Subject: Milan

• A Night at the Opera

  October 2, 2007

• A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

  February 29, 2008

• Ted Nugent Reloads, and Lots of Gun Songs

  May 30, 2008

• Artist of the Week: Andrew Karnavas

  July 31, 2008

• Aida Who?

  HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  May 4, 2000

• Playbill

  August 5, 2004

• Top Ten Latin Music Albums of 2008

  Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled up, and that should come as good news to alternative gringos hoping to spruce up their castellano. This year's Latin-music highlights come from all over the Spanish-speaking map. We'll start in the farthest geographic c

  December 25, 2008

• The Last Warhol

  May 26, 1994

• Press Picks

  July 31, 1997

• The Outsider

  September 25, 1997

• A Butterfly to Cry For

  January 29, 1998

• Shakespeare with a Twist

  August 6, 1998

• No, No, Annette!

  October 1, 1998

• To Bloom Again

  December 24, 1998

• Night & Day

  May 20, 1999

• News of the Weird

  July 1, 1999

• The Sicilian Freeze-out

  June 29, 2000

• Choking on the Pit?

  September 7, 2000

• Here Come The Chieftains

  February 19, 2009

• The International's Assets Are Troubled Indeed

  Bail Out This Movie

  February 12, 2009

• Leonardo’s Renaissance Table

  Eat like da Vinci at this HMNS event

  July 3, 2008

• Milan Nightclub

  Nightfly crashes a Greek Party

  May 24, 2007

• Miracle at Main Street

  Ouroboros makes for dramatic, provocative, fascinating theater

  March 23, 2006

• The Crudo at Bice

  A new excuse to go to the Galleria and play dress-up

  March 2, 2006

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming, and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

  December 23, 2004

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

  December 23, 2004

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• (In)voices from the Dead

  A wage dispute mars memories of the late Judy Lunn

  January 15, 2004

• Gettin' Jiggy

  The Chieftains rule with their traditional Irish tunes

  January 8, 2004

• Red Light Night

  Calling all players to the Pimps-N-Ho's Ball

  October 30, 2003

• "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland"

  Through February 17

  January 2, 2003

• Really Italian

  Through film and photo, the MFA is showing a different side of Italian life

  February 14, 2002

• Full-Body Homage

  A fitness expo for all body types -- as long as they're fit and thin

  November 8, 2001

• Letters

  Music Mayhem, Poisoned Pooch, In the John

  August 9, 2001

• Dear Sweet Goodness

  Houston blues-rocker Tony Vega has traveled a mighty hard road

  July 5, 2001

• Stirred and Shaken

  Grappino di Nino's Negroni

  June 14, 2001

• Global Domination

  As in the past, sleepers will steal this year's International Festival

  April 6, 2000

• Shtick Figure

  In Barbara Kopple's documentary, Woody Allen plays Woody Allen

  April 30, 1998

• Oh My God, How Did I Not Know Gwyneth Paltrow Has A Stupid Website?

  I am such a Johnny-come-lately to this party, I fear. But then again, perhaps it is for the best that I did not realize any sooner that Gwyneth Paltrow has what has to be the most self-indulgent, ridiculous website ever, and it's named -- for some reason -- Goop (with the tagline "Nourish the Inner Aspect").Gwynnie has been on my shit list since she won that Oscar for Shakespeare in Love a few years back and did that "Oh me?" affected crying bit while gripping her statuette. She's always struck

  July 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Rod Stewart at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Craig Hlavaty​Ageism has always pissed off Aftermath immensely. There's something awfully arrogant and defeating about shamming older cats for still wanting to rock out, even if they are edging dangerously close to seventy years of age, as Rod Stewart is. No one begrudges B.B. King or Leonard Cohen for still shilling their songs, each sitting at eighty-three and seventy-four respectively. True it is, that to most people "The Thrill Is Gone" and "Bird on the Wire" hold much more weight than s

  July 27, 2009

• Inquiring Minds: Pop Princess Katy Perry

  Mike Ruiz​They say man can't exist on indie-rock and metal alone, or something like that. Rocks Off firmly agrees, so when we hear good mainstream pop we ride that horse for all it's worth. That's why a little over a year ago, when Katy Perry hit with her single "Ur So Gay," we were enamored with the raven-haired California native. It wasn't quite bubblegum, and it wasn't quite rock and roll, but it was catchy as hell. Plus it was delivered in such a non-plussed pinup/rocker-girl motif, that m

  July 31, 2009

• NO SHORT/OLD CHICKS! America's Next Top Model Hits Town September 12

  Photo by Gwen​On September 12, the casting team of the CW's America's Next Top Model will be hitting H-Town to destroy the fragile self-images psyches of women all over the area. The makers of the hit modeling show are having an open casting call for would-be Marissa Miller's and Naomi Campbell's from our fair city. But if you are less than 5' 7", it's best you keep your ass at home. The show is looking for only tall women and more than likely the more diminutive of you will have pig's b

  August 27, 2009

• Take This Tie And Shove It: Local Urbanist Thinks Houston's Rebirth Hinges on Dressing For The Weather

  ​Andrew Burleson hates wearing dress clothes. He also believes this cultural hangover from our distant European ancestry costs too much money, is completely illogical and ruins much of Houston's social life for about half of the year."In the summer if you're dressed for work and you go outside it's just murder," says Burleson, an urban designer and real estate consultant and blogger. "Then you go home and change into something that's more appropriate, it's still hot but it's not nearly as bad.

  October 20, 2009

• Take This Tie and Shove It Part II: Houston As Fashion Capital For The Hot World

  ​Yesterday, we shared the vision of urbanist and blogger Andrew Burleson, who dreams of a Houston in which we dress for the weather at all times, even at work. It's his view that this would lower energy costs and immensely improve civic life overall.He thinks we could begin with a Dress For The Weather Week, and after ten years or so of these weeks, Houston could become a city that always, in his words, "lived like it's hot 'cause it is" and "lived in the place that we're at and learned to em

  October 21, 2009

• City of Coffee: Houston Coffee Culture

  November 12, 2009