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Top 10 Heartbreaking Holiday Covers

Last week we took a look at some of the most holiday spirit-dampeningly awful songs ever recorded. We aren't quite done ruining your holiday spirit just yet however, as this week we have compiled ten of the saddest holiday cover songs ever recorded. Rewind: The 10 Worst Holiday Cover Songs Ever ... More >>

7 Sure Signs You Know Your Hip-Hop Group Is Breaking Up

This past weekend, Das Racist announced that they have broken up and, according to member Kool A.D., that they have been split up for two months now. As an avid fan, I wasn't surprised at the news. I've been watching their demise on Twitter and YouTube. Thanks, Internet. In the past few months, Koo ... More >>

Holiday Gift Guide: 5 Gifts For Kids Who Cook

Every week this holiday season, we'll be posting our favorite food-centric gift ideas. We've looked at 5 Gifts Under $30 That Every Kitchen Needs and attempted to avoid that awkward re-gifting moment with the 5 Useless Gifts That Nobody Actually Wants. This time, we're focusing on the kiddies. Chec ... More >>

Gunilla Klingberg: Wheel of Everyday Life

The Columbine Effect

Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?

10 Things You May Not Know About G N' R's Use Your Illusion Albums

For the past few weeks, the music world has been firmly entrenched in Nirvana nostalgia. Hell, even Rocks Off took a crack at it, looking up all the expensive memorabilia on eBay related to the band. But in September 1991, another album hit the store shelves that had a lot of impact too, for better ... More >>

UH Police: Six-Paragraph Report Criticizes Nonexistent Drug Testing, Low Morale

Supervisors should have been aware of Ann O'Donnell's coke use, report says.​Supervisors of a University of Houston police officer who had cocaine in her system when she was killed in a one-car accident while responding to an emergency call last December knew or should have known of her "fitne ... More >>

Gothic Council Debates How To Rule Our New Planet

​After years of searching, scientists have finally discovered a planet that may be able to support human life. Gliese 581d, as it is known is 20 light years from Earth, and though it's just a bit on the cool side for comfortable human habitation, it looks like a pretty good bet that he planet ... More >>

Weekend Brunch Buffet at Georgia's Farm to Market

​Georgia's has been through many incarnations in the last ten years. I remember when it was a K-Mart. I remember when it was Sandy's, the precursor to Georgia's. I remember when it was a lot larger inside and had a chiropractor on site. But throughout the changes, one thing has remained the sa ... More >>

YouTube's First Year: Eight Examples of What People Were Uploading in 2005

Six years ago this week, three dudes we're totally not jealous of registered the domain name www.Youtube.com. A little over a year later, Google bought the site for $1.65 billion. Sure, that totally makes sense now, but when Hair Balls decided to travel all the way back to 2005 to see what people w ... More >>

Game Time: Jedi Master Obi Wan Morey Strikes Again

At some point, other NBA general managers are going to just stop taking Daryl Morey's calls. Nobody enjoys being made a fool of, no one aspires to be the target of an atomic wedgie on the playground, and no one wants to be the Imperial Stormtrooper that gets snowed by Obi-Wan Kenobi on the way into ... More >>

Why Wait On Prospects? Morey Opts For Star As Rockets Acquire K-Mart

​Daryl Morey, as always, had us all fooled.We assumed the Rockets' general manager had little on the table for the dead carcass of Tracy McGrady, save the Bulls' and Knicks' offers centered around future draft picks that could later be used as assets to trade for a star. The offers weren't bad ... More >>

Turning the Screw: Surreall, Asher & Cudi, Eminem vs. Mariah, Slum Village, Young Jeezy, Ghostface, Nas, DJ Hero, Guerilla Maab, etc.

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "#1 Dame in the Game," Surreall Wire To Wire Kid Cudi continues his rapid ascension to stardom, scores ... More >>

Don't Work -- It's Cyber Monday!

Thought the holiday uber-shopping craze was limited to Black Friday? Welcome to Cyber Monday.Admittedly, the day was first a gimmick by Shop.org (they coined the term back in 2005), but over the years, more and more stores have jumped on board and as many as 82% of online retailers are offering spec ... More >>

Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device

A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Mexican-American Culture

Are Mexicans racist?

$50K Between Friends

A donation stirs things up at LULAC

Pattern Recognition

Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

Hurtt So Good

A real shake-up at HPD? We thought that was impossible

Blessed and Bewildered

Recent debacles demonstrate why District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal needs more than a moustache to match the legacy of Johnny Holmes

Getting Carnal

Sexcapades come to Conroe ISD

Fests of Fury

Alex Lozano trumpets a 420 soiree and the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

A Figure to Die For

Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Year of the Yao Woo

The crazy times in 2002 — Kmart raids, Olympian losses, stadium mania and more —- now make sense. Houston was just mining Ming.

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about on guns and fear

In the Hold

Plus: Rebuttal Witness, Doctoring the Ratings, Breeding Greed?

Myths and Legends

The officers didn't know, their supervisors didn't know, the police chief didn't know. Oh, tell me another one. Tell me a Kmart story, please.

Olympic Moments

A marathon through the downtown tunnel, a rowing venue in a flooded Katy Freeway, the javelina throw -- how splendid, how Houston!

Nine Inch Nails

And All That Could Have Been (Nothing)

Non Mall Shopping Adventures

Shopping adventures

When In Doubt...

Classic gifts

Of Love and Hate

Houston-filmed Buchanan ads are decried as racist

Will the Real Texas Musician Please Stand Up

The land of gee-tars and fiddles

A Room of Its Own

With the added gallery space, the MFA can dust off and display much of its extensive permanent collection

Siren Songs

Lords of Acid sells sex to ravers

Voice Activated

Leigh Silverman's haunting Brandon Teena allows the tragic youth to tell his side of the story

Rusty Zinn, Ministry

Hot Sauce

Houston rapper South Park Mexican performs at Watcha Tour '99

Rotation

Beyond Teens

Savvy Election shows ageless appeal

Rotation

Tame Old Story

Forces of Nature walks on the mild side of classics

Cryin' Shame

Too sweet tears turn Message into mush

Porn of Plenty

There's more than a racy title in this profound play

Shop Art

Sculptor Williams has a Monkey on his back

"Think" Not

A Texas housewife/songwriter claims country hunk Collin Raye stole her song

Death and the Raccoon

To animal control, Pedro was ring-tailed vermin. To Jimmy Vonderglotz, he was a friend.

Press Picks

Jean and Burnie won$41 million in thelottery. But they still stop at Stuckey's, still shop at Kmart, still play the numbers. And they still have each other.