Subject: Jacksonville

• Super Bowl LIV, Here We Come!

  April 12, 2007

• Sir Lancelot Waves Goodbye, and His Private Parts

  June 15, 2007

• Re: The BBC's Spanish Proposition

  August 6, 2007

• Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week Three: Approaching the Promised Land

  September 21, 2007

• Notes & Quotes: Wondering How God Feels about Ugly with the Houston Texans

  October 8, 2007

• Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week Six: Forget Dog Fighting. Parity Is the League’s Biggest Problem.

  October 12, 2007

• Halloween Comes Early for Texans Fans

  October 15, 2007

• Long Snaps with Bryan Pittman: Talking Titans and Missing the Peach Pit

  October 18, 2007

• Weekend Music: Blackfoot, Dollyrockers, Terror, Brooke Waggoner and More

  July 19, 2008

• Weekend Music: Tony Joe White, Candlebox, John Mayer, Bobby Blue Bland, Flowers to Hide and More

  August 2, 2008

• Aftermath: Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  August 11, 2008

• Wanna Buy a RoboDome?

  January 27, 1994

• Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking: Texans Settle Into Mediocrity

  Okay, so the Texans beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday to finish their second straight season at 8-8. That's two seasons in a row of mediocrity. Can I have a YAY TEAM! Over at the Chron, Richard Justice thinks the team is heading in the right direction and has turned the corner. He likes how Gary Kubiak gets the team mentally into the next game. Just like he got the team mentally into those games with Pittsburgh, Oakland, Baltimore, and Minnesota. (Never mind what Justice wrote earlier

  December 30, 2008

• Beat It, Bud

  August 24, 1995

• News of the Weird

  July 1, 1999

• Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking: Texans Settle Into Mediocrity

  Okay, so the Texans beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday to finish their second straight season at 8-8. That's two seasons in a row of mediocrity. Can I have a YAY TEAM! Over at the Chron, Richard Justice thinks the team is heading in the right direction and has turned the corner. He likes how Gary Kubiak gets the team mentally into the next game. Just like he got the team mentally into those games with Pittsburgh, Oakland, Baltimore, and Minnesota. (Never mind what Justice wrote earlier

  December 30, 2008

• First Thursdays at Dean’s: Dramatic Shorts

  A monthly film series hosts screenings of dramatic shorts

  November 6, 2008

• Summer Games

  Everyone's a front-runner in the race to land the Olympics

  July 25, 2002

• Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

  August 7, 2008

• Flames of Desire at Firehouse Subs

  July 24, 2008

• No Show: EMC Expos

  A long line of people say they've been stiffed by Rolando Dumagan and company.

  December 13, 2007

• The Melvins

  October 11, 2007

• Against Me!

  New Wave

  August 9, 2007

• Looking for a hit

  Mike Stinson, Nashville and an eight-minute bottle of wine

  October 12, 2006

• A Lighter Shade of Blue

  Jerry Lightfoot 1952-2006

  September 28, 2006

• Ryan Adams

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  December 29, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• On Second Thought

  HISD isn't laughing now about a breakfast program

  February 10, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  January 13, 2005

• Cowboy Johnson

  A Grain of Sand (MoonHouse Records)

  June 24, 2004

• Cheating the Reaper

  Vic Chesnutt died 20 years ago. Catch him live this week.

  June 19, 2003

• A Super Super Bowl

  With the Chron's publisher managing publicity, everything's swell

  June 12, 2003

• Sacred Blues

  Blues 2 Joy writes a new testament for the devil's music

  July 12, 2001

• Beefing Up the Coach

  Dom Capers takes on Texan barbecue for the first time

  March 8, 2001

• Civil(ity) War

  Does Houston have to get tougher on street people with new laws?

  July 22, 1999

• Adams Family Values

  Why do we hate Bud so? Maybe we never understood him, or those... Adams Family Values

  May 16, 1996

• Janet Jackson's Houston Nipple Flash Refuses To Die

  What, you thought you were getting nip?The single greatest news event to occur in Houston since the turn of the century -- one that's clearly gotten more ink than Ike -- is Janet Jackson's Super Bowl-icious nipple. (Katrina we're counting as a N'Awlins event.)The Awesome Areola is back in the news yet again this morning, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.A lower court had set aside the ridiculous $550,000 fine against CBS, which happened to be broadcasting the event and inadvertently aired

  May 4, 2009

• Seven Skynyrd Songs Better than "Sweet Home Alabama" or "Free Bird"

  Allow Rocks Off to let the cat out of the bag for a second: this evening at the Woodlands, Lynyrd Skynyrd will close with "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird." Taking nothing away from either song - they are, after all, a serious rebuke to Dixie-haters and Southern racists alike disguised as a poolside party anthem and the American "Stairway to Heaven," respectively - they are, shall we say, a shade overexposed at this point. Unfortunately, "Alabama" and "Free Bird" have come to dominate the pub

  June 30, 2009

• The Beatification Of St. Bud, Patron Saint Of A-Holes

  ​John McClain had the latest of his many love letters to Bud Adams inside yesterday's Chron. The excuse for this one revolved around this being the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Football League.Reading this article, I had several thoughts, the first being that I thought the Chron mandate that its writers suck up to sports ownership and management extended only to current owners, and at that, only to current owners not named Les Alexander. It also got me to really missing

  August 10, 2009

• Bayou Beat: A 15-Foot Sculpture of George Jones' Head, $10 House of Blues Tickets, Free Tontons Show, etc.

  ​Heavy metal comedy troupe Steel Panther has cancelled tonight's Warehouse Live show. What's on VH-1 Classic? Tennessee-born artist Wayne White is crafting a 15-foot puppet head in the likeness of Saratoga-born honky-tonk legend George Jones. Entitled "Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep" - a reference to Jones' song "Ragged but Right" - and appropriately positioned on its side, asleep, the outsized bust is patterned after the flat-topped Possum circa 1950. The installation opens Thu

  August 26, 2009

• At Long Last, Texans Play According to Plan

  ​For a franchise that has spent its entire existence searching for signs of turning a corner, the Texans on Sunday showed as many as they ever have. On the field, the Texans did what they never seem to do - win big in a game they're supposed to, routing the hapless Raiders 29-6 at Reliant Stadium. It was in stark contrast to their performance late last season against this same team, when they came out flat in Oakland and choked away a chance at the club's first winning season. But perh

  October 5, 2009

• The Daily Beast: Houston -- You Are "Mildly Retarded"

  ​The Daily Beast has ranked the IQ of each of America's 55 metro areas with populations over a million. Here is how they arrived at the concept of a 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 the percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in the last presidential election.And where does Houston rank? Well, ahead of San Antonio (Number 53 of

  October 5, 2009

• Texans Refuse To Lose Easily, Instead Opting To Rip Your Heart Out

  ​Now these are the Houston Texans we've grown to know and not love.A week after uncharacteristically taking care of business in a game they were supposed to do so against Oakland, the Texans laid an egg in the desert on Sunday, losing 28-21 to Arizona. But of course, that only tells part of the story. It wouldn't be the Texans if they lost with ease, as they appeared destined to with a 21-0 deficit at the half.Nope, the Texans in the Gary Kubiak era specialize in losing in the most heartbreaki

  October 12, 2009

• Midweek Match-Up: U2 Vs. Wrestlemania In The Battle Of The Spectacles

  As you well know if you've been reading our sister blog Rocks Off (and Lord knows you should be), U2 is in town tonight.The new tour requires something like 90 huge trucks to cart around the massive stage they use so as not to detract from the quiet beauty of their ballads. Or to keep the people in the cheap seats entertained, we're not sure.At any rate, it's the biggest show at Reliant Stadium since Wrestlemania 25 came to town, unless you count the Texans' implosion against Jacksonville.Wrestl

  October 14, 2009

• Texans Finally Put Two Halves Together; Defense Finds Pulse

  ​After three weeks of the season, the Texans were on a pace to allow more total yards and more yards rushing than any team in NFL history.So who the hell are these guys? And more importantly, have the guys calling the shots figured something out?The Texans' defense pitched a third consecutive second-half shutout in Sunday's 28-17 road victory against a very good Bengals (4-2) team, stifling what was the league's leading rusher -- Cedric Benson -- in the process.The former Texas star rushed

  October 19, 2009

• Houston One Of Safest Cities In The Country, If You Look At It A Certain (Wrong, Houston Proud) Way

  Photo courtesy GHCVB​Houston may be fat, polluted, sprawling and ugly, but it's got one thing going for it, according to Forbes magazine -- it's one of the safest cities in the country.Say what? Don't they read our Bayou Body Count? What, you go ten days without a murder and all of a sudden you're Eden?Apparently, the designation doesn't have anything to do with odd recent spurt of non-murderousness.Forbes looked at violent crime (see above), workplace deaths (refineries are so safe), traffic

  October 28, 2009

• Game Time: Friday Broken Glass

  ​Just cleaning up some random broken glass in my "Blog" folder on a Friday ... Can You Guess This Team? Channeling my inner Cosmo Kramer... WHO WANTS TO HAVE SOME FUN?! Ok, well, I'm going to describe a fairly well known football team to many of you, and after I'm finished describing them, see if you can guess what team it is! The answer is below. (Sorry, other than recommending you go print my NBA Preview post and spend a couple hours on the crapper, this is the best I can do to distrac

  October 30, 2009

• Texans Find Yet Another Way To Turn Breakthrough Into Heartbreak

  ​Before 2004, I remember laughing at Red Sox fans and the Curse of the Bambino. I rolled my eyes while Cubs fans whined about a goat. I remember being baffled that grown men and women could seriously believe or discuss outside forces having an impact on what occurs in the field of play.Then I met the Houston Texans.It's not that there's a logical case to believe the Texans (5-4) are cursed. As always, it's random luck that simply finds its way to go against them, as it did in Sunday's heartbre

  November 9, 2009

• Game Time: Kick In The Junk...Wide Left

  ​I woke up Sunday morning thinking that things had to get better. After a week that started off with a right cross from Kobe, a left hook from the Yankees, and a sucker punch in the junk from Notre Dame, I thought surely these events were just karmic balance for what was going to be the biggest win in the history of the Texans franchise.If the price I had to pay for the Texans announcing with authority their presence in Relevantville was enduring Kobe's ridiculous underbite sneer, living in a

  November 9, 2009

• 25 Things About The Texans-Titans Monday Night Match-Up

  ​For the second week in a row, it's homecoming week on Monday Night Football. This past Monday, it was the Baltimore Ravens returning to the place from which they came, Cleveland, to play the Browns. This coming Monday, the Tennessee Titans are returning to Houston to take on the Texans.With that said, here are a few things to watch for in the time leading up to, and including the game.1. Did you see that Bud Adams got fined $250,000 for flipping the bird at some fans from Buffalo? Can som

  November 19, 2009