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The Houston Texans 2012 All Character(s) Team

Having a good team requires a mix of straight arrows -- guys like Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson, who appear nearly asleep when they aren't slicing and dicing opponents like cold cuts -- and goofballs who keep things light in what can often be a very intense work environment. Throughout the years, Ho ... More >>

5 Sports Figures Who Follow Absolutely Nobody On Twitter And Why

Someday, if they ever come up with a graduate degree in social-media forensics, I'm going to back to school and get my Ph.D, because I am of a firm belief that you can learn a lot about a person by the way they utilize and conduct themselves on Twitter. For example, if you have, say, 4,359 follower ... More >>

Be Pure and Tell the Truth: Our 5 Favorite Musical Buddhists

Today His Holiness the Dalai Lama turns 77. Although he didn't officially become the temporal head of Tibet until he was 15, he's made the most of 62 years in the position. He's won a Nobel Peace Prize, advocated for his country and countrymen, and amassed more than 4 million Twitter followers. He' ... More >>

The Modular: Blowing Up Boundaries with Big Bones and Burgers

Photo by Chuck Cook PhotographyIt's just another night at The Modular​Some of the best food to be had in Houston is happening in a small kitchen at Grand Prize, and a trailer in front of Liberty Station. The Modular (as reported on previously by Minh Truong and Mai Pham) is the brainchild o ... More >>

Charles in Charge

Readers debate the real Mayor of Montrose.

Chef Chat, Part 1: Bill Greenwood of Eddie V's Prime Seafood

​Last week, we sat down with chef Bill Greenwood of of Eddie V's Prime Seafood at CityCentre (12848 Queensbury Lane). We explored the many places he has lived and worked, which one he calls home, and what Buddhist monks like and don't like on their plates. Eating Our Words: So we saw from you ... More >>

On Friday The 13th, Houston Musicians Share Some Superstitions

​Friday the 13th has been considered an unlucky day since at least the 19th century. Birthed from a potent combination of Christian traditions, pagan folklore and classical numerology, it is estimated that over $800 million is lost each time it rolls around through people canceling plans or ev ... More >>

A Student's Death

Readers respond to the death of Bellaire senior Tobi Oyedeji.

Win A Pair Of Toots & The Maytals Tickets

Ed. Note: Rocks Off is giving away a pair of tickets to Toots & the Maytals at high noon on our Facebook page. Please add us here. ​If Toots Hibbert didn't actually give birth to reggae, he certainly dated the midwife. Hibbert's legacy traces itself to the earliest reggae recordings as ska slo ... More >>

New DVDs This Week: Good Hair by Chris Rock

This is bad hair: that ratty, tatty, tangle of hair that has been relaxed, greased and flattened to within an inch of its life sitting atop the heads of lots of African American women (and some men). Since it won't do anything even slightly Vanessa Williams-like (no bouncing curls or windswept ... More >>

Five Signs You're Suffering From Internet Burnout

​It happens to the best of us. One minute, you're singing its praises, zealously licking some of its naughty bits not otherwise visible to the sun, offering up your most personal information like free fellatio, and spreading your virtual legs, letting it have its way with you. And sickeningly ... More >>

Why the Hell Not — Again?

Kinky Friedman announces another run for Texas governor, this time as a Democrat.

Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jes ... More >>

Gubernatorial Candidate Kinky Friedman: My Dog Could Run This State As Well As Rick Perry

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ "Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for Texas." Of course, it's a step that Friedman, author of songs such as "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jes ... More >>

Wanted: Social Media Consultant for Annise Parker's Campaign

In yet another move that proves social media is more revered than the Dalai Lama, mayoral candidate Annise Parker's campaign team extended the olive branch to bloggers in an invitation-only lunch briefing on Wednesday afternoon.  The event was touted as a part of the campaign's "new media ... More >>

Nobel Prize Winner Gets Hassled At Bush Intercontinental Airport

Mairead Corrigan Maguire thought the hard part was over. Along with fellow Nobel Laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, American landmine activist Jody Williams, and Iranian Shirin Ebadi, she had been in Guatemala, where the women had just co-hosted a three-day conference on democracy, human right ... More >>

Asia Society: Pico Iyer

The well-traveled writer discusses his friendship with the Dalai Lama

MySpaced Out: The Whacked-Out Genius of Phil Lee

Phil Lee (second from left) and friends chillin' at Neil Young's (left) cribI've been planning a MySpaced Out column based on an array of oddball songs for some time now, and always planned to include at least one Phil Lee song because the Nashville headcase has beaucoup odd songs. But the oth ... More >>

Alejandro Escovedo Spills the Beans on Houston Springsteen Duet

Peeking Inside the Shadowy Crypt of Houston's Goth Community

“My God Told Me to Kill Your God”

Rice University presents an art and film exhibition examining war

Snakes|Dalai Lama at Rice Univ.|Houston Rockets|Missing Pets

One legislator's crusade against snakes

Lamapalooza

Good Vibrations

Dead Like Me

Attempting to survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead

Hello, Dalai!

His Holiness is here to enlighten you

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

What Ever Happened to Lady Jane?

Fonda's humiliation is only one reason this Monster is such a dog

Ruff Rockers

Notes on Cool

Elusive and ineffable, style itself cannot be sold, except perhaps at Buffalo Exchange

Dance Fervor

Postmodern theologian Matthew Fox wants to get religion back on its feet again with the Techno Cosmic Mass

Letters

The A-List Buddhist

In Gail Gross, all things are one: spiritual wisdom, designer clothes and terrific skin

Jah's Will Be Done

At Jamaica-Me-Crazy, whatever dessert will be, will be

Hello, Dalai

In Kundun, Martin Scorsese meets Tibetan Buddhism

The Last Eccentric

Dominique de Menil did what she pleased. Thank God.

Deeply Shallow

Seven Years in Tibet reduces spirituality to a fashion statement

Louvin It Up

The high, lonesome hardships of country's best duo are getting easier to hear

Transformation of Robert Campbell

From Panhandle flatlands to Guatemalan mountains, Houston doctor and artist Robert Campbell searched for a life with meaning.When he died, many said that life was his.

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?