Greenwich Village

Cannes: The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis

Capsule Stage Reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, Kimberly Akimbo, Sanders Family Christmas, Sylvia, Viv!

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays!, Love Goes to Press, Sylvia

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Fleaven, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Murdering Marlowe,

8 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: October 19-20

Matt & Kim House of Blues, October 19 Infectious pop, bright-eyed wonder and criminally catchy hooks have made Matt & Kim one of the best live acts to emerge out of the Aughties. The duo -- keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino -- feed off the energy of the crowd, and usually end up in ... More >>

Norah Jones

Top 5 Acts to Catch at Pride Weekend

See many more events this weekend in the Houston Press' 2012 Pride Guide. This Saturday, the streets around Westheimer and Montrose will be swamped with people for the 34th annual Houston LGBT Pride Celebration, one of the oldest and largest events of its kind in the South. Started to commemorate t ... More >>

Six-String Pawn Stars: Top 10 Famous Stolen Guitars

Tom Petty got a real kick in the balls late last week when he discovered that his vintage blond 1967 12-string Rickenbacker and his Gibson SGTV Junior had been stolen from a California soundstage where the Heartbreakers had been rehearsing for an upcoming tour. Three other vintage guitars owned by b ... More >>

Two Houston Chefs Honored by James Beard House

Photo by Tam VoRonnie Killen will be reppin' the Gulf Coast in New York City.​Being asked to serve as guest chef at the James Beard House in New York City is as high an honor as they come for a professional chef. And now two Houston chefs -- each completely different from the other -- have bee ... More >>

The Funky Chicken: Good Stuff in the Mailbox

Yeah, it's like that.​Once again our mailbox has filled to overflowing with CDs (and zip files). The desk looks like a Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown of jewel cases, and the entire room is littered with (largely unread) piles of hype-and-tout. And while much of what comes over the transom ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Death, the Musical, Romeo and Juliet, A Texas Romance, Wait Until Dark

Pride Houston Parade and Festival

One Night with Glenn Beck: A Twitter Diary

Photo by Craig HlavatyThey lined up to hear Glenn Beck.​Glenn Beck was in Houston on Friday for a stop on his current speaking tour, dubbed the "Glenn Beck Live On Stage!" tour; it was everything I hoped it would be, with a few twists and turns. As an observer of most things Tea Party and cons ... More >>

Liz Thorpe on Maligned Cheeses, Haven and the Houston Dairymaids

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttI want to be Liz Thorpe when I grow up.​Yesterday, we took a look at the new Murray's Cheese kiosks that are springing up in Kroger stores across Houston (well, in three stores...so far). Liz Thorpe is the vice president of Murray's Cheese Shop and a noted expert in ... More >>

Murray's Cheese and Kroger: How's That For a Cheese Pairing?

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​The famous Murray's Cheese Shop didn't start out as the epicenter of the cheese universe. Its roots were much more humble than that: a sort of general store founded in 1940 by Murray Greenberg to sell butter and eggs to area residents in Greenwich Village. It trade ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Top 10 Dylanesque Bob Dylan Quotes

​ Rocks Off would like to join a lot of other people, we're sure, in wishing Robert Zimmerman a happy 69th birthday today. Since breaking out of Greenwich Village via Northern Minnesota in the early '60s, the restless spirit much better known as Bob Dylan has been enriching the English language th ... More >>

The AIDS-Spreading German Popstar And Four Other Horrifying Rock Legends

​Hanging out backstage with Ronan Harris of VNV Nation last Sunday, his synth-excellency imparted a tale that Rocks Off hoped to the gods was not true, and led us down the path of myth and rumor to bring you a list of five of the most horrifying legends in pop-music lore. The tale Ronan told is th ... More >>

Not So Fresh

Texas Rep's Barefoot in the Park feels dated.

Last Call: One-Man Hamlet, A Gritty Greenwich Village And Brazilian Elections

​The Classical Theatre Company's well-received production of Hamlet comes to a close on Sunday; it's a show we highly recommend.An original one-man adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet stars Guy Roberts, who adapted the piece and also co-directed with John Johnston. During the ninety-mi ... More >>

Richie Havens, Still Looking Forward

The Old Balladeer

Get Lit: A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, by Suze Rotolo

Raiding the Houston Press's Photo Archives

Like a Complete Unknown

I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

The bad boys of folk music hit the big screen

Crawdaddy! Is Back

The rock magazine returns

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Coattails Are Hers

Live for Today

Metric unleashes its inner Sonic Youth on an incendiary new CD

Risqué, Medium Rare

Steak and tits -- how can you go wrong at the Strip House?

Party On, Dan

Who knew HPD gave away free heroin shots?

Best Overall Restaurant

Da Marco

No Moor

Tim Blake Nelson's ill-conceived O reimages Othello as a basketball star

Self-Righteous Leftists

Smithsonian Folkways releases Broadside magazine's long-forgotten tracks

Stargazing

Star Pizza

Low and Outside

Welcome to the ballpark. And brown fields and barren expanses of a still-not-rejuvenated section of downtown.

Rotation

New Releases Reviewed

Not in Kansas Anymore

Couch Capo

De Niro's comedic mob mastery excels in Analyze This

User-Friendly Farce

Mr. Jealousy hits the mark for director Baumbach

Unforgettable?

The new Bobby Fuller retrospective salutes a questionable legacy

Man's Best Friend

According to Sylvia, it's a beautiful young actress

What Invasion?

Spacehog comes in peace, but finds success anyway

Quick Change Comedy

Droll and in drag, Irma Vep comes to the Alley