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  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    He Said She Said: Our Christmas Musical Wishlists, Part 2 - LPs Nobody Can Buy

    ​When He Said was four years old, all he wanted for Christmas was big brown tape recorder that Play Skool put out so he could record his own imaginary radio shows and crazed ramblings about He-Man. Santa Claus brought it that year, and He Said wore that thing out over the next few months. For Chri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    For Black Friday, The Top 5 Videos Set In Shopping Malls

    "Are you off your fucking meds or something?"​We at Rocks Off are a bit puzzled by the continued practice of cramming ourselves into local malls on "Black Friday," or whatever we're calling the day after Thanksgiving this year (we perfer to remember it as a Megadeth song). Wasn't online shoppi ... More >>

  • Music

    October 29, 2009

    Peaches

    "Are you off your fucking meds or something?"​We at Rocks Off are a bit puzzled by the continued practice of cramming ourselves into local malls on "Black Friday," or whatever we're calling the day after Thanksgiving this year (we perfer to remember it as a Megadeth song). Wasn't online shoppi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Barbarians At The Cabaret Gates

    The all-time highlight of the night was when an older man began belting out a "Willkommen" to make anyone proud. Problem was, he wasn't on stage, but was sitting in the upper mezzanine -- part of the audience. Theater Etiquette 101 hit a new low at last night's entertaining performance of ... More >>

  • Music

    June 11, 2009

    Girl Star, Grown Up

    Still proud of her family band, Susan Cowsill does her own thing now.

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Be Prepared: This Version Of Cabaret Has Some Serious Bling At The Kit Kat Club

    Photo courtesy TUTSDitching the sometimes darker approach, the upcoming version of Cabaret that Theatre Under the Stars is bringing to Houston delights in what some critics have called "Vegasy" glitter, but director Bill Berry and his design team maintain is far closer to the truth than what's ... More >>

  • Music

    May 28, 2009

    Dexter Romweber Duo

    Photo courtesy TUTSDitching the sometimes darker approach, the upcoming version of Cabaret that Theatre Under the Stars is bringing to Houston delights in what some critics have called "Vegasy" glitter, but director Bill Berry and his design team maintain is far closer to the truth than what's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    DNA May Track Down Holocaust Survivors In Houston And Elsewhere

    Kaye Marvins PhotograpyThea Singer (left) and her sister Vera BlumDNA technology has helped to identify 9/11 victims, find missing persons and determine paternity. But can it really reunite victims of the Holocaust?Thea Singer has decided it's worth a try.Singer has done just about everything else t ... More >>

  • Music

    April 9, 2009

    Stereo Total

    Kaye Marvins PhotograpyThea Singer (left) and her sister Vera BlumDNA technology has helped to identify 9/11 victims, find missing persons and determine paternity. But can it really reunite victims of the Holocaust?Thea Singer has decided it's worth a try.Singer has done just about everything else t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Radar Eyes: Peeking Under Shakes Gown

    SAN FRANCISCO -> BERLIN -> SAN FRANCISCO -> BEYOND!!! Chris Rolls is the mastermind behind the high-energy San Francisco music machine known as Shakes Gown. Radar Eyes: Name, social security no., purpose for living, etc. Shakes Gown: Chris Rolls, and my purpose is to procreate... or so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election Eve With Fred

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2008

    Get Lit: The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour, by Andrei Cherny

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    November 15, 2007

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2007

    Radio Houstoned: The Cinema of East Germany

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2007

    Drenched In Blog: Tantric Metal at Meridian

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    You Blog What You Is

    Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 19, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    January 25, 2007

    Nostalgia Trip

    Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

  • Film

    December 28, 2006

    Iraq's Cinema of Longing

    A conversation with director James Longley

  • Music

    July 13, 2006

    Peaches

    Impeach My Bush

  • Music

    June 15, 2006

    Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

    And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

  • Culture

    December 8, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Music

    December 8, 2005

    Electronic Music

    The year in review

  • Culture

    November 24, 2005

    Circling Chaos

    Infernal Bridegroom puts on another show of bizarre wonders

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Röyksopp

    The Understanding

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Letters

    The Understanding

  • Music

    May 26, 2005

    Stereo Total, with the Kimonos, Carter Brown and the Wiggins

    Wednesday, June 1, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2005

    Joel Jams

    This Billy-based show will get you Movin'

  • Film

    March 10, 2005

    Out Like a Lamb

    Downfall chronicles Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2005

    Basket Cases

    The Harlem Globetrotters bounce into town for some hoops high jinks

  • Music

    November 4, 2004

    Blizzard of Oz

    Dubya, Ashlee and Bill O'Reilly have spun Racket's mind into the twilight zone; also, two local retro-cool institutions bite the dust

  • Film

    October 14, 2004

    The Passion of the Goy

    Gentile women defend their Jewish husbands against the Nazis in Rosenstrasse

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Gentile women defend their Jewish husbands against the Nazis in Rosenstrasse

  • Culture

    April 22, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Games for the Bored

    Role-playing fanatics keep it surreal at OwlCon XXIII

  • Film

    January 8, 2004

    Chasing Mandy

    A pop-star-turned-actress tries to move into her "mature phase"

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Crash Course

    A stuntman is mightily impressed by Houston's rail crashes

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2003

    Achtung, Baby

    The 1936 Olympics in Berlin revealed the tip of the Nazi iceberg

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003
  • Music

    July 19, 2001

    Rick Treviño

    Mi Son (Vanguard)

  • Film

    March 1, 2001

    Brave Hearts

    A secret Jew and a Berlin housewife find love among the Nazis in the beautiful Aimée & Jaguar

  • Calendar

    December 14, 2000
  • Culture

    July 6, 2000

    Sexual Concealing

    Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

  • Film

    October 2, 1997

    Fastest Filmmaker in the Fatherland

    Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

  • Film

    March 21, 1996

    Foreign Affairs

    Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

  • Music

    February 16, 1995

    Weimar Woman

    Ute Lemper searches for truth in the cabaret songs of 1920s Germany

  • Music

    August 11, 1994

    Dancing Fool

    Swinging and swaying at the Forties Follies

  • Film

    March 17, 1994

    24 Lies Per Second

    Swinging and swaying at the Forties Follies

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