With the recent addition of Karachi, Pakistan, Houston now is a sister to 18 other cities around the world. Hair Balls is on the case - we studied all of them so you wouldn't have to.
In the interest of brevity, though, we are parceling out our findings over the next couple of days. Here are the first nine:Sister: Grampian Region, ScotlandHow we are sisterly: The oil capital of the UK. Plenty of golf courses.How we are not: It's a region, not a city, and you can play golf on all those courses
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847​Here at Rocks Off, we enjoy album covers with turds on them and making fun of R. Kelly as much as the next guy. And just wait until Chris Brown gets here next weekend.
But there's a lot more to music than that. In a possibly fruitless effort to class up the joint a bit, we're introducing a new feature illuminating some of our favorite works in the classical repertoire as played by the Houston Symphony.
We could have hardly picked a better pla