Desperate Housewives

Saturday Night: Toby Keith at The Woodlands

Toby Keith Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 8, 2012 Toby Keith is America writ small: beholden to corporate interests, often hypocritical, prone to pursuing his baser urges while exhorting others to hold themselves to a higher standard. He is, in many ways, our exemplary artist for these m ... More >>

Fitz & The Tantrums: Don't Call Them "Retro"

Fitz and The Tantrums, a group Rolling Stone named one of its "bands to watch" last year, will be gracing Houston with their presence Sunday at Free Press Summer Fest. The six-piece soul-influenced indie-pop band likes to embrace difference. Influenced by Motown and Stax, the band lacks guitars, but ... More >>

Maybe This Will Distract Everyone From the City's Horrible Super Bowl Fiasco

J.R.: Great Texan? Or *greatest* Texan?​Twenty years (!) after the original series ended, J.R. Ewing and company are set to return to the small screen...temporarily, at least. Larry Hagman (J.R.), Linda Gray (Sue Ellen) and Patrick Duffy (Bobby) are reportedly going to appear in the pilot for ... More >>

The Parents Television Council Disapproves Of Your Pedophiliac Glee Shenanigans

​I'll give the Parents Television Council this, they did Fox a huge favor by keeping Glee in the headlines even in a week when the show was pre-empted by the network's NLCS coverage: GQ's sexy Glee cover has gone too far, The Parents Television Council says. In a statement released Wednesday ... More >>

Last Night: Michael Bolton At Jones Hall

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​Michael Bolton with the Houston Symphony Jones Hall September 8, 2010 It was a little over a year ago that Aftermath saw Yanni, and just a few months back that we saw Kenny G. Wednesday night we saw Michael Bolton, forming a power-trio of artists that you're not suppos ... More >>

The Week In TV: Emmy Nominations, Good and Bad

​The Cup is over, the king has moved, and I replaced the C in "circle" with the Z from "zucchini." This was the week in TV Land: • Nominations for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced last week, and befitting an industry built on low standards and an organization dedicated to filli ... More >>

Dark Tower

Shooter Jennings enlists the occult and Stephen King on ­ambitious, eerie new album Black Ribbons.

This Week In Beyonce: B Acts... Like What?

Rocks Off can't argue with the fact that Beyonce Knowles is a stone-cold fox when she gets on the microphone and belts out a song, dripping in glitter and wearing a barely-there outfit. Her voice is at once menacing and thundering, but also femininely fragile. Plus she has to be super-cool behind th ... More >>

Miss Pop Rocks: I Can’t Handle More Daily Show Reruns!

The Bourne Ultimatum, December Boys, Interview, Undead or Alive

Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

Arsenic and Old Lace

Alley Theatre invites Dixie Carter and Mia Dillon to help spruce up an old favorite

What Else Is New?

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Black Box Office

Je'Caryous Johnson brings movie and TV stars to Houston. And chances are, you've never heard of him — unless you're African-American

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 29

Delicious Debauchery

The Coronation of Poppea is one of HGO's most elegant productions

Polite Conversation Can Be Boring

Our Nightfly correspondent breaks out the faux-hawk

A Blog of His Own

One analyst indulges his gonzo side

Eva's My All-Star

Don't Mess with Pittsburgh

The Nightfly's token PA-to-Houston transplant whoops it up on Super Bowl Sunday

Leaving His Mark

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

New releases available this week

No More Drama

R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" sputters to a disappointing close

MDC

Sunday, April 17, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

Food Fight

The Benihana-themed Cookin' is a real whack job

Last Night at the Alamo

A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

Farb-ulous Parties

Houston's queen of high society shares her philanthropic secrets