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Bumbaklat Hits: Pop's 10 Most Unforgivable Reggae Misappropriations

Can you feel it yet? Don't let all this rain fool you -- Summer is on its way. Sure, that means triple-digit temperatures, mutant mosquitos and Astros-fan apathy, but it also means live music outdoors. And where there's live music outdoors, there is always reggae. It's some kind of rule. Persona ... More >>

Project Runway All-Stars: The United Nations Challenge

This week on PRAS: Kara's departure has the designers chattering about who does and does not "deserve" to be an All-Star, and the design gang visits the United Nations where they are assigned a challenge based on and inspired by international flags. Anyone else want to see the challenge where the de ... More >>

Fred Mueller, Christopher Norregaard: A Good Kid, a Good Firefighter Crash & the Pain Endures

Fred Mueller was a promising Bellaire High student down in Galveston enjoying his first Mardi Gras. He went off on a food run in his pick-up truck; when he got lost he made a u-turn on Seawall Boulevard. When he did his truck was smashed into by a motorcycle driven by Christopher Nooregard, a belov ... More >>

Marley's Ghost: Bob Lives In More Than Just Dorm Rooms

The Onion​Thirty years ago today, Bob Marley passed away from cancer at the young age of 36. According to one joke, it took three days to bury him because his coffin kept jammin'. Bada bum. That's not even our favorite. Earlier this year, Dan Turner, press secretary to Mississippi Governor an ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

Bread Pudding at Jamaica House

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

Jamaica House Cuisine & Culture

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

Bob Marley: Think You Know Him, Mon?

​Bob Marley: The Untold Story By Chris Salewicz Music journalist Chris Salewicz hasn't been afraid to tackle the big names in print. In addition to his work as a features writer at NME from 1974-81 and active freelancer, he's previously penned biographies on Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Mick ... More >>

Tropic Thunder

Serving up home-cooked Jamaican soul food.

Win A Pair Of Toots & The Maytals Tickets

Ed. Note: Rocks Off is giving away a pair of tickets to Toots & the Maytals at high noon on our Facebook page. Please add us here. ​If Toots Hibbert didn't actually give birth to reggae, he certainly dated the midwife. Hibbert's legacy traces itself to the earliest reggae recordings as ska slo ... More >>

Toots & the Maytals

Ed. Note: Rocks Off is giving away a pair of tickets to Toots & the Maytals at high noon on our Facebook page. Please add us here. ​If Toots Hibbert didn't actually give birth to reggae, he certainly dated the midwife. Hibbert's legacy traces itself to the earliest reggae recordings as ska slo ... More >>

Houston International Festival

Ed. Note: Rocks Off is giving away a pair of tickets to Toots & the Maytals at high noon on our Facebook page. Please add us here. ​If Toots Hibbert didn't actually give birth to reggae, he certainly dated the midwife. Hibbert's legacy traces itself to the earliest reggae recordings as ska slo ... More >>

The Caribbean At iFest: Pass The Kutchie To Neutral Sister, The Mighty Diamonds And Easy Star All-Stars

Over the next two weeks, Rocks Off will be previewing acts performing at this year's Houston International Festival Saturday and Sunday and April 24-25 broken down by genre (loosely, anyway) and with a guest pick from a true insider: iFest Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell. Today, the Caribb ... More >>

More Cock, Darling?

Photo by Robb Walsh​When I first saw Grace's Cock Soup on the shelf at H-E-B, I figured it was another one of those "Jamaican Love Foods." While I was writing my first cookbook, Traveling Jamaica with Knife, Fork & Spoon, with chef Jay McCarthy, we dutifully recorded and tested recipes for sev ... More >>

$10 Tom Yum Goong

Photo by Robb Walsh​I have a cold. So I walk into Thai Restaurant at 5757 Westheimer and ask if they have any soup. Waitress points to the menu. Tom yum goong is $3.95. I'll take that, I say pointing at the item. Thai soups are great cold remedies, especially the shrimp, lemongrass, lime and ... More >>

The Distillery: Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall

What it do, Rancid? What's crackin', formerly crusty-punk rude boys? Been a long time since we last hang, bros. When Dan Zeller lent me Let's Go during senior year of high school, I knew y'all were onto something special: three-billy-goats-gruff sung scrabbling punk anthems and routs with just a hin ... More >>

The 38th Annual Houston International Festival

Go to Ireland and back again, without leaving downtown Houston

Sonidos y Mas: Various Artists, "The Price of Silence"

Sixty years ago this week in Paris, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The original text was a collaborative effort from representatives from many nations including the United States (Eleanor Roosevelt was part of the team), written as a way to repudiate the atroc ... More >>

The Killers: Day & Age

Sixty years ago this week in Paris, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The original text was a collaborative effort from representatives from many nations including the United States (Eleanor Roosevelt was part of the team), written as a way to repudiate the atroc ... More >>

Pickled Pequins in a Pancake Syrup Dispenser

If you don’t have a shaker bottle, try putting your “sport peppers” in a pancake syrup dispenser. I got the idea after visiting Jamaica many years ago. Every little rasta restaurant I visited had a pancake syrup dispenser full of Scotch bonnet peppers in vinegar sitting on the table with the s ... More >>

Lou Dobbs, Henry Cejudo and Usain Bolt: More Notes on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

If you don’t have a shaker bottle, try putting your “sport peppers” in a pancake syrup dispenser. I got the idea after visiting Jamaica many years ago. Every little rasta restaurant I visited had a pancake syrup dispenser full of Scotch bonnet peppers in vinegar sitting on the table with the s ... More >>

Tropical Heat at Caribbean Jerk Cuisine

Cooling off — and breaking a sweat — at this Richmond Avenue joint

The Wayback Machine

Cooling off — and breaking a sweat — at this Richmond Avenue joint

Live Shots: Toots and the Maytals

Cooling off — and breaking a sweat — at this Richmond Avenue joint

Reggae Hut Cafe

What a jerk

Albino Riddim

What a jerk

Let Them Eat Cake!

What a jerk

Reggae Buffet

Neville Monteith warns local food lovers, "Look out, Houston, me cooking now!"

Gimme a B!

Nate Nicoll's synth sounds are your ticket to the '80s

Luciano, with Dean Fraser, Irie Time, Bigga Boss and Manjaro

Friday, June 24, at Club Riddims, 8220 West Bellfort, 713-779-0033 or 713-981-6677.

Pattern Recognition

Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

Murder Music in Sharpstown

Houston yawns as Jamaican homophobe Capleton blazes through town

Culture

Live in Africa (RAS Records)

Burning Shoe Leather

The Chron's Marshall is out there reporting, dammit

Okra Worship

Pearl's serves up real food for the soul; Fusion Café brings a little soul to Rice Village

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

Halfway Tree (Motown)

Best Jamaican Restaurant

Caribbean Cuisine

Business Versus Pleasure

Lil' Troy keeps on ballin', on CD and video, at least

Playbill

The Bob Marley Festival

Stirred and Shaken

Saba's lemongrass margarita

Ska Fathers

When searching for the source of the Jamaican sound, look no further than the Skatalites

Wong's War on a Reggae Club

Are the problems traffic and parking, or just the color of the customers?

Static

Are the problems traffic and parking, or just the color of the customers?

Jah's Will Be Done

At Jamaica-Me-Crazy, whatever dessert will be, will be

Press Picks

At Jamaica-Me-Crazy, whatever dessert will be, will be

Dub and Dumber

At Jamaica-Me-Crazy, whatever dessert will be, will be

Plugged In

At Jamaica-Me-Crazy, whatever dessert will be, will be

Tropical Excursion

The Reggae Cafe is one hot trip to Jamaica