Marilyn Monroe

The 4 Top Things Not To Do Before You Walk For Graduation

The four years (or maybe more) of being inside an institution that has probably cost you sleep and forced you to mutilate your liver with alcohol is finally coming to end. You're going to be graduating! (cue the Vitamin C song) Everyone is going to be there! It's going to be the day that your pare ... More >>

Ripley's Download the Weird: Houston Strange Well Represented

The newest edition of Download the Weird, the new book from Ripley's Believe It or Not! does not overlook Houston. Of course. Included in this "annual collection of bizarre, fun and totally true stories from around the world," is the subject of our own cover story Natalie Irish, the artist who ... More >>

Meet The Monsters of TIFF

A glimpse of this year's most bracing films.

Best-Selling Single Of All Time "Candle In The Wind 1997" Turns 15 Years Old

Re-written in the wake of his friend Princess Diana's car accident death on August 31, 1997, Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was merely a maudlin tribute to Marilyn Monroe before tragedy struck. Diana died from her wounds in a Paris road tunnel crash, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, and the d ... More >>

Lost Bohemia

Rudy Ch. Garcia: The Closet of Discarded Dreams

Some Like It Hot

NBC's Smash Just Might Be a Hit

Smash, the newest hopeful for an NBC success, premiered last night, and the Peacock network may have a potential hit on their hands. The show attempts to capitalize on America's latest (returned) obsession with the musical genre and has brought in some heavy hitters to assist. That it's produced by ... More >>

Five Tweets That Might Get You Busted by the TSA

Most everyone gets that you can't shout "fire" in a movie theater or crack jokes about bombs on an airplane. This sort of thing will get you in a mess of trouble. But, apparently, jokes made on Twitter can also get you in trouble, particularly if you are a foreigner using slang we don't get in 'Meri ... More >>

Material World: Music to Rock Your Cyber Monday with Video

In the late '70s, there was a movie spoof on Friday the 13th called Saturday the 14th. It was about as dumb as you imagine it would be. Well, insert punchline here because Black Friday is over, but we are still smack dab in the middle of Cyber Monday, where instead of being stampeded by rampaging sh ... More >>

12 Odd, Racy Thanksgiving Pin-Ups of Scantily Clad Women (Semi-NSFW)

Is Thanksgiving the un-sexiest holiday ever? Maybe. Unless the possibility of drunken sex with your tipsy divorced aunt or uncle trips your trigger, of course. But America -- back when it really was America -- was not going to be dictated to by prudes trying to keep the hawtness out of the day. The ... More >>

National Sandwich Day Is Thursday, November 3!

Photo via karlializa.com​Fact: We love sandwiches. PB&J, BLT, grilled cheese, po-boy, Cuban, Reuben, cheese steak in Philly or muffaletta in New Orleans, single or multi-tiered, we can't get enough. We love them simple and oh so complicated, hot and cold, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some ... More >>

"Bela Lugosi": Town Monster's Unapologetic Festival Of Sin

​Rocks Off has done lot of playlists over the course of our writing career, but last week's birthday tribute to the one and only Bela Lugosi may be our favorite. Finding songs about the beloved horror icon not written by Bauhaus wasn't easy, and one of the deeper tracks we uncovered was an Ohi ... 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 >>

Songs To Soundtrack Your Rapture Experience

​This Saturday is the Rapture, that biblical calling home of all the saved and righteous Christians, living and dead, here on dirty, sinful Earth. Luckily, Craig's Hlist has been saved since, like, second grade, so you other guys who aren't are sort of screwed. Besides, when the Rapture rolls ... More >>

“Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom”

WHIP YOUR HAIR: Best Singles By The Children Of Rock & Rap Royalty

​Today is Julian Lennon's 48th birthday, born April 8, 1963, just as his father John was beginning the meteoric rise to godhead status with the Beatles. He wouldn't see his dad too terribly much as Beatlemania took over the world, something that both men struggled with as the years went on. ... More >>

Lyrics That Make Terrible Facebook Status Updates

DTF for sure.​Ever seen a nonsensical, irrelevant Britney Spears or Drake lyric on your Facebook news feed that made you cringe? We have - about 56, and the workday isn't even over yet. Some lyrics should stay on the radio and off the Facebook circuit. Perhaps instead of simply asking, "What' ... More >>

Bus Stop

A Queer Carol

Odd Pair: Sparking Pinot and Pringles

​Sparkling red wines are becoming more and more prevalent. I first became aware of them during a trip to Australia where I sampled delicious sparkling Shiraz. Stateside, I was lucky enough to find red bubbles on the wine lists of Houston's better restaurants. T'afia actually had a very lovely ... More >>

Some Like It Hot

The hottest Hollywood trio of the time - Monroe, Curtis and Lemmon - made this a classic

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

See an authentic version of the show that made Carol Channing a star

Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Quinn and the Others: The Stars Factory of Michael Chekhov

He's the man who forever changed acting

Abstract Impressionism

Newest River Oaks nightspot Red Room Lounge is as posh as its surroundings.

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Seven Year Itch, "The Share of the Future", Rigoletto, Working

Capsule Stage Reviews: Little Women, The Seven Year Itch, Wizard of Oz, Working

The Seven Year Itch

Marilyn isn’t the only sexy blond that ever made a man want to scratch

Horndogs, Don't Bother Rushing To That Kama Sutra-Based Yoga Class

When Hair Balls heard that Jenny Yoga was hosting this weekend's Kama Sutra Dance Journey, where students could learn "dance movements directly culled from the Kama Sutra," our brain began to spin with images: a room full of dancers "penetrating the eye," "climbing the tree," doing "the gazelle ... More >>

Michael Berry, Houston's Least-Likely Howard Stern Wanna-Be

Anyone fortunate to be listening to "The Michael Berry" on KTRH 740 AM this past Friday night got to hear about an hour's worth of girl talk. No, Berry didn't change formats and start expressing his feminine side underneath his good ol' boy former city council member tandoori-chomping image. What we ... More >>

An Hour in Sunny 99.1's Holiday Hell

Band Aid: Do they know it's Christmastime at all? Most people I know hate Sunny 99.1, but not me. And I should really hate it. Any radio station supported by the American Dental Association has to suck. But every time I listen to it, I either hear something so corny and half-baked that I can't tur ... More >>

Classic Cinema Comedies

Miller Theatre screens The Thin Man, A Day at the Races and Some Like it Hot

Get Lit: Doo Wop: The Music, The Times, The Era, by "Cousin Brucie" Morrow with Rich Maloof

Get Lit: Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, by Phil Ramone

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Go, Shorties

Twenty-one plays, 16 playwrights, scores of actors

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After the Lecturing

Simple moments in Arthur Miller's drama will move you

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Reich-eous Dude

Illuminata's new production is as counterculture as its hero

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Kings of Queens

The Kinsey Sicks quartet busts into Houston

So You Wanna Be an Actor?

Here's a chance for your big break

Trivial Pursuit

Real drama needs more than Judy and Marilyn memories

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Inanimate Objects

Beast falls flat in the move from film to stage

Second to None

Trey McIntyre gets the Houston Ballet crowd hooked on a feeling

Pop Goes the Menil

More than just soup cans

Elvis Is Dead!

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