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How I Learned to Love Piss Pie

Steak and kidney pie is a fine old British dish that I have eaten twice in the line of duty over the last year. On both occasions, I found the urine scent of the kidneys disgusting. For some reason I find it difficult to swallow an organ meat that smells like a public restroom. Normally, I am an of ... More >>

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Steak and kidney pie is a fine old British dish that I have eaten twice in the line of duty over the last year. On both occasions, I found the urine scent of the kidneys disgusting. For some reason I find it difficult to swallow an organ meat that smells like a public restroom. Normally, I am an of ... More >>

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Steak and kidney pie is a fine old British dish that I have eaten twice in the line of duty over the last year. On both occasions, I found the urine scent of the kidneys disgusting. For some reason I find it difficult to swallow an organ meat that smells like a public restroom. Normally, I am an of ... More >>

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Steak and kidney pie is a fine old British dish that I have eaten twice in the line of duty over the last year. On both occasions, I found the urine scent of the kidneys disgusting. For some reason I find it difficult to swallow an organ meat that smells like a public restroom. Normally, I am an of ... More >>

Watt's Engine

Former Minuteman Mike Watt looks to the past in order to steam into the future

Night & Day

April 9 - 15, 1998

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

Irish By Design

Slainte -- Bronx Bar -- Lucia's Garden -- Sur La Table

A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Slainte -- Bronx Bar -- Lucia's Garden -- Sur La Table

Middle Man

Jeffrey Eugenides shares his world of hermaphrodites and Virgin Suicides

Mail Call

Vlog Spot

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Blame Canada

A new pub on Westheimer that's lots of firkin fun for the whole firkin family!

The Gourds, with Last Train Home

Saturday, February 4, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9666.

Prophecy Not Fulfilled

Indigo Prophecy offers creepy fun, but fails to live up to the hype.

Forecast: Reign

This is what it sounds like when local artists pay tribute to Prince

Deep in The Throes

Tired of guitar-and-drums blues duos? You haven't heard Two Gallants yet.

Best Ensemble Production

Tired of guitar-and-drums blues duos? You haven't heard Two Gallants yet.

Singing Gabriel

Joyce's psychological short story The Dead becomes a musical -- and it works

When Harry Met Santa

Christmas comes early courtesy of Harry Connick Jr.

Leatherface to Picasso

UT's Harry Ransom Center has it all

Best New Downtown Bar

Slainte

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

Stanley Tucci unravels the mystery behind why New Yorker journalist Joseph Mitchell stopped writing

All Things Irish

Erin goes blah in the gloomy mix of This Is My Father

Bawdiness and Brains

Tom Stoppard's Travesties offers both

Letters

Tom Stoppard's Travesties offers both

The Great Guillermo Arriaga, On Writing, Directing And What He Wants Houstonians To Do

​Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada -- all these movies have one thing in common: Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer Guillermo Arriaga. He's in Houston this week and you'll have two chances to meet him and check out his films at the Houston Ci ... More >>

Houston Musicians Recall Their Own Rock and Roll High School Days

​Tonight Rocks Off is hosting the first annual Texas High School Rock Off, with local bands from area schools fighting for a grand prize of $500 and bragging rights around town. This past week we have profiled the seven bands in the running: The Paperwaits, Useful Information, The Handshake, Livin ... More >>

Bono, Gaga And ZZ Top Write Like Raymond Chandler? Who Knew?

​Ask anyone who really knows Rocks Off, and they'll probably tell you we can be a little slow on the uptake sometimes. We proved this once again earlier this week, when we updated our Facebook status with a plea for someone to explain to us what in tarnation a "meme" is. We should have waited ... More >>

Self-Described "Elitist" "Asshole" Opening a Restaurant

​Until last Friday, I thought that the press release I received last year for "the greatest penis shaped muffin restaurant" in Houston was the strangest piece of PR material to cross my desk. That was before Paul West. That was before Greatfull Taco. West is perhaps best known to our readers ... More >>