Birthdays

Ray Price

10 Reasons to Be Pissed Christmas Is Over

Is there anything more depressing than hearing a Christmas song the day AFTER Christmas? It makes me want to punch Nat King Cole in the face. When we reach the moment that is literally the furthest away from Christmas we will get every year, there's a sort of resigned melancholy that resonates with ... More >>

Sanctus Bellum Summons Pentagram for a Not-So-Silent Night of Metal

Nothing sucks worse than having a birthday in late December. It's not really even a debate at this point. Year after year, Christmas is all anybody cares about, and you wind up with a gross gingerbread cake and birthday presents under the tree. Nobody's trying to celebrate your ass. If your birthda ... More >>

Austinite Videos Himself Being Rejected Every Day for 100 Days

Anyone who owns a business or, for that matter, lives on planet earth, has had to face rejection. It might be from a potential business parter or a potential romantic partner. You think you are offering a great deal. You get your pitch together and it all goes thud right in your face. It's horrifyin ... More >>

Floyd-Flouting Aussies a "Tribute" Act Like No Other

While they are technically a "tribute band," there is nothing amateur, half-assed or untrue to the source about the Australian Pink Floyd Show. In fact, these Down Under Wonders put on such an eerily accurate PF experience, they were asked by none other than David Gilmour himself to play his 50th ... More >>

Top 5 Kid Birthday Party Food Themes

As a kid, I loved planning my birthday parties. Each year had to be different from the last and it always revolved around a theme. Whether it was a Hawaiian luau at the pool, a popcorn movie night with the girls or a pony ride down the street (it was raining, might I add), I always centered the part ... More >>

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 4th of July Celebration

Low-Key Lounge Bar 5015

Tiffany Michelle Amos: Teacher Held Off on Sexing Teen Until His 17th Birthday, But Couldn't Hold Off on the Dirty Pics & Texts

Tiffany Michelle Amos was a substitute teacher in the Spring school district with an apparent hankering for one of her students. She knew not to have sex with him until he turned 17 -- and indeed, on his 17th birthday she invited him over and had sex with him, court documents say. Unfortunately fo ... More >>

Last Night: Lil Keke & Friends All-Star Birthday Bash At House Of Blues

Lil Keke & Friends All-Star Birthday Bash House of Blues March 28, 2012 Screwed Up Click veteran Lil Keke has been helping shape the sound and style of Houston rap for better than 15 years. That's long enough to make a lot of friends in the game, and a whole bunch of them showed up onstage at House ... More >>

Weekend Reminder: Don't Leave Your Kids Behind at Chuck E. Cheese

Just two days after a Maryland family left their three-year-old daughter behind at Chuck E. Cheese by accident -- and were only alerted after seeing her picture on the 11 p.m. news that night -- Texas has one-upped the Old Line State. KTRK reported this afternoon that a five-year-old girl was left ... More >>

Houston Blues Legend Big Walter "The Thunderbird" Dies At 97

Big Walter "The Thunderbird" Price, the elder statesman of Houston blues who continued performing well into his nineties, died overnight, according to a Facebook post by local blues musician Steve Krase of Steve Krase & the In Crowd. Price was 97 and had been in a nursing home in north Houston. As ... More >>

Thursday's Best Justin Bieber Social-Media Birthday Wishes

Yesterday the world awoke to wish Justin Bieber a happiest of 18th birthdays. Born March 1, 1994 -- a little over a month before Kurt Cobain died, quashing any reincarnation fantasies -- the young man celebrated in high style on the Interwebs, announcing a new song and receiving a $100K Fisker Karma ... More >>

The Adicts

Ray Price

RIP Hubert Sumlin, Legendary Blues Musician

​Hubert Sumlin, former guitarist with Howlin' Wolf and member of the Blues Hall of Fame is dead at the age of 80. Sumlin was ranked at number 65 in Rolling Stone's greatest guitar players of all time and has been cited as an influence on a wide range of blues and rock guitarists. He was born ... More >>

Last Night: Chip Tha Ripper At Warehouse Live

photos by Charne Graham​Chip tha Ripper, XV Warehouse Live October 20, 2011 Warehouse Live was packed with college kids as Scoremore promotions brought Chip tha Ripper back to Houston for his second headlining show in the city. Warner Bros. artist XV opened for Chip with a vivacious performa ... More >>

The Horrors

Friday Night: Jessica Lea Mayfield At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Marc Brubaker​Jessica Lea Mayfield, David Mayfield Fitzgerald's April 22, 2011 You know those situations where you're thinking to yourself, "Wow, this looks like it doesn't make sense...perhaps some further investigation might prove me wrong"? Friday night was one of the very few ti ... More >>

SXSW Last Night: Birthday Boy Bun B & Erykah Badu Team Up For Noisey.com Launch Party

Marco Torres​Bun B celebrated his 38th birthday last night at the launch of Vice magazine's new music site, Noisey.com at Austin warehouse district club Kiss & Fly.

Rubber Duckie Celebration

Busytown

Here’s a musical for the littlest busy bees in your life

Crystal Sierra: Galveston Woman Jumps Gun On Birthday, Ends Up In Jail

Photo courtesy GCSOCrystal Sierra​Another week, and another Crystal gets in trouble in a kind of awesome way.This time it's now-23-year-old Crystal Angelita Sierra's turn.Seems last Sunday was her 23rd birthday, and apparently Sierra found the very prospect of that occasion so exciting she started ... More >>

Theodore Perez: Fired For Not Attending His Birthday Party?

Does not include a chapter on firing the honoree​The City of Huntington is a small community in east Texas of a little more than 2,000 people, and it would appear that the folks there take birthdays pretty damn seriously.So much so, says one man who used to work for the city, that he was told he w ... More >>

Would YOU Let A Band That Looks Like This Entertain Your Children?

www.hevisaurus.com​ Rocks Off just thought we'd ask. Because if so - and you live in Finland, and are, like, the CEO of Nokia or something - Hevisaurus will probably play your kid's next birthday party. These GWAR-meets-Barney boys come to us from over at Dlisted, where they're today's winners of ... More >>

My Education

Alan Jackson

Doomsday Wrestling: Free Cake!

Announcer Tex Lonestar is ready for a piece of the action

Birthday from Hell

Happy birthday to me...aw, hell, forget it

Snackshot: Cake Fail

Today's fail-tastic Snackshot comes to us courtesy of my mother and her vast collection of embarrassing photos. This is how not to frost a cake. My family refers to it as the Stroke Cake to this day.

Billy Joe Shaver

Zulu Creative's 3rd Birthday Celebration and TOMS Style Your Sole Shoe Designing Party

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Tchaikovsky Birthday Celebration

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Earth Day Houston

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BooTown’s “Not So Gala” Gala

Charity event trades inflated egos for inflatable castle

Sixteen Candles

This ‘80s cult classic is a must-see for Generation Y

POISON GIRL's

THE JONES

“New Animals”

Allison Hunter shows barnyard creatures without the barnyard

Hogwarts Holiday

Frida Fiesta

Celebrate art and the unibrow

Here's Two You

Duff's Enough

Mo's Art

King Me

Best Family Restaurant

Tokyohana