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  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

    Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    R.I.P, David Thompson Of Murder By The Book

    Photo courtesy Murder by the BookDavid Thompson, 1975-2010​For avid fans of the murder mystery genre, you'd think death was commonplace. But not when it snatches away one of our own. So we loyal patrons of Murder by the Book, Houston's go-to place for all things murder and mystery, are devastated ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    Van Morrison

    Photo courtesy Murder by the BookDavid Thompson, 1975-2010​For avid fans of the murder mystery genre, you'd think death was commonplace. But not when it snatches away one of our own. So we loyal patrons of Murder by the Book, Houston's go-to place for all things murder and mystery, are devastated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    For St. Patrick's Day: Five Irish Movies You Need To See

    Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, when everyone's Irish, yadda yadda yadda.How best to get ready for it? Watching a movie tonight would be one way. Unfortunately, a lot of the "great" Irish movies suck. The Quiet Man? Oy vey. Maureen O'Hara is nicely feisty, but John Wayne is as wooden as ever and the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Which Hard-Rocking Northern Irishmen Might Blow AC/DC Off the Stage Sunday? The Answer Is The Answer

    ​Rocks Off is about as excited about Sunday's AC/DC show as we were for the Black Ice ballbreakers' show 11 months ago, but for a much different reason. Last time it was because we hadn't seen AC/DC since 1996 at Austin's Frank Erwin Center; this time it's because we're itching to see the band beh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Nobel Prize Winner Gets Hassled At Bush Intercontinental Airport

    Mairead Corrigan Maguire thought the hard part was over. Along with fellow Nobel Laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, American landmine activist Jody Williams, and Iranian Shirin Ebadi, she had been in Guatemala, where the women had just co-hosted a three-day conference on democracy, human right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    St. Patrick's Day Special: Ten Great Irish (Or Irish-American) Musicians and Bands

    St. Patrick's Day is, well, today, so, rather than hit the pub to celebrate - which we'll probably still do, to be honest - we thought we'd put together a mixtape for you of our favorite Irish and Irish-American bands along with a favorite tracks by them. Pint of Guinness and shot of Jameson sol ... More >>

  • Music

    February 19, 2009
  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Former Irish Republican Army Fighter One Step Closer To Being Deported From Texas

    Pol Brennan, the former I.R.A. fighter detained in Texas on immigration charges, has lost another court battle.The 55-year-old Brennan had been working as a carpenter, living openly in the San Francisco area for ten years, where he had also married an American woman named Joanna Volz. Early thi ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Homeland Security Won't Let a Former IRA Man Out of Prison

    After living in the U.S. for 25 years, Pól Brennan is now stuck on the Texas-Mexico border

  • Home Entertainment

    May 17, 2007

    More Shriek Than Shrek

    After living in the U.S. for 25 years, Pól Brennan is now stuck on the Texas-Mexico border

  • Music

    October 12, 2006

    The Buzz

    Mosquitos' Juju Stulbach on love and Eskimos

  • Music

    September 1, 2005

    The Return of the Houston Kid

    Rodney Crowell comes back to town with yet another great album under his belt

  • Film

    July 7, 2005

    Could Be Verse

    A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

  • Music

    August 12, 2004

    Playbill

    A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

  • Music

    March 13, 2003

    Ted Leo

    Hearts of Oak (Lookout)

  • Dining

    September 14, 2000

    Oh, Danny Boy

    A faux Irish pub serves up great meals

  • Film

    January 20, 2000

    Poor, Pitiful Me

    Even the great Alan Parker can't save Angela's Ashes from sappy self-absorption

  • Film

    March 4, 1999

    Regular Joe

    Loach sheds the sentimental in a tender look at a tough hero

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Trading with the Enemy

    Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways

  • Dining

    February 5, 1998

    Conversion Experience

    I was a doubter, but Cafe Beignet won me over

  • Film

    January 8, 1998

    More Troubles

    As The Boxer, Daniel Day-Lewis K.O.'s a weak script

  • Film

    March 27, 1997

    God Help Them

    Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt are shooting blanks in The Devil's Own

  • Music

    February 27, 1997

    A Van for All Seasons

    Van Morrison's getting older, grouchier and, with his latest CD, better again

  • Film

    February 8, 1996

    Independent Heaven

    Van Morrison's getting older, grouchier and, with his latest CD, better again

  • Film

    July 7, 1994

    No Bang, No Bing, No Boom

    Blown Away isn't just about bombs. It is one.

  • Film

    January 20, 1994

    The Belfasters

    Be glad that In the Name of the Father was made. But don't expect this Irish movie to leave anyone's eyes crying.

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