Fred Astaire

Friday Night: Mary J. Blige at Reliant Stadium

Mary J. Blige Reliant Stadium March 1, 2013 Watching Mary J. Blige's bravura Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo performance Friday night brought to mind the old, old Hollywood saying about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, except in high heels and backwards. (Kids, ask grandma or just Go ... More >>

Praise Ensemble

The somber-sounding Sanctified is a rollicking good time.

Things Are Looking Up

Whit Stillman returns with the toe-tapping college-girl fantasy Damsels in Distress.

Tea Party Princess

Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics.

Touring Is Easy: Radiohead Hitting Houston On March 3; First Houston Date In Almost 4 Years

Radiohead's Thom Yorke getting Fred Astaire with it for the "Lotus Flower" viral clip​This morning Radiohead loaded dates for a 2012 arena tour, with Houston getting a 'Head appearance at the Toyota Center on March 3, which seems incredibly far away. That will be right in the middle of the bus ... More >>

Top 10 Music Video Parodies (Not All By Weird Al)

Weird "Al" As Lady Gaga​Two weeks ago while we were sifting through videos to make our 25 Most Influential Music Videos Of All Time list, we came across plenty of parodies of those 25 clips, mostly by Weird "Al" Yankovic and various Muppets, but there were a few crafty homemade ones as well. I ... More >>

Why Is Thom Yorke Messing With Our Heads?

intimtorma.tumblr.com​It's been a week since Radiohead's new The King of Limbs came out directly to an online audience before getting a proper release. Besides some middling reviews (including our own), accompanying the album was the first single and video for "Lotus Flower," featuring lead si ... More >>

Stripped

Rehashing yesterday's musicals, Burlesque squanders its hottest asset: Xtina.

Miller Classic Movies: Swing Time

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, just backwards and in heels

For Rosh Hashanah: Musical Mystery Jews

There are sure to be many Rosh Hashanah celebrations this weekend, but here at Rocks Off, we'd like to suggest you "think outside the box," as the kids say, and shake up your holiday musical selection by considering a few acts that you might not have realized were composed (in some part, anywway) of ... More >>

Summer Fest Snapshots: Hippie Mike and the Paint Kids

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ If you attended this weekend's Summer Fest in Eleanor Tinsley Park, you may have found yourself as enchanted as Rocks Off was with "Mike." The skinny hippie child of Asian decent could be seen all over the grounds at the most opportune times. Sunday, our day began by meeti ... More >>

Holiday Inn

You only think you know this film

Isn't It a Pity: The Gershwins' An American in Paris

The Alley Theatre presents a plodding world premiere

The Force Is Strong With This One

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release on July 12

Play Our Dating Game

Fat Joe, Young Jeezy and Lil' Wayne

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

Luke Doucet

Sunday, March 19, the SXSW Overflow Fest at Super Happy Fun Land, 2610 Ashland, 713-880-2100

Beauty and the Bestiality

A Greek has a bully time in Mildred's Umbrella's Hotel Pasiphae

Deck the Halls

Danseparc and Robert Tatum spin a hipster holiday party

Best Actor

Thomas Prior, Syncopation

Xmas Marks the Spot

A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs

Alien-ated Youth

They're the next step in human evolution. But they're just like everybody else.

A Lavender Christmas

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston sings out for Santa Claus and the baby Jesus

Tamarie's Time

Whole Foods, hard wit, the legacy of Lucy and offspring of hippies have helped the woman of Tamalalia take Houston by storm. But where's she really headed?

Playbill

Lucky Boys Confusion

E.T. the Extra-Tutorial

Kubrick seems to guide Spielberg's hand in the ponderous A.I.

Planet of the Ape

Monkeybone drops you into a surreal world overrun by your worst simian nightmares

The Theater Shopping Network

Apparently What Women Want is a feature-length commercial

Giving Up the Ghost

The only thing deader than the haunted spirit in What Lies Beneath is the movie itself

On Their Toes

Filmmakers return ballet, with all its metaphorical foreplay and backstage romance, to Center Stage

Poor, Pitiful Me

Even the great Alan Parker can't save Angela's Ashes from sappy self-absorption

The One and Only

A fiddler gets a leg up on the competition

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Night & Day

April 9 - 15, 1998

Packed at Saks

The good news: Grille 5115's food is terrific. The bad news: There's no room to eat it.

All the Wilder

Press Picks

Baryshnikov's Baby

White Oak may be billed as a group project, but there's no question who's the star

Singin' on the Screen

Gotta Dance