Subject: Brownsville (Brooklyn)

• Fed-up Feds

  Will the "temp" United States Attorney exile dissidents to the border?

  March 11, 1999

• Playing by Heart

  Joseph Samuels never had any musical training. But five years ago he sat down at a piano, and people have been listening ever since.

  January 3, 2002

• Aftermath: M.O.P. at Warehouse Live

  October 22, 2008

• June 1: And So It Begins......

  NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!! (MUST CREDIT HAIR BALLS!!!!!) Today is the beginning of the hurricane season.While the rest of the so-called mainstream media will ignore this important milestone simply because writing or airing stuff about hurricanes in Houston results in cheap increases in ratings and clicks, you can depend on us to stoop that low.This week will bring The Only Hurricane Guide You Will Ever Need. There's a lot of stuff about hurricanes that normally gets overlooked by such guides (Examp

  June 1, 2009

• The Poison Connection

  January 6, 1994

• Trashing Houston

  April 14, 1994

• Static

  April 11, 1996

• Think Small

  August 15, 1996

• Brothers of the Road

  May 22, 1997

• Shifting Foundation

  August 14, 1997

• East End Transit

  November 27, 1997

• Dish

  January 1, 1998

• News of the Weird

  September 17, 1998

• The Wrong Enemies

  October 15, 1998

• Easygoing George W. Bush

  October 29, 1998

• Border Bound

  April 29, 1999

• Boxing, Sex and Madness

  Mike Tyson's many personalities are on display in James Toback's new documentary.

  April 9, 2009

• The Story of Los Volcanes and Neil Diamond

  February 5, 2009

• The Few, The Proud, the Battered

  At Harlingen's Marine Military Academy, the line between discipline and abuse is sometimes as thin as a knife's edge

  January 8, 1998

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  March 6, 2003

• Take Our Katrina Kwiz!

  September 15, 2005

• Temples of Tex-Mex: A Diner's Guide to the State's Oldest Mexican Restaurants

  July 3, 2008

• Chess Masters at UT-Brownsville

  April 10, 2008

• I'm Not There

  November 22, 2007

• 2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

  July 27, 2006

• Playbill

  June 3, 2004

• I'm Not Dreaming of a White Christmas

  No snow and no Bing for Racket

  December 18, 2003

• Cancún Cuisine

  Take a little trip to Cascadas Cantina y Restaurante

  October 16, 2003

• Cattle Call

  Boozing with a few aggrieved bad seeds at the American Idol audition

  August 21, 2003

• Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

  Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

  July 18, 2002

• South Park Monster

  June 6, 2002

• End of the Bend?

  Jetports and elite resorts may do what border bandits, blistering heat and harsh desert life couldn't: rob Big Bend of its rugged beauty.

  August 16, 2001

• Letters

  Off the "X", Beaching Out, The Low Down

  July 5, 2001

• The Bored Patrol

  Border Patrol agents in South Texas contend they are getting paid to stay put as illegal immigrants go around them. Is this how the much-hyped crackdown along the Rio Grande is supposed to work?

  June 21, 2001

• Rejected

  Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

  May 24, 2001

• Rush to Judges

  Texans long to secure seats on the bench

  May 17, 2001

• Jailhouse Crock

  Spanish-language media cries foul over Railcar Killer interviews

  October 5, 2000

• Smooth Operator

  Jack Linvillle transformed a little architecture firm into a leading public contractor -- with help from some well-heeled political pals

  December 16, 1999

• Term Limits: The Next Generation

  A fractious bunch fills the city ballot, but the blood flies in District H

  September 30, 1999

• Swine Flu Death In Mystery Hospital

  Photo by The Pug FatherThe first case of a death from swine flu has been reported -- and it's here in Houston.Of course, it's not exactly a Houstonian who, say, was attending an elementary school in HISD. It was an infant, born in Mexico, who got sick in Brownsville and was transported to Houston and died in a hospital here. Very, very sad, and thoughts go out to the family.Which hospital did this happen in? Kathy Barton, spokesperson of the city's Health and Human Services department, isn't say

  April 29, 2009

• Sucker Punch

  With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers asurprisingly powerful blow.

  May 7, 2009

• Not So Clear Cut

  June 18, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

  View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in an attempt to outflank primary opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison on the right discussed secession as a viable possibility. But Rocks Off doesn't care a whit about any of that political BS. We do care abou

  August 11, 2009

• The Feds Stage A Blitz On Illegal Gun Sales In Houston, And Rack Up Numbers

  ​For most of the spring and summer, a souped-up squad of 100 ATF agents was running all over Houston and South Texas doing everything possible to slow the raging river of guns illegally flowing into Mexico.Agents followed up old leads, tracked down new ones, made scores of arrests, confiscated hundreds of guns and learned a lot about how the weapons are getting from Texas stores into the arms of the merciless drug-cartel soldiers.At a news conference today, Dewey Webb, ATF's special agent in

  October 1, 2009

• San Antonio Blogger Has Had Enough "Free South Park Mexican" Sentiment

  Michael Hogue​A little over seven years ago, we wrote about the South Park Mexican trial. The rapper, born Carlos Coy, had it all: money, his own record label, a nightclub and, most importantly, the ear of a generation. He was the voice of a new type of person: the Southern and Southwestern Mexican-American who acclimated to American life through black culture - specifically hip-hop - instead of white. As Tejano music and culture started to wither and die in the wake of the murder of Selena, S

  November 18, 2009