

    Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins splits the family (and politics) in two

  • Music

    February 16, 2006

    Drywall

    Barbeque Babylon

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2005
  • Music

    October 13, 2005

    Destroying Babylon

    Death by Stereo wants to unite the world's punk and metal kids. How sweet.

  • Film

    January 20, 2005

    Suddenly This Summer

    John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson face off in a Southern-gothic indie

  • Film

    November 25, 2004

    Call Him Al

    An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

  • Music

    October 7, 2004

    Murder Music in Sharpstown

    Houston yawns as Jamaican homophobe Capleton blazes through town

  • Music

    July 29, 2004

    Thievery Corporation

    The Outernational Sound (ESL)

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2004

    Blue Ball

    Come to -- but not at -- the Gatsby

  • Music

    July 31, 2003

    David Gray

    Sunday, August 3

  • Music

    March 13, 2003

    Ted Leo

    Hearts of Oak (Lookout)

  • Culture

    February 7, 2002

    Flame On

    Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

  • Music

    January 10, 2002

    Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

    Halfway Tree (Motown)

  • Music

    July 5, 2001

    Playbill

    Steel Pulse

  • Film

    June 14, 2001

    See-Worthy

    Disney's old-school Atlantis strikes gold under the ocean

  • Music

    April 27, 2000

    Listen In

    Clandestine -- Dave Nevling and the Blues Kats -- Tommy Dardar and the Sheetrockers

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Before We Go: A Thousand Cranes, the Muses, Johnny Bush, the Old Quarter, Katy Perry, a Numbers Documentary and More

    The above cartoon - give it a minute; it'll show up - is somehow tied into Saturday's show at Avant Garden featuring A Thousand Cranes, How I Quit Crack and Metal Rouge. Rocks Off wishes he could tell you how, but he digs the Monty Python and the Holy Grail homage. Colorado traditional Celtic duo t ... More >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2009

    All Good Again

    Important things to know about Atlanta mystery men Goodie Mob.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Most Downloaded "Hope For Haiti" Texan? Although She Killed, Not Beyonce

    Between fighting crime, reducing global warming, mending our socks and, you know, everything else Rocks Off does when we're away from the office, we caught a good bit of Friday evening's "Hope for Haiti" telethon. We didn't have much choice, because the George Clooney-organized, celebrity-packed fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Aftermath: David Gray Is For Lovers; Phosphorescent Needs More Stage Time

    Photos by Jason Wolter​David Gray is an artist, but not one to be puzzled over. The British singer-songwriter trades in sophisticated pop songs that express simple emotions, as unambiguous as many of their titles: "Be Mine," "Now and Always," "The One I Love," "You're the World to Me," "This Year' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Pop Rocks: You Really Should Be Watching Supernatural

    ​The CW is, by all generally accepted standards of measure, a horrible network. Just about every show is aimed at that unfortunate segment of the pre-adolescent population whose parents can't afford basic cable, so instead of several hundred channels of garbage programming, these poor kids are fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2010

    Bun B Added To Summerfest; Schedule Announced

    Marco TorresBun B at Warehouse Live, April 20​ He shows up at every other show in town, so why not Summerfest? Free Press Houston and Pegstar announced today that the king of the trill, Bun B, will join Slim Thug onstage on Day 1 of the two-day event scheduled for June 5 and 6 in Eleanor Tinsley P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Preacher Joseph Herrin: Gulf Oil Spill The Fault Of All Us Abortion-Loving Houstonians

    I'm looking at YOU, Houston​BREAKING -- A new, undeniably correct theory on why there's a huge oil spill has just been announced. There's a spill, it seems, because God hates how we Houstonians just love abortion. Oh, and Joel Osteen's to blame, too.The theory is proposed by a preacher (and, we as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Keyboardist Seeks Arabic Players To Explore Local Scene

    ​Rocks Off combs through Craigslist's postings hoping to find the genesis of some great musical endeavor. So when we saw a posting looking for Arabic singers, we were intrigued. After all, this is a time of mosque burnings and our upstairs neighbors passing anti-Sharia laws. It must take a he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    The Worst Concert Rip-Offs We've Ever Seen

    jackslackofrestraint.blogspot.com​On this day in 1978, the rapidly disintegrating Sex Pistols finally fell apart for good. Conveniently enough, they did it onstage at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, on the final night of the ill-fated U.S. tour that also lurched its way through San Antoni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Get Ready: The Five Best Post-Apocalypse Books Not Written by Stephen King

    It was the `70s, man​The Rapture, as has been reported, is coming tomorrow morning. About this there is no doubt, according to some of the most influential and knowledgeable billboards in the nation. Being bright-side-of-life kinda people, we've offered five terrific results to come from the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Happy Birthday Don Was: His Five Best Production Jobs

    Vicky Sapp​Nerds like us - you have to be a music nerd if you're reading a blog on Don Was - have favorite producers, like some sports guys have favorite coaches. Sometimes we listen to an album just because someone we like produced it, or it somehow gives it us extra cred even if we may not l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Landing A Man, Millionaire Matchmaker Style

    Because if a single 50-year-old can't get you into a relationship, who can?​Didn't Bravo start its life as something other than the place where the most embarrassing specimens of mankind wash up on our channel listing like so many Cuban refugees? I vaguely recall there being performing arts an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    The End is Nigh: 2012 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Edition

    Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! Derek JensenThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame​Once again the time has ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2011

    Numbers Game

    Of hell spawns, dinner theater and a venue actually old enough to have traditions.

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