John F. Kennedy

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Texas Native Claims He's the Spawn of JFK

JFK's Assassination, 45 Years Later

On Saturday, mourners and conspiracy theorists alike converged on Dealey Plaza in Dallas to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Every year this patch of land in the West End becomes a sort of one-stop shop for shadowy speculation and bitter discour ... More >>

Being There

An interview with JFK -- more or less

Dear Landlord

Quakers face the wrath of Lee Harvey Oswald's "godfather"

Power Trip

Oliver Stone takes a measured look at how Richard Nixon rose and why he fell

YouTube Commercial for Westheimer Block Party March 28

This hilarious clip features cameos by John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, the cast of Mortal Kombat (the video game, not the awful movie), a bunch of low-riders and some bangin' techno beats. Thanks to our pals at Free Press Houston. You know, the more Rocks Off thinks about it - remember, that's ... More >>

River Oaks Rip-offs

With counterfeit goods, there's a wealth of opportunity

Capsule Stage Reviews: Caroline, or Change, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Sugar Bean Sisters

With counterfeit goods, there's a wealth of opportunity

Caroline, or Change

The play, now running at Main Street Theater, is rich and complex

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our critics' opinions on local exhibits

Pop Rocks

"Power Pathos" presents pop surrealism with Texas ties

Chicken-Fried Breakfast

The "grand slam" at this eastside diner will easily feed a family of three

It's In The Cards

The Nick-and-Jessica split, tarot-style

Artsy Ambling

Stomp Around to five gallery openings in one night

Live Through This

Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Nellie Connally was in the car with him

Long Shot Against Longhorns

Rice squares off against UT for first time this century

Murder, They Wrote

A Houston couple links up for a novel look at gory leftovers in the fridge

Scared Suburban

There's something missing from the Alley's Frame 312

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Two Steps from the Blues (MCA/Duke-Peacock)

It's Still News

What's the statute of limitations for rip-n-read violations?

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Foregone Conclusion

Even those who don't remember the Cuban missile crisis will know how it ends, long before Days does

Back to the Futurist

The guy who designed Cadillac Ranch wants to build a dolphin space station. Is it any wonder UH is divided over the return of Doug Michels?

Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Houston, we have a celebration

Downtown Friendswood To Repeal Prohibition, Maybe

​For the first time since John F. Kennedy was president, it just may be legal to buy yourself a drink in downtown Friendswood without going through the charade of joining a "private club."The city council last night approved an effort to place on the November ballot a referendum on whether restaur ... More >>

Cutout Bin: The Goldwaters' Liberal-Baiting Folk Songs

The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals (1964, Greenleaf)​The 1964 presidential election was a pivotal point in our nation's history. After years of the liberal leadership and acronym names of JFK and LBJ, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater sought to take the country in a new direction ... More >>

Donut Patrol: Ich Bin Ein Bismark

​The Bavarian cream-filled Bismark is the thing to get at Daily Donut on Barker Cypress just north of 290. The cream-filled donut there was delicious, while the raised donut was stale and lame. Though Daily Donut calls this a Bismark, some would disagree with both the usage and the spelling. E ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Conspiracy Dallas

Photo courtesy of Yelp​A few months ago Texas Traveler visited the always-interesting Sixth Floor Museum dedicated to the "official" account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. It's definitely worth going to if you're interested in any way in American history or politics, but maybe y ... More >>

The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influen ... More >>

Pop Rocks: "I Nail These Women Not Because They Are Easy, But Because I Am Haahd"

​The Facebers and Twitbooks were abuzz yesterday morning with the news of a recently discovered picture reportedly showing former President John F. Kennedy sunning himself on a boat with naked women frolicking around him...as naked women are wont to do. Allegedly taken in the mid-1950s, this pic ... More >>

Five Graduation Speeches Better Than What You'll Hear This Year

It's Graduation Season, and that means it's time for commencement speeches.Usually delivered by someone you at best only vaguely have heard of, they all start with rueful self-deprecation about how "Once, long, long ago, I too sat at a graduation ceremony and listened to some long-winded boring spe ... More >>

State Board Of Ed's Latest Wingnut Brainstorm: Use Barack Hussein Obama In Textbooks

White House photoJoe Biden reacts after reading a Texas textbook and discovering the middle name of the guy next to him​The only good thing about the State Board of Education's ongoing textbook hearing is that it will soon be over. We hope.As yesterday's hearing dragged on and on into the night, o ... More >>

Showcase Showdown

Great moments in HPMA history

Ernest Withers: 5 Other FBI Informants Of Note

Also an FBI informant, but not on our list​Pretty shocking news via the Memphis Commercial Appeal this morning that Ernest Withers, the well-known photographer of the Civil Rights movement who was seen as a trusted friend byt its leaders, was an FBI informant.Because, you know, Martin Luther King ... More >>

The 10 Do's and Don't's of Texas Food

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttOne of my hobbies is taking jingoistic photos of our state flag. God bless Texas!​After seeing the dialogue back and forth on Lennie Ambrose's post about sweet tea and its availability in Texas, my colleagues and I began discussing our own caveats about eating in Te ... More >>

Five Great Moments In Indecent Exposure

​Recently, Florida's lame-duck governor Charlie Crist has said he's considering pardoning Jim Morrison for his 1969 indecent exposure charge, stemming from The Doors' notorious Miami concert in which a drunken Lizard King swore numerous times and proceeded to whip it out onstage. Of course, Mo ... More >>

President's Day List: Five Biographies You Need to Read

Dutch received undeserved scorn​President's Day is a time to reflect on the people who've lived in the White House, and how best to learn more about them. Presidential biographies have always been a huge industry, with a staggering amount of trees felled for books both incredibly dense and an ... More >>

And in the End: 20 Final Thoughts on the Final Four

John RoyalLeAnn all dressed up for a white wedding.​In an attempt to wipe that awful excuse for a basketball game on Monday night from my head, I thought I would purge a few things still running through from my mind about the whole Final Four weekend. So... 1. I like attractive women. And ... More >>

The Five Horniest Presidents America Has Produced

Warren G. Harding, sex machine​The Reelz channel finished up its Kennedys mini-series last night, the production that was chased from the History Channel because JFK fans hollered about inaccuracies or too many dramatic liberties. The series itself seemed rather rote, although Greg Kinnear wa ... More >>

The Five Hottest Presidential Mistresses (Not Including Marilyn Monroe)

The item we did earlier this week on the five horniest presidents included research that could led us to conclude either one of two things: Either a) America's presidential mistresses don't photograph well or are painted badly, or b) Not many of them are what you'd call "hot." Still, it's possib ... More >>

Five Presidents Who Could Kick Chuck Norris's Ass

Abe Lincoln: Let's get rrrrready to rrrrumble​In our continuing series of scholarly meditations on the United States Presidency, we now bring you a list of five presidents who could kick the crap out of Chuck Norris. Of note: only one of the top five served after 1908, although two honorable m ... More >>

Five Disastrous Modern-Day Presidential Decisions Not Involving Iraq or Vietnam

Ronald and Nancy Reagan face the consequences.​Making tough decisions is what being a president is all about. But sometimes those decisions backfire. Sometimes the backfire hurts only the president who made the decision; sometimes it hurts a whole lot of other people. Here are five most disas ... More >>

Songs About A Blonde: Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe

​Marilyn Monroe is one of the first of many women that will completely floor any red-blooded man, gay or straight, at first glance. There is simply no way that those eyes, that smile, that shock of blonde hair, and that figure can leave you feeling devoid of emotion. Girls want to be her, and ... More >>

Happy World Mental Health Day! 5 Crazy Songs

​Delirium is the youngest of the endless. She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, old leather. Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not made to comprehend her domain, and those few who have made the journey have been incapable of reporting back more than the ... More >>

Great News, Texas: Robert Caro's Newest LBJ Volume Comes Out In May

A new perspective on this odd couple​It's been -- as always -- a long wait between volumes of Robert Caro's masterful, majestic and compulsively readable biography of Lyndon Johnson. News has finally come of the new volume, and even better news is that it won't be the last. The new book, Pass ... More >>

A Smiling/Grimacing Scott Weiland Takes You To His "Winter Wonderland"

Scott Weiland is just a patsy...​A few weeks back I applauded Scott Weiland's Christmas album, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, for it's charming weirdness. It had his signature raspy Stone Temple Pilots baritone, a modern Bing Crosby vibe, and just the right amount of creep to at least wa ... More >>

9 Notable Texas Deaths of 2011: Daniel Boone, Football, Gay Rights & Fodder for JFK Conspiracists

James Hosty: The man who didn't stop Oswald.​Texas gives to the world, and eventually the people who do the giving die. Such was the case in 2011, when at least nine notable Texans joined the Choir Invisible, the Great Majority, the dead. Without them, there would no Weed-Eaters, fewer memori ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: Houston Permitting Center, "New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection," "Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion," "Peter Massing: Time After Time," "Reconstruction," "Sherrie Levine:

James Hosty: The man who didn't stop Oswald.​Texas gives to the world, and eventually the people who do the giving die. Such was the case in 2011, when at least nine notable Texans joined the Choir Invisible, the Great Majority, the dead. Without them, there would no Weed-Eaters, fewer memori ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection," "New Paintings: Geoff Hippenstiel," "Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion," "Peter Massing: Time After Time," "Sherrie Levine: Selected

James Hosty: The man who didn't stop Oswald.​Texas gives to the world, and eventually the people who do the giving die. Such was the case in 2011, when at least nine notable Texans joined the Choir Invisible, the Great Majority, the dead. Without them, there would no Weed-Eaters, fewer memori ... More >>