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  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Last Night: Steve Earle & The Dukes At Stafford Centre

    Steve Earle & the Dukes, The Mastersons Stafford Centre for the Performing Arts April 25, 2012 After three decades of music, mischief and critical accolades, it might come as a surprise to some to find Steve Earle performing at the relatively out-of-the-way (by Inner Loop standards) Centre for the ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 5, 2012

    Birds of Bethlehem

    New Palestinian restaurant Al Aseel is turning out some wonderful roasted chicken.

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Wine for Hanukkah, the Festival of Fried Foods and Olive Oil

    Photos by Jeremy Parzen.Tomorrow night is the first night of Hanukkah. In the U.S., Ashkenazi Jews eat potato pancakes to celebrate the festival. Here and in other parts of the world, Sephardi Jews eat doughnuts.​You don't need me to tell you why we eat fried foods for Hanukkah, the Jewish fes ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    The Human Resources Manager

    Photos by Jeremy Parzen.Tomorrow night is the first night of Hanukkah. In the U.S., Ashkenazi Jews eat potato pancakes to celebrate the festival. Here and in other parts of the world, Sephardi Jews eat doughnuts.​You don't need me to tell you why we eat fried foods for Hanukkah, the Jewish fes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    The Wacky Adventures Of Frederic Chopin's Heart

    Louis-Auguste Bisson​Today is Fredric Chopin's 201st birthday, although some sources claim he was actually born on February 22. Chopin's incredible nocturnes, pale complexion, consumption, and melancholy outlook have more than once prompted Rocks Off to christen him the Original Goth. He rema ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Buxton, Wild Moccasins Join New West Records

    Here at Rocks Off, we try our best to cover all the local music news, both large and small. Where else are you going to read that you can play Slim Thug on Words With Friends? It is reasons such as these that we trudge the war zones of RSS feeds, seeking out crucial tidbits of information. Buxton o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Autumn Feasting at Animal Farm Center

    ​Halloween night, while most Houstonians were busy trick or treating, a few gathered at Animal Farm Center in Cat Spring for a decadent afternoon and evening. Jason Kerr (a chef and an EOW contributor) was on hand to serve up food brought in fresh from local vendors, including produce harveste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Brunch at Animal Farm Permaculture Center

    ​Off the beaten path, down a dirt road and out in the middle of nowhere, in Cat Springs, Texas, lies Animal Farm. I recently was invited out there for brunch by my longtime friend Gita Vanwoerden to scope out the location for an upcoming farm-to-table dinner called Under Autumn Skies. You ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Israeli TV Show Is Taping In Houston And Honoring Right-Wingers

    Live! From Houston! It's Tuesday Night Live In Jerusalem!!​Houston is the first stop for Israeli TV hosts Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel as they take Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem across the United States. "We want to give an empowering, uplifting, inspiring message about Israel. And the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2010

    Eyes Wide Open

    Staying on the right path (whichever one that is)

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Top 10 Restaurants in the Galleria Area

    Photo by Erika RayStocking up on salsas at Chacho's.​The Galleria has more than 26 million visitors per year. While a significant amount of those people are tourists -- what wouldn't we give to visit a city just to shop there! -- many are Houstonians who gravitate toward the Uptown Park area o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Celestial Sandwiches - Day Three

    Breakfast sandwich from La Guadalupana. ​This week we're offering up 25 of our favorite sandwiches. Below is today's list. And if you haven't seen them yet, here's Monday's and Tuesday's. Breakfast sandwich at La Guadalupana - The breakfast sandwich, in general, is much less popular than the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Texas Traveler: Holy City

    Photos by Brittanie Shey​Traveling for the holidays? If you'll be near Wichita Falls you should consider crossing the border to the north to explore the village of extraordinary weirdness known as The Holy City, near Lawton, Oklahoma. Nestled in the measly foothills of the Wichita Mountains, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Eating Out on Thanksgiving Day? What's Open

    ​Not everyone in the city celebrates Thanksgiving, and that should come as no surprise given our increasingly diverse tapestry of residents (something for which Eating Our Words is thankful). And not everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving does so with a big family dinner at home. For these folk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Friday Night Noise: Werewolf Jerusalem's Cruel Kidnapping; Lightning Bolt's Earthly Delights

    Werewolf Jerusalem "Cruel Kidnapping, Part I"​Friday Night Noise wonders: is Mom to blame for our present-day fascination with/lust for noise musics? As a boy, Mom used hydrogen peroxide solution to loosen the wax in FNN's oft-clogged ear canals, and anybody who's been through that - sitting at a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Aftermath: Har Mar Superstar, My Jerusalem and the TMI Brigade at Super Happy Fun Land

    Photos by Brittanie SheyGive them drugs so they'll shut up (please): Har Mar openers My Jerusalem​ Rocks Off pulled into the parking lot of Super Happy Fun Land fashionably late Saturday night just in time to see Sean Tillmann (a.k.a. Har Mar Superstar, clad in street clothes instead of his usual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Take Har Mar Superstar Seriously or Not? Your Call.

    This guy has nothing on Har Mar Superstar. The R&B singer and Ron Jeremy lookalike has worked the pink-manties look for the better part of this decade. He is, after all, a self-styled lover. Fresh off his cameo as a rival roller derby coach in Whip It (and his excellent cover of "Never My Love" ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    "Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust"

    Photographer Norman Gershman sheds some light on an often overlooked bit of history

  • Culture

    March 12, 2009

    "Face" Value

    The Menil presents a treasure trove of portraits.

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008
  • Calendar

    April 24, 2008

    Dan Fesperman

    The author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo reads from his newest spy novel

  • Calendar

    November 1, 2007

    Rinaldo at Rice University

    Handel’s fabled hero conquers Houston

  • Calendar

    November 1, 2007

    35th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair

    The Jewish Community Center presents two weeks of authors, filmmakers and artists

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    Sonic Youth <3s Black Leather Jesus

    The Jewish Community Center presents two weeks of authors, filmmakers and artists

  • Music

    August 16, 2007

    Jelly Roll Morton in Houston

    A jazz great's pimp hand punches his ticket to glory

  • Music

    August 9, 2007

    Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Vols. 2 & 3

    A jazz great's pimp hand punches his ticket to glory

  • Music

    September 15, 2005

    Tremé, Texas

    The soul of New Orleans lives on in Houston, especially at Sammy's on Main

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2005

    Surls's World

    A seminal local arts icon and teacher shows his work at Blaffer Gallery

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2005

    Yiddish Rock

    DJ Hardware and company keep the faith at L'Chaim

  • Culture

    October 7, 2004

    Presidential Affairs

    Mrs. Farnsworth recalls her Yale years -- and a fling with George W.

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    Coffee Crusader

    Hell-raiser Reverend Bill battles Starbucks and shopping

  • Film

    August 26, 2004

    Jet-Propelled

    Zhang Yimou makes a soaring, mythic Hero out of Jet Li

  • Film

    April 22, 2004

    Family Ties

    An Israeli clan tries to fly again in Broken Wings

  • Film

    September 4, 2003

    Divine Decadence

    Rabbis won't recognize this wild and wicked Holy Land

  • Culture

    July 31, 2003

    Peace Through Art

    "Made in Palestine" humanizes the Middle East conflict

  • Music

    April 3, 2003

    Mentally Disturbed

    Dan Donegan wonders what's nü-metal about his band

  • Culture

    November 21, 2002

    Shattering the Glass

    Dale Chihuly brings his overblown and overpriced "art" to town. Will Houstonians buy it?

  • Culture

    December 20, 2001

    No Miracle on Main Street

    The Ensemble's Black Nativity is more prissy than powerful

  • Dining

    November 22, 2001

    Pig in the City

    A foodie saint is tainted by fast food's evil empire

  • Dining

    April 26, 2001

    Everything's Kosher

    Two new eateries lay down the Jewish dietary laws

  • Culture

    May 4, 2000

    Aida Who?

    HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    News of the Weird

    HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    News of the Weird

    HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  • Dining

    July 16, 1998

    Hot Plate

    HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  • Calendar

    March 26, 1998

    Night & Day

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Calendar

    December 18, 1997

    Press Picks

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Calendar

    June 13, 1996

    Press Picks

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Film

    March 16, 1995

    A Cultural Question

    Jewish Worlds is back after two years. It should have waited a third.

  • Music

    November 10, 1994

    Live Shots

    Jewish Worlds is back after two years. It should have waited a third.

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