Brokeback Mountain

For Valentine's: The Five Best Recent Rockets Bromances

Over the years, the NBA went from a league where practically every player hated each other, to a league where they Tweet to tell how much they miss one another. Since NBA All-Star Weekend is coming to Houston, some former and present Houston Rockets may get to rekindle the flame of the bromance the ... More >>

The Inprint Brown Reading Series presents Emma Donoghue and Hari Kunzru

Pop Rocks: Here's Some Gay Sex To Prepare You For Tonight's Glee (NSFW)

Those aren't pillows...​A Very Special Episode of the oft-vilified television variety show Glee airs tonight. Titled "The First Time," it promises to be quite the, uh, humdinger: Television watchdog groups have not been kind to Glee in the past, often taking aim at the show and its stars. So ... More >>

Why the Golden Globes Are Relevant...No, Really

Just as relevant as the Academy Awards. Sorry.​The 2011 awards season kicked off Sunday night with the 68th installment of the Golden Globes, a.k.a. That Awards Show No One in Hollywood Takes Seriously But They All Attend Anyway Because They're Too Chickenshit to Blow It Off. Though now that ... More >>

Ang Lee Film Series

University of Houston-Downtown features early work by the director of Brokeback Mountain

Aubrey's In Aldine: A Honky-Tonk Time Warp

Aubrey's on Facebook​As mentioned in our honky-tonk cover story last month, Aubrey's Club in north Houston is a step back in time. Lonesome Onry and Mean drove out there last winter to catch longtime Houston country singer Country Jim Sloan, and we were most pleased with what we found. For on ... More >>

Mary McBride Finds Home In Prisons, Shelters, Nightclubs

​ On her current tour in support of her new CD The Way Home, soul/folk singer-songwriter Mary McBride - best known for the touching "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" from the of the movie Brokeback Mountain soundtrack - has given herself a challenge: in addition to each club date she will be makin ... More >>

Before the Flood

West Texan Ned Sublette reflects on pre-Katrina New Orleans in a new memoir.

Game Time: Best-Case NFL Draft Scenario For HBO's Hard Knocks Fans

​In the end, I guess someone had to go. If you're the front office of a proud franchise like the Steelers, you can only have so many impromptu press conferences, district attorney explanations, and women screaming foul before a message needs to get sent. You're not going to move the star quarte ... More >>

Bad Marriage

Tina Fey and Steve Carell go lowbrow and chemistry-free in Date Night.

Brazil, Unplugged

Gilberto Gil trims down his sound for an all-acoustic show.

Rocks Off's Rodeo Concert Guide: Brad "Not Jake Gyllenhaal" Paisley

Date: March 11 Name: Brad Paisley AKA: "Isn't That Jake Gyllenhaal?" Genre: Freemason country Best Known Song(s): "Alcohol," "She's Everything," "Ticks," "Ow, My Back" Key Demographic: Confused Brokeback Mountain fans, people who only eat the vanilla section of Neapolitan ice cream Previous HLSR A ... More >>

Ang Lee Retrospective

See the early work by the man behind Brokeback Mountain

The Forgotten Festival

The 1969 Texas International Pop Festival

Summer Film Series — 100 Years of Gay History

Step Aside, Dame Edna

DEAR Camp

Lee Gamel and Brian Neal Sensabaugh look at the art of compromise

Brazos River Bottom

Dance lessons at the BRB

Oscar Wild!

Where to watch the stars