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  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    March Madness -- The Most "Live" Teams At Each Seed, 1 through 16

    Last year, the Final Four made its way to Houston and in a turn of events entirely emblematic of the type of sports year Houston sustained in 2011, we wound up with arguably the most underwhelming collection of four teams ever assembled at college basketball's marquee event. The highest seeded team ... More >>

  • Music

    May 26, 2011

    Pit Crew

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. prefer the Beach Boys to NASCAR.

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Detroit Leanin': Who Is The Best Motor City Artist Ever?

    detroitrockcity.altervista.org​Some places breed music. Due to sheer size, any big city will produce its fair share of talented musicians, and some - Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago - seem to have music in the water supply. But none, arguably, more than Detroit: John Lee Hooker, the Motown dias ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Baggage Handlers Arrested For Helping Houston Drug Ring Make Deliveries

    Operation Excess Baggage hits home​Federal agents arrested a dozen baggage handler and airline employees in Detroit today for being ever so helpful to two drug rings, one operating from Jamaica and one from right here in Houston. Coke and weed were transported via baggage on regularly schedul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    SXSW: Human Eye Wants To Have A Pizza Party

    Craig Hlavaty​Detroit fuzz-punk-psych rockers Human Eye caught our ears as we walked down 8th Street last night, leaving TV On The Radio at Stubb's. First the sound reeled us in, naturally, and then the live show had us planted in front of them for the rest of their 1AM set at Headhunters.

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Houston Needs An Urban Cowboy Statue, Y'all

    ​For the past month, you have no doubt been reading about a group in Detroit lobbying for a Robocop statue in their city to commemorate the fictional (we believe) robotic law enforcement titan created by the evil corporate goons of OCP, using deceased Detroit officer James Murphy. Detroit may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Super Bowl XLV Commercials: The 5 Best And 5 Worst

    Baby Darth Vader is soooooo cutesy-wootsey​From Audi to Groupon, yesterday's Super Bowl Commercials ran the gamut. There was less blatant sexism than previous years, and a lot more CGI, and a few commercials sure to have people talking either due to their shock value or outright offensiveness. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    FAIL: Motown Scam Artists, Musicians Unions, Iron Fences

    Photo illustrations by John Seaborn Gray​Unions Are Basically Legalized Mafia: Sarah Chang, a gorgeous and talented young violinist, tried to perform a recital in Detroit this week. Unfortunately for her, the classical music unions happen to be on strike in Detroit. Chang was probably not even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Houston's Racial And Ethnic Breakdown, As Shown By Dots

    Red is white, blue is black and orange is Hispanic​ Here's a map of Houston, showing where the city's whites, blacks and Hispanics live. It's put together using the most recent census information, by a digital cartographer named Eric Fischer.It looks like races and ethnicities live separately from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Chef Chat, Part 1: Michael Pellegrino of Max's Wine Dive

    Tam Vo​For the past year, Michael Pellegrino has commanded the reins in the kitchen at Max's Wine Dive. About two months ago, Max's changed its culinary program so that the menu incorporated a left and right side: the former housing the "Max's Classics" and the latter serving as the chef's cre ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2010

    Beyond the Motor City

    Getting Detroit residents out of their cars and onto a bus or train won't be an easy job

  • Film

    June 10, 2010

    Kung Fu Hustle

    Karate Kid remake too cynical to catch a fly with chopsticks.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Like James McMurtry? Michigan's Erik Koskinen Will Scratch That Same Itch

    ​ One of the biggest surprises of last week's SXSW fallout was young Erik Koskinen. Koskinen, originally from Michigan, drove down from Minneapolis to play guitar with Randy Weeks, and LOM met him at KPFT's 40th-anniversary soiree at the Mucky Duck. We've been listening to his new EP pretty much n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    Ralphie May

    This comedian and former Houstonian is funny all the way around

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Soul Night 2

    Get your fill of Marvin Gaye and Tina Turner at the Aurora Picture Show's funky flashback

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Stooges; Rocks Off Team Member Faints In Disbelief

    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2010 inductees Tuesday. Somehow, Jann Wenner and his cronies even managed to induct an actual rock band this year: streetwalkin' Detroit cheetahs Iggy & the Stooges - who, according to RRHOF rules (25 years after an artist's first recording ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Breakfast Klub owner Marcus Davis presents his favorite flick

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009

    Soul Nite

    From Motown to the Orange Show, that’s quite a trip

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    SXSW: Von Bondies at Red-Eyed Fly

    Everything seemed so fresh and so clean this afternoon at the Little Radio party at Red-Eyed Fly. It was just Wednesday. The streets weren't yet completely littered with flyers and rocksters. No one was that drunk. Heck, we hadn't even had a sip when we arrived in the middle of the Von Bondies' se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Bawitda-Brew

    If there's one thing that comes to mind when I'm craving a cold beer, it's a greasy, stringy, overrated singer from Detroit with a penchant for wifebeaters, sloppy seconds and further denegrating popular music. The Michigan Brewing Company apparently feels the same way, as they've jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 2

    [Note: Part 1 is here, and the Eating Our Words entry that inspired this series is here.] To tell the story of music in the Fifth Ward with anything like the sweep it deserves, we will have to go way back to the 19th century. On a November day in 1898, Beulah Thomas was born to Fanny Bradley an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    The Last Piece Of Good Economic News?

    The 88 major job markets across the U.S. lost a total of 1.2 million jobs in 2008, according to a study by Bizjournals.Only 15 of the 88 markets saw a job increase in the year. And the city with the largest increase of all -- Houston.We added 57,300 jobs in 2008. While that may have been a good mont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2008

    Houston Sludge Company in Deep Shit?

    The 88 major job markets across the U.S. lost a total of 1.2 million jobs in 2008, according to a study by Bizjournals.Only 15 of the 88 markets saw a job increase in the year. And the city with the largest increase of all -- Houston.We added 57,300 jobs in 2008. While that may have been a good mont ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 22, 2008
  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    My Morning Jacket Announce Fall Tour

    Uptight? Everything is all right!

  • Culture

    December 13, 2007

    No Mexicans in Detroit? What about Fairies?

    Uptight? Everything is all right!

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2007

    Drenched In Blog: Meg White Sex Tape?

    Uptight? Everything is all right!

  • Music

    August 16, 2007

    For What It's Worth

    Anniversaries

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2007
  • Calendar

    May 25, 2006

    NOMO for You

    Anniversaries

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Murder by Numbers

    Mourning the latest hip-hop casualty in two easy steps

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2006

    Ahoy, Sailors!

    Mourning the latest hip-hop casualty in two easy steps

  • Music

    November 3, 2005

    ADULT., with Genders, Numbers

    Friday, November 4, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.

  • Music

    November 3, 2005

    Will the Real Blue October Please Stand Up?

    Local band suffers identity crisis

  • Music

    October 27, 2005

    The Detroit Cobras

    Thursday, October 27, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.

  • Film

    August 11, 2005

    Funky Bunch

    Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

  • Music

    July 14, 2005
  • Music

    March 31, 2005

    Sponge

    Friday, April 1, at Scout Bar, 18307 Egret Bay Boulevard, Webster, 281-335-0002.

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2004

    A Real Doll

    It ain't easy being a sexy rocker

  • Music

    May 13, 2004

    The Dirtbombs

    Saturday, May 15

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Rock Star 101

    Panic in Detroit learned to play before they learned to party

  • Music

    December 25, 2003

    Always Darkest Before the Dawn

    Trotting out the clichés for a year-ender piece

  • Music

    October 23, 2003

    Electric Shtick

    The Electric Six's shenanigans have them laughing all the way to the bank

  • Music

    March 6, 2003

    Here's Mud in Your Ear

    Repeat after us: The Dirtbombs are not a garage rock band

  • Music

    February 20, 2003
  • Music

    November 14, 2002

    Motor City Mellow Men

    Slum Village plays catch-up to the White Stripes and Eminem

  • Music

    July 18, 2002

    Detroit Cobras

    Saturday, July 20

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Car Wash

    Minit Man Car Wash

  • News

    March 30, 2000
  • Film

    August 12, 1999

    KISS Off

    Detroit Rock City wallows through teens and concert tickets

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