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  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    4 Disimprovements Outgoing A&M AD Bill Byrne Made to Aggieland

    "Dollar Bill" won't be receiving a paycheck from Texas A&M any longer because on Tuesday, A&M athletic director Bill Byrne announced his retirement. A few weeks earlier, Aggie president R. Bowen Loftin said that Byrne, who held the job for nearly ten years, would "transition" out of his position, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Texas Wines Are Talk of the Town

    In the wake of Sunday's Texas wine seminar at the Austin Food & Wine Festival, organized and moderated by Houston wine writer Russ Kane, Texas wines seem to be on everyone's minds this week. Eatocracy (CNN): Food & Wine magazine executive wine editor Ray Isle, a Houston native, was a member of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Melissa Borrett, Woman Behind Lubbock's Nude Maid Service, is Kinda Awesome

    It's been all over the news these last couple of days: Lubbock's once-staunch moral fiber has slipped even further with the arrival of Lubbock Fantasy Maid Service, a business concern whose name pretty much describes what it offers: nekkid girls cleaning your house. Rates are $100 an hour for one m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

    Vintage Texas: Top Texas wine authority Russ Kane chronicles the bankruptcy filing and botched sale of one of the state's leading wineries, CapRock, in Lubbock. According to his report, New Mexico winery Gruet has been ordered to pay $4 million for a breach of contract after bidding in a bankruptcy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Happy Birthday Joe Ely: The Lubbock Flash Turns 65

    Courtesy LC Media​I was living in Holland in 1977 when my younger brother, who had attended Wayland Baptist University on a track scholarship until booze and girls were discovered in his dorm room, came for a visit. While living in Plainview, his stomping grounds had been the gin joints of Lub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Kabir Isola: Self-Professed Satan Uses Spatula To Attack Cop

    Kabir Isola: The devil in disguise​When Beelzebub, The Teller of Lies, comes forward, he shall be wearing the mark of the beast and be carrying a barbecue spatula -- Book of Revelations, possibly Bible prophecy can tell us much, but it didn't help out Lubbock police officer Bryan Schwartner T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Bobby Keys: iFest Nabs Rolling Stones Sax Maniac

    The Rolling StonesBobby Keys takes an Exile on Main Street breather, Nellcote, France, 1971​Born in Lubbock and raised just east in Slaton, Joe Ely's home town, saxophonist Bobby Keys left Lubbock in 1960 looking for kicks. At 14, he was playing with Bob Dylan influence, Bobby Vee, before movi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Oh, Joy: Another "Affirmative Action" Bake Sale, This Time at Texas Tech

    Watch out -- that kid looks sorta Hispanic.​The Texas Tech group called the Young Conservatives of Texas -- yes, they're the ones who protested a campus sculpture because it allegedly included lesbians and commies -- have had yet another bright idea. Well, a bright idea that's getting pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    West Texas Teardrops: On Tour With The Last Place You Look

    Ed. Note: This past weekend, Houston alternative/screamo rockers The Last Place You Look opened for Unwritten Law in Lubbock, Odessa, and Austin, and invited Rocks Off's Matthew Keever along. This is his first of three reports. The Last Place You Look on FacebookCasa Oh No: The Last Place You Look' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Joe Ely's Top Five Live Shots, By iFest's Rick Mitchell

    Jason WolterJoe Ely (left) and David Grissom at iFest 2010​Next Friday, Feb. 11, the Joe Ely Band returns to Rockefeller Hall for the first time in more than a decade, since the legendary Washington Avenue showcase club stopped presenting live music to focus on the less risky business of priva ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Houston Cougar Football: Definitely Maybe Ending Tomorrow Night

    This may, or may not, be the Cougars last game of the season​When Texas Tech and Houston met in September of last year, it was a truly magical moment for the Cougars. The Red Raiders were seen as one of the top teams in the country and head coach Mike Leach was one of those names mentioned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Butch Hancock, Flatlanders Still Chasing The Horizon

    ​Pound for pound, Rocks Off's choice for greatest living Texas songwriter is Butch Hancock, who happens to play in the same band as his closest competition for that title - old Lubbock buddies and fellow Flatlanders Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. At McGonigel's Mucky Duck over Labor Day week ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    CraftTexas 2010

    ​Pound for pound, Rocks Off's choice for greatest living Texas songwriter is Butch Hancock, who happens to play in the same band as his closest competition for that title - old Lubbock buddies and fellow Flatlanders Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. At McGonigel's Mucky Duck over Labor Day week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Texas Tech's "Silent Treatment": Oooooh, Be Scared, Longhorns

    Texas Tech, innovating again​As if the Texas Longhorns didn't have enough troubles, what with struggling to beat Rice and Wyoming to open the season, now they face their most severe challenge ever.They go to Lubbock this weekend to play Texas Tech, and the student government at Tech is asking stud ... More >>

  • Music

    September 2, 2010

    Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock

    Texas Tech, innovating again​As if the Texas Longhorns didn't have enough troubles, what with struggling to beat Rice and Wyoming to open the season, now they face their most severe challenge ever.They go to Lubbock this weekend to play Texas Tech, and the student government at Tech is asking stud ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2010

    Before the Flood

    West Texan Ned Sublette reflects on pre-Katrina New Orleans in a new memoir.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    You Can Fight City Hall Over A Parking Ticket, But It's A Pain In the Ass

    ​Gordon Ducoff was taking a quick trip to the doctor on Binz street southwest of downtown for a blood test. He put enough in the old-fashioned meter to cover an hour and a half.He came out 20 minutes later to find he had a ticket.Bad enough, but then he started looking into fighting that $25 ticke ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    One Wolf

    ​Gordon Ducoff was taking a quick trip to the doctor on Binz street southwest of downtown for a blood test. He put enough in the old-fashioned meter to cover an hour and a half.He came out 20 minutes later to find he had a ticket.Bad enough, but then he started looking into fighting that $25 ticke ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2009

    Cross Canadian Ragweed

    ​Gordon Ducoff was taking a quick trip to the doctor on Binz street southwest of downtown for a blood test. He put enough in the old-fashioned meter to cover an hour and a half.He came out 20 minutes later to find he had a ticket.Bad enough, but then he started looking into fighting that $25 ticke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Why Notre Dame Will Win The BCS And Texas Won't, Part 8

    ​We didn't watch the Longhorns this weekend, we have to admit. Subjecting the country to a prime-time match-up of UT and Missouri seemed unnecessarily cruel, but such is the heartless world we live in these days.But we're assuming two things: First, UT won, because come on, it's Missouri. And seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

    View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

    William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petrol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Life On The Rodeo Road: Follow The Ten-Minute Rule

    Photo by Paul KnightName: Luke ButterfieldAge: 24Hometown: Ponoka, Alberta    Event: Saddle Bronc RidingI got into rodeo because my family rodeos, my dad and mother. They have a feed lot up there [in Canada] so I've always been around cattle and livestock. I played hockey all through ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Where Some Of Those Astroworld Rides Went

    Photo by Paul KnightName: Luke ButterfieldAge: 24Hometown: Ponoka, Alberta    Event: Saddle Bronc RidingI got into rodeo because my family rodeos, my dad and mother. They have a feed lot up there [in Canada] so I've always been around cattle and livestock. I played hockey all through ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2008

    Soldier Suicides

    Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2008

    Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra: An Evening Under the Stars

    Héctor Agüero Jr. takes the baton for the first time as FBSO conductor

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Close Up The Still, Clem, They're Comin' After Our Moonshine

    Héctor Agüero Jr. takes the baton for the first time as FBSO conductor

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    Tonight: Joe Ely and Joel Guzman at Dosey Doe in The Woodlands

    Héctor Agüero Jr. takes the baton for the first time as FBSO conductor

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2007

    Thrift Store Cowboys

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2007

    Classiness, Thy Name Is Texas Tech

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2007

    Andrea Lazar’s Passionate Picks

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2007

    Andrea Lazar’s Passionate Picks

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2007

    Geese, Ganders and G-strings

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2006

    Football U: Week Four

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2006

    Football U: Week Four

    Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    Joe Ely

    Friday, June 9, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  • Music

    October 27, 2005

    Various Artists

    Uptight Tonight! The Ultimate '60s Garage Collection

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Swoopes: Hardwoods Homie

    A Comets star helps redefine Houston basketball

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2005

    Allen's Alien

    See the surreal side of the Texas Panhandle in Dugout III: Warboy (and the backyard blues)

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    After the Fall

    An abuse victim says she lied to convict her cousin 15 years ago

  • Music

    August 12, 2004

    Playbill

    An abuse victim says she lied to convict her cousin 15 years ago

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Talk Radio

    Home Improvement Hotline

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2003

    Bot Love

    Schoolkids go techno

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    A Figure to Die For

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

  • Dining

    August 30, 2001

    Getting Stomped

    Texas boasts the soil, the climate and the grapes for a strong wine industry. So what stands in its way? Bad taste and politicians.

  • News

    March 6, 1997

    Ezekiel's Trust

    River Oaks resident Cecile Burns was obsessed by folk artist Ezekiel Gibbs and promoted herself as his champion. But five years after Gibbs's death, his work is all but forgotten -- thanks mostly to Cecile Burns.

  • Music

    August 31, 1995

    Postmarked Texas

    Joe Ely sends a sad, beautiful Letter to Laredo

  • Culture

    September 8, 1994

    Pushing the Artistic Borders

    Mexico, America and La Frontera find expression in "Poison Amor"

  • Calendar

    August 25, 1994

    Press Picks

    Mexico, America and La Frontera find expression in "Poison Amor"

  • Music

    August 25, 1994

    Ely, Allen and BBQ: The next best thing to Lubbock

    Mexico, America and La Frontera find expression in "Poison Amor"

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