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Friday Night: Rain, Beatles Tribute Band, at Bayou Music Center

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles Bayou Music Center April 12, 2013 Apparently the Beatles began when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 -- four fully formed lads from Liverpool in moptops and nifty dark suits. That is the premise behind Rain, whose five-man touring company reache ... More >>

Hamlet Goes to College

Where he is an undeclared (of course) major in this wonderfully mind-bending work.

Last Night: Mission of Burma at Fitzgerald's

Mission of Burma, The Gary, Black Congress Fitzgerald's September 13, 2012 In a day and age when so many of the great groups from yesteryear seem to be reuniting solely for a paycheck, it's refreshing to see a band treat its own reformation as a chance to make up for lost time. After influencing m ... More >>

Tech Art

The CAMH presents the first major museum survey of Stan VanDerBeek's pioneering works.

Dear Penis: 20 Songs About The Tube Snake Boogie

prince.orgGuess who turns 53 today?​Good Lord, what would we do if not for Weinergate? It's hot as hell outside, the Astros are terrible and Rick Perry might run for president next year. But as long as there are congressmen tweeting pictures of their junk to women they barely know, Rocks Off h ... More >>

George Harrison, Dedicated Dallas Fan

All things must pass, but Dallas can't be missed​We're currently reading the second volume of the voluminous diaries of Monty Python's Michael Palin, a good potato chip read that, in this case, covers the 1980s. Among the things we learned: former Beatle George Harrison, he of the mystical in ... More >>

Avalon Calling: The Arthurian Myth In Pop, Goth And Metal

​Rocks Off got a press release the other day extolling the upcoming sixth studio album by metal band Anaal Nathrakh. We had no idea what the hell it was, and thought it was one of those weirdly-spelled porn spams we seem to get so much. Luckily, our editor knew that "Anaal Nathrakh" was the f ... More >>

Clint Black

The 5 Worst Houston Restaurant Websites

​Yesterday, we rolled out our list of the five best Houston restaurant websites. Today is something different. In scouring dozens of websites over the past week, we came to realize something. Restaurant websites in Houston are mostly terrible. This may be true of other industries as well, bu ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Life in the Theatre/Tuesdays with Morrie, Always...Patsy Cline, Boeing-Boeing, The Complete History of America (Abridged), Cuckoos

Fear of Ducks, Tomfoolery

Dr. Strangelove

Tool and A Perfect Circle wouldn't work, so Maynard James Keenan channels his love of Hee Haw through Puscifer.

The Week In TV: The World Series Ruins Everything

Parks and Recreation, yet another reason to love NBC​The weather is cool, Halloween is in the air, and I just redesigned the Pontiac Aztec. This is the week in TV Land: • For being a weak network overall and the home to some truly awful medical dramas, NBC can bring the funny. This week it ... More >>

Listology: Blaggards' Patrick Devlin Picks Ten Acts He'd Sing Backup For

Jay Lee/ www.baldheretic.com​ Anyone who's seen them knows that local "Stout Irish Rockers" Blaggards' front man Patrick Devlin's natural place is center stage. But even he has artists he wouldn't mind stepping back for, so we asked him to list us a few in advance of Blaggards' free concert at Dis ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged, The Story of Burford, Category 5

I Want To Have Sex with Seth Rogen. But Why?

I want to have sex with Seth Rogen, the star of the upcoming Observe and Report (and numerous other Judd Apatow-type vehicles).  But why?First up, let me say that Miss Pop Rocks is happily married, and she wouldn't cheat on her man even if Mr. Rogen showed up at her house with a box of Godivas ... More >>

Hot Fuzz

The Shaun of the Dead duo skewer action flicks

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Coming Up Empty

This six-year battle for a strip club reads like a Monty Python joke — complete with dead parrots

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The Passion of the Christ: A Very Special Episode

Conception far from immaculate in teenybop retelling

Lewis Blows His Top

Bond in a Bikini

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Swindled Art

Black Forest

Terry Gilliam returns, with no one but himself to blame

Forty-Eight Hours

Make a movie from scratch in two days; who knows what you'll get

The Wiz

Miyazaki returns with a beautiful but confounding fairy tale

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Style Pile

On the Razzle is a farcical grab bag

Jokes? What Jokes?

The Hitchhiker's Guide is harmless -- well, mostly harmless

Robyn Hitchcock

Spooked

Hip to Be SquarePants

There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

King Artless

Bruckheimer's knights go for grit but lose the glory

You Better Watch Out

These Saint Nicks can be real pricks

Half and Half

Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

Beach Battle

On-the-Job Training

Wanna write books for a living? First, head for the slaughterhouse

The Gift Of Music

2001’s top ten picks

Look Who's Losin' It

Amy Heckerling is clueless with her latest teen flick

I'm Crushing Your Head!

The Kids in the Hall

So Be Good

In Shockheaded Peter, bad boys and girls get what they deserve -- and then some

The Witching Hour

Rotation

Absurdly Funny

Life is pointless. And then you die laughing.

Hankies Aweigh

The Land Girls takes off as a decent tearjerker, then runs dry

Animal Crackers

A Willy Good Time

New Heights crams the whole of Shakespeare into an evening for laughs, and gets them

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