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The 25 Best Reasons To Love Texas In The Fall

Fall has arrived in Texas, and thank God. There is no better time in the Lone Star State, for so many reasons. The switch in season may be more subtle than it is in the north -- you never can get that far away from a Texas summer, after all -- but there's enough change in the air to signify that y ... More >>

5 Things The Shuttle Endeavour Needs To Do In Its Houston Layover

NASA is trying to make a big PR splash with its crosscountry trip, of the retired shuttle Endeavour, including a nose-thumbing stopover of Houston, the city who didn't get a shuttle despite being the home of NASA. See Also: - Retired Shuttles: Houston Even Finished Behind McMinnville, Oregon - Eigh ... More >>

For The NFL Season: The Overpowering Awfulness Of Houston Oiler Fight Songs, Collected

Everyone's happy, happy, happy with where the Houston Texans are headed into the 2012 season -- the roster battles are largely confined to low-profile back-up positions, the division's weak and a Super Bowl beckons - but this city has been there before. We've gone through it with the Texans themsel ... More >>

Lightnin' Hopkins Finally Gets What's Coming To Him

This week Rocks Off is counting down our choices for the Top 5 local music stories of 2010. Matthew KeeverR. Eric Davis, Texas Johnny Brown and Milton Hopkins at the Lightnin' Hopkins Historical Marker dedication ceremony, November 13​WHAT HAPPENED? Coming in at No. 5 on our year-end list is ... More >>

Lightnin' Hopkins Historical Marker Dedication

Lightnin' Strikes

The late legendary Houston bluseman finally gets an official historical marker.

Game Time: Road Trip Edition

​At some point, there is an age you reach where climbing into an SUV with three of your buddies to drive a ridiculous distance to a backwater town to watch football, drink beer, fart, and pretend you're 22 again becomes old. I don't know what age that is, I just know I haven't reached it yet.Las ... More >>

Hog Wild

Feral pigs are ugly, destructive and mean. Some people in Texas just love to trap, stab or shoot them. Or put them in rodeos. With dogs.

The Houston Slide

The Medicine Show rocks the ephemeral city with eternal music

The Bards of Baytown

Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly

The Voodoo Chile's Slight Return

Greg Ashley resurrects the Mirrors for a summer tour; also: beware of Zipperneck

Wine Geek Chic

Which wine will you be serving at your Oscar party?

Sumo Cum Laude

With their 21-foot loincloths, two big guys belly up to an ancient Eastern sport

Barbecue in Black and White

Carving the racism out of Texas barbecue mythology

Musical Chairs

It's never the same show with the Good Luck Band

News of the Weird

Night & Day

June 24 - 30, 1999