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Willie D, Please Save My Long-Distance Relationship

Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off's advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! LONG DISTANCE LOVE FADING Dear Willie D: I'm in a long-distance relationship with a good man ... More >>

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves.

Houston: The 352nd-Happiest American City. We Analyze Our Closest Competitors

A new survey based on Twitter use -- and actually filled with all sorts of math has ranked 373 American metropolitan areas in terms of how happy and sad residents are. The study by the Vermont Complex Systems Center look at more than 10 million geotagged tweets. It looked for "happy" words like rai ... More >>

Blast from the Past: Marvin Zindler's Rat & Roach Report

In my personal opinion, the weekly Health Department Roundups that our own Blake Whitaker writes up are the funniest posts that Eating...Our Words run all week. But even the esteemed Mr. Whitaker has nothing on the original Health Department Hound: Marvin Zindler. In the video above, sent to me by ... More >>

Waits Variations

Six ways of looking at Tom Waits, character actor.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Shining

Jerry "The King" Lawler Piledrives Clipper Fan: Old School WWE Wrestlers for Each NBA Playoff Series (w/ VIDEO)

People laugh dismissively when I say it, but the more they can incorporate WWE performers and the general WWE "way" of entertainment, the more enjoyable other genres of sports will become. No, I'm not talking about the predetermined outcomes of matches (The NBA has already incorporated that aspect o ... More >>

RIP Ken Russell: The Best WTF Moments In Tommy

This week the film and music world lost Ken Russell, the director of the film adaptation of The Who's Tommy, Altered States, Women In Love, and The Music Lovers. He also did some weird, soft-core stuff you would see on late-night cable. Our first taste of Russell was Tommy , which warped our littl ... More >>

Failure Breeds Success

Alexander Payne's pessimism is good for business.

You Talkin' to Me? Seven Musical Moments in Martin Scorsese Films

​We scoured the Internet, like we do for at least nine hours a day, for an excuse to embed Scorsese clips into one, organized blog post. Lucky for us, we found that timeliness was applicable: the 35th anniversary edition of Taxi Driver is out on Blu-Ray! We'll probably stick to our used copy t ... More >>

Eight Songs For James Dean's 80th Birthday

​Had he lived, the original angsty hero, James Dean, would have been 80 years old today. Dean died in a violent September 1955 car crash, ending his film career after only three major roles. It only took three movies for the young man to become a brooding, enigmatic legend. Dean died just as ... More >>

Top Ten Celebrities This Decade Who Crashed and Burned with Video Evidence

And a partridge in a pear tree...​Last week, we gave you our list of celebrities who manage to save their careers after difficult times. This week, we go a different direction. If we have learned anything from TMZ, it's that people love celebrity scandals and the more salacious it is, the more ... More >>

The American

Turning the thriller inward.

Albert Briede: Montrose Man Celebrates July 4th In His Own Peculiar Way

Talk about bad hangovers....​A Montrose-area man is charged with arson after his 4th of July celebration ended with a homemade fireworks display consisting of his girlfriend's entire wardrobe.According to a complaint filed by HPD's arson squad, Albert Briede, 30, spent the holiday clubbing with hi ... More >>

Teen Porn 101

If they're taking their laptops and cell phones to bed with them, it's probably not to do homework.

Lost Tuneage: Jerry Lynn Williams

Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton ... More >>

The Stars of HISD

"Prominent" takes on new meaning

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

"Naked Men In The Woods" Group Fires Staffer For Tasteless Video; He Cries Foul

Here’s some news for you readers who’ve been keeping up with The ManKind Project, the controversial so-called men’s self-help group that detractors have criticized for targeting members of 12-step recovery groups, practicing therapy without a license and maintaining a dark cloak of secrecy ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Rich Hornbuckle, Renaissance Man

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2, Chinatown: Special Collector's Edition, Sicko: Special Edition and Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who

The Kids Were Alright

MLB Playoffs: the God Squad vs. the FSM?

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 28

Date My Mom

Diane Keaton subjects herself to more indignities in Michael Lehmann's latest vapid comedy

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Gelato Grotto

There's a dark cave in Rice Village where you can linger over ice cream and espresso

Band Suicide

Why so many Houston music groups self-destruct right on the brink of having it made

Rock Floozies Write

Wack peruses some doozies in the groupie tell-all canon

...And Justice for All

Rock's prime offenders face the music

Couple's Pad

A local art-school duo sticks it to a new art space

Fonda Film

A countercultural icon rolls into town for Easy Rider and The Hired Hand

Blunt About High Fashion

Roll up more than your sleeves with this clothing line

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Weird Al

Pacino's accent and antics are confusing, rather than enlightening, in People I Know

The Devil You Know

This comic book adaptation may be gritty, but Ben Affleck isn't

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

Line in the Sand

Squeezed by new development on Galveston's west end, fishermen are trying to hang on to an honored Texas tradition: driving on the beach

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

World Wide Web

Spider-Man does whatever a spider can and much more

Sam I Slam

Sean Penn plays retarded for Oscar, and audiences aren't rewarded

Life As a Sappy Movie

Irwin Winkler builds a rickety House out of saccharine

French Twists

All work and no play makes Michel a dull, repressed, homicidal boy in this Gallic thriller

Horseman, Pass By

Sleepy Hollow looks great, but it's less filling than Washington Irving

Very Bad It Is

Berg's sour script kills off suspense as well as a stripper

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Going Down

Air Force One nose-dives into an ocean of ennui

Sadism by the Sea

Galveston stages the macabre Little Shop of Horrors