Cirque du Soleil

The 5 Levels Of a Hangover and How to Cure Them with Food

New Year's is here and I don't know about you, but I'm ready to go out with a bang. And by bang I mean a bottle of champagne, at least three vodka-sodas and an undetermined amount of shots. It's a guaranteed good time. It's also a guaranteed hangover. So to help start the new year off wrong (and ... More >>

Cathy Rigby Flying High

60-year-old soars in Peter Pan.

Capsule Stage Reviews: Body Awareness, The Italian Girl in Algiers, La Bohème, The Oldest Profession, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, KOOZA, Leading Ladies, Next Fall, Our Town

Capsule Stage Reviews: KOOZA, Mr. Marmalade, Steel Magnolias, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever), The Wrong Side of the Law

Capsule Stage Reviews: KOOZA, Life Could Be a Dream, The Lion King, Steel Magnolias, The Wrong Side of the Law

Capsule Stage Reviews: First Lady Suite, KOOZA, The Lion King, Top Shelf Shorts, Travelsty

All Week Long: $50 Floor Seats to Chesney & McGraw's "Brothers of the Sun" Show

You know an upcoming show is a big one when you see an actual TV commerical about it like we did on VH1 over the weekend. Also a good tipoff: The concert is at the same venue where the Houston Texans will soon enough start their 2012 season. So all week long, but only this week, Rocks Off and the H ... More >>

Saturday Night: thelastplaceyoulook at Warehouse Live

thelastplaceyoulook Warehouse Live July 7, 2012 Music is subjective, and when it hits you is oftentimes related to the circumstances under which you hear it. Maybe you're driving around when a song comes on the radio, and it makes your ears perk up. Something about it -- a voice, a riff, a beat - ... More >>

Living Loud and Proud

Celebrating Houston’s Gay Pride 2012—The celebrity grand marshal, local GLBT history, where to watch the parade — and the parties

Cirque du Soleil: KOOZA

Companhia de Dança

Cirque du Soleil: Quidam

Thread

Rammstein

The Best & Worst-Case Scenarios For The Future Of Musical Holograms

Like most night owls, I spent early Monday morning watching YouTube clips of a holographic Tupac Shakur playing Coachella with his friends Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg nearly 16 years after his death. It was at once creepy and crass, but altogether interesting no matter how you sliced it, and not just bec ... More >>

Vault Open House

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

Cirque Mechanics Boomtown

Circo

Five Famous Indian and Pakistani Houstonians

India and Pakistan are 64 years old this week.​Dust off your South Asian flags, because this week we celebrate India's (August 15) and Pakistan's (August 14) Independence Days. Sixty-four years ago, India freed itself from the Brits and split itself into two countries. Luckily many crossed the ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Gone Missing, I Do! I Do!, An Inspector Calls, OVO, Shards of Love

Capsule Stage Reviews: Gone Missing, Or, OVO, Sleeping Beauty

Cirque du Soleil: Ovo

Idol Beat: I'm About To Have A Nervous Breakdown

​My head really hurts...sorry, after last night's shenanigans, I couldn't help breaking out the Black Flag. Have you ever had one of those really bad nightmares, the kind that is so horrifying it wakes you up multiple times during the night? And even though your subconscious is trying to offe ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

MOMIX: Botanica

The dancers/illusionists keep everything coming up...roses?

Can't Buy Me Love: Post-Breakup Beatles In A Tangled Web

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup By Peter Doggett ​It says something about the market for books about the Fabs that this is one of many dedicated to the group's breakup, financial story and legal battles. However, Doggett (Are You Ready for the Country?) not only pr ... More >>

Dr. Michael Brown, TV Star, Arrestee, And Chron Society Page Fave

A photo the Chron doesn't use on its society pages​The Houston Chronicle had the story yesterday about the latest arrest of Dr. Michael Brown, this time accused of assaulting his wife.Everytime the Chron mentions Brown, we think of the 2002 Houston Press story on his druggy, wife-abusing ways (if ... More >>

The Lady Is Dead... And It's Wonderful (Semi-NSFW)

​However you feel about the Proposition 8 ruling that passed on Wednesday in California, Rocks Off hopes that you can appreciate the war that LGBTs have fought... and in all wars there are the wounded. Peaches Christ sent us this short musical film; "The Lady is Dead" directed by Roy Raz and ... More >>

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

It's time to Zing Zang Zoom

CIrque du Soleil: Alegría

Fly high with joy at one of Cirque du Soleil's most popular shows

Cirque Dreams: Illumination

Get dazzled with the magic of Cirque Dreams

Aftermath: Peaches, Stripping the Onion (and Herself) at House of Blues

Photos by Jody Perry/ Click here for a slideshow​ It's been a long time since Aftermath has been to the kind of high-energy, high-theatrics rock and roll show that makes us totally forget ourselves, even if just for an hour. Monday night at House of Blues, Peaches gave us exactly that kind of show ... More >>

Circus Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory

It just takes a little imagination to go from widgets to wonderland

Cirque du Soleil: Saltimbanco

The Canadian New Age circus gives us an even bigger big top

Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Houston, we have a celebration

Aga-Boom

This international supergroup of avant-garde clowns needs no translation

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey: Over the Top

The Greatest Show on Earth brings the fun to H-town

Artania

The Russians are Coming! (The Russian circus, that is.)

Cirque Montage

It’s the big top redux

Le Damnation de Faust

Going to hell? See who else is already there

Noche de Brujas, Noche de Torturas

Hang around with some very cool artists

AGA-BOOM

It’s Cirque du Soleil meets the Three Stooges on crack at this alternative circus

Circus Oz

Check out the underdogs of the cirque nouveau set

Circus of Dreams

Are you ready to clown around?

Bordering on Delirium

Musical Acrobatics

All-Out Delirium

A Belly Full