Subject: Forest Park

• Dying for Dollars

  February 17, 1994

• Death Be Not Pricey

  October 8, 1998

• Best Hidden Neighborhood

  September 21, 2000

• The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

  Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

  October 25, 2007

• Is Lightnin' Hopkins Finally About to Get His Own Official Historical Marker?

  ​Both Rocks Off and our predecessor in the music editor's chair have written about what a travesty it is that there is no official marker honoring perhaps the most famous and influential musician to ever call Houston home, country-blues icon Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins. Along the way, we've both mentioned that we're hardly the only ones that feel that way either. Now Houstonian R. Eric Davis has taken the next step and filed the necessary paperwork with the Harris County Historical Commission to e

  November 18, 2009

• Is Lightnin' Hopkins Finally About to Get His Own Official Historical Marker?

  ​Both Rocks Off and our predecessor in the music editor's chair have written about what a travesty it is that there is no official marker honoring perhaps the most famous and influential musician to ever call Houston home, country-blues icon Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins. Along the way, we've both mentioned that we're hardly the only ones that feel that way either. Now Houstonian R. Eric Davis has taken the next step and filed the necessary paperwork with the Harris County Historical Commission to

  November 18, 2009