Hannibal Lecter

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

10 Rappers As Movie Villains

​Cunning criminals, violent geniuses, charismatic characters. Villains give us chills and keep us on the edge of our seats. With more rappers now dabbling in acting, we decided to cast some of your favorite hip-hoppers as movie villains. Here are ten rappers and their evil alter-egos.

Top 5 Movie Quotes About Food and Drink

Robb Walsh blogged about food and sex in movies, and Katharine Shilcutt provided us with the ten most disturbing food-related scenes in horror flicks. And while a picture (or some footage) is worth a thousand words, sometimes a passing reference to food and drink in film can be just as rich. Here a ... More >>

Your Musical Word of the Day: Panache

​Definition: The real definition of the "panache" is a tuft of pretty feathers, especially on a helmet. That's actually the literal translation from the early French word "pennache" from which panache is descended. The definition that most of us use, though, is to indicate just a bit of style ... More >>

Racy Cowgirl Postcards: An NSFW Tour Of An Odd Subculture

​As the Dixie Chicks sang in "Little ol' Cowgirl": She's a little ol' cowgirl from out Texas way Countin' the nights 'til the fiddler plays Workin' all week just doin' her thing She likes punchin' doggies but she loves to swing The cowgirl has been a source of fascination since the cowgirl w ... More >>

Top 5 Foods that Just Seem Wrong

larryjh1234Veal.​5. Chicken served with eggs I love chicken. I love eggs. I don't love chicken and eggs served together at the same time. Am I alone here, or do others feel that serving something dead at the beginning of life (sort of) and at the end of life just seems wrong? When I go to th ... More >>

Is Rap Acceptable In Your Sex Mix?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday (that isn't a national holiday) Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: Chuckway, Renzo, Kyle Hubbard Not Invited: Our ... More >>

Top 5 Surreptitiously Disturbing Foods

​Halloween is one of the best holidays for a reason. It's not the mountains of candy, the festive costumes, or the totally awesome jack-o-lanterns. It's the simple fact that Halloween, more than any other modern holiday, is an invitation to be as simply, unapologetically childish as possible. ... More >>

Wine Cocktails at 13 Celsius

​When you think of a wine bar, cocktails aren't generally the first drink that springs to mind. And even at 13 Celsius (3000 Caroline), where wine-based cocktails (and a few beer-based cocktails, too) have been a staple for many months now, it's still not the first thing that people order off ... More >>

Romance Blooms Out Of The Ashes Of A Lufkin Crime Of Passion

​Paraphrasing Larry McMurtry, a woman's love is like the spring dew. It's just as likely to descend on a cowpie as an April wildflower.In the East Texas romance of Jennifer Doss and Christopher Guffey, we're leaning towards cowpie. You see, Guffey, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison ... More >>

Turning the Screw: Bun B, Z-Ro, LeBron, Prince, Ice Cube, The Kanye, Aziz Ansari, Omarion, Waka Flocka Flame (Just Read), Ja Rule and More

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "O.G." C. Loc, Bun B and Z-Ro Wire to Wire Bun B is still leaking tracks from his non-mixtape mixtape i ... More >>

Shoulda Stayed Away: The 10 Worst Comebacks Of The Decade

​The Oughts, or whatever the hell people are going to call them (The Hell Years?) Are quickly drawing to a close; meaning it is a time to reflect on the 10 years that we've endured.Hair Balls and our sister blogs, Rocks Off and Eating...Our Words, will be putting together various lists delineating ... More >>

Top 5 Creepiest Halloween Candy

​Spooky Nerds We begin with Spooky Nerds candy, because most of the gross-out candy you find around Halloween harks back to those memorable years in the junior high school cafeteria when the nerdy, weird kid would eat disgusting things and freak everybody out. We all pegged those kids as lose ... More >>

The H-Town Countdown, No. 16: Bushwick Bill's Little Big Man

Roughly 84,000 rap albums that have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com. Bushwick Bill Little Big Man (Priority, 1992)​"Get to the house, ... More >>

Swine To Watch Out For: Five Bad Movie Pigs

News about the potential swine flu outbreak has veered from grim to cautiously optimistic and back again over the last few days, with much emphasis given to the pigs themselves. Should massive reprisals against our bacon-generating friends be necessary, here's some movie material to get you in the ... More >>

Turning the Screw: OG Ron C, Bun B, "5000" Watts, DMX, The Kanye, Rihanna/Chris Brown, Big HAWK and More

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Killa Joe," Michele Thibeaux Wire To Wire Houston's OG Ron C, head honcho of the GO DJ Coali ... More >>

Born-Again Shock Rocker (and Golfer) Alice Cooper

Spider Man

The Osteen Trial: Brilliant Legal Mind At Work

American Psycho

Before he was Batman, Bale was Bateman

Two Nights Ago: Bun B and Other Members of the UGK Family

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

DVDs

Cannibal Corpse

Fracture

With grip and hold, Ryan Gosling does it again in this smart legal thriller

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Ride the Legend

The World's Fastest Indian is powered by Anthony Hopkins

Collateral Damaged

When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

Hang in There

The second act of Squeeze Plays redeems the evening

Black Like Me?

One man's deceptions help to highlight our own flaws in The Human Stain

Violent Femmes

Tenderhearted mutants kick significant keister in X-2: X-Men United

Gale Farce

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death penalty drama

Take My Breath Away

Top Gun! The Musical will make you laugh harder than Tom Cruise ever could

Flesh for Fantasy

Dreamy Red Dragon completes the Hannibal boxed set

World Wide Web

Spider-Man does whatever a spider can and much more

Unholy Ghost

The Alley's Woman in Black will linger long after its last spook

Quid Pro Quo?

More adversaries than partners, Silence and Hannibal actively work against each other

News of the Weird

Working the Rails, Part Two

Trouble in Mind

Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

Night & Day

July 2 - 8, 1998

Hit and Myth

Hercules fritters away its strengths

Air Disaster

Bruckheimer's production shows all his Con-temptible traits

Power Trip

Oliver Stone takes a measured look at how Richard Nixon rose and why he fell