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James Joyce

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    April 18, 2012

    Ezra Pound: Songs To Celebrate Leaving The Loony Bin

    Ezra Pound remains one of America's most genius and most controversial writers. His poetry has gone on to inspire countless artists, and as a literary editor and critic he was responsible for shaping the styles of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. He was by most accounts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    The Magnificent Endgame Gets Magnificent Treatment from Catastrophic Theatre

    The setup: Who else in Houston are you going to trust to do justice to the creepy dysfunction and blasted-earth absurdity of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett, than that theater company of raging imagination and utter theatricality, Catastrophic? If Waiting for Godot (1952) is his maste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    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 >>

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    July 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film

    May 22, 2008

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

    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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    May 10, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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    May 3, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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    April 26, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Dining

    January 11, 2007

    Blame Canada

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

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    Bill's Blog

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

  • Music

    February 2, 2006

    The Gourds, with Last Train Home

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

  • Home Entertainment

    October 13, 2005

    Prophecy Not Fulfilled

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

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2005

    Forecast: Reign

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

  • Music

    February 10, 2005

    Deep in The Throes

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

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2005

    Middle Man

    Jeffrey Eugenides shares his world of hermaphrodites and Virgin Suicides

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Ensemble Production

    Jeffrey Eugenides shares his world of hermaphrodites and Virgin Suicides

  • Culture

    November 20, 2003

    Singing Gabriel

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

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2003

    When Harry Met Santa

    Christmas comes early courtesy of Harry Connick Jr.

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2003

    Leatherface to Picasso

    UT's Harry Ransom Center has it all

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000
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    May 4, 2000

    Irish By Design

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

  • Film

    April 20, 2000

    Do You Want to Know a Secret?

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

  • Film

    June 17, 1999

    All Things Irish

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

  • Culture

    June 3, 1999

    Bawdiness and Brains

    Tom Stoppard's Travesties offers both

  • Calendar

    May 20, 1999

    Night & Day

    May 20 - 26, 1999

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    April 9, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 9 - 15, 1998

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    November 13, 1997

    Watt's Engine

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

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    April 24, 1997

    Press Picks

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

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    March 7, 1996

    Letters

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

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    February 29, 1996

    Shutterbug

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

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    February 2, 1995

    Letters

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

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    January 27, 1994

    Three-Ring Museum

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

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