Columbine High School

Joel Osteen Is a Power Top

Did You Know That The High School Pregnancy Pact Is All Juno’s Fault?

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about on guns and fear

Houston, Texas, America, Meet Huntzville...and Watch the Eff Out

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since gangsta rap went overground with N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton. Through Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg to Tupac and Eminem, it launched most of hip-hop's biggest stars for a good decade, but these days even artists like T.I. and Lil Wayne have sacrificed serious st ... More >>

Re-visions of Sugar Plums

Observations from behind the Nutcracker curtain

News of the Weird

Observations from behind the Nutcracker curtain

Letters

Observations from behind the Nutcracker curtain

Joining the Battle

Observations from behind the Nutcracker curtain

Class Cops

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

Letters 07-20-2000

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

Huntzville's School-Shooting Song Raises an Even More Disturbing Issue

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

Sk8er Boi: Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets

Mustangs & Madras

La Lechuza

Marilyn Manson and Justin Timberlake

Is Manson a Justin fan?

School Daze

Bully takes you back to the battlefield of high school

Baby Blues

Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

Cut Short

A model student-athlete unthinkingly brings a knife to school and ends up in jail, then expelled. Why one-size-fits-all discipline fails kids.

Drugged and Disorderly

The Hold Steady keeps it cinematic

No Way Out

Last Days follows the final spiral of a tormented musician

No More Spears

Beyond the Gates chronicles the rebirth of a brutal Ecuadoran tribe

Books and Bullets

A gun shop and a school make great neighbors

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

Watching You

Katy ISD students better be really good, or there will be hell to pay

Pepper-Spraying José

A "Bubba Mexican" polices the border in Buford Gomez

Fishing for Answers

Good Boys doesn't explain much about teenagers and violence

Lit Up

It's more fun watching the movie get made than watching the movie

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Romancing the Bones

Danish psychobilly band Nekromantix lampoons America with twangy satire

Sum 41

Friday, November 1

Cruel Summer

Looking for fun? Crush will leave you blue.

Blood Simple

Murder by Numbers yields less than the sum of its parts

Back To Basics

Steven Van Zandt is dedicated to garage rock

Small Screen, Big Step

DEJ Productions tries to give "direct-to-video" a good name

Love, Americana-Style

Buddy and Julie Miller's rings don't burn their fingers

Mystery Code

Alvin ISD exempts conscientious objectors from dress code rules. But nobody can get that exemption.

Paid In Full

Sensitive, saccharine and practically messianic, Pay It Forward works like a charm

Performance Tarts

Have acts like Bozo Porno Circus and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult run out of folk to offend?

The Pershing Eight

Children get burned by HISD over a gun-shaped lighter

Makeup Something

Coal Chamber shelves the rap-metal for metal-goth

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Sweet Desolation

Desert Blue offers teen comedy with a sting

Jeff Kass: Columbine: A True Crime Story

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Aftermath: Conspiracies, Prog-Metal, Gypsy-Folk, Hardcore and Remembering a Fallen Friend Sunday at Westheimer Block Party

Craig HlavatyRoom 101​ Day 2 of the Westheimer Block Party started with slightly cooler temperatures and an hour-long caffeine-fueled session speaking with the 9/11 conspiracy booth in the parking lot at Numbers. Did you know that there were three shooters at Columbine, and bombs planted inside th ... More >>

The AIDS-Spreading German Popstar And Four Other Horrifying Rock Legends

​Hanging out backstage with Ronan Harris of VNV Nation last Sunday, his synth-excellency imparted a tale that Rocks Off hoped to the gods was not true, and led us down the path of myth and rumor to bring you a list of five of the most horrifying legends in pop-music lore. The tale Ronan told is th ... More >>

Ten Songs You Never Want To Get Caught Singing Out Loud

The absolute worst version of "You Are So Beautiful" you've ever heard. Trust us.​Some songs are catchy as hell, yet if you're one of those people who sometimes unconsciously sings out loud to yourself in public, there are some you'll want to avoid. Here are a few tunes which, when sung aloud, ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

"To be honest, I don't care how many health code alterations a place has. I'll smoke a six-paper joint and eat just about anything, really, and I have my Grade 10, so there you go."​It's 4/20 today, a high holiday for stoners. It's also Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of the Columbine sc ... More >>

Lordy Lordy, T. Rex's Electric Warrior Is 40

​A few months back, we had this to say about T. Rex on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of their single "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" reaching the top of the UK charts. This Saturday, parent album, Electric Warrior, turns 40 years old. It bears repeating, not because we are too lazy to com ... More >>

Man That You Fear: The Best Marilyn Manson Myths Ever

"Yo dog, you look like Alan Rickman and stuff." ​One of the last true rock stars roaming the land - in my stilted opinion - is Marilyn Manson, who happens to turn 43 years young today. With a new album coming this year, and another book, 2012 should shape up to be a great one for the man who w ... More >>