Moscow

A Slice for a Tat

Pi Pizza truck reflects on its unique promotion.

Assembling the (Almost) Perfect Moscow Mule

Last Christmas, my ever-thoughtful sister Jackie-O presented me with a set of six Moscow Mule mugs to aid and abet my cocktail adventures. Jackie-O, usually devoted to other varieties of vodka highballs, had herself recently developed a liking for the spicy, slightly citrusy spirit of the Moscow Mul ... More >>

Old Habits Die Hard

Breaking new ground in incoherence and stupidity.

Night of 1000 Hashtags: #AstrosMovies Makes for A Hilarious String of Tweets

Movie hashtags and mashups are nothing new on Twitter, but on Thursday night (and bleeding over into Friday morning), a series of movie titles mashed up with baseball took over Twitter, at least here in Houston. It would appear that it didn't actually begin with the home town team (looking back as ... More >>

The Best & Weirdest PR Email Subject Lines of 2012

Rocks Off gets at least 6,000 emails a week. Aight, it's more like 30 a day, I guess, more if it's SXSW season or the holidays, or if my co-workers get into a rousing conversation about chicks in our one of nightlife slideshows. Out of all those emails, we may gleefully respond to a dozen, and d ... More >>

Music World Stands Up for Embattled Russian Punks Pussy Riot

Above: A burka-clad Madonna talks about Pussy Riot to her Moscow audience Rewind: Vladimir Putin: No Pussy Riot on His Watch Free speech is a valued thing in this country. It's why journalists, writers, musicians and artists exist and are able to do what they do. However, in Russia, it seems to be ... More >>

No Fences: Garth Brooks & the Fuzzy Math of 10 Mega-Concerts

Fifteen years ago this week, the greatest country music artist of all time, Garth Brooks, made history by playing a free concert to a massive crowd in New York's Central Park. Now, not just anybody gets to play Central Park, but Brooks had the megawatt stroke in the entertainment biz back then to ma ... More >>

Vladimir Putin: No Pussy Riot On His Watch

Above: Video of the performance that got three Moscow punk rockers arrested If he were still alive, Frank Zappa would have a field day with this one. Just when we thought the Montgomery County sheriff's department was setting the standard for dodgy tactics and thought control with Friday's suspici ... More >>

REDCAT Film Festival: Fire and Ice: New Animation from Russia

The Marriage of Figaro and Moscow, Cheryomushki

60 Years of Russian Photography

From Stalin to Putin

Cirque Mechanics Boomtown

The Retreat from Moscow

Bin Laden Mission: Six Other Notable Raids; Three That Worked And Three That Didn't

You don't want Chuck Bronson coming after you.​There are uncountable things that could have gone wrong in the raid that ended up with Osama Bin Laden dead; operations like this usually have the odds against them. The Bin Laden raid will join the ranks of historic missions, some famous because ... More >>

I Think We're Alone Now, Except for the Mega Pythons

My cup runneth over.​I realize Egypt is in chaos and everyone north of the Mason-Dixon line is going to be flash frozen like a bag of Birds Eye broccoli florets and Charlie Sheen is apparently the reincarnation of Grigori Rasputin, but that is no excuse, no excuse, for the criminal lack of att ... More >>

Echoes from Ugarit: The Oldest Music Notation in the World!

Malek Jandali captures the spirit of music more than 5,000 years old

Cheer Up, Houston: Your Traffic Pain Is Way Better Than Moscow Or Madrid

There's an accident "in the clearing stage" somewhere​When IBM puts out a survey that features bar graphs and big circles somehow illustrating results, you can rest assured it is beyond reproach.So know this, Houston: Among 20 top international cities, your "traffic pain" is about as low as ... More >>

Comrade Ambassadors

Mumiy Troll, the biggest rock band in Russia, hopes for a belated U.S. breakthrough.

Last Call For Art: Circus Stars, Greek Cinema And Zombies

​Today's your last chance to see Cirque Mechanics' Birdhouse Factory. An international cast of circus stars formerly with Cirque de Soleil, the Moscow Circus and Pickle Family Circus, Cirque Mechanics include contortionists, acrobats, clowns, and dancers.The Birdhouse Factory story is a simple ... More >>

Circus Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory

It just takes a little imagination to go from widgets to wonderland

Aga-Boom

This international supergroup of avant-garde clowns needs no translation

For the Fourth Of July: Worst Cinematic Attempts At Patriotism

This weekend, as we come together to celebrate Independence Day, let's do our best to remember what this holiday is all about. It's more than merely dodging DWI checkpoints on your way home from backyard barbecues and trying to decide between the Jon & Kate 8 or Deadliest Catch marathons on TV ... More >>

Stephanie Elizondo Griest: Mexican Enough

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Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival

Life in the not-so-fast lane

Glenn Gould, The Russian Journey

This documentary film captures the Canadian pianist's visit to Leningrad and Moscow

“Moscow and St. Petersburg: A Tale of Two Cities”

The Russian Cultural Center Our Texas presents works by Russo-Texan artists

Daniel Silva

The mystery writer reads from his latest release, Moscow Rules

Review: Moscow Rules, by Daniel Silva

John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

Capsule Art Reviews: "AES+F," "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space," "Death and Shit Like That," "Gratitude, There's No Competition," "Jac Leirner," " Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now"

Capsule Art Reviews: "AES+F," "Agustina Nuñez: Little Polymorphous," "Flicker Fusion," "The Thames Mudlarks"

Danse Macabre: AES+F

Four Russian artists present three phenomenal installations

The Cancer Researcher Who Went In To The Cold: Remembering (and Possibly Tracking Down) the Lockshin Family, Reagan-era Houstonians Who Defected to the Soviets

“AES+F”

Station Museum of Contemporary Art’s multimedia exhibit provides a new argument for a tired cliché

Carmen Suite

Bolshoi principal dancer Marianna Ryzhkina makes her Houston debut

Russian American Kids Circus

Playing hooky never looked so fun

Vampires of Moscow

Russian Radio

A former KTRU staffer takes her show on the rails

Windows of the Seoul

Getting to know South Korea through music videos

Rassol Relief

The Russian General Store's Rassol

Best Russian Grocery

Moscow Market & Deli

A Portrait of the Artist as a Capitalist

Painter Vladimir Gorsky learned how to work the system in the Soviet Union for personal gain. He discovered that things operate much the same way in America.

Masked Avengers

Forget the headgear. Los Straitjackets are having a seriously good time deconstructing instrumental pop.

Best Former Soviet Union Grocery and Deli

Russian General Store

Mash and Trash

A Night in Old Moscow

Svetlana offers a taste of Mother Russia -- in more ways than one

The Insider

Taste of Russia

Yakov's Deli proves there is more to the bear than borscht (though the borscht ain't bad)