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  • News

    December 17, 2009

    A Quiet Hell

    Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Damaged

    Surly one-man Houston feedback storm Jon Read, a.k.a. The Wiggins, stays solo.

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Uprising

    2009 wasn't a great year for albums, but songs were a different story.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

    Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Dude, You Going To Eat That? Dr. Ricky has been quite prolific lately, owing in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    News You Can Use From Ye Olde House of Blues

    Back around Labor Day, you may remember that the Tontons played a free show in House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room that the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau filmed for a promotional video. Bless their hearts, the GHCVB is trying to "change the world's perception of Houston"... good ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    The Last Day of Giftmas: Fashion

    ​Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. So the Twelve Days of Giftmas are winding down and you only have one more week to shop for your Christmas/Hanukkah/Muharram/Solstice/Kwanzaa gift ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Make Your Love Connection At Bush (Airport)

    We're betting your Bush love connection will NOT look like this.​If there's one thing we've learned from television advertisements, it is to believe anything that AXE body spray, or hose wash, or whatever the hell it is, is putting down. Those guys seem to know everything about sex.So we will cert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Two Days of Giftmas: Book Lovers

    Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. We may not be Chicago or New York, but Houston is still home to a burgeoning literary community, with one of the best Creative Writing MFA programs in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Top 11 Houston Restaurant Openings of the Decade

    Since I started my job as restaurant critic of the Houston Press in May of 2000, I've had a chance to observe the Houston restaurant scene for just about the entire decade. Our fine dining scene has evolved in the last ten years, and so have our ethnic cuisines. Houston became the birthplace of some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Ask a Rapper: Nosaprise on Building a Hip-Hop Brand

    The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place -lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good- so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducingliston@ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Texas Traveler: Pignataro Castle

    Photos by Mr. Kimberly​Most people haven't even heard of Santa Fe, TX, so you wouldn't expect them to know that there was a real life castle in the small community. It's one of about 30 castles in Texas, the closest one to Houston, and its origins are a bit of a mystery. The house is on High ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    GT Garza: Doing Right by Tha Carter - But Not That Carter

    In death comes life, so the saying goes. For 24-year-old Southwest Houston rapper GT Garza, the cliché emulates the birth of his career. Ask GT about who inspired him to first take the microphone and he won't spit out the usual suspects in Southern hip-hop. No, he'll talk about a young man named L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    The Last Place You Look, Metavenge, Peekaboo Theory, American Fangs Lead Local Texas Buzz Nominees

    Megan E PhotographyThe Last Place You Look​ It's no secret that sometimes Rocks Off likes to rag on Houston's, ahem, "New Rock Alternative," 94.5 FM The Buzz - let's see, according to www.yes.com, last hour the station played Green Day's "Longview," Foo Fighters' "My Hero," Pearl Jam's "Even Flow" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2009

    Locke Concedes; How The Hell Can God Let Us Be Ruled By A Homosexual?

    Gene Locke has given it up; he's just asked members of several communities, including the "journalism communtiy," to get behind Annise Parker.But she's gay.We can only hope Houston can survive this, the fifth or sixth sign of the apocalypse. Maybe the movie 2012 was right after all.Next up: Parker w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Five Days of Giftmas: Music Lovers

    Photo by GroovehouseThe old Cactus Music sign​Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. Hair Balls is headed to Cactus Music tonight for another in-store, and it got us thinking -- Cactus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Top 5 Grocery Store Openings of the Decade

    Photo by athomsonThe hot dog section at an H-E-BYesterday, we recounted the top five grocery store closings that had a significant impact on the Houston supermarket scene during the past 10 years. But for as much as we may (or may not) miss AppleTree or Albertson's, we've had some much better grocer ... More >>

  • Music

    December 10, 2009

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    2009 was definitely a year, we'll say that much.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Top 5 Grocery Store Closings of the Decade

    ​Houston -- like most other cities -- was once home to a broad array of supermarkets and grocery stores like Weingarten's (whose last grocery store closed in 1984 -- the company is now exclusively in the real estate market), Continental Finer Foods, and Lewis & Coker before it gave way to bein ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    A Reprieve For What Counts As A Historic Houston Building

    Courtesy Greater Houston Preservation Alliance​It's news!! A historic Houston building will not be torn down Yet, at least!!Harris County Commissioners Court voted yesterday to belay the wrecking ball on the Hogan-AllnochDry Goods Building, which was likely to be torn down to make space for a Minu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    7 Days of Giftmas: Baby Things

    Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. Ahh, the joy of parenthood. New parents have enough to think about without having to worry about Christmas. Lucky for you, Hair Balls has found a few pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    The 10 Best Places to Eat in Westchase

    Unlike neighboring Memorial, the Westchase district of Houston -- which runs roughly down the spine of Westheimer from Gessner to Dairy Ashford -- is brimming with some of the city's best and (happily) least expensive ethnic restaurants. Although you could eat at a place like J. Alexander's or Le Pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Aftermath: The First Lost In Space Festival at Khon's

    Photos by Adam P. NewtonB L A C K I E​ Suffice to say, it's been a great year for live music festivals in Houston this year. Between the Spring and Fall editions of the Westheimer Block Party, the Free Press Summer Fest, the International Festival, our own Houston Press Music Awards and other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Murder By The Book Gets Some National Pub

    ​Murder by the Book is a Houston institution, pretty much the place to go for mystery authors on book tours.The Bissonnet store got some national publicity today, as The New York Times looked at plucky independent booksellers importing a hot new novel from England before its U.S. publication date. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Where Are We Eating?

    Octopus, lobster and prawns -- oh my! The seafood presentation at this Houston restaurant is so fresh you can almost smell the ocean. Does it look familiar to you? Do you know where we're eating this week? ​Leave your best guess in the comments section below.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    9 Days of Giftmas: Ladylike Things

    Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. Hair Balls doesn't want to perpetuate staid gender roles or anything, but sometimes you have to shop for someone a little more traditional, you know. Or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Getting "Passed" Up OK with Houston's Latino Rappers... Well, Not Really

    There's no doubt that Corporate America knows how to enter a market, break down consumer attitudes and needs, and sell them a product they're going to buy. Pepsi's been around for a minute so you know they know what's up. But in an effort to sell the urban community more of their product (trust us ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Dreaming of a White Christmas

    Houston is predicted to have a much wetter and colder winter this year thanks to a fading El Niño pattern. And if anything was proven by last week's snowstorm, it's that it may very well be possible for Houston to have a white Christmas in a few weeks. Photo by Matt Harding Hermann Park​ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Houston: From Moron Metropolis to Genius City In Two Short Months

    ​Two months ago, the Daily Beast ranked all American cities according to their estimation of each place's municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher education, and political engagement, as measured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Can Rocks Off Withstand an Entire Hour of Sunny 99.1's Holiday Programming?

    ​Since Thanksgiving night, local dentist office-core radio station Sunny 99.1 FM has been pumping out non-stop Christmas tunes as they have been doing now for quite a few years. It's a Houston phenomenon and an ominous bellwether for the coming holiday. You pretty much know when you can hear Vanes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    10 Days of Giftmas: Fancy Foodstuffs

    ​Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. Houston's known for its restaurant scene, but there's also a small but thriving community of local businesses that make and sell food instead of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Boating on Buffalo Bayou

    Photos by Margaret Downing​Buffalo Bayou Partnership is promoting its boat tours -- tying them into the Christmas season -- as part of its continuing effort to try to get Houston residents out of their cars and down to the bayou to see what all the clean-up has achieved. So Thursday, after two pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Listology: War Master's Dream Metal Festival

    ​This weekend, Houston becomes the grindcore and death-metal capitol of the country for two days with Houston Noisefest 2009, starting tonight at the Atomic Café and concluding tomorrow night at the White Swan. Bands from California, Ohio and as far as Washington State are heading down here to r ... More >>

  • Music

    December 3, 2009

    In the Pit

    It's easier than ever to take pictures at concerts. Unless that's your job.

  • Music

    December 3, 2009

    Lost in Space Fest

    It's easier than ever to take pictures at concerts. Unless that's your job.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    It's (Maybe) Gonna Snow In Houston!! Be Prepared!!

    ​Forecasters are still telling us there's a chance that it will snow in Houston tomorrow. We'll believe it when we see it, but the theory is that sometime Friday afternoon we may get hit with anywhere from a trace to an inch of solid white precipitation.This, of course, would be an earthshaking ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Kolache Crawl: Olde Towne

    ​While the poppyseed kolaches at Olde Towne Kitchen on Memorial near Kirkwood are a little too sweet for my tastes, I love the meaty bacon and cheese klobasnek. The generous filling requires more dough and makes for a larger-size pastry -- one is big enough for breakfast. Oddly, the skinnier s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Where Are We Drinking?

    This landmark should be instantly recognizable to any true Houston bar connoisseur. Can you figure out where we're drinking this week? ​Leave your best guess in the comments section below.

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    El Pinto Green Chile Sauce

    ​Believe it or not, there are some foods you can't get in Houston. I'm told Santa Fe Flats (21542 Hwy. 249) is pretty much the only place in town where you can get true New Mexican-style food (with the exception of a few dishes at Chuy's). The second-best option, recommended to me by a New Mex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Let It Glow, Let It Glow, Let It Glow

    While we might be short -- extremely short -- on snow in Houston this holiday season, we had plenty to glow about on Saturday night at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Houston's famous art cars were on display as the public had never seen them before at the first annual Gloworama. People accu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Bernard Says "Hi" and "Pass the Dumplings"

    ​We met Bernard Brunon for dim sum at Empress Pavillion restaurant in Los Angeles Chinatown last week. After 18 years in Houston, the French artist accepted a job offer in Tinseltown a couple of years ago. Bernard was a familiar fixture on the Houston arts scene, and he told me to say "hi" to ... More >>

  • Music

    November 26, 2009

    No Turkeys Allowed

    Our annual holiday shopping guide to recent local releases

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    The H-Town Countdown, No. 9: E.S.G.'s Ocean of Funk

    Roughly 84,000 rap albums 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 sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​In last week's feature we wrote about E.S.G., we mentioned briefly that, fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Announcing Our Musical Turkey of the Year: You, the Concert-Going "Fans" of Houston

    ​Rocks Off was looking at a tour schedules recently when we realized that two artists we love, Danish band Mew and Swedish songstress El Perro Del Mar were planning trips to Texas. Trips that included stops in Austin, of course, and Dallas, and even San Antonio. But not Houston. Sometimes our favo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Hiding on the Backstreets, Part 2: Bruce Springsteen Brings The River, Born In the U.S.A., Tunnel of Love and Tom Joad to Town

    Daniel KramerBruce Springsteen and Miami Steve van Zandt at Toyota Center, April 2009​ As Bruce Springsteen fans come to grips with the unfortunate reality that this past weekend's show in Buffalo, N.Y., may well have been the final offical tour date - although surely not the final show - from the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Rocks Off Is Not Going Dark Over Thanksgiving, Turkeys

    ​Once you shake yourself out of that Tryptophan coma tomorrow, Rocks Off would like to invite all of you over to our own Thanksgiving buffet. Craig Hlavaty and Brittanie Shey go toe to toe over the songs they're least thankful for, yours truly will have a report from tonight's Raphael Saadiq show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Hustlers Brass Band's Big Top Residency Begins Tonight

    Jay Lee​ Dismal weather getting you down? Short days got you singing the blues? Are you hungry for some free red beans and rice and funk-drenched brass-band jams? Got five bucks? Then get on down to the Big Top tonight and/or every Tuesday through the end of the year for the Hustlers Brass Band's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Before It Was the Tower Theater, It Was Clubland, and Rocks Off's Friend Worked There

    joe_stephens_3'​Monday's news that the Hollywood Video located in the old Tower Theater will soon shut down has put Rocks Off on one of our periodic nostalgia kicks, and this one actually comes with a personal connection. Before the Tower was one of Houston's main mid-size music venues in the firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    We (Urban) Dare You To Find Rice's Frog Wall

    Photo by Danny Lopez​A new competition made its Houston debut this past Saturday. Dubbed "the race where smarts can beat speed," Urban Dare takes teams of two on a journey around town where they must figure out clues to arrive to different destinations.Once the race started, each team was given a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Taco Truck Gourmet: Frito Pie

    Food writer extraordinaire John T. Edge is in Houston checking out taco trucks for a new book he is working on about American street food. I took him to visit some trucks on Longpoint. At the Refresqueria Rio Verde truck, I saw a hand-painted sign for Frito Pie and decided to order one. Here's a vid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Before It Was the Tower Theater, It Was Clubland, and Our Friend Worked There

    joe_stephens_3'​Monday's news that the Hollywood Video located in the old Tower Theater will soon shut down has put our sister blog Rocks Off on one of our periodic nostalgia kicks, and this one actually comes with a personal connection. Before the Tower was one of Houston's main mid-size music v ... More >>

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