Jack Sparrow

Underdogs and Juggernauts

The 10 best new restaurants of 2012.

The 10 Best New Houston Restaurants of 2012

If I had to pick one word to describe the mad, exciting rush of restaurant activity that's defined 2012, it would be this: exhilarating. Followed closely by: exhausting. Trying to keep up with every single new restaurant that's flung open its doors exuberance -- welcoming the city's burgeoning food ... More >>

7 Disney Characters Based On Pop Musicians

One of the interesting things about Walt Disney films is the way they borrow from or hold up a mirror to popular culture. Along with great storytelling and good songs, this is quite possibly why people like them in the first place. In fact, it's how some of us get introduced to great artists such a ... More >>

Cinema Slap Fight: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter vs. FDR: American Badass

Editor's Note: Please congratulate Jef With One F for breaking the record for number of colons used in a Houston Press headline. Two presidents both alike in regard and respect, in fair Internet, where we store our trailers for upcoming films featuring chief executives that combat supernatural evil ... More >>

La Fisheria Opens Tomorrow as Houston Welcomes a Mexican Celebrity Chef to the City

Most Americans wouldn't know chef Aquiles Chávez if they saw him on the street, even with his trademark handlebar mustache and Jack Sparrow-style dreadlocks tucked under a straw hat. But ask anyone in Latin America about Chávez and they'll immediately grin and say, "El hombre con el bigote!" as t ... More >>

Captain Jack Won't Die

Searching for eternal life in the interminable Pirates of the Caribbean.

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

Rice Owls: Beware The Plundering Pirates

Rice is playing the Pirates of East Carolina, not the Pirates of the Caribbean​The Rice Owls are hosting the East Carolina Pirates this weekend, and if the Owls had any bounty left, then the Pirates would be plundering it. But this season being this season, the Owls have already had their tr ... More >>

Drunk Halloween Parties: Five Ways To Avoid Humiliation

Yeah, yeah, those pumpkins are "smashed"​Halloween is especially dangerous this year -- it's on a Sunday, and so that means it's perfectly reasonable to have parties not only on Friday, but on Saturday too.And that means double the chances of getting drunk and doing something you'll regret very mu ... More >>

No Lady Gaga: Celebrities We Wish Had Sex Dolls Made Of Them

He's no Johnny Depp​Yesterday on the Rocks Off blog we unveiled the Lady Gaga sex doll, Lady Gag Gag. Comments were mixed on the doll, ranging from utter confusion and strange attraction from both sexes. One commenter claimed that the model on the box was even more attractive than the real G ... More >>

Cap'n Kittens and Friends

Whatever its name, Avant Garden is a cornerstone of bohemian Houston.

Judas Priest's Screaming Seer Rob Halford

Master of Metal

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Joe Strummer transcends punk, and the music lives on

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate camps it up for Queen Hard with a Vengeance

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

It's time to throw Jack Sparrow overboard

A Masterpiece on Canvas

Fool's Gold

The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

There's the Party, Yar!

Dusk Til Dawn Film Fest Pirate Party

Think Pink

Run over cancer at the Komen Houston Race for the Cure

Depp's of the Sea

In Johnny and the crew's slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less