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The Top 10 Car Models in Desperate Need of a Redesign

Car years are like dog years. They age much faster than we do. The average life cycle of a car is getting shorter and shorter as automakers compete to have the latest and greatest redesign on the block. In between redesigns, many automakers try to trick you into thinking that a car is "all-new" when ... More >>

NFL Free Agency 2013: "Dead Money" Overview

As a concept, the NFL salary cap is a fairly easy one to understand. Unlike the NBA, with its myriad of loopholes, exceptions, and fine print that allow teams like the Lakers and, well, almost everyone else to zoom past the artificial "cap", the NFL is a simple hard cap. What you spend is what what ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Cars of the Houston Auto Show (with Photos)

Concept cars are what auto shows are all about. With their nuclear hybrid propulsion systems, bamboo radio control knobs, and intergalactic navigation displays, concept cars give us a chance to look into the unlikely future of the automobile. Weren't we supposed to have flying cars by now? This yea ... More >>

Robert Pemelton: The Smiling-est Damn (Alleged) DWI Mugshot Ever

Robert Pemelton decided to show off in his black Jaguar on a Harlingen street about 1:30 yesterday; unfortunately for him, a cop saw it all and stopped him. Pemelton failed field sobriety tests, but apparently he doesn't feel too bad about -- his mugshots show him all smiles, like he's having the f ... More >>

Dominique Sachse's Wedding: Filed Under "Things We Need to Not Hear About So Much"

DID YOU HEAR?!?!?!? KPRC anchorwoman Dominique Sachse got married!!!!!! OMG!!!!! In case you missed the Channel 2 ads, Sachse was one of -- if not the -- hardest-working single moms out there. That's a remark which, if we were churlish, we would find incredibly insulting to all the single moms in ... More >>

When Car Commercials And Rock And Roll Collide

This weekend is the big Houston Art Car Parade, where children and adults of all ages can gander at their fellow Houstonians' labors of car love. Each car is a marvel to the ingenuity and the insanity of this race known as the modern Texan. The Art Car festivities have cars on our brains. Rock a ... More >>

5 Things to Miss About Being a Classic Gamer

This is not a lament for the old days, Okay? We're very grateful for the endlessly forward march of video game progress, and if anyone tries to tell you that the classic era was superior, then beat them in the face with a Jaguar controller until it breaks. The modern world has full-motion capture co ... More >>

Collins and Gorathy Uwake: Feds Seize Over $1M and Five Fancy Cars in Drug Raid

Wikipedia CommonsOf the five rides cops seized in their raid, police say that Collins Uwake loved his Titan the best.​With a Missouri City drug raid late last month, agents from the DEA and multiple other local and state agencies closed an investigation into the activities of husband-and-wife ... More >>

Last Night: Sting At Verizon Wireless Theater

Sting Verizon Wireless Theater November 17, 2011 Photos by Jason Wolter​Sting gets a lot of shit that Rocks Off has frankly never really understood. Is it the myriad social causes? The way he expected you to know who Chaucer was? The tantric sex thing? We're not going to sit here and defend a ... More >>

Pop Rocks on Sting: "Rock Stars...Is There Anything They Don't Know?"

You rotten flexible bastard.​ Sting. He's the artist we love to hate: Sting, everyone's favorite somnambulant acoustic pop star, has developed a somewhat checkered experience in Central Asia. In 2009, Gulnara Karimova--herself a fledgling pop singer under the name GooGooSha and daughter of ... More >>

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Music Fans Love Their A-Holes

You rotten flexible bastard.​Sting. He's the artist we love to hate. From The Atlantic: Sting, everyone's favorite somnambulant acoustic pop star, has developed a somewhat checkered experience in Central Asia. In 2009, Gulnara Karimova - herself a fledgling pop singer under the name GooGooSha ... More >>

Unidentified Male Passenger of Alleged Drunk Jaguar Driver, 24, Bayou Body Count No. 90

HPDChristopher Trumper faces intoxication manslaughter charges​A passenger of a Jaguar was killed in a wee-hours crash on the North Freeway Sunday, and the driver has been charged with intoxication manslaughter. Police say two cars involved in a wreck were stopped in the 2700 block of the hig ... More >>

RIP Ryan Dunn: 15 Car Crash Songs

film.com​Rocks Off has always been a Jackass fan. The exploits of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the recently deceased Ryan Dunn may not be for everyone, but we've always maintained it's better to be a willing participant in mayhem and physical abuse than not (*cough* America's Fun ... More >>

Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.

Our Year

Will Texans make it to playoffs?

Merchant of Soul

Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

Robert Leleux details ‘life with mother’

Last Night: Spoon and New Pornographers at Warehouse Live

Last Night: Randy Weeks at the Mucky Duck

Aaron Loesch Vies to Become the Guitar Center King of the Blues

A dying Houston scene suddenly might have new life

Millionaire Mindsetters

No skeptics need apply to this get-rich-quick proposition

A Thin Line...

Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

Time Warp

Four bands bring the '70s back to town

No-Name Offense

The Chron struggles over whether to name a suspect

He Ain't Ever Coming Back

Joe Strummer, a titan of the Clash

The Chef Who Almost Wasn't

Zumm Escudier has put the Angelika Cafe back on track, but her path has been long and winding

An O'K(ane) Deal

An inmate's story turns out to be not so bizarre after all

Golden Oldies

How many times can the Chronicle write the "How to be a Texan" story?

Best Local Boy Gone Bad

Judge Bob Burdette 176th District Court

Bi-Curious?

Gay and lesbian films seek a mainstream audience on their own terms

Rejected

Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

The Bench Warmer

After two defeats by voters, will Bob Burdette finally lose his black robe to a DWI?

Nothing About Ado Much

The backward narrative of Memento is little more than gimmicky

Brave Hearts

A secret Jew and a Berlin housewife find love among the Nazis in the beautiful Aimée & Jaguar

Turn The Beat Around

Long before DJ Screw, Darryl Scott was Houston's mixmaster, spinning records that eventually spun him into the ground. A reformed Scott has a new rap these days - the word of God.

Plugged In

Like little Energizer bunnies, electric-car proponents keep going and going and going

Paid In Full

Sensitive, saccharine and practically messianic, Pay It Forward works like a charm

Best Pastime for Hands When Not Servicing $100,000 Automobiles

Playin' in a rock 'n' roll band

Sexual Orienting Onscreen

Gay and lesbian fest features new looks at homosexuality

News Hostage

Trading with the Enemy

Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways

The Insider

Fast Eddie's Getaway

Insider deals. Outrageous perks. Exorbitant salaries. No wonder Eddie Webster's taken a permanent vacation from the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Would You Buy a Revolution From This Man?

Is Quanell X the new Malcolm? Or does he just want you to think so?

Making Connections

Mark Lombardi finds art in the ties that bind

Holy Warrior

God loves evander Holyfield. Everyone else is betting on Tyson.

Jean and Burnie won$41 million in thelottery. But they still stop at Stuckey's, still shop at Kmart, still play the numbers. And they still have each other.

After a bad trip into the underworld of wreckers, storage lots and repair shops, you might think the accident was the best part of the experience.

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

A Hard Case of the Blues

Roy Ames and his Home Cooking records have spread the sound of Houston blues around the world. Some local musicians are wondering why he hasn't spread more of the wealth as well.