Dick Van Dyke

Film
February 28, 2013
Weep for David Duchovny's Penis: On the Terribleness of Californication, Season 6
Blogs
December 5, 2012
How the Mafia Helped Your Mama Do the Twist
Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s By Joel Selvin & John Johnson, Jr. with Dick Cami Thomas Dunne Books, 304 pp., $24.99 As far as dance crazes go, the Twist might go down (swiveling, of course) as the best known of all time. In 1961 and 1962, the sligh ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Pop Rocks: Come On People, Bert and Ernie Are Totally Straight
You people are sick.Pop quiz, PBS. Now that your government is once again threatening to slash funding for anything not related to defense or entitlement spending, and your continued liberal heresies have put you squarely on the chopping block, do you: a) Let Philip Morris start advertising ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
Wanda Jackson Loves Jesus, Jack White & Adele
Rocks Off conducted an unusual interview this week. We say "interview," when perhaps a better word is "exchange." Recently we have been tinkering with the composition of our interviews, in the hopes of avoiding boilerplate questions like "Who are your influences?" in favor of something, we h ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
Pop Rocks: A World Without Oprah
So long, suckers.The 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show kicked off yesterday with a John Travolta dance number, an appearance by Paul Simon (of "and Garfunkel" fame, not the deceased U.S. Senator), and an announcement that Oprah would take the 300 studio audience members in atten ... More >>
Film
February 9, 2006
Idle Curiosity
Curious George is so timeless, you might wish it were more timely
Culture
November 23, 2000
The Women's Rooms
Two local exhibits explore the female psyche without being confined by it
News
March 23, 2000
Butthead, Be Gone
News
December 30, 1993
Bring On the Dancing Girls...
In this age of the voyeur and non-contact sex, a leading Houston export may be its strip-joint fantasies