Mecca

Limp Bizkit at House of Blues, 5/29/2013

Limp Bizkit House of Blues May 29, 2013 When I first heard Three Dollar Bill, Yall$, Limp Bizkit's debut album, I thought I had discovered the Mecca of music. Surely, I thought, these Jacksonville misfits would become the voice of my generation. I was ten years old then. As time went on, I grew ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Tony Garza, La Orquesta Salmerum Founder

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. With the heat of the timbales and the brill ... More >>

The Battle Hymn of the Beer-public: There's No Room for Snobs in Craft Beer

When Mongoose versus Cobra first opened, one of my favorite things to do was sit outside on a busy Friday night and watch as the following scene played itself out over and over like some version of Groundhog Day with a different pack of confused Midtowners each time: Group of snappily dressed men ... More >>

Real Ale Gone Wild and Firkins Everywhere: A Talk with Stewart Martin of Hay Merchant

The name seems almost inescapable this year: Hay Merchant. The eight-month-old bar, seated on the curve of Westheimer just West of Montrose, has been described as everything from a new trend in bars to Houston's Mecca for beer to snobbish and inaccessible. It's strange that a place specializing in ... More >>

How to Spend $1,000 on Cookbooks in an Afternoon: Go to Vegas

Get off the Strip, allow yourself three to four hours and go before gambling at Amber Unicorn Books. One of the best used bookstores in the Las Vegas Valley, Amber Unicorn has, at any given time, more than 200,000 books on hand, of which 16,000 are cookbooks. Amber Unicorn is a little, unassuming ... More >>

Best Of The Rest: Houston's Top 5 Places To Eat At A Concert

We understand this category may initially seem a bit odd, as the words "concert food" tend to conjure up disturbing images of stale chips drowning in phosphorescent cheese, neon-orange grease pools of pizza, and the leathery hotdogs in ill-fitting buns so often found at Houston's larger concert venu ... More >>

The Time Imaginary Cheese Upended A Perfectly Fine Music Experiment

The original idea wasn't even that original, which is why it didn't work, I suppose. In 2003, a ferociously cool writer named Rob Harvilla (Google him; he's a vocabularian superhero) wrote an article about how he played a Radiohead album for a group of fifth graders and then asked them to draw pic ... More >>

Teenage Mutant Arkham City? 5 Turtle Bosses We Hope Make It In

Rumors began circling this week that Rocksteady would not be following up Batman: Arkham City with another Dark Knight adventure, and would instead be working on using the same style to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For those who may only know the Turtles from their '80s cartoon, we can a ... More >>

Houston Dance Festival: Here and Now

Walgreen's Electric-Car Charging Stations: The Rest Of the U.S. Is Catching Up To Houston

Charge it up​We can't say we've exactly seen the electric-car charging stations at various Walgreen's around the town, but we'll take the company's word that they exist. And now the rest of the nation will be following in Houston's footsteps, as the drug giant expands the concept to more than ... More >>

Up From the Underground

Alex "Pr!mo" Luster got himself a documentary from the street art life.

Doug Supernaw: Troubled Former Country Star Surfaces in Bandera

Doug Supernaw likely feels at home in Bandera​Since we published our 2007 cover story on troubled one-time country star Doug Supernaw, our site has become something like the de facto Web site for the former Houstonian. He now has virtually no Web presence of his own; both his own si ... More >>

Neil Diamond Tribute

Time Waster Tuesday -- NBA Superstars Videos (via YouTube)

"'Remember when' is the lowest form of conversation." -- Tony Soprano Tony was right, you never want to be "remember when" guy, and I try my best not to be. But the fact of the matter is, for many of us, what happened between the ages of 16 and 28 constitute the "good times." High school, maybe ... More >>

Nitzer Ebb: "We Push Quite Hard"

​Nitzer Ebb's influence on electronic music can't be overstated, and when the band broke up in the mid-90s, their enormous back catalog became staples for DJs all across the world. When they reunited in the next decade, the band did what few reunited bands seem to do: They sat down and actual ... More >>

Top Five Musician Religious Conversions

Marc Israel Sellum/ Isreality.com​The opposites of life attract us, we've always believed. Time and time again, that philosophy proves itself right. It's why in high school, the Catholic school girls were the biggest freaks. No, that's not a myth. They were suffocated with religion or "right" ... More >>

Five Great Moments In Indecent Exposure

​Recently, Florida's lame-duck governor Charlie Crist has said he's considering pardoning Jim Morrison for his 1969 indecent exposure charge, stemming from The Doors' notorious Miami concert in which a drunken Lizard King swore numerous times and proceeded to whip it out onstage. Of course, Mo ... More >>

UH Takes On UCLA And Emphasizes Line Play

The big uglies up front will be butting heads​The Houston Cougars have gotten the reputation, undeserved or not, of being a soft, finesse football team. When you pass the football, when you play the spread and go with one-back backfields, that can happen.  The Cougar players don't like this r ... More >>

The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise rote Salt.

F**k You Very Much, Austin

• Talk about buzzkill. During All Time Low's Bamboozle Roadshow performance at Six Flags in Arlington last week, amusement park security pepper-sprayed a handful of preteens who rushed the stage in a surge of prepubescent hormonal musical bliss. The band gave the security an earful of Fuck You! a ... More >>

Digable Planets, Camp Lo

Butcher Knows Best

​Before our recent New Orleans road trip, we asked a few friends about places to go in New Orleans. We got some expected answers, like Commander's Palace, Parasol's Po-boys, Central Grocery and August. But we also got suggestions along the lines of, "For the love of God, you must go see Butche ... More >>

Win Passes To 2012, And See What Other Religious Buildings They Wimped Out On Destroying

Roland Emmerich, who never met a plot hole he couldn't fill with explosions and shitty dialogue, tells us there's one place we won't see bite the big one in his upcoming movie 2012:  [T]he 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mos ... More >>

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "New Texas"

In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New Texas Capital: Austin Patron Saint: Willie Nelson ​Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor ... More >>

The Best of the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival

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U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

What This Area Needs Is A Good Nanotechnology Center

David Goswick is thinking small -- very, very small. No, even smaller than that. Goswick, the head of Historic Real Estate, wants to build the Nano World Headquarters right here in River City, ah, ... we mean Houston. The idea behind the Headquarters is that Houston (well, at least the Sam Houston T ... More >>

Aftermath: Madonna at Minute Maid Park

Photos by Daniel Kramer “Did you cry?” Aftermath asked a new friend during the mass exodus from Minute Maid Park after Madonna’s first Houston show since she opened 1990’s Blonde Ambition tour at the Summit. “Yes,” she said, and from what Aftermath could gather from an informal stra ... More >>

X-Clan's Brother J Drops Some Knowledge

Revolution Through Evolution

Q&A: Linus Pauling Quartet

James Howard Kunstler Finally Drags His Ass to Houston

Save Our Houston Songs

A plea for monuments and musical preservation

Jerry Payne, attorney and ex-strip club owner, vs. the IRS and the Houston Chronicle

The Long Shot

Espa�ol Sung Here

Crossing over -- who's doing it, who's not

Getting the V from E.O.D.

Talking truth with rappers Indecent and Arch

The Sole of Houston

Hi. I'm John Lomax, and I'm a pedestrian. My friend, Uncle Tick, and I walked down 16-plus miles of Westheimer. This is our story.

Battle Scars

Big John hustles on the streets of Montrose. He's been there since he was 13. For now, there's no plan B.

White By Whitebread No More

This year's South By Southwest makes room for plenty of local rap. Why can't our rockers get with the program?

Searching for Normal

At Clements, Muslims push church-and-school issues

Cultural Clash

SXSW turns a cold shoulder to the Houston music scene

Best Band to Leave Houston

I-45

Pitch Black Beauty

This sci-fi funfest finds plenty of action

Strong Reservations

Indians battle Lamar's "Redskins" and a suspect student vote

Home with the Blues

Joe "Guitar" Hughes has never strayed far from the town that gave him his sound

Tailless and Grotesque

Austin's Sincola has hype behind it, and good attitude to burn

Sound Check

Street Fight

An explosion of nightlife is pitting neighbor against neighbor in the Richmond-Greenbriar area

Praise the Lord, Pass the Copy

Pat Robertson gets rebuffed by the Post ... or did he?

Imperfect Triangle

My Children! My Africa! portrays the tragic limits of learning under apartheid