Chris Rock

Comedy is NOT Pretty: Dismissed from 1560, Comic John Wessling's Heart Still Belongs to Radio

Chris Rock once said of the music business, "Here today, gone today." The same might be said of radio, particularly sports radio where hosts and shows change about as often as the baseball seasons. A few weeks ago, the latest change came at 1560 when Adam Clanton (now back on air at 790) and John We ... More >>

Internetocalypse! Facebook and Gmail Go Down in the Same Afternoon

When I read yesterday that Facebook was down, only hours after Gmail servers had gone dark, I actually laughed a bit to myself because I realized I was reading it on Twitter. I began to imagine what would happen if it also had server issues. What would the world do...go back to MySpace? Then, it da ... More >>

David Sha's "Her Hair" Is Unapologetically Natural

The other day our dear friend Lisa told Rocks Off a story that really brought emotion and life to Houston R&B artist David Sha's anthem, "Her Hair," a romantic cry for African-American women to wear their hair as God intended -- natural. The story goes that when Lisa saw Mary Lou Retton win the al ... More >>

New York Vacation

Julie Delpy brings the Paris gang to the city.

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 43, Wings and Grits at The Breakfast Klub

This year leading up to our annual Best of Houston® issue, we're counting down our 100 favorite dishes in Houston. This list comprises our favorite dishes from the last year, dishes that are essential to Houston's cultural landscape and/or dishes that any visitor (or resident) should try at least o ... More >>

Rapper's Delight

North Houston's shrine to old-school hip-hop may be the only bar of its kind anywhere.

Pop Rocks: How Do You React To The Proposed Grown Ups Sequel? With Animated Gifs.

​It's a busy time of year for movie critic types. Many of us are butting up against deadlines for award nominations, watching lots of year-end screeners of some pretty memorable films by the likes of Terence Malick, Steve McQueen, and Lynne Ramsay, among others. But everyone needs a palate cl ... More >>

Top Five Best & Worst Songs About 9/11

​This Sunday will be 10 years since America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. In that time, a lot of musical ground has been covered. Some artists mention that day only in passing, as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys do in "Empire State of Mind," but some have crafted songs about 9/11 itself. Some of thes ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Like You Didn't See That Nicolas Cage Thing Coming

This is still better than he looked in The Wicker Man.​Nicolas Cage was arrested in New Orleans last Friday for domestic abuse, disturbing the peace, and public drunkenness (or as we call it in my house, The Wife's Undergrad Spring Break Trifecta). Let me repeat that: Cage was arrested in New ... More >>

Pop Rocks: No One to Blame for Rebecca Black but Ourselves

Rebecca Black WANTS YOU to keep Twittering about her.​The Internet is a strange place. Its most dominant and pervasive bandwidth hogs are spam and porn, both completely voluntary (people actually open those Nigerian money request e-mails or they wouldn't still be sending them). It drives news ... More >>

Twilight Eclipse: Five Questions From A Newbie

So this is about Frankenstein or something?​Tonight, at midnight, it begins. Another round of Twilight madness.Teens, tweens, moms who are the female equivalents of old dudes going to Hannah Montana movies, all will be there. For the premier of Twilight: Calypso.Set in the bouncy Caribbean and fea ... More >>

Grown Ups: Win Free Preview Passes, And Revel In Adam Sandler's Five Best Cameos

"Are you too good for your home, ball?"​Grown Ups, as anyone who's watched any of the NBA Finals can yell you, stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade.That is all you need to know. You will either like this movie, perhaps love it, or you will not go to see it even if by watchin ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Top 5 Rapper "Secret" Identities

Rocks Off wonders what hip-hop would look like if rappers were true to who they really are, or should we say... who they were. Perhaps it would look like the video "Swagger Wagon," by The Sienna Family, the latest Internet phenomenon that has amassed 2.4 million hits in less than a month. Those G's ... More >>

Porn-Loving SEC Employees Deserve A Helping Hand

​ When we heard news that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employees were watching porn while our country's economy was crashing, it didn't surprise us ... at all. Yeah we know, the SEC was formed to police Wall Street, and while the culprits were getting away like bank robbers, 33 SEC emp ... More >>

'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

Comedy and jazz commingle downtown in the clouds (or smog, whatever).

Rap Vixen And Houston Radio Host Tangle To The Death

 Quick, who's Karinne Steffans?You're supposed to know that. At least, according to her you are.Steffans, massive internet research reveals, is a former model and moneymaker-shaker in videos who wrote a tell-all book about her high-flying life called Confessions of a Video Vixen. (Among the peo ... More >>

Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device

A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Funny Business

Once upon a time Houston was a hot spot for comedy clubs. Now it's anybody's guess on who'll turn out on any given night

Our top DVD picks for the week of October 11.

Whitney's Dookie Bubble

Being Bobby Brown is not all fun and games

Long Bomb

Adam Sandler, a star quarterback? If only they were joking.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Over Their Heads

Nobody understands the Politics of the Business like Prince Paul. In fact, almost nobody understands it at all.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic

Saturday, October 26

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Sly Foxx

He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

Fanboy Theater

Jay and Silent Bob feeds the addictions of Kevin Smith junkies

Cavity Search

Osmosis Jones ails from more than the virus that overtakes Bill Murray's body

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

In Ali's Corner

Once a scout for the Kansas City Chiefs, Lloyd Wells caught the champ's attention with all his "pretty girls"

Prepare for Landing

The appropriately named Jet Li may prove Americans are finally primed for Far East mayhem

Rap Space

Will hip-hop ever find a home in Houston?

Cat Man Dues

Panther is a sincere, but self-defeating, exercise