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Top Five Totally Legit Porn-Star Music Videos

So apparently actor Jonah Falcon is packin' heat in his pants. No, we're not talking about the kind of heat that the NRA and Ted Nugent endorse -- this is not that kind of blog. We mean packing heat in more of a "huge cock" kind of way. Unfortunately for Falcon, his 13.5 inches of man-meat can be ... More >>

Alicia Richman: 86 Gallons of Breast Milk and One World Record

We always see commercials urging folks to give blood, but there are other precious bodily fluids that can be expelled and given away to strangers in need, and certainly breast milk ranks highly on that list. And thanks to Alicia Richman of Granbury, there are 86 more gallons of boob-juice in the Mot ... More >>

5 Things to Put in Your $630 Jil Sander Lunch Bag

I recently did a short piece over on Art Attack about the $630 Jil Sander leather lunch bag. The gist of the story was that German designer Jil Sander recently sent two designer lunch sacks down the runway with her men's Fall/Winter 2012 collection: a $630 leather version, and an "affordable" $290 p ... More >>

Squeezing the Lemon: Led Zeppelin & the 10 Most Shocking Rock and Roll Reunions

Five years ago this week, Led Zeppelin fans young and old squeezed their pants full of lemon juice when the band's three surviving golden gods -- Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - announced that they'd be reuniting for a one-off concert in London. John Bonham's son Jason would man the s ... More >>

Best-Selling Single Of All Time "Candle In The Wind 1997" Turns 15 Years Old

Re-written in the wake of his friend Princess Diana's car accident death on August 31, 1997, Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was merely a maudlin tribute to Marilyn Monroe before tragedy struck. Diana died from her wounds in a Paris road tunnel crash, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, and the d ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 74, Pheasant Dog at Sammy's Wild Game Grill

This year leading up to our annual Best of Houston® issue, we're counting down our 100 favorite dishes in Houston. This list comprises our favorite dishes from the last year, dishes that are essential to Houston's cultural landscape and/or dishes that any visitor (or resident) should try at least o ... More >>

Korean Festival 2012

Craaaack! Goes the Cheese at Whole Foods Market (with Video)

This past weekend, more than 300 Whole Foods Market stores across the country cracked open wheels of Parmesan cheese. Called the "Crack Heard Round the World," the event was a nationwide attempt to maintain the store chain's Guinness World Record for Most Parmigiano Wheels Cracked Simultaneously, ... More >>

So They Have A World Record For Paper-Airplane Throwing? Yes. Yes, They Do. (w/ VIDEO)

I don't know if I'd count this as a sign that we are evolving or regressing as a society, but in the last decade or so, it seems like we've become strangely fascinated with the mundane. What were once considered nondescript vocations and mindless pastimes are now the foundation for reality televisio ... More >>

2012 Uptown Funky Umbrella Brigade

And Here's Glass The Sky, Indie-Rock Group/Clarinet Enthusiasts

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​This is Glass The Sky. T ... More >>

Astros Media Day Kicks Off 2012 Season -- 5 Early Storylines

In sandlot football growing up, we always had a saying after touchdowns that "losers walk," meaning the team that scored stays at that end of he field to kick off and the "losers" on defense have to march to the other end of the field to receive. So it's probably appropriate that, due to the NBA c ... More >>

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change: A Sweet, Rosy-Cheeked Revue

The setup: This intimate, four-character, Off-Broadway musical revue about relationships (1996) makes you feel better when you leave than when you come in, as its visionary producer James Hammerstein once said. There's magic in that pronouncement, for this pleasant, unexciting, eager-to-please litt ... More >>

Hot Diggity

Sammy's Wild Game Grill — the other wild game hot dog place in town — brings on the heat.

Houston: Believe It Or Not? Ripley's Book Says Believe It

It's twue! It's twue!​Like the Guinness Book of World Records people, the folks behind Ripley's Believe It Or Not like to stretch their franchise. One way to do that is with the newest Strikingly True book, which offers "a mind-boggling array of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, intervie ... More >>

10 Rappers In The Guinness Book Of World Records*

*At one point or another Marco TorresComing in at No. 10...​The Guinness Book of World Records has always been a fascinating and somewhat random thing to be a part of. Some people strive to be in the book to get noticed, while others get in the book completely by accident for good and bad th ... More >>

Saturday Night: Ghostface, Raekwon & Mobb Deep At House Of Blues

Photos by Marco TorresRaekwon (left) and Ghostface Killah​Rock the Bells Tour feat. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Mobb Deep, Cappadonna, Supernatural & Fat Tony House of Blues August 12, 2011 Near the end of Ghostface and Raekwon's hourlong set Saturday night, Ghost stood near the stage like he ... More >>

Broken Promises

Readers recount problems with DFPS

Galveston Sets Most Important World Record of All Time

Galveston.comYou put your right foot into the Guinness Book of World Records​They said it couldn't be done. Well, they were probably actually saying it shouldn't be done, but Galveston went ahead and did it anyway. Their announced attempt to set the world record for most people doing a choreo ... More >>

Galveston to Stun World With Record-Breaking "Hokey-Pokey" Umbrella Dance

Hopefully participants won't be singin' in the rain​If you've ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records, or if you're a "Hokey Pokey" fanatic, or someone who loves to dance with a lot of people holding umbrellas -- you're in luck. And if you qualify under all three categorie ... More >>

Heights-Area Walmart Poised For Vote Today: Let's Look At Three Recent Stop-Walmart! Fights

The City Council could vote today to bring a Heights Walmart one step closer. ​This morning, the Houston City Council is set to vote on a proposed "380 agreement" with developer Michael Ainbinder that would help him build a Walmart-anchored retail center near the Heights. The agreement, posted on ... More >>

A Long Night Of The Harmonicas At Minute Maid Park

Photos by Groovehouse​ For more photos from Friday's Harmonica Night, see our slideshow here. Rocks Off spent a lot of time last week wondering what Minute Maid Park was going to sound like this past Friday. In cooperation with the Astros, the people behind last year's harmonica documentary ... More >>

Ten Thousand Harmonicas Coming To Minute Maid Next Friday

Courtesy Pocket Full of SoulHarmonicas can multiply like cockroaches if you're not careful.​If you're going to try to break a world record by having 10,000 people play the same instrument at the same time, Rocks Off supposes the harmonica is a pretty good way to go, and a ballpark is a pretty ... More >>

"Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom"

World's biggest book on display

Kenneth Page: Honky-Tonk Heartbreak Trifecta Compels Five-State Lawnmower Ride

Goin' to Florida with an aching in his heart​Newsflash: country music can be corny. Many a shit-kicker heartbreak song is riddled by cliches. But you know what they say about cliches: they get to be cliches because they are true.That is especially the case with Kenneth Page. The Waco-area mechanic ... More >>

UT Student Breaks Guinness Record For Rock Band 2 Score; Cues Drummer Jokes

​A University of Texas student claims to have beaten the all-time high score for Rock Band 2, setting a Guinness World Record after successfully completing all 84 songs in the video game in one sitting. It took Matt Smith, a civil engineering junior, seven hours to play through all the songs on ex ... More >>

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Roses are red…hey, wait a minute — you’re not a rose!

Mind Games

Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

Werner Herzog Treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World

Gleaning lessons from the darkness.

Paging Freaks: Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008

Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records

My Village at Sunset

Rice professors and a former U.S. ambassador try to explain why the king of Cambodia directed a B movie

Jim Dale Reading

The voice of Harry Potter stops off in Houston

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Split Personality

PK's Blue Water Grill has the soul of a funky fish house and the body of a fashionable seafood restaurant

Haunts

They'll scare the crap out of you

Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis and Laura Pausini

Sunday, July 23, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 866-466-8849

Who's Your Daddy?

Twista

Sunday, November 6, at Los Magnificos Car Show, Reliant Arena, 8400 Kirby, 713-790-1900.

Tuna Season

Watch our guys take on Bill Parcells and the hated Dallas Cowboys

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Freaks and Geeks

The Girly Freak Show

Tension and Release

Mark Bradford built the world's biggest, coolest catapult. But could the unlucky artist make it work?

Down But Not Out

Browning Boxing

Night & Day

December 10 - 16, 1998

Rodney Made Me Do It

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Nature's Call

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