Berlin Wall

Josh Trevino: A Chat With The Prominent Texan Conservative Voice Outed as Malaysian Agent

After the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989, Western agents began probing the documents long squirreled away in Soviet-satellite archives. Among the documents unearthed following Prime Minister Eric Honecker's democratic decisions was a money trail circling an Australian journalist named Wilfred Burchet ... More >>

Russian Radio: Top 5 Tasty Cold War Synth Jamz

Hey, remember the Russians? Before they had a gajillion oil dollars and all those supermodels, they wanted to kill us all. But it wasn't all creeping dread and mutually assured destruction. Until the Berlin Wall came down, the Cold War was a common subject in popular culture. Besides KGB trenchcoat ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Berlin, Potsdamer Platz," "The Graphic Arts of Hans Erni," "The Livable Forest," "Love Man," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion"

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 >>

Pop Rocks: New Clear Days

Explains a lot.​I was discussing career choices (don't ask) with an acquaintance of mine, and in the course of talking about how we got where we were, I mentioned that I'd never really planned for life beyond college when I was in my teens. The decision wasn't a "non-decision" or anything lik ... 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 >>

Third World: Never Making Music For Other People

Each Wednesday (or Thursday), Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Typically ... 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 >>

Atari Teenage Riot's Empire

Techno-punks have a new MC and a new message.

Cesar Manuel Cazares: Nabbed For A Stabbing Death 21 Years Later

A 2009 kidnapping case breaks a 1989 murder​Score one for the cold-case squad at the Houston Police Department -- they've announced the arrest of a man suspected of stabbing a romantic rival to death 21 years ago.Cesar Manual Cazares, 42, is accused of killing Leonides Ponce, then 27, back i ... More >>

(Very Possibly) Excerpts From The State Board Of Education's Curriculum Standards For The 2012-13 School Year

​There's been a whole lot of hooting and scorn from a nation who has watched as far-right-wingers have forced their odd, minority political views into Texas textbooks. There are some carping liberal complainers who think -- difficult as it may be to believe -- that Thomas Jefferson should be menti ... More >>

She (Allegedly) Just Wants To Have Sex With A Hermann Park Statue. The Odd Thing Is, The Statue In Question Is Not Sam Houston

Objectum Sexuality from sergio on Vimeo. Via Swamplot, we get this video, about a woman who really, really really likes a statue in Hermann Park.It purports to be a documentary, complete with plummy British narrator, of someone with "object sexuality," a condition where people end up loving the Ei ... More >>

Gettin' Snatch? Slayin' Puss? Yeah, Pepsi Has an App for That

​One day, someone ridiculously wise (or someone that was obviously getting ripped a new asshole by the media) once said, "No press is bad press." Unfortunately, that old adage probably isn't applicable to Pepsi, and won't be in this lifetime.We suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that Pepsi deve ... More >>

On The Scene At The Houston Tea Party

In the end, it exceeded the expectations of even its once-seemingly wildly overenthusiastic organizers. Approximately 3,500 pissed-off demonstrators packed Jones Plaza for a warm-up blues-rock concert and harangues about high taxes, debt, bail-outs, and socialism.     You'd have t ... More >>

Idol Beat: The Final 36, Group 3

Peyton Manning flow - I just go, no huddle: Michael Becker/ Fox Lil Rounds* Hey, Von, Alex, Scott, Taylor, Kendall? You thought you were trying to advance into the Top 12 tonight, didn't you? But you were wrong: in reality, you were just opening for Lil Rounds. * Kara, do everyone a favor ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Museum of Unnatural History," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Neva Mikulicz: Recent Work," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications," "Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North"

Capsule Art Reviews: Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings, Hot and Grounded, Neva Mikulicz: Recent Work, Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications, Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North

Gallery Talk — Perspectives 164

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“Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications”

History is remade, reformed and reworded at CAMH’s latest exhibit

Kidz Korner: How To Deal With Your Drunk Parent Telling You How "Hishtoric" Obama's Victory Is

For Those About to Rock... Again

Rock Band 2

Legal Action Stirring On Illegal-Alien Raid

Review: Legacy of Ashes, by Tim Weiner

Brent Weinbach

Halfway between gross and mesmerizing, this comedian is all-the-way funny

Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

In His Prine

MC Lars

Saturday, May 20, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513

Last Laugh

Paradise Now finds humor in the mission of suicide bombers

Shock and Awe

The dark Buffalo Soldiers may be one of the year's best

Blessed and Bewildered

Recent debacles demonstrate why District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal needs more than a moustache to match the legacy of Johnny Holmes

In the Trenches

Dario Robleto makes art of war

Wall Brawl Truce

A fragile détente settles over Kemah and Clear Lake Shores

Showdown at the Shore

Thrill to the battle of the boardwalk brawlers of Kemah versus the maulers of Clear Lake Shores. Sales-tax slugfests, counterpunches to kayo streets and a flurry of jabs have jolted city services in a municipal grudge match yet to end.

Miller's Crossing

Frozen, cloned or retooled, Miller Quarles plans to live forever. But time is running out.

Ain't No Sunshine

Despite revisiting the 20th century's cataclysmic events, Istvín Szabó's latest lacks emotional punch

She Sings Hard for the Money

Photographic Memory

The Velvet Revolution, preserved on film

Post-Commie Depression

In A Friend of the Deceased, our hero longs for the U.S.S.R.

Press Picks

Revamp in River Oaks

Armando's gets a new chef -- and a new attitude

World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors