Ernest Hemingway

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Looking for David O. Russell in Silver Linings Playbook.

Woody's Roman Holiday

Woody Allen and two co-stars meet in L.A. to talk about his new film, To Rome With Love, and some old themes (art, death, love).

Love Goes to Press

Ezra Pound: Songs To Celebrate Leaving The Loony Bin

Ezra Pound remains one of America's most genius and most controversial writers. His poetry has gone on to inspire countless artists, and as a literary editor and critic he was responsible for shaping the styles of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. He was by most accounts ... More >>

Saturday Night: Luke Bryan At Reliant Stadium

Luke Bryan RodeoHouston, Reliant Stadium March 3, 2012 Luke Bryan is the Ernest Hemingway of country music, in the same way that Hemingway is Subway's Cold Cut Trio of literature. Sure, it's a little simple - almost too simple, really - but it's got everything you need for a satisfying song, novel ... More >>

Top Five Fantasy Lunch Mates

Driving home from work the other day, I found myself making a mental list. I wondered: Who would I have lunch with if time, money and social standing got thrown out the window? Would I pick an actor, singer, artist, politician? I established a few rules: 1- It can be anyone in history (no fictio ... More >>

Drinking Like Hemingway

Making the Hemmingway Daiquiri.​It's not Ernest Hemingway's writing that influenced me. The style is still amazing, and even Hunter S. Thompson, who copied Hemingway manuscripts just to hear the rhythm of the words on his typewriter, wasn't fool enough to imitate it. I won't emulate his lege ... More >>

Vintage Cocktails: The Fine Art of the Daiquiri

It's a fine art indeed.​The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks is a hard-to-find but indispensable cocktail manual first published in 1948. My barstained copy (it was stained before I got to it) came from a southside Houston thrift store and was marked down to $9.95. The out-of-print book now goes on A ... More >>

Creed: Critiquing Their 10 Most Heinous Lyrics

Photos by GroovehouseCreed at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, September 2009​Hello, Creed fans. Listen, it's no secret that Creed isn't exactly Rocks Off's favorite band. Anyone at Rocks Off. In fact, it could be said that we despise them. But wait! Wait, don't go. Creed fans, we're here ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Oh, good, this will be perfect for feeding in the caterpillars in my backyard. Now where's the human food?​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, the most adventurous food blog since Ernest Hemingway's Tasty Things I've Shot.Com went under. We started the week off with a ... More >>

Top 8 Post-2000 Soldier Songs

​Like many of you, Rocks Off has friends and family members who have served (or are serving) in our armed forces. Memorial Day is when we honor the sacrifice so many of them have made - and are still making - fighting America's wars. Songs about the hardships suffered by soldiers and their familie ... More >>

Summertime Blues: Songs As Sad As The Season

"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose..." ​So reads the prologue to Ernest Hemingway's 1926 treatise on the horrors of existential dread. In the book, Jake Barnes and a band of entirely unlikeable expat misfits flit around the globe, from Paris to P ... More >>

Bobby Heugel's Weekly Cocktail: The Hemingway Daiquiri

​Ernest Hemingway's drinking antics are almost as legendary as his wonderful stories, and it's no coincidence that so many of his stories emerged from the birthplace of so many great cocktails. Hemingway's association with Cuban cocktails became so infamous worldwide, hedonistic American touri ... More >>

Craig McDonald: Print the Legend

One good life deserves another

Robert Crais: The First Rule

Actually, there's only one rule: Don't make Joe Pike mad

I Wanna Be Your Dog (Or Cat): It Was A Dark And Stormy Night At BARC...

Because Hair Balls has been busy shopping for a decent Halloween costume this week, we needed help in writing about this latest batch of lovelies available for adoption at the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. So we turned to members of our fantasy cricket league, which happens to include e ... More >>

Sotomayor and cojones vs huevos

A Chat With Chef John Watt

Tulsa-bred Chef John Watt has long toiled in the kitchens of Houston. He helped found Trevisio (6550 Bertner Street) and Prego (2520 Amherst), both recipients of Wine Enthusiast accolades, among many other culinary plaudits. Trevisio was named one of 2002's best new restaurants by My Table Maga ... More >>

Movies Houstonians Love: — For Whom the Bell Tolls

The former mayor faces down the fascists

$13 at A Moveable Feast

Where: A Moveable Feast, 9341 Katy Freeway, 713-365-0368 What $13 Gets You:  A sandwich to beat Subway any day. $13 will get you more than a sandwich at this popular health food store cum restaurant named after Ernest Hemingway's memoirs.  And if sandwiches aren't your thing, you can fil ... More >>

Happy Birthday, America!

Man to Man, Trying to Become Legal

Lady at Stages Repertory Theatre

Playwright Craig Wright gives the audience a twist on male bonding

¡Viva la Margarita!

The drink that changed the way we eat

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Over Eating

An Empty Plate will leave you satisfied

On-the-Job Training

Wanna write books for a living? First, head for the slaughterhouse

Best New Name for a Theater Troupe

Mildred's Umbrella

Age-Old Axiom

The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

Cultural Imperialism

Frédéric Perrier's Marc-a-Rita

Stirred and Shaken

Aries's Ernest Hemingway daiquiri

Everything's Kosher

Two new eateries lay down the Jewish dietary laws

What's in a Name?

Paul Renoir once had it all. But after years of botched business deals, he has virtually nothing left of his inheritance save the one thing he can't lose: His lineage to the famous painter.

Self-Righteous Leftists

Smithsonian Folkways releases Broadside magazine's long-forgotten tracks

Click Art

Three photographers transcend the cult of personality with their revealing celebrity portraits

Birth of a (Fascist) Nation

Butterfly explores the tensions in 1936 Spain via an old teacher and his young pupil

Mr. Moore's Opus

First there was the passion for English and the woman he loved. Then came the pain.

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

WorldFest: Wild, Mild and Wicked

Moviegoers may find both their Sixth Happiness and Seventh Heaven in these 40 featured indie films

Press Picks

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway