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Randy Rogers Band Springs Surprise Trouble Release Show at Firehouse Saloon Tonight

The Randy Rogers Band has become a big enough name on the highly competitive Texas country/Red Dirt circuit that the quintet was chosen to open for George Strait and Martina McBride on Strait's Houston stop of his "The Cowboy Rides Away" tour at Reliant Stadium back in March. Reached by phone from " ... More >>

Heaven's Gate Revisited

Michael Cimino revisits his notorious flop Heaven's Gate, which maybe was a masterpiece all along.

Zack Kopplin, The 19-Year-Old Face of the Anti-Creationist Movement

Having fought his battles in Louisiana, the Rice University student is now ready for Texas and any move to put faux science in the public schools here.

Texas In 2016: Hillary Beats Rick Perry?

At some point, Texas will give up its status as a GOP guarantee. That seems the consensus, at least. A burgeoning Hispanic population, increasing transplants from California and New York, and a youth bubble surpassed by only Utah -- all signs point toward an eventual purpling of this putative Republ ... More >>

Crossing the Line: Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

Darrell Scott: Loving Life Way Outside The Nashville Mainstream

Since moving to Nashville in 1995, 52-year-old Darrell Scott has had a career most who take that Hillbilly Highway to Music City USA would envy. A triple-threat talent, Scott was for years a session warhorse, a guy who could play about anything with strings on it as well as possessing a fantastic ea ... More >>

Last Night: Turnin' Headz Rap Showcase at The Mink

Photos by Shea SerranoFullMetal FDot​Turnin' Headz The Backroom at the Mink July 7, 2011 10:18-10:50 p.m.: So, our intention tonight was to head over to The Mink for this Turnin' Headz underground rap showcase after going to see the premiere of new music videos from local rappers Montana, The ... More >>

A Very Special Behind The Music: Zack Attack!

Zack Attack keyboardist Samuel "Screech" Powers before his cutting days.​Everyone remembers Zack Attack. A lighthearted, tween-oriented pop group from California, they shot to the top of the charts in November 1990 with their No. 1 hit, "Friends Forever." Teenagers and close friends themselv ... More >>

My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink: Five Songs For A Hangover

funny.desivalley.com​Every now and then after a night out, Lonesome, Onry and Mean's head feels like it's been in a fight with some guy who owns a nail gun. While we may no longer be on a regular first-name basis with morning - nor, by way of waiver, are we particularly prone to over-serving o ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Bus Stop, Gee's Bend, Triple Focus, Weekend with Pablo Picasso

Super Bowl XLV -- At Least It Was A Good Game

This means sonething different when Ben Roethlisberger does it​Okay, so now we can put the whole Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers thing to bed, right? While Aaron Rodgers still has a ton of work to do to build the overall resume of the Ol' Dongslinger, yesterday's win over the Steelers, and just as ... More >>

David Kaczynski: Unabomber's Brother Campaigns Against Death Penalty

Photo by Craig MalisowDavid Kaczynski hasn't heard from Ted lately​Once you become forever known as "The Unabomber's Brother," there are probably two ways you can go: you can do your best to hide (say, maybe move to a cozy, isolated cabin in Montana?) or you can use your position to further a caus ... More >>

The Ultimate Houston Rap Battle Royal: Who Should You Fight?

Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​Of all of the Rap Round Table columns that have gone up, none generated more emails than this past Monday's "Which Rappers Would You Fight?" segment. Some people were pissed, some people were entertained, but most everyone had the same basic question: Wh ... More >>

Houston's Niceguys Have Trouble Making A Great Video? "Not At All"

​Rocks Off's Kim Douglass wrote this about The Niceguys almost one year ago to the day. If you're not familiar with them, you should read it, because then we don't have to do the perfunctory "This Is How They Got Started, This Is Why They're Different Then Every Other Group In Crisp Jeans And ... More >>

Aftermath: Hana Pestle's Convincing Lunchtime Matinee At U Of H

Photos by Travis Hensley​ While most people on campus at the University of Houston were discussing marijuana in some way, shape or form - it was, after all, 4/20 - Aftermath, along with about 50 other people, were focused on the talented Hana Pestle. In our two years at UH, we've never seen so man ... More >>

Telling New Orleans

The Wire's creator moves south in Treme on HBO.

Houston 2020: The Future Is Unwritten

But hey, that's not stopping Noise.

Year in Film: One from the Heart

Jeff Bridges shines as a country music has-been. Will the elusive Oscar finally be his?

Five Reasons Notre Dame Will Win The BCS This Year And Texas Won't: Part 2

​I admit, there will be Tuesday mornings when it will be difficult to write this item each week. Luckily, today isn't one of them.In Week Two of the college-football season, Notre Dame continued effortlessly along its well-planned path to the BCS title, while UT stumbled badly.It remains to be see ... More >>

Jail Hell

Inmates emerging from the Harris County Jail tell remarkably similar stories of horrible conditions inside.

No Reservations: Thailand

When Anthony Bourdain and his crew visited Thailand in April, Bangkok was in political upheaval. This week's episode of No Reservations opened with flickering images of soldiers, protesters and smoke, with Bourdain admitting, "I don't know what to say about Thailand. I don't know how to make sense o ... More >>

Sondheim, Con Men and Certain Death

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

Uh-Oh: The Guy Who Found Houston's Most Famous Fossil Was A Con Man

Photo courtesy HMNSIn the small Montana town of Malta, a paelontologist named Nate Murphy pleaded guilty this week to stealing a rare fossil from a landowner.Murphy had found an exceedingly rare turkey-sized raptor fossil and made money off it, but he faked the paperwork declaring where he found it. ... More >>

Celebrity Wedding Present

Who has the upper hand in various musician-celebrity marriages?

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Tim McGraw Takes On His Label

Should The Feds Help Save Galveston's Beaches?

Houston Rap: Kicked to the Curb?

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Shortchanged

Houston-based immigrants who flock to New Orleans can get all the jobs they want. Getting paid is a lot harder.

Picture Perfect

Want some Foto? Check out "Photography"

Elf Rock

The Decemberists bring their magic-realist, Picaresque new album to town

Carrying the Torch

Rangers get fired up over Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative

Korn Shuckers

The Deftones' headphone records elevate them out of the nü-metal pack

Son Set

Disorganized crime turns boys into men in Knockaround Guys

Bi-Curious?

Gay and lesbian films seek a mainstream audience on their own terms

Bowing to Pop

A Muslim by choice, Jawad couldn't deny the will of his music

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Utopia, Texas

A burger on the deck at Bubba's is the next best thing to visiting the Hill Country

Wide Open Shot

The Groobees piggyback on the success of a song

Judicial Arts Endowment

Devine converts plaintiffs' lawyers' cash into a courtroom gallery

News of the Weird

Night & Day

June 25 - July 1, 1998

Lame Horse

They shoot bad films, don't they?

Reason to Live

First-time novelist Joni Rodgers wasn't so crazy for trying

The Reason of Rimes

LeAnn Rimes has taken country music by storm. She's only 14. And that's the rub.

Troubleshooter for the Millennium

Suddenly, as the year 2000 approaches, Phillip Arnold's study of first-century apocalyptic Christians is more than a scholarly pursuit

Streep in the Wild

Move aside Sly and Arnold, Meryl's gone muscular

Violence, TV and Demagoguery

Congressional attempts to ax TV violence may put the First Amendment under the gun