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Ten Musicians Who Played Other People on TV

Sebastian Bach on Gilmore Girls​Fictional television shows are full of gimmickry. Some of it is good and some of falls flat. Others are subtle in-jokes. However, it can be interesting when a popular artist appears on a television show because it gives the audience a glimpse into another side o ... More >>

Footloose 2011

There Will Always Be a Time to Dance

Not Crazy Enough

I Love You Phillip Morris directors fall short of their own high bar with the sweet but less-than- groundbreaking Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Real Bacon Bits or Fakin' Bacon?

​Loving bacon is almost as cliché as making jokes about Kevin Bacon being in movies with a lot of different actors. But where's the love for defatted soy flour? What, you mean you don't have a T-shirt proclaiming your love for it? In case you are wondering, defatted soy flour is the first ing ... More >>

Ten '90s Movies That Spurred Our Sexual Awakenings

THE SANDLOT??? Oh yeah: Read on​A few weeks back, Jeff Balke chronicled the five `80's movie scenes that spurred his age group's sexual awakenings. The movies that "caused a stirring in my loins" as he said, at that precocious young age where the world is an awfully confusing and sexy place. ... More >>

Why I'd Rather Eat Halal Food (Including Campbell's Soup)

​The latest round of anti-Muslim rhetoric to spew forth from the nation's right-wing extremists has formed from the strangest combination of ingredients: Canada and Campbell's soup. News that Americans have started a Facebook group called "Boycott Campbell Soup" [sic] -- which has nearly 3,50 ... More >>

Favre In Charge -- "The Media Still Sucks" Edition

Brett Favre finally wins a big game for the Jets​The mainstream sports media couldn't avoid the topic forever. Eventually, the story of Brett Favre's penis would have to be addressed. And as deafening and infuriating as the silence in Bristol and points beyond was, we knew that the only thing mo ... More >>

Get Your Meat Sculpture

​Yes, this is it. Carpe Diem, people. Bacon Kevin Bacon is up for grabs on EBay. The oversized head, measures 14.25" x 8" x 11.5", comes with a marble base, and bears an odd resemblance to Conan O'Brian. It was commissioned by Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow of J&D Foods, and created by artist ... More >>

When Rock Stars And Movie Stars Reproduce: Five Offspring Bands

​No, these aren't Offspring cover bands, which would be gross, since Offspring sucks pretty badly on their own. They aren't as cool as we thought they were in 1994. No, let's talk about what happens when famous folks let their children loose to be rock stars. Some fall while others find fame i ... More >>

Game Time: USC Sanctions -- A Lesson in Media Logic (or Lack Thereof)

She cheered the Lane Kiffin hire, too​If you take Brian Cushing's four-game suspension and Reggie Bush's single handed takedown of his alma mater's football program -- two of the biggest football stories of the last two months -- and go to connect them "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"-style, the easy ... More >>

Game Time: Kentucky Derby -- Ten "Two Minute Events" More Exciting Than Horses Galloping

Between-race entertainment at the Derby​I love horse racing. Actually, to be clear, I love the act of going to the racetrack -- any racetrack -- and sitting in the bleachers (do they call them "bleachers" at a racetrack?) with three or four of my buddies, drinking about twelve beers, eating roughl ... More >>

Screen on the Green: Apollo 13

Houston, ah, we have a big ass problem

Artist of the Week: Time Travelers and Staunch Futurama Defenders Holy Fiction

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. ​ Occasionally, you'll h ... More >>

Aftermath: Reba McEntire at RodeoHouston

Photos by Mark C. AustinReba McEntire is the closest modern country will ever get to the artistic heights of its pioneering female vocalists. Sure Tanya Tucker had her run but the booze, powders and Glen Campbell took their toll. Shania Twain was just a Nashville/Pat Benatar Frankenstein proje ... More >>

For the Rodeo: Five Best Movie Parades

It's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo time! Tomorrow's Go Texan Day and Saturday's the parade. Certainly some of you out there are looking forward to watching musical acts from 200 feet away and the lingering smells of hay, manure, and sweaty, sweaty cowboys. So sit back, kick your boots off, and ge ... More >>

Friday The 13th: The Best Kills

Today marks the reboot of the venerated Friday the 13th franchise, and what better way to get up to speed on the history of Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake than to study this carefully assembled list of the best death scenes from each of the 11 Ft13 flicks?Friday the 13th -- BaconationHappily, ... More >>

Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge?

All This Useless Beauty

Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

Did you know that '80s cover band the Spazmatics has clones from coast to coast?

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Miss Pop Rocks: Remaking Footloose Is Satan’s Work

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Single White Shoe

Communication Breakdown

Storytelling gimmicks can't save this vapid, globally conscious puzzle-film

Sketchy Characters

Strange Brew

The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

Cut and Paste

Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors

Extended Sentence

A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Indecent Disposal

James Toback wastes an uninhibited Neve on a cheesy Adrian Lyne rip-off

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Shake, Shake, Shake

Shake your booty at the Great Caruso Dinner Theater's Footloose

The Hard Sell

Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Not the Sweetest Thing

What a bad feeling -- and taste -- Honey leaves behind

Ryan's Hope

Jane Campion guides Meg Ryan through a stunning career transformation In the Cut

Rage Against the Past

Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River

Jason Goes to Space

You'll bust at the comic, cosmic carnage of Jason X

Dental Damned

David Atkins's Novocaine numbs even Steve Martin

Invisible Id

Insipid Hollow Man uses science to explore the outer edges of puerile male aggression

A Stir of Bacon

Ghostly Echoes add up to a posthypnotic thriller

Rotation

Rotation

Perfect Mess

What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

Press Picks

Revenge Is... Adequate

Sleepers aims for the gut -- and misses

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Moonstruck

Both corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than a space mission

Streep in the Wild

Move aside Sly and Arnold, Meryl's gone muscular

Into Africa