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This Just In: Cat Power Cancels

Static

Massive Attack

100th Window (Virgin)

The Case of Patrick Edwards

100th Window (Virgin)

Woman Who Stabbed Husband 200 Times May Get New Punishment Hearing, This Time Without A Dramatic Re-Enactment

Photo courtesy Marshall WiceSusan Wright, the woman who killed her husband and whose trial featured a prosecutor tying another to a bed and pretending to stab him 200 times, may get a new sentence.Wright stabbed her husband for real and then tried to hide his body; her attorney argued that she had s ... More >>

Tutoned and Ready

Photo courtesy Marshall WiceSusan Wright, the woman who killed her husband and whose trial featured a prosecutor tying another to a bed and pretending to stab him 200 times, may get a new sentence.Wright stabbed her husband for real and then tried to hide his body; her attorney argued that she had s ... More >>

Fugitive Justice

Gary Robert Williams's violent career began spectacularly 29 years ago. This is the story of how one determined U.S. marshal brought it to an end.

News Hostage

This Gun's For Hire

Spring Cleaning

This Gun's For Hire

Cat Power

Jukebox

Various Artists: The Great Debaters: Music From & Recorded for the Motion Picture

Jukebox

Cat Power

The Greatest

Playbill

The Greatest

A Nashville Star Is Born

Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

Type O Negative

Wednesday, September 3

Best Quote

Anna Nicole Smith

Playbill

The Cult

That Rap-Metal Shit

The Cult

Mommy's little angel

Marshall Ball can't talk. So he listens to God. Everyone else listens to Marshall.

Into HISD's Bold New Future, With A Superintendent Who Doesn't Speak Spanish

​As expected, HISD named Terry Grier its new superintendent at a press conference earlier today. We went to the press conference to find out why Grier was selected, considering his job history is what some people might call shaky. A state senator told us earlier today, "It makes me wonder what kin ... More >>

On the List: Jonx Drummer Danny Mee's 11 Favorite Female Vocalists

​The other day, Houston Press Night & Day editor Olivia Flores Alvarez - whom we're so glad is feeling better and back at work again - handed Rocks Off Lisa Nola's new book called Music Listography: Your Life In (Play)Lists, and the wheels started turning like "Proud Mary." Because we're not q ... More >>

TV Land: 30 Rock Is Back! And Some Other Stuff Happened Too

It was a long week in TV Land, so let's get some Cheesy Blasters and do it to it: • 30 Rock is back! 30 Rock is back! I know that some of you -- most of you? -- probably thought that Texas' victory was the best thing on TV this week, but that's because you're young and don't know much yet. Trus ... More >>

This Week In TV: Idol's Coming, Whether You're Ready or Not

My car's in the shop, I can't figure what season it is, and I don't know what to do about the Indians in the lobby. This was Thanksgiving week in TV Land: • Glee is going bye-bye for a while. The last episode of the year will air on December 9, completing the original 13-episode order, and the s ... More >>

"Jonathan Marshall: Double Vision”

Austin’s Art Palace relocates to Houston

Coogs Stay Alive, Beating Marshall

Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars were coming off a two-game losing streak, and they were playing the Marshall Thundering Herd, one of the surprise teams of C-USA (but also coming off a two-game losing streak). With the losing streak, the Cougars were falling out of contention in C-USA, and a ... More >>

Rice Coach Wayne Graham: He Reads The Message Boards

Take THAT, internet commenters!!​Here's a little note for you Rice Owl baseball fans who like to post on the message boards. Coach Wayne Graham likes to read your little postings. But here's the thing, he doesn't always agree with what you write. And he's hoping that, after last night's 16-9 win o ... More >>

The Week In TV: Just Let The Office Go With Dignity, Please

​The humidity is back, the TV season's almost over, and I need a non-gay way to ask you to go camping with me. This was the week in TV Land: • I saw Conan O'Brien in Austin on Friday. He took his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour through the state briefly, stopping in ... More >>

Rice, UH Battle Weather And C-USA Rivals As Tournament Looms

Photo courtesy UHCoogs are hoping for a miracle​The weather caused some major havoc to the Houston-area college baseball season this past weekend as both the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls, playing big series with important post-season implications, waited out rain-outs, delays, and bizarre game ti ... More >>

C-USA's Post-Season Tournament: Kind Of Pointless

Meaningless exhibition games in the post-season? Great idea​Conference USA has been making a big deal out of the fact that all six teams advancing to its postseason baseball tournament, starting today at Cougar Field, are guaranteed of playing three games. What conference officials fail to point o ... More >>

UH And Rice Improve Their Outlooks In C-USA's Confusing Tournament (We Think)

Photo courtesy UHGoodnight had all the support a pitcher needs​After yesterday's opening Conference USA tournament baseball games, only one thing is clear: if Southern Miss and Houston win today, then they're playing for the C-USA title on Saturday game and none of Friday's games will matter.But t ... More >>

UH Makes Matters Clear In The Confusing C-USA Tournament: They Suck

Photo courtesy UHYou had a bad day......​The scoreboard at Cougar Field appeared to suffer a malfunction last night. There was "one" run showing for Rice in the first-inning column, yet under the total runs column, the number was "11."The problem was that the top of the first inning had just ende ... More >>

Gourmet Goodies at Marshall's

​To some, a discount warehouse may not seem like the ideal place to accomplish any of your grocery shopping for the week. But I've long been a fan of scouring the aisles at places like Tuesday Morning, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's for deals on gourmet goodies like Sarabeth jams and exotic coffees ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Veal. That's right, hippies, VEAL. And it was FRIGGING DELICIOUS.​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where all jokes are served up fried in a light, crispy breading with a side of coleslaw. We started the week off right, with some hilariously bungled recipes from one ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Music-Video Cameos

​Ratt, "Round and Round" Thursday night, Ratt hits up Warehouse Live with what passes for their original line-up. At their peak, the band was a gritty and decadent alternative to bands like Poison, skewing closer to Motley Crue in terms of excess and drug abuse. ​The band managed to ... More >>

Eminem: 6 Ways He Can Still Screw Up His Comeback

​Marshall Mathers III has certainly enjoyed great success, but it hasn't been easy for the guy. He's had difficulty overcoming addiction and depression, and like many of us, he keeps returning to that one bad relationship over and over again. His latest album, Recovery, has brought him back in ... More >>

Rodney Ray, Rodeo's "Texas Kid," Gets Busted On Child-Sex Charges

The Texas Kid gets arrested​If you're a fan of professional rodeo, then this week has been a dark one: Trick rider Rodney Ray Hayes, aka "The Texas Kid," has been indicted on four felony counts of "transportation of minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity."Filed in a Marshall ... More >>

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: Better With Franco-Prussian War?

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off, we're trying hard to decode Houston's oddest monikers in order to find a little meaning. Alli Curtis​When Rocks Off was a small child we built a volcano as a History Fair project, and we promise i ... More >>

Stuff You Should Know About: Maddox Brothers And Rose

"America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band" ​Lonesome, Onry and Mean was watching a YouTube of Merle Haggard's "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" recently and, as he introduced the song, Merle commented that the inspiration for the song was the Maddox Brothers and Rose. According to Hag, "No one rem ... More >>

Cougars Come Close, But Close Isn't Good Enough

John RoyalZamal Nixon looks for the open guy in the first half​Basketball teams don't win games they let the opponent shoot 50 percent from the floor. They also don't win basketball games when they miss 12 of 31 free throw shots. Or take ill-advised three-point shots when hanging on to a one ... More >>

On the Cleaning and Care of Copper

Photo by Katharine ShilcuttWho needs a $70 bowl stand when you have accidentally if lovingly made dents that serve the same purpose?​Outside of your classic cast iron cookware, one of the best investments you can make -- especially if you're a baker -- is in copper. It conducts and holds heat ... More >>

Houston and Rice Pray for a Miracle As C-USA Tournament Starts Today

John RoyalHouston Cougars coach James Dickey​The Houston Cougars and Rice Owls men's basketball teams take to the court again today. Possibly for the last time. Possibly for the start of a miracle run. And while the Owls eagerly look for such a run to happen, using the Cougars of last year ... More >>

Rice Thunders Past Marshall, Sweeps the Herd

John RoyalRice pitcher Austin Kubitza with another dominating performance on Friday.​The Final Four dominated the attention of the sports media this weekend, rightly or wrongly. But while that whole NCAA exercise, especially UConn and Kentucky, was making a mockery of the concept of amateur a ... More >>

Lyrical Advice For The Class Of 2011

"Move back in with your parents! Let them worry about you!"​There will be no guitars and Marshall stacks at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion this weekend, just "Pomp and Circumstance." As the Class of 2011 walks across the stage soon to be occupied by Peter Gabriel, Widespread Panic and Ki ... More >>

All 12 UH Football Games On Air Or Online This Year

A, ummmm, wide variety of viewing methods​If you've got a TV screen or a computer, you can watch every second of UH Cougar football this coming season, the school announced today. The catch is you have to have CBS's college-sports channel and CSS in your cable/dish/whatever package. But if yo ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week in Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Robb Walsh: Robb has been on a barbecue vision quest throughout the South -- ye ... More >>

Eddie and Sharon Nichols: Prominent East Texas Cop/Pastor and Wife Charged with Sex Crime

Photos by Harrison County SOSharon Nichols: Accused of sex charges​Authorities in the east Texas town of Marshall say a local cop / pastor and his wife, an assistant clerk in the county clerk's office, committed indecency with a child by contact. Huey Edwards "Eddie" Nichols Jr., 49, and his ... More >>

The Coogs Go 13-0. Does Anyone Notice?

Don't get your hopes up, Coogs.​After their impressive win over East Carolina this weekend, talk in Cougar Town is that the team is set to run the table and go undefeated. Such talk has occurred before, of course, like in 2009 when it beat Oklahoma State and a strong Texas Tech team early in ... More >>

Did The Cougars Run Up The Score On Rice? Does It Really Matter?

Photo by Fred TraskRun it up, says Case​I've got a friend who is just starting out as a sports agent. His sport is football. It appears that there's this pre-season list of college players that is put together by scouts that can be purchased by agents. And this list provides the pre-season ... More >>

My Morning Jacket

Photo by Fred TraskRun it up, says Case​I've got a friend who is just starting out as a sports agent. His sport is football. It appears that there's this pre-season list of college players that is put together by scouts that can be purchased by agents. And this list provides the pre-season ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Brant Miller of Royal Oak

​This week, I stopped into Royal Oak to chat with Brant, a.k.a. "The Marshall." Inspired by some Civil War documentaries he had been watching a few weeks ago, Brant cultivated a mustache and chops, adorned his vest with a badge, and got behind the bar. He said that as the night wore on, folks ... More >>