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Rocks Off's Rodeo Concert Guide for "Bros":
Tim McGraw

The Rocks Off Rodeo Concert Guide is our annual helpful(?) primer for those of you unsure about your HLSR music choices for the big event at Reliant Stadium. Date: March 8 Name: Tim McGraw AKA: "Mr. Faith Hill."

Comment of the Day: Montrose Redevelopment

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>

5 Things to Miss About Being a Classic Gamer

This is not a lament for the old days, Okay? We're very grateful for the endlessly forward march of video game progress, and if anyone tries to tell you that the classic era was superior, then beat them in the face with a Jaguar controller until it breaks. The modern world has full-motion capture co ... More >>

KAB Tha Don Knows Children's Movies

Tonight, KAB tha Don, monsterly dignitary, will host a mixer celebrating the release of his first proper mixtape, Bully On The Beat, at SF2 North (215 W. Greens Rd). Now, KAB is nothing short of a Houston Press fan favorite. He is big and mean and, should he choose to be, hyperintimidating. His men ... More >>

The Film Issue: People of the Year

Pop Rocks: Gene Simmons Is A Lucky Man -- Our Six Favorite Shannon Tweed VHS Covers (NSFW)

On behalf of all of us here at Art Attack, I'd like to congratulate Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed on the joyous occasion of their marriage. The pair lived together, "happily unmarried," for 28 years before finally deciding to take the plunge. I have no idea what prompted them to tie the knot (I'm ... More >>

Trader Joe's is Trading on Texas: Dallas to Get First Store

Photo by davyninInside a Trader Joe's store in Pittsburgh.​The Dallas Morning News roused a lot of food-lovers across the state with some happy news this morning: Trader Joe's, the specialty grocery chain based in California, is coming to Texas. Hot on the heels of another California import, I ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 2: Kristen Powell of Simone on Sunset

​Yesterday, we caught of up with Kristen Powell, the chef/owner of Simone on Sunset. We discussed her new place and the difficulties of starting a business. Today, we'll focus on the food and wine. EOW: This is a wine place -- are you good at pairing wines with foods? KP: I'd like to think ... More >>

Walmart vs Best Buy: Rice Studies Why Walmart's Kicking Butt

Best Buy might become the next Blockbuster, Rice researchers say​Walmart is going to kick Best Buy's ass this holiday shopping season, and researchers at Rice say they know why. And the stunning answer is.....prices. Though they maintained equivalent levels of overall customer satisfaction ( ... More >>

Sick: Snake Bitez and Twilight Sweethearts

​When did pop culture become sick culture? No wonder kids are so messed up. I recently spotted two different odd-looking candies at Blockbuster and had to buy them: a Snake Bitez Gummi Snake, basically three feet of sugar and gelatin, and The Twilight Saga: New Moon Sweethearts, heart-shaped c ... More >>

Your New Year's Weekend Sports-Viewing Guide

​So you stayed up a bit late last night doing the whole celebrating the New Year thing. Now your head's aching, the room's spinning, and you just want to flop on the couch and watch some sports. But you don't want to have to think about what sports to watch. That's where I come in. Here's a little ... More >>

Year in Film: Rent a Wreck

For a former video store giant, not such a blockbuster decade.

Coolest Movie Store In Town Needs Your Help

Arcos, the owner​It's hard out there for a video-store pimp.Rob Arcos, owner of MOVIES! The Store, hasn't had a stellar summer, sales-wise. He based his 2009 forecast on the previous two summers, but this year has failed to live up to his predictions, leaving one of Houston's coolest indepen ... More >>

Blockbuster Disses Houston As A Movie Location

Blockbuster has put out an interactive "Road Trip" map for the summer, listing locations where great movies have been shot.Sixteen of the listed films are in Texas. The number of those shot in Houston? Zero.Included are Bonnie & Clyde (Dallas) and Dazed and Confused (Austin), but even the TV sho ... More >>

Lost Tuneage: Sweet (Formerly The Sweet)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_(band)Who 'Dat? From the land of England in 1968 came a band called The Sweetshop, featuring singer Brian Connolly, bassist Steve Priest, drummer Mick Tucker and guitarist Frank Torpey slogging it out on the pub circuit. By 1970, Andy Scott had replaced Torpey, and the band ... More >>

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

Crushing on Avril Lavigne

Confessions of a closet Avril lover

Eraserhead

David Lynch wants your undivided attention, please

Christian Bale

What won't the best actor of his generation do for a role? Not much.

Turkeys of the Year

The 2006 Collectors Edition

Sonic Bust

Sega's Hedgehog goes back to the grind...yawn

Oh, Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

A Crying Shame

RIP, Cactus Music and Video

Oh, the Horror!

Kick off the fall season with a frightful film festival and some freaky props

Birthday Surprise

Preservationists get help in the oddest way

Nailed by the Cops

A fashionable burglar gets nabbed

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Knotty Knickers

The Underpants goes down in wild-and-crazy-guy style

War Is Afoot

"Eyes Wide Open" brings statistics to life

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

Best Video Store

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

That's a Rap

D-Wreck crosses over to film

Best DVD Selection

Cactus Music & Video

Small Screen, Big Step

DEJ Productions tries to give "direct-to-video" a good name

Wading for Godot

Allison arrived in a flood of thoughts -- mattress rafts, murky thigh-deep water and the sudden flotsam of family life rushing out the back door

RV Xmas

In which our intrepid reporter goes searching for the heart of America on a trailer pad. And finds disappointment, isolation, kindness and a great way to cook himself a turkey.

Picking at Scabs

Someone please find some substitute filmmakers for The Replacements

News Hostage

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Prog's New Face

Deadwood Forest isn't your father's progressive rock band

News of the Weird

Viva Japanic!

Local Music News

Man or Monster?

Cozy Church of Cinema

Ball of Confusion

Letters

Letters

Six Legs, One Joke

Press Picks