Bette Midler

Mail Call: What's in the Crate?

Best Easter Bunny

Rick Hurt, a.k.a. Rainbo de Klown

Les Passé

A tap-dancing Tony Curtis? Yet another My Fair Lady? The shows may be aging and tired, but TUTS remains Young at heart.

Celebrity Photographer, Photographer Celebrity

Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream

Lady Sings the Pinks

Self-created disco-diva Pinque: If this is camp, it's camp with a guilelessly straight face

A Gay Old Time at Fuzzy's

In a turnabout, homosexuals raid a police bar

Rudy T's Spin Move

In a turnabout, homosexuals raid a police bar

Jazzed Up

In a turnabout, homosexuals raid a police bar

Ladies Light in The Women

Once grand, this story is now just another chick flick

Mindless Fun

Gilligan's Island is so silly and appealing, you can only enjoy it

Out of the Closets

Archiving Houston's queer history, one T-shirt at a time

Beat the Crowd

Archiving Houston's queer history, one T-shirt at a time

Idol Chatter

Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

Burning the Yule Log

Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

Get Back, Honky Cat

Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

Pryor Experience

A comedian's daughter dishes on growing up Jewish and black

A Real Doll

It ain't easy being a sexy rocker

The Kings of Queens

The Kinsey Sicks quartet busts into Houston

Reelin' In the Years

A look back at Houston Press Music Awards of yore

Internal Distress

To: Jeff Cohen, CC: The entire World Wide Web

One for the Geezers

Former staffers line up to testify against KHOU

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

The Theater Shopping Network

Apparently What Women Want is a feature-length commercial

Redneck Mystery Theater

Sneeringly funny Drowning Mona sleuths around backwater America

Valley of the Dull

Susann biopic isn't Great, not by a long shot

Disney Lightens Up

Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

Rotation

Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" and the Tragic Ballad of Kirsty MacColl

Lonesome, Onry and Mean has never hidden our distaste for Christmas music. So if we were ever called on to choose our favorite Christmas song, the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" would win hands down. We can still remember the day - we were still Pogues virgins - when the lyrics, waffling between a ... More >>

More SXSW Speculation: Perhaps a Visit from the Plastic Ono Band?

​We haven't even passed MLK Day, and already Rocks Off is spinning our collective wheels about SXSW. Hell, we haven't even covered RodeoHouston, and we have already begun talking about where we are going to crash every morning at dawn. Rocks Off would like to admit that even on the way home from A ... More >>

Bobby Lyle

​We haven't even passed MLK Day, and already Rocks Off is spinning our collective wheels about SXSW. Hell, we haven't even covered RodeoHouston, and we have already begun talking about where we are going to crash every morning at dawn. Rocks Off would like to admit that even on the way home from A ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Margaret Cho: Cho Dependent Tour

She's singing - and still sassy

Texas Big Beat Drums for Charity This Sunday

Photo by groovehouseDrummers young and old.​Five years ago, drummer Donna Fisher noticed that Seattle had been doing a charity drum gathering each year called Woodstick, and it sparked an idea. "They got over 400 drummers and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, we have to do that in Houston,'" she told Ro ... More >>

Awesomeness and Hearing Loss at the 2011 Texas BigBeat

How do a crapload of drums sound when playing in unison in an airplane hangar? Pretty freaking awesome. ​In the Cameron Crowe-directed documentary Pearl Jam Twenty, lead singer Eddie Vedder discusses the detrimental impact of the band's Spinal Tap-like replacement of drummers, equating each ch ... More >>

No Surprises: Rock Hall Set To Induct Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys

Photo By Marco TorresGuns N' Roses are Rock Hall bound, but which version of GNR will show up? ​This morning (well, it leaked last night) the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland announced their 2012 class of inductees. Included on the list are Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Bo ... More >>

Gay Mermaid Ornaments: Why the Hell Not?

We did not know this, but apparently there's a gay thing about mermaid ornaments. You go on Web sites that sell Christmas stuff to Teh Gheys, and chances are you'll see some mermaids and mermans. Why? Mermaids have always seemed sexless to us. Sure, you've got the boobs, but there seems to be an in ... More >>