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December 25, 2012While we celebrate the holidays, Rocks Off is resurrecting a few of our best Christmas-themed blogs from the past few years. (Wait... resurrecting is Easter. Never mind.) This blog originally appeared December 23, 2011.
"Dude, religious Christmas is pretty macabre. All kinds of scandal, sex with a ... More >>
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December 25, 2012While we celebrate the holidays, Rocks Off is resurrecting a few of our best Christmas-themed blogs from the past few years. (Wait... resurrecting is Easter. Never mind.) This blog originally appeared December 14, 2010.
No doubt you have all been chin-deep in Christmas movies since you undid your b ... More >>
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December 19, 2012Here in Houston, we shouldn't need an excuse to throw great parties, but I suppose the so-called Mayan Apocalypse is a pretty good reason to get shit-housed and listen to local bands.
This Friday almost everyone seems to be throwing an "End of the World" show or mini-fest -- if they aren't putting ... More >>
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December 17, 2012Brian Setzer Orchestra
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December 15, 2012
Within the taxonomy of rock and roll, rockabilly (bless its hot rod heart) can get dismissed as a one-trick pony with a ducktail for a mane and flames painted on its haunches. At least it can by people who see only kitsch when they should be lo ... More >>
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December 13, 2012This year's holiday play offerings.
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December 13, 2012Veteran rockers Rush brought their steampunk-themed concept album to Toyota Center December 2.
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December 13, 2012I think it's well-established by now that we all love Crave Cupcakes. Yes, there are other cupcakeries around town and we love them, too. But people go completely nutty for Crave in a way that would suggest Crave had hidden the secret to eternal life somewhere in the fondant atop its sweet frosting. ... More >>
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December 12, 2012Well, Monday night wasn't very much fun. Patriots 42, Texans 14.
As bad as it must have been for all of you who had to watch the Texans lay an egg on the big stage from the comfort of your living rooms, I had to go through the pain of the live Chowd audience, complete with all of their Marty's and ... More >>
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December 6, 2012Houston's top 5 local music venues.
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November 29, 2012Pancho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Shorty, too. He just did what he had to do, and now he's growing old. The battle of barrio Christmas.
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November 29, 2012For 16 years, Richard "Pancho Claus" Reyes and Shorty Villarreal were partners in barrio Christmas. Pancho was the zoot-suited Santa Claus figure, while lowrider expert Villarreal provided his sleigh (a pick-up truck), his reindeer (eight lowriders belonging to Villarreal's Latin Fantasy car club, a ... More >>
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December 16, 2011Eight shopping days left 'til Christmas. Drink up.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're honoring the spiritual and religious roots of the holiday season by keeping the "Saturn" in "Saturnalia!" We hope you'll join us in serving the traditional Christmas goos ... More >>
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December 12, 2011Photos by Barry SigmanNew Orleans native Aaron Neville took the House of Blues stage last night looking like every publicity still we've seen of him over the last few decades: Bulging muscles, fitted black shirt, fedora, jewelry, religious tattoos.
Last year, Neville (who celebrates his 71s ... More >>
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December 12, 2011Over the holidays, we're looking back at some classic Christmas albums taking some track by track and just digging on others.
Christmas music comes in all shapes and sizes. From jazz and blues to hip hop and heavy metal, everybody thinks they have an interesting take on holiday classics, but ... More >>
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December 7, 2011Photo by Stuart RosenbergThe winning Lucky Dog Gingerbread House, by Julie Busch-Johnson and Liz Sanford Westwood Country ClubSome events just make you go "Aww," or in the case of the Lucky Dog Rescue Gingerbread Doghouse Charity Competition, "P-aww." The popular fourth annual event took plac ... More >>
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December 5, 2011Starring Susan Lucci....If this was a Lifetime movie, it would all end with everyone learning the true meaning of Christmas. And maybe it still will.
But as of now, there are still plenty of commercial breaks to go before the story ends.
Sunday was supposed to be the day to celebrate the se ... More >>
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November 25, 2011To bastardize a line from Groundhog Day, "Well, it's Black Friday...again." It's that oh-so-magical time of year when the strong walk away from predawn shopping trips with armfuls of electronic goodies while the weak get treated by EMS for boot marks left by shoppers stampeding into Best Buy.
Since ... More >>
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January 4, 2011A setback in the War Against the War on ChristmasJust when you thought the War on Christmas had been won -- and by the good, God-fearing, Constitution-hating forces, too -- along comes another setback.
We told you last month about two Texas elementary principals who had failed to convince a ... More >>
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December 23, 2010The doors!! They are closing!!Maybe you've got today off and are planning to do your Christmas shopping. Maybe you don't have today off, or maybe you just like putting things off to the last minute.
A Friday Christmas Eve shopping trip sounds like hell to us, but if you're determined to go t ... More >>
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December 22, 2010Living with my grandparents during my freshman year of college was not ideal from a staying-out-all-night-and-doin'-stuff perspective, but it kicked ass from a meal-plan point of view.
What's not to love about home cooking 24/7/365.25? Plus, I got a free education in Southern cooking on th ... More >>
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December 22, 2010Now with E-Z Grab handles!!It's a (Bizarro World) Christmas miracle!!
The Salvation Army's local chapter says it's been slammed by three kettle robberies in the last 24 hours, and four overall this Christmas season.
"In each case, thankfully, no violence or aggression has been used against ... More >>
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December 17, 2010A message found at the bottom of a glassIf the thought of rappin', record-scratchin' reindeer drives you to drink, at least don't drive.
That's the message in what TxDOT is calling "a humorous, whimsical campaign" to get the anti-DWI message out this holiday season.
"The campaign illustrate ... More >>
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December 17, 2010Photo by churlBuy a fruit tree this weekend for a gift that keeps on giving.We all know that Santa Claus travels far and wide to make his Christmas deliveries, even if you don't have a chimney in your house. But did you know that he even travels underwater?
The Downtown Aquarium will have a ... More >>
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December 17, 2010Did you ever notice how internet memes make you laugh once and then disappear forever? Why is that?Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we would pay more money than is reasonable to own rooftop Christmas decorations of Santa Claus and Jesus dueling the Grinch and ... More >>
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December 16, 2010One thing that always bothered Rocks Off growing up as a born-again Christian child who was into the apparently godless world of Star Wars was whether or not they celebrated Christmas. The birth of Jesus Christ and stuff. Santa Claus, crap that matters. We can only assume under Empire rule th ... More >>
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December 15, 2010Christmastime: A time for family, for giving, and much to the displeasure of many, a time for incessantly grating holiday music. Christmas spirit frozen in cheesy songs monopolizes radio stations and relentlessly stalks our every step.
A key component of much holiday music is often the percu ... More >>
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December 10, 2010Ebenezer in the houseI went to the Alley Theater last night and saw A Christmas Carol. Fantastic production and actually my first time ever seeing it in any venue, let alone the Alley. For the completely un-Christmased of you out there, Carol is a tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy curmudge ... More >>
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October 26, 2010This is how we feel about Christmas NOW... don't even try to talk to us after Thanksgiving.Rocks Off is not trying to interrupt your Halloween plan-making - getting a little late in the game, isn't it though? - but you might as well forget about it anyway. We feel it's our civic duty to infor ... More >>
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December 31, 2009Have yourself a merry little navidad
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December 17, 2009It's not so bad here, so why don't you stick around for a while?
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December 3, 2009Yes, Susan, there is a Santa Claus
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December 13, 2007The heavenly sounds of the season come to the MFAH
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November 29, 2007Holiday warm-and-fuzzies beat back the bah-humbugs
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