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  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Five Other Reality Shows We Wish Clay Aiken Would Guest On

    ClayMates, start your engines! Your hero and American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken just joined the cast of the next cycle of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice set to premiere on February 12 on NBC. This cycle, filmed a few months back, is sure to have some proverbial fireworks, with the opinionated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Chicago Bears WR Sam Hurd Has a Ring...a Drug Ring!

    The Stringer Bell School of Entrepreneurship.​I remember former Houston Texans (and now Washington Redskins) wide receiver David Anderson telling me a couple years ago about a program that the NFL offered players in which they could travel to prestigious universities during the off season and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    15 Odd Christmas Gift Ideas for Musicians

    ​As the timeless tale of the Little Drummer Boy reminds us, there is no greater gift than the gift of music. But what about those on your Christmas list who already have plenty of music in their lives? Buying gifts for musicians is no easy task -- most of them already own the entire Rush disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    ERRRRRR: Get Ready to Get Emergency Broadcasted On, Y'All

    ​A nationwide test of Emergency Alert System is set for today at 1 p.m. Houston time, when a half-minute message will air on all television and radio stations. The purpose is to test out the preparedness of the system to break into radio and TV channels to give instructions and news in the eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    It's International Day Of Slayer: Ten Slayer Songs For Awkward Life Moments

    GroovehouseAll Hail Tom Araya, The Dark Lord.​Today is the sixth International Day of Slayer, started in 2006 to coincide with June 6, 2006, the most evil-numbered date in history. It's also lead singer Tom Araya's birthday, and the guitarist now makes his home on a ranch in Buffalo, Texas - God's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Celebrity Tax Cheats: Five Pieces of Crap Produced to Pay the IRS

    Tax time is looming, and even though you get a weekend reprieve this year -- the deadline is April 18, not the 15th, because of an obscure Washington, D.C. holiday -- you'd no doubt like to skip the whole thing altogether. Some famous people have taken that same route. Unfortunately for them, they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Gothic Council Debates Possible Sandman TV Series

    ​Now that we've finally seen something as difficult as Alan Moore's Watchmen turned into a decent, if not groundbreaking, film, the question on many comic fans' minds is whether or not the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman may finally happen. The past month has been a slew of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Cowboy Diaries: Casey Colletti -- Bareback Riding Does Not Squeeze Horses' Balls

    Mandy OaklanderCasey Colletti, bareback​​True cowboys and cowgirls are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they'll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 9, 2010

    Don't Feel Turbulence

    Mandy OaklanderCasey Colletti, bareback​​True cowboys and cowgirls are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they'll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Take The "Which Houston Rapper Are You?" Quiz

    Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, albeit sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​A few weeks back, someone sent along a link to a Facebook application tit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Self-Proclaimed "8 Bit Bitch" MC Router, First Lady Of Nerdcore, Talks Mad Shit About Video-Game Groupies

    Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​ There are a few select insta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Best. Roommate. Ever.

    ​If were weren't already comfortably ensconced in a house, with no particular need for a roommate other than the stray cat that comes begging for food every day, we'd have already fired off an e-mail to Chris Smink, the author of what might be the greatest Craigslist roommate posting ever, for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Nintendo Goes Old School For The Holidays: A Review

    ​Ho, Ho, Ho! For this, the most somber of holiday seasons, our dear friends Nintendo have found have their nostalgic side. With their recent release of Super Mario Brothers Wii, and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks -- due out December 3 -- Nintendo has gone back to two originals that helped sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Did Video Games Really Kill Generator-Using Ike Victims?

    For a few hours yesterday, the lead story at Chron.com gravely warned Houstonians on the dangers of mixing generators and video games. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston evidently found that this happened often in the blacked-out weeks in the wake of Hurricane Ik ... More >>

  • Film

    April 2, 2009

    Fast & Furious Should Have Gone Straight-to-Xbox

    Made for VG Movie

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Kidz Korner: How To Deal With Your Drunk Parent Telling You How "Hishtoric" Obama's Victory Is

    Made for VG Movie

  • Home Entertainment

    July 24, 2008

    Diminished Expo-tations at E3

    E3 revelations are hit and miss — unless you really dig chopping wood

  • Home Entertainment

    June 19, 2008

    Ninja Gaiden II Pours on the Gore – and Glitches

    Bloody Good, Not Great

  • Home Entertainment

    August 2, 2007

    Fuzz Busters

    Bloody Good, Not Great

  • Home Entertainment

    June 7, 2007

    Halo 3

    A promising glimpse of the next Halo.

  • Music

    April 19, 2007

    Tapes 'N Tapes

    Q&A with Josh Grier

  • News

    March 29, 2007

    Houston Astros, Netflix, Congressman Ron Paul

    It could be a year of despair for Astros fans

  • Home Entertainment

    December 7, 2006

    All Dressed Up...

    PlayStation 3 has potential -- but for the moment, little else

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    Midnight in the Garden of PS3

    Camping out at Best Buy with gamers -- and entrepreneurs

  • Music

    October 5, 2006

    Rants About Stuff

    A Bevy of Bad News

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2006

    Whoa, Is Lara Croft Coming?

    A Bevy of Bad News

  • Music

    May 18, 2006

    Various Artists

    Voices from the Frontline

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Joe Satriani

    Saturday, April 29, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300

  • Home Entertainment

    February 2, 2006

    Tae Kwon Ho

    Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore

  • Resolutions

    January 19, 2006

    Fit or Fat, Houston?

    Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Hollywood Halo

    Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005

    Generation Next

    Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005

    They've Got Game

    Barbarians, brain-eaters and beagles round out the best of 2005

  • Home Entertainment

    December 8, 2005

    Near Perfect

    Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target

  • Film

    November 10, 2005

    Aboard Game

    Zathura sweeps you into its alternate reality

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2005

    Auto-Erotic

    Tricked-out rides roll to Reliant for Hot Import Daze

  • Music

    March 17, 2005

    Apocalypse Pretty Soon!

    No hipster or Christian will survive Eef Barzelay's dry rage

  • Resolutions

    January 20, 2005

    2005 Resolutions Guide Listings

    No hipster or Christian will survive Eef Barzelay's dry rage

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    The Halo Challenge

    Master Chief, a weapons-toting super-enhanced human, is the only being who can save the earth. A video gamer from Texas is the world champion at helping him do just that — thousands of times over.

  • News

    November 4, 2004

    Daddy Day Care

    Bars and kids -- perfect together in Houston

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2004

    Keeping Up with the Jones

    The Triple Crown thunders to the finish line

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Who's on First?

    Mo Amer is an Arab-American and Muslim, but you might not know that

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2004

    Unearthing Kitsch

    Media Archeology digs up some quirky film relics

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2004

    Back to School

    Big Daddy Kane and friends revisit the era of the flattop

  • Film

    July 24, 2003

    Enough's Enough

    The Spy Kids go 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

  • Music

    June 19, 2003

    A Prickly Pair of Problems

    Cactus Music and Video battles to keep its marquee and to get the Eagles on its shelves

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    Punk of the Month Club

    Good Charlotte knows it's more than a passing fancy. But does America?

  • Music

    May 8, 2003

    Ground Control to Spider One

    Your album's dead / Can you hear us, Spider One?

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2003

    To Every Man a Donkey Kong

    Travel back in time to a real arcade

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2002

    Velocity = Size + Sound

    Velocity Games has changed the face of arcades

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