Father's Day

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Troma's Lloyd Kaufman to Present Two New Movies at the Alamo Drafthouse Saturday Night

Lloyd Kaufman,the co-founder of Troma Entertainment (source of such legendary films as The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die), will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park this Saturday night to present two of the studio's newest films. The first is Father's Day, based on the urban legend of the ... More >>

Rap Round Table: What Is The Best Song You Have That Was Inspired By Another Human?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Each week Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: Bun B, Young Sensation, Fat Tony, Hollywood Floss, O.N.E., hasHBrown, Kyle Hubbard ... More >>

The Top 25 Comedy Rap Songs Of All Time: Nos. 5-1

​Here we are at long last, folks. Here are the top 5 hilarious rap tunes of all time. It was tough to decide who would rule the roost. Seriously, we thought harder about this than we did over naming our daughter. In the end, we think we've saved the best for last. If you've missed the rest o ... More >>

John Nova Lomax: I'm on the Next Episode of This American Life

John Nova Lomax: Unlike the NPR segment being taped in this photo, his This American Life piece will air.​It was one of those things in life you just can't quite believe. A few weeks back, I received an e-mail from Robyn Semien telling me that This American Life was interested in a story I had ... More >>

Too Much Pavement

Houston's strip malls increase heat, pollution.

Tuesday June 21, 2011: Deals of the Day

​Today's VOICE Daily Deal from the Houston Press gets you half off ($10 for $20) at Casa Grande. Authentic Mexican fare includes Casa Grande's famous nachos supreme: marinated fajita meat, refried beans and gooey, melted cheese along with the traditional fixin's like jalapenos, guacamole, sour ... More >>

Clarence Clemons' Top 7 E Street Sax Solos

​As most of our readers know by now, E Street has lost its most prominent resident and Block Captain with the death of Clarence Clemons. In poor physical health for years due to various ailments, he died on Saturday night from complications due to a stroke less than a week earlier. The Big Man ... More >>

Juneteenth: A Gulf Coast Good Time In A Hipster-Free Zone

Photos courtesy of Miller Theatre Advisory BoardGlen David Andrews (left) and "Mardi Gras Indian" Terrence Gasper​Sunday's Juneteenth extravaganza at Miller Outdoor Theatre proved to be another chapter in why, here at Rocks Off, we love our town. In spite of Hades-like mid-afternoon temperatur ... More >>

Last Night: Justin Nava Benefit At Numbers

Photos by Matthew KeeverJustin Nava, man of the hour.​Justin Nava Benefit Numbers June 19, 2011 All day Sunday, a few hundred people came went from Numbers, in support of The Last Place You Look vocalist Justin Nava, who broke his collarbone a few months back and was without insurance. The n ... More >>

Starring Tim Russert: Five Awful, Mawkish Pieces of Father's Day Treacle

Heartwarming (the blurbs said so!!)​There are some good, honest, entertaining and trenchant books and songs out there done by people about their memories of Dad. On the other hand, there's a lot of crap. Cloyingly sentimental, predictable, tear-jerking crap. Five of the worst: 5. Tim Russer ... More >>

Last Night: Peter Gabriel At Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Photos by Jay Lee​Peter Gabriel Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion June 16, 2011 Rock writers right now - hell, everyone with a musical soul - are living in the most interesting of times. No, it's not because we can pull any album we want down out of the sky at any time of day. It's because we g ... More >>

Five Very Bad Father's Day Gifts

Father's Day: What are you gonna do? You are forced by the powers that be to get something, unless your Dad has passed on to his reward. And if you're a Dad yourself, then you have to resign yourself to books from that one author someone saw on your shelf (never mind that you hated that book), tool ... More >>

Twisted Father's Day Cards: For The Dad You Have

This Sunday is Father's Day, a day that keeps the folks who make bathrobes and mustache trimmers busy. A holiday where we reflect on that hairy dude who put their P in our mother's V to make us, and hopefully stuck around long enough for us to borrow the car keys or the money to put down on a house ... More >>

Happy Father's Day: Country Songs For Country Daddies

Monica Fuentes​In country music, fathers are either saints with strong hands capable of spinning wonder and magic, or grim drunks who want nothing more than to beat their wives and children and induce general misery. After spending a lifetime listening to some of these songs, some bringing tea ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Guns and Roses," "Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph," "Henry Horenstein: Show," "Minimalux," "Round 34: A Matter of Food," "The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs"

Monica Fuentes​In country music, fathers are either saints with strong hands capable of spinning wonder and magic, or grim drunks who want nothing more than to beat their wives and children and induce general misery. After spending a lifetime listening to some of these songs, some bringing tea ... More >>

Top 5 Food Court Finds

​While malls themselves are annoying, there is something charming and nostalgic about a tasty (and absurdly unhealthy) food court treat. We all have our favorites, that one snack that we must sample while simultaneously picking out ties for Dad on Father's Day. Here is our list of the top 5 ... More >>

Children in Hiding

Juarez kids surrounded by violence, dead bodies.

Has the "Foodie" Backlash Begun?

Courtesy of Toothpaste For Dinner​Late last year, all of the sister papers in the Village Voice Media chain were informed that we were no longer to use the word "foodie" in blogs or in print. The reason? "Foodie" has not only become overused but has developed a strongly negative connotation: A ... More >>

Book 'em, Danno

Constables go after HISD students' unreturned books

Shane Perez: As His Own Pop Looks On, Drunken Dad Of The Century Is Knifed By Son In Father's Day Fracas

Cody Perez: A bad Father's Day​Spending Father's Day with his 21-year-old son Cody Perez was top priority for 38-year-old Shane Perez. Perhaps he wanted to make up for lost time.Salvador Perez, Shane's father and Cody's grandfather, told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that Shane had been absent f ... More >>

Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Food-Loving Dads

​Hey punk, Father's Day is in two days! You don't have a present yet, do you? Well, fear not because Eating Our Words is here to keep you from looking like an ungrateful slacker child. Here are a few ideas for the foodie father: "Half Full" Glasses from Sur la Table (1996 West Gray) These c ... More >>

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom

Harrison Ford + a hat + a whip = an action film classic

Daddies in Nature

Spend some time with the rug rats that qualified you for Father's Day

Father's Day: Five Very Bad Gift Ideas

Gifts even worse than another tie​Father's Day is fast approaching, and you probably haven't given much thought to your gift. We know you.To be sure, most fathers would gladly settle for Peace & Quiet once the kids are out of the weirdly-shaped homemade-paper-clip-holder stage, but most people ... More >>

What Do YOU Want To Do With Your Life??: Bad Dads In Music Videos

Sorry ladies, he's taken. By my mom.​This weekend is Father's Day, a holiday in which fathers all over the Hallmark Empire receive cards and gifts ranging from power drills and bourbon to celebrate them sticking it out for the duration of your ragged existence on earth. Craig's Hlist and hi ... More >>

Happy Father's Day! Loser Kids of Rock Star Dads

We all aspire to honor our dads and hope that we've done right by them on Father's Day. Here's a list of offspring whose lives have served no useful purpose on earth other than churning out a never-ending source of disappointment for their rock star dads. ​Sean Lennon Yoko Ono is often credi ... More >>

Sky Smith: Snorting The Line Between Win And Fail

​As Father's Day approaches, you might want to do a lot of things with your dad: fishing, a ball game, or maybe you'd like to doll yourselves up and record a video of yourselves in a heartbreakingly epic duet of Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight?" You might want to sing your heart out even thoug ... More >>

Family Fun Films with Pop Stars

Dads Who Rock open for The Best of Children's Film Festival Seattle 2009

Who's Your Daddy?

Dads Who Rock open for The Best of Children's Film Festival Seattle 2009

Dish Washed

A Montrose-area restaurant has its plate wiped clean

A Star in Reborn, Again

Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.