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James Bond

  • Culture

    June 29, 2000

    The Final Frontier

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    Reverberations Extra: The Love Me Nots, etc. Live at Rudyard’s

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    Over the Weekend: Special Bikini Edition

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Balls...Hair Balls: Bond's Best Five Non-Villain Deaths

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Balls...Hair Balls: Best Bond Villain Deaths

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Balls...Hair Balls: Five Best Bond Songs

    What do Rita Coolidge, Sheena Easton, and Chris Cornell have in common (aside from jockeying for position in a future "Where Are They Now" segment on E!, that is)? That's right, they all sang the title song in a James Bond movie. They also are conspicuously absent from this list of the best Bond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Balls...Hair Balls: The Five Best Bond Movies

    Everyone has their own criteria for answering the all-important question: Which of the 22 (official) James Bond movies is your favorite? For example, I was never a huge fan of the gadgetry and thought Lazenby, though underrated, never was a good fit. Your mileage may vary according to your toler ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    How Quantum of Solace Stacks Up

    As you may have noticed, a new James Bond movie opened last weekend. Sony executives are celebrating Quantum of Solace's $70 million opening - the biggest for any Bond movie - by snorting gold-plated cocaine atop a palanquin borne by castrated former Viacom employees, but we at Hair Balls are qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    The Five Best Bond Themes

    Critics may have found the 22nd James Bond caper, Quantum of Solace, "grim and downcast" (The New York Times), but audiences didn't seem to mind, turning out in sufficient numbers for Quantum to set a new 007 opening-weekend record of more than $70.4 million (domestic). But never mind the movie ... More >>

  • Music

    July 25, 1996

    Sound Check

    Critics may have found the 22nd James Bond caper, Quantum of Solace, "grim and downcast" (The New York Times), but audiences didn't seem to mind, turning out in sufficient numbers for Quantum to set a new 007 opening-weekend record of more than $70.4 million (domestic). But never mind the movie ... More >>

  • Film

    December 18, 1997

    007 By the Numbers

    Most of Tomorrow Never Dies lacks the wit and inventiveness of the best Bond

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    For Good Friday: The Five Best Torture Scenes

    Today is Good Friday, so named because it's the day they finally offed that pompous windbag from Nazareth who would just not shut up about all his "Love your brother" crap. Have you met any of my brothers?Of course, the powers-that-be decided they wouldn't just kill Jesus, they had to torture him a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    Raymond Benson and Alan J. Porter

    Web exclusive!

  • Film

    November 13, 2008

    Quantum of Solace Is Neither Shaken Nor Stirred

    Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore

  • Film

    July 10, 2008

    Going Down to the Center of the Earth

    Brendan Fraser falls into deep, deep hole

  • Music

    June 12, 2008

    The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement

    Brendan Fraser falls into deep, deep hole

  • Music

    December 27, 2007

    Musical lowlights of 2007

    Shaken, Not Stirred

  • Home Entertainment

    November 8, 2007

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Shaken, Not Stirred

  • Music

    October 4, 2007

    Siouxsie, Mantaray

    CD Review

  • Film

    September 6, 2007

    Shoot 'Em Up

    Shoot 'Em Up proves that its star could have been a killer Bond

  • Calendar

    August 30, 2007

    “007: The Music of James Bond”

    Houston Symphony taps spy songs for its playlist

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Everybody in tha Chamber

    Houston Symphony taps spy songs for its playlist

  • News

    March 29, 2007

    Mail Call

    Truckin'

  • Home Entertainment

    March 15, 2007

    DVDs

    Truckin'

  • Film

    November 16, 2006

    Royale Flush

    The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy, and comes up aces

  • Home Entertainment

    November 9, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of November 9

    The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy, and comes up aces

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    Supergrass

    Road to Rouen

  • Film

    April 7, 2005

    Fortunate Son

    Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2004

    Down Low

    Sex, sex and more sex at Reggae Bodega

  • Film

    August 8, 2002

    Thunderbald

    Bond is reincarnated -- sort of -- as a shaved-head punk in xXx

  • Culture

    March 21, 2002

    FotoFatigue

    With 140 venues, FotoFest makes you suffer for your art

  • Dining

    September 6, 2001

    Stirred and Shaken

    The Czar Bar's Disco Volante

  • Film

    August 16, 2001

    The Mild West

    American Outlaws' parallel dimensions diminish Jesse James into a cuddly, goofy bore

  • Film

    April 19, 2001

    Crazy from the Heat

    Boorman and Le Carré lose touch with their thrill-seeking personae in Panama

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Boorman and Le Carré lose touch with their thrill-seeking personae in Panama

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    The Rockets, Joining The Pantheon Of Those Who Gave Up Surprising Momentum

    Hey, how'd those Rockets do last night?!Oh.In case you missed it, Our Rockets (and by "Our," we mean "team we started cheering for a week ago"), got shellacked by the Lakers 118-78. Everyone had expected the injury-riddled Houston team to lose like that -- in Sunday's game, which they had won.That ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

    Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Jeffery Deaver: The Burning Wire

    Hear about Lincoln Rhyme's latest adventure from the man who created him

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Pop Rocks: The Ten Hottest (Non-Celebrity) Commercial Spokespersons

    ​Nobody watches commercials much these days. Digital TV recorders and the steady decline of network TV mean we no longer have to pay a lot of attention to television advertising. And anyway, companies have figured out other avenues, using the internet and people's foreheads and Jerry Bruckheim ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010

    Raymond Benson: Choice of Weapons

    ​Nobody watches commercials much these days. Digital TV recorders and the steady decline of network TV mean we no longer have to pay a lot of attention to television advertising. And anyway, companies have figured out other avenues, using the internet and people's foreheads and Jerry Bruckheim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    The Ten Worst Movies of 2011...In Advance

    Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    10 Sexually Suggestive, Food-Related Album Covers

    ​ If there are three things we report on quite well here at Houston Press Blog Central, it's food, sex and music. So, hell, let's merge 'em! Here is a rundown of ten of the most sexually suggestive, food- related album covers that caught our eye and gave us the craziest cravings. 10. Katy Pe ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2011

    Gladys Knight

    ​ If there are three things we report on quite well here at Houston Press Blog Central, it's food, sex and music. So, hell, let's merge 'em! Here is a rundown of ten of the most sexually suggestive, food- related album covers that caught our eye and gave us the craziest cravings. 10. Katy Pe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    Jeffery Deaver

    ​ If there are three things we report on quite well here at Houston Press Blog Central, it's food, sex and music. So, hell, let's merge 'em! Here is a rundown of ten of the most sexually suggestive, food- related album covers that caught our eye and gave us the craziest cravings. 10. Katy Pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Saturday Night: Sade & John Legend At Toyota Center

    Photos by Groovehouse​Sade, John Legend Toyota Center July 23, 2011 See more smooth operation from Sade & John Legend in our slideshow. As word of Amy Winehouse's death spread across the Internet Saturday, another British soul singer was preparing to perform in Houston for the first time in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Top 007 James Bond Musical Title Sequences

    ​59 years ago today, United Artists released Dr. No, the first film adaptation of Ian Feming's James Bond novels. There have since been 21 more movies with another one on the way, and the series is the second-highest grossing film series ever after Harry Potter. One of the things that contin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Who Else Would Make A Good Bond Villain?

    Jeez, when are they going to stop casting ugly actors in these Bond movies?​So it turns out Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristy Barcelona) is going up against 007 in Bond 23: After months of speculation about who would play the villain in the next James Bond installment, we fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Top 5 Champagnes Under $60 for the Holidays

    Photos by Jeremy Parzen.Remember: Champagne doesn't have to be white. Rosé Champagne is often considered the more "muscular" expression of the appellation. Look for Bollinger Rosé, Ruinart Rosé, and our favorite, Billecart Salmon Rosé.​Okay, folks. There's good news and there's bad news. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    New Horsefly Species Named For Beyonce: 5 Better Names It Should Have Gotten

    There's bootlicious gold in them thar hills​The Washington Post reported that an Australian researcher had discovered a new species of horsefly and, because it's backside was gold and therefore "bootylicious," he was naming it after Houston's own Beyonce. The species will henceforth be known ... More >>

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