Berlin (Germany)

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves.

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Park City's Breakouts

The movies to know from Sundance - and the year ahead.

Paul Van Dyk

Capsule Art Reviews: "Dieter Balzer: Objects," "Endless Disharmony and Telltale Ashes," "Flyaway: New Work by Aaron Parazette," "Glass Graphica," "Hilary Harnischfeger and Tommy White," "Hillevi Baar: Ambrosia" and "J. Hill: New Sculpture with Implied

Capsule Art Reviews: "Dieter Balzer: Objects," "Endless Disharmony and Telltale Ashes," "Flyaway: New Work by Aaron Parazette," "Glass Graphica," "Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Ben Tecumseh DeSoto: ZENtrospective," "Dieter Balzer: Objects," "Dog Park," "Flyaway: New Work by Aaron Parazette," "Glass Graphica," "Texas Eclectic"

Danger Zone: 5 Great Tony Scott Film Soundtracks

Tony Scott, one of the greatest action directors of all time, committed suicide by jumping off a bridge near Los Angeles this past Sunday. He was 69 and thought to have an inoperable brain tumor. Many of Scott's films also had great soundtracks, due in part to Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer. S ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: First Lady Suite, KOOZA, The Lion King, Top Shelf Shorts, Travelsty

Capsule Art reviews: "David Aylsworth: The Reverses Wiped Away," "Endearing the Line," "Jason Yates: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything," "Lucas Johnson: Original Prints," "Perry House: Elegance/Violence," "Rhythm," "Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby"

This Week in Deliciousness: The Healthy-to-Junk Whiplash

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where uncooked quinoa and trail mix are no substitutes for massive amounts of junk food no matter what our dieticians tell us. Yes, I'm trying to cut down on the calories; it's beach season, after all, and I'd like to be able to take just ... More >>

10 Best Modern Political Speeches

We'll be hearing a lot of great speeches this election season, but lets take a second to remember the true giants of political rhetoric. 10. Martin Luther King: I've Been to the Mountaintop King delivered this speech in Memphis, Tennessee the day before he was assassinated. After talking for a whi ... More >>

''Inheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery''

Capsule Art Reviews: "Endearing the Line," "The Graphic Arts of Hans Erni," "HJ Bott: Rhythm and Rhetoric," "Members," "reverse of volume RG," "Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics," "Space Zombie Mayan Apocalyptic Human Sacrifice Uplift Mofo Party

''Dirk Rathke: Endearing the Line''

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Missed Opportunities: 10 Musicians Who Turned Down Big Hits

Have you ever had one of those moments where you thought to yourself, "Why did I do that?" or "Why did I turn that down?" Those kinds of moments happen to all of us. It's part of life, unfortunately. This happens all the time in the movie world, but you never seem to hear about it in the music worl ... More >>

7 Cool & Cheap Things To Do This Weekend -- In Houston, Not At SXSW

T-Bone Walker heir Don Kesee, one of the area's Houston's most underheralded bluesmen - which unfortunately is saying something, but watch a little bit of the above clip at Navasota's Blues Alley festival - comes into the city for a gig at the Shakespeare Pub. Super Happy Fun Land's SXSW Overflow ... More >>

Brew Blog: New Belgium Lips of Faith Cocoa Molé Ale

Gimmicky beers bother me a little bit. Take, for example, the absolutely horrible blueberry beer I tried a while back, in a fit of unexplainable masochism. I knew what I was getting myself into, really. I mean, we can all agree that nobody needs to put blueberries in beer, pretty much ever, right? T ... More >>

Swamp People

Recent local releases by Screwtape, John Egan and Southern Backtones have Houston on the brain.

From The Sky Down: U2's "Bittersweet Song Of Disunity"

What was the last great U2 album? Now, before you go and get your snotty Henry Rollins quotes lined up, recall that there was a period in the mid- to late 1980s when the Dublin foursome were both the biggest and most critically acclaimed band on the planet before veering off into sonic experimentat ... More >>

Happy Birthday Paula Deen!: Great Butter-Stained GIFs

​Paula Deen is too easy of a target for the ire of the Internet. She cooks with copious amounts of butter, and has just that right mixture of cheerfulness and Southern sass to drive people crazy. Then, this past week we found out she has been living with diabetes. Not that having diabetes i ... More >>

Matmos Playing Houston for the First Time

Matmos, the Matador Records-signed electronic music duo that has done work for Björk, has never performed in Houston. The person responsible for making the group's debut show in town happen? An expat living in Germany. A few years ago, dancer Ayman Harper -- a graduate of the High School for the P ... More >>

Ayman Harper Returns to Houston with Matmos

Thanks to dancer Ayman Harper, Matmos will perform for the first time in Houston this weekend. All it took was for Harper to miss a concert by the popular Matador Records-signed electronic music duo that has done work for Björk. A few years ago, Harper -- a graduate of the High School for the Perf ... More >>

True Blood: A Couple Of Things We Missed

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series,True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. ​Listen, Gothtopia makes mistakes... mostly mistakes named Amy ... More >>

Berlin Wall at 50: Five Iconic Moments

Just another brick in the wall​Fifty years ago today, East German construction crews were in the last stages of preparation for building the Berlin Wall. On August 13, they began, instantly giving an incredible propaganda tool to the free world. The Wall has been down for 22 years and will so ... More >>

Sturm Und Twang: Germany's The BossHoss Storms Volcano

Photos by Jubal Lee Young​Near the end of The BossHoss' show Wednesday night, Aftermath asked an Irish woman standing next to him in the crowd what she thought of seven-piece German alt-country ensemble. "That man in dungarees is handsome and mannerly," was her quick reply. We had no idea w ... More >>

Skarnales, Escovedo, Gaines Make Rockin' Nightlife Tour

Photos by Lisa RosatoLos Skarnales​Friday was one of those nights when Rocks Off wished we operated one of those "show you the nightlife" tour buses filled with people from Omaha, Chicago, Des Moines, and Berlin. When's the last time Houston had a gentle north wind cooling the evening in mid-M ... More >>

Houston: Better than Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo (and All but Ten Cities in the World)

The only Texas city to make the list.​Hey now, it's another one of those sprawling studies ranking the best cities in the world. This time around, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Partnership for New York City have ranked the world's urban agglomerations according to their importance and power ... More >>

Philip Kerr: Field Gray

Hotel California

Celebrity living has its downside in Somewhere.

“Red Bull Illume”

The Five Most Plentiful Leftovers Rotting In Your Fridge Right Now

Photo by edcrowleNo no, wait... maybe don't open those.​Now, calm down. The Houston Press and Eating Our Words are by no means claiming to have any kind of psychic insight into the contents of your refrigerator, and if we did, we'd tell you to go ahead and throw away that throbbing gray mass t ... More >>

Top Five Musician/Journalist Feuds

"Like, what is your problem?" Jason Nocito​Hell hath no fury like a spurned musician, but a critic's vengeance doesn't lag far behind. This week in the Houston Press, you can read an interview Noah Bailey at our sister paper the Dallas Observer did with Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken, who says he h ... More >>

Tear Me Down: Five Songs About The Berlin Wall

​Today is World Freedom Day! The holiday was declared in 2001 by George W. Bush to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall and just how awesome he felt Ronald Reagan was. It was 21 years ago today that East and West Berlin were reunited, and the Berlin Wall remains a source of musical inspiratio ... More >>

“Perspectives 172: Kirsten Pieroth”

A not so normal look at normal

Music's Top 10 Biggest Post-Drug Comebacks

​The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>

Lauren McCabe, Young & Recessioned: Three Jobs At A Time

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Lauren McCabe, a 25-year-old living in New Orleans who went from being unemployed to teaching how not to do it. I went to school at Columbia in New York City. I didn't have any idea what I wanted to do. And even people who say they do, ... More >>

Allergic To Myself: Songs Guaranteed Not To Make You Sneeze

​ If you're new to Houston, you may be wondering what all that yellow crap on your car (and on the road, and in your hair...) is. Well, it's oak pollen, and along with sweltering humidity, infuriating traffic, and the occasional hurricane, it's one of the things that makes living here such a delig ... More >>

Spermy Night In Georgia: Sexed-Up Songs To Set The Mood For Blowfly

Let's get one thing perfectly clear: Blowfly is the original dirty rapper. Before anyone in 2 Live Crew was old enough to set foot into a peepshow stall or buy a pack of cigarettes, Clarence "Blowfly" Reid was spewing forth raucous raps like "Spermy Night In Georgia" and "What a Difference a Lay Mak ... More >>

Listology: Gold Sounds' Top 5 Seismic Love Songs for Valentine's Day

​This weekend, starting tonight with a gig at Walter's On Washington and tomorrow afternoon's 3 p.m. in-store set Cactus Music, Houston's Gold Sounds begins properly unfurling long-gestating LP, Seismic Love. It's fitting that the album gets it's proper debut over Valentine's weekend, seeing t ... More >>

Bellaire High Students Take First Steps On Road To Godless Communism, Possibly

Photo courtesy HISD​We guess they didn't get the memo out at Bellaire High that the USSR is an enemy devoted to selling us the rope with which we'll hang oursel -- wait, what? The Berlin War fell? We won the Cold War? It must not have made TMZ.com, because we don't remember reading about it. At a ... More >>

"Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea"

Art from another North/South border region

Evita

We would say a star is born, but Rebekah Dahl already shines with the best of them

“Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama”

Is 166 the creepy factor?

“Left Alone”

ArtStorm showcases photographers who get lonely

MFAH hosts an East German film festival

Like No One Else