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60 Years of Corvettes Featured in 35th Annual Corvette Expo This Weekend

The Chevrolet Corvette has been an American icon since the first generation debuted in 1953 as "America's sports car." Sixty years and six generations of Corvette later, the Corvette owner community is one of the most active groups of car enthusiasts around. This weekend marks the 35th annual Corvet ... More >>

RIP Martin Miglioretti: Houston Blues Society Poster Artist Was 58

It's been a rough weekend for the Houston blues community. Martin Miglioretti, a graphic artist who designed dozens of posters and other images for the Houston Blues Society, even its Lightnin' Hopkins-themed logo, passed away suddenly Saturday night. He was 58 and signed his creations "Martino." H ... More >>

Def Leppard's Rick Allen and 10 More Miraculous Rock Recoveries

Twenty-eight years ago this week (New Year's Eve), Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen became famous. Well, he was already famous, we guess, for being the drummer for one of the finest pop-metal bands of all time. But on December 31, 1984, Allen became even more famous for being pretty much the only pop- ... More >>

Houston's Babies Play Vintage Baseball

There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.

When Car Commercials And Rock And Roll Collide

This weekend is the big Houston Art Car Parade, where children and adults of all ages can gander at their fellow Houstonians' labors of car love. Each car is a marvel to the ingenuity and the insanity of this race known as the modern Texan. The Art Car festivities have cars on our brains. Rock a ... More >>

Peyton Manning's Colts Career Ends, More Cheesy Peyton Videos Begin

If everyday breakups went as smoothly as the press conference at Colts headquarters Wednesday, you'd see far fewer people staying in dysfunctional relationships to merely avoid the pain and anguish that comes with ending it. Colts owner Jim Irsay and longtime quarterback/franchise icon Peyton Manni ... More >>

Jason Cassidy's 10 Country Songs You Should Hear Before You Die

Tonight traditional country upstart Jason Cassidy headlines Big Texas Dance Hall & Saloon out in Clear Lake. The strip-center venue, known for it's pretty girls with painted-on jeans and copious amounts of trucks in the parking lot and a Bud Light in every hand, has been host to Cassidy many times b ... More >>

The Ghost of Hunter Thompson

An oddly tame adaptation of The Rum Diary.

A Rap Guide To The HISD Football Playbook

​Football season is underway for HISD middle schools. Rocks Off helps coach a 7th and 8th grade team. Which means we've been working fervently with 12-to-14-year-olds these past three weeks, aimlessly trying to get them to understand how to identify which side of the offense is the strong side ... More >>

RIP Ryan Dunn: 15 Car Crash Songs

film.com​Rocks Off has always been a Jackass fan. The exploits of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the recently deceased Ryan Dunn may not be for everyone, but we've always maintained it's better to be a willing participant in mayhem and physical abuse than not (*cough* America's Fun ... More >>

How Not To Leave A Car Show

You go to a gathering of car enthusiasts, you want to impress. How not to do it: Do what the guy in the red car does in this clip. Follow closely; he comes in about the sen-second mark. The video of the wipeout, which occurred earlier this month at Houston's Coffee & Cars meeting, is making the rou ... More >>

Electric Car: I Drove The Volt And The Volt Won

Photo by Danny LopezThe electric car is here, but you can't ride it yet​General Motors and Nissan are in a tight race that could go down to a photo finish. No, it's not the Corvette Z06 vs. the Nismo 350z. They're in a race to see who can get the first electric car on the US market -- the Chevro ... More >>

Game Time: College Football -- Celebrating 90210 and the Big 12

A&M: The Dylan McKay of the Big 12​I hate making tough decisions. Today was one of those days. I mean, you have the start of the college football season, which in my house and on my show is like Christmas morning wrapped up in a 21st birthday party.And yet, it is also September 2, 2010 -- th ... More >>

When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Metal Edition

​Dave Chapelle teaches us that the art of "keeping it real" may sometimes go awry. According to urbandictionary.com, this occurs when "in the act of keeping it real, the outcome is unexpected and usually has a negative effect on the individual who decided to keep it real." Rock stars are not i ... More >>

Teflon Man

Now playing in River Oaks, Gary Ross has stayed one step ahead of trouble and judgments across the country.

Filero Battles with the Past, Takes Control of His Future. Second In a Two-Part Series.

[Ed. Note. See Part 1 of Rocks Off's encounter with Filero here.] A hint of things to come? Filero (left) and SPM square off at checkers back in the day.​ When we talked to Filero about how much the rap game has changed since he saw the first Texas Latino rap album, actually a cassette, in the Gul ... More >>

Guitar Zero, or One Old Dog Attempts to Learn a New Trick

[Ed. Note: What happens when Rocks Off finds out one of our writers recently began taking guitar lessons? This.] ​Some men hit their 40s and lose their minds a little. They trade in their minivan for a Corvette, or their wife for a similarly newer model. I have a history of getting these kinds of ... More >>

Zin Balance

The Third Ward's favorite son produces his most important album to date.

Driving Your Dream Car Ain't A Green Thing

This year, all the gift ideas Hair Balls keeps hearing about are green, green, green: The Chron recently suggested a bamboo hard drive, crocheted purses made from aluminum can tops and used books as environmentally friendly options.Which is one reason Hair Balls' eyebrows were raised by a recent ema ... More >>

Aftermath: Kings of Leon at Verizon Wireless Theater

Never Been To A Gun Raffle? Head To Manvel

Houston Speed Traps Caught on Film

Hittin' the Note with Gregg Allman

Vroom with a View

Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over

Cactus Music & Video shutters with a melancholy beer bash

DeLorean Lives On

Coke jokes aside, a Houston company continues the DMC dream

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

Blunt About High Fashion

Roll up more than your sleeves with this clothing line

Shred-heads

Grind transforms formula into freestyle fun

Exile in Whinerville

The hostility flung at Liz Phair's new record is senseless, sexist and abominably stupid

Film Buff

The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Our picks of the week

Line in the Sand

Squeezed by new development on Galveston's west end, fishermen are trying to hang on to an honored Texas tradition: driving on the beach

Bad Judge; Worse Security Guard

The Med Center gives Mansfield the boot

Just a Little Nip and Tuck

The Tavern's Red Headed Slut

Another Summer Rerun

The Ensemble leaves its audience reaching for the remote

Emo-tional Music

Montrose music gets pushed out towards the Heights

Sunny Side Up

A customer steps in to keep traditions alive at the Yale St. Grill

Best Time and Place to See Street Racers

Westheimer

Home Sweet Cell

Finally, a David Allen house with four walls

The Dream Home: A Cautionary Tale

The Youngs thought they did everything right. Apparently not.

Letters

Gray

High on Speed,Some street racers need to win. Others just need to race.

Reefer Madness

Does Houston's biggest drug-prevention program keep kids clean or just make cops feel good?

Night & Day

April 30 - May 6, 1998

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Press Picks

Static

Letters