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Here's a List of All the Restaurants You'll Get to Taste at Menu of Menus 2012

In my years of covering and attending our yearly Menu of Menus event, I've never been quite as excited for the grand tasting as I am this year. Why? In addition to the first annual Iron Fork competition -- which pits two of Houston's best young chefs against each other, Iron Chef-style, while chef ... More >>

Last Night: Lyle Lovett At Verizon Wireless Theater

Photo by Jason Wolter​"We were thinking about what might come next," Lyle Lovett said from the Verizon Wireless Stage Wednesday night, before playing a song he had written with Robert Earl Keen at Texas A&M. "We were thinking about venturing off into the great unknown and, in this case, that m ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Michael Wells of Marfreless

​Michael Wells has lived an eclectic, fun life. He was born in New Orleans, moved to Houston as a child, and later did a six-year stint at The Hard Rock Café in Honolulu. After his father died, he asked his manager in Honolulu for a transfer to The Hard Rock Café in Houston. The whole thi ... More >>

GhoulsFest: Everything You Need To Know

Daniel Johnston fuels up.​For the record, Rocks Off is well aware there is more to GhoulsFest than Black Congress not playing the ten-hour festival at Tom Bass Park tomorrow. A lot more. We also wish BC nothing but the best opening for New Orleans Sabbathites Eyehategod at Walter's tonight and ... More >>

Let's Get Spooky

Here's our guide to what's happening this Halloween.

GhoulsFest

Locked Bar: Rocbar Goes On Hiatus

Photos by Marc Brubaker​Rocbar Houston, our city's fauxiest faux rock and roll bar, located above Verizon Wireless Theater and the Hard Rock Cafe in the Bayou Place complex, has shuttered its doors after four years in the game. The club, claiming it is temporarily shutting down for retooling, ... More >>

Aftermath: Blue October and Its Mystifying Cult at Verizon Wireless Theater

Chris Gray​ Friday's sold-out Blue October show at Verizon left Aftermath wondering one of the most vexing, troublesome things any reviewer can: "What is it about this band," the voice in our head kept asking over and over again like a car alarm, sometimes even threatening to drown out the band it ... More >>

Five Hour Energy

The 2009 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase in 300 minutes or less.

MP3 of the Day: H-Town Underground All-Stars

Mark C. AustinB L A C K I E holds court at Dean's on Showcase Sunday.​ We heard a rumor bubble up a while ago about how a couple of the Houston Press Best Underground Hip-Hop nominees were supposed to be working on a group track together. There was even supposed to be a co-sign from Bun B worked i ... More >>

HPMA Aftermath: Ozeal & the Eulypians, Nosaprise, Benjamin Wesley, Tha Fucking Transmissions, Kristine Mills, Peekaboo Theory, Versecity and Spain Colored Orange

Chris Gray​Five hours is not a long time. It is if you're driving from Houston to Texarkana or Uvalde, maybe. But when hopscotching all over downtown trying to take in as much of the Houston Press Music Awards showcase as you can until your feet and your ears cry uncle, those 300 minutes go by in ... More >>

Bayou Beat: Live Nation Goes All In, ZZ Top Tickets Up for Grabs, Meridian Rocks the Sabbath and More

Courtesy of Stephen "Rube" Sager Live Nation has outdone itself on its latest "No Service Fee" Wednesday. All day, $29.99 buys a lawn ticket - one lawn ticket, mind you - parking, all those pesky fees, a hot dog and a soda for any participating show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Once they ... More >>

2008 HOUSTON PRESS NEW YEAR'S EVE GUIDE

Kiss 2008 goodbye in style

HOUSTON PRESS NEW YEAR'S EVE GUIDE

Kiss 2008 goodbye in style

The Best Christmas Gift Idea Evar

Thanks to Idolator, Rocks Off nearly had a stroke when he saw Mattel's new "Goth Punk Barbie," available exclusively at the Hard Rock Cafe's online Rock Shop for the not-so-low, low price of $70. Bitchin' lemon-yellow guitar sold separately, though this bad-girl Barbie does come with her own s ... More >>

The 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase Is Filled with Talent and Absurdity

Some of the best rock and roll in town right now is en español

HPMA Aftermath: Small Sounds, Yoko Mono, Katie Stuckey and the Swagger, Espantapajaros, Buxton, Los Skarnales and Thee Armada

HPMA Aftermath: Indian Jewelry, Wild Moccasins, Espantapajaros, Poor Dumb Bastards and More

HPMA Aftermath: D.R.U.M., Black Dog, Brian's Johnson, Mighty Orq, Tontons, Southern Backtones and Sharks and Sailors

Drag Queens and Sports Bars

Billy Gibbons Tells an Awful Blonde Joke: Video and Pictures from ZZ Top's DVD Release Party

Tonight: ZZ Top at Hard Rock Cafe

This Just In: Hard Rock Hosting Melissa Etheridge Listening Party

HARD ROCK CAFE'S

ROCK N' ROLL PUNCH

Women of the Street

Shake it with the horned-up East Coast ladies of Avenue D

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Playbill

Pacific Rim Shot

Rock You like a Hurricane

The Press Music Awards Showcase brings a category-five storm of tunes

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

Too Hot to Handle

Fire + Ice gets burned by the Bayou City

Racket

The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

Play Ball!

Sports bars and gay bars cater to a similar crowd: Guys who watch buff men

Culture Shock

An East Coast company launches an "improvisational grill" that merrily swipes cooking methods from other countries

On the Rocks

For a winter skating rink in Houston, just add ice. And that's the problem.

War Zone

Trendy NoDo club owners bunker down for the invasion of the Richmond-Westheimer crowd

Strangers in the Night

Is that evil lurking in the Blind Date lovefest auditions?

Not Fade Away

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

Houston Press Music Awards 2000

Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

Metal Help

The late William "Tray" Folliard, the Hard Rock, and stories from 'round town

Cajunese Cuisine?

Super Steak & More takes a stroll through Louisiana, via Vietnam

Wow on the Waterfront

A fish tank three and a half stories tall! And even more amazing: Good food.

Static

The Boom Is Back

At Vallone's: Big hunks of meat and other people's money

Going Public

Tanya Donelly fights her shyness to strike out on her own

Rap of Ages Inc.

Static

Big Band, Big Press Kit

Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones! (Yawn...)