Subject: Jessica Simpson

• Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week Four: Salma Hayek, the Green Bay Packers, Anna Kournikova and the Baltimore Ravens

  September 28, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: Things I Think Are Probably Worse Than Jessica Simpson’s Upcoming Movie

  November 14, 2007

• Over the Weekend: Football, Golden Globes and Bar Hopping

  January 14, 2008

• Giselle Bundchen, Carrie Underwood, Bridget Moynihan and Jessica Simpson -- Yep, We're Talking Football

  January 15, 2008

• Random Thoughts for a World Where Eli Manning Is Better Than Brett Favre

  January 21, 2008

• Ten Performers Besides Bruce Springsteen Who Were Considered for the Super Bowl

  October 2, 2008

• Ten Other Instances of "Sloppy Seconds"

  Sean Avery of the NHL's Dallas Stars was suspended for an indefinite period by the NHL on Tuesday for comments he made in Calgary on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, he made a comment about several players dating his "sloppy seconds." And I know most of you in Houston would rather talk high school football than hockey, so you probably wouldn't know that Avery's "sloppy seconds" include Kim Bauer and Stacy's Mom, who's got it going on. And that got me to thinking. Lots of athletes date beautiful

  December 4, 2008

• Michael Irvin Brings Dallas Cowboys Reality Show to Spike TV

  Are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? Are you disappointed with the way the season ended? Do you think that the problem might have a little something to do with head coach Wade Phillips? Or offensive coordinator Jason Garrett? Perhaps you're like Troy Aikman who thinks the problem is that Tony Romo spends too much time hanging out with Jessica Simpson and not enough time attempting to be a team leader. Or you think Terrell Owens is a cancer. All of that could be true. But I've got some good news

  January 23, 2009

• Rice Says A Person's Looks Influence Loan Decisions. Let's Assess

  Who says you can't judge a book by its cover? It appears that banks and other lenders know a trustworthy face when they see one - or at least that's what a study co-authored by Rice professor of real estate finance Jefferson Duarte indicates.Using loan information and photographs from the website Prosper.com, which matches loan applicants to lenders, Duarte asked a 25-member group to rate each applicant's trustworthiness based solely on their photo. The team was also asked to judge the likelihoo

  March 16, 2009

• Michael Irvin Brings Dallas Cowboys Reality Show to Spike TV

  Are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? Are you disappointed with the way the season ended? Do you think that the problem might have a little something to do with head coach Wade Phillips? Or offensive coordinator Jason Garrett? Perhaps you're like Troy Aikman who thinks the problem is that Tony Romo spends too much time hanging out with Jessica Simpson and not enough time attempting to be a team leader. Or you think Terrell Owens is a cancer. All of that could be true. But I've got some good news

  January 23, 2009

• Eminem's Comeback: Yay or Nay?

  So Eminem is back. Eminem. A man who is a paradox wrapped inside an enigma and served with two joints and a beer. The man has totally homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, yet he has performed with Elton John and is, by all accounts, a loving single dad to his little girl. He seems dumb as dirt in some interviews, but his lyrics are sharp and way witty. I hate him, but I love him. You know.He's been under the radar for several years...pretty much since 2004. Now he's got a new album out, Relapse,

  April 14, 2009

• The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson

  "La La" Love You

  February 14, 2008

• ASK A MEXICAN

  January 24, 2008

• Chick Flick, Two Ways

  In Keaton v. Heigl, girl power (Mad Money) trumps bridesmaid fashion (27 Dresses)

  January 17, 2008

• Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

  Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  September 20, 2007

• Trashy Little Darlings

  March 9, 2006

• Gestating Gumshoe

  August 10, 2006

• The Music Critics Dictionary

  Translating critic-speak

  March 29, 2007

• Command Performance

  Bill Clinton wakes 'em up, for a while, at Rice

  February 15, 2007

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• Making Scents of the Stars

  A buyer's guide to celebrity fragrances

  December 21, 2006

• Tae Kwon Ho

  Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore

  February 2, 2006

• It's In The Cards

  The Nick-and-Jessica split, tarot-style

  January 5, 2006

• They Did What?

  The top WTF moments of 2005

  December 8, 2005

• Avril Lavigne, with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker

  Tuesday, August 16, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2025 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

  August 11, 2005

• White Trash

  There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

  August 4, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  May 26, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  March 10, 2005

• Pop-Up Pop Stars

  With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

  August 19, 2004

• What Was That?

  Horton hears a Who in Seussical

  June 24, 2004

• Defending the Dirty Thirty

  And coping with Yankee slander

  May 6, 2004

• H-Town Goes Cowtown

  It's rodeo time in the city

  February 26, 2004

• Drat!

  Racket proposes a rock radio revolution. Clear Channel beats him to the punch.

  February 12, 2004

• Chasing Mandy

  A pop-star-turned-actress tries to move into her "mature phase"

  January 8, 2004

• A Fan's Notes

  Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

  December 18, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 4, 2003

• Mandy Moore

  Maximizing her 15 minutes

  July 27, 2000

• Who Wants To Be A Contestant On Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

  The producers of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire are coming to town Friday today to audition contestants for the show. Our Craig Hlavaty has already gone down this road before; here's his tale and some tips on how to get picked.Back in the summer of 2005, when I was slinging dough for Domino's and studying for a law degree, I was coerced by my dear old mother to go to try out for the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. At this point the Millionaire phenomenon had run its course. I

  July 1, 2009

• Almost A Millionaire: One man's brief stint in the spotlight

  July 9, 2009

• Big Willie Style: The Red Headed Stranger at the Movies

  Honeysuckle Rose This weekend at the Woodlands comes one of the most prolific trios of artists to ever appear on the same bill. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp converge on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for what looks to be one of those landmark shows people brag about catching, kind of like the Dylan/Paul Simon gig out there about a decade ago. Nelson is so ingrained into the state psyche that if we ever decided to make our own musical Mount Rushmore in West Texas, he would b

  July 29, 2009

• Beyonce: Not Just Dangerously In Love, Dangerous To Your Computer

  Daniel Kramer​Via the Houston site of examiner.com, anti-viral software company McAfee ranks Beyonce near the top of celebrities for whom Internet searches are likely to lead to pages containing spyware, viruses or other technology-borne maladies. Searching Beyonce and other boldfaced names like Jessica Biel (No. 1 this year), the study says, could lead to pages "designed to damage one's computer." And you thought that "Single Ladies" video was viral. Jennifer Aniston, Tom Brady and Jessica Si

  August 25, 2009

• Bring Me The Head Of This Bastardized Version Of Melrose Place

  ​Did the creators of this Melrose Place remake not take a note from the obvious failure of the "new" 90210? Did they not realize that you can only catch lightning in a bottle once?Yes, friends, apparently the CW is bringing back the `90s soap in September, and I, for one, am disgusted by this turn of events.I was so excited about the premiere of the REAL Melrose back in the day that I actually taped the first episode (okay, so I was 15 when it aired, gimme a break). I watched that first hour o

  August 27, 2009

• Paternity Suit Aside, At Least Matthew Knowles Isn't as Bad as These Manager Dads

  ​In news that was greeted with yawns outside of Houston - and not exactly shouted from the rooftops here - Matthew Knowles, father of Beyonce and Solange, has been slapped with a paternity suit by an actress in Los Angeles. This obviously wouldn't be much of a story if not for his famous offspring, and fooling around on your wife isn't quite in the top tier of bad things you can do to your kids, especially when you look at some of the finer specimens in the "manager dad" department. Joe Simps

  October 7, 2009

• Game Time: The Horrible Turn Of The Texans' Owen Daniels

  ​(I want you all to watch in amazement while I introduce you to the literary technique known as the "shplegue". This stands for "shameless plug that turns into a segue." Watch and learn...)I'm not sure how many of you have seen the web-based tragicomedy Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, but this coming Monday at the River Oaks Theater is the world premiere of the unofficial prequel Horrible Turn, starring yours truly as Police Commissioner Tommy O'Chimina (and by "starring", I mean I'm in the m

  November 3, 2009