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Top Five-ish Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Memorial Day Edition

As a general rule, unless your team is in the NBA playoffs (I'd say NHL, but most of you wouldn't even know what I was talking about), this time of year can be pretty boring for sports fans. Baseball is still early in the year. There isn't the hint of football save OTAs and college sports are nearly ... More >>

Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: SHO, Astros and Croquet?

Hey, boys and girls, it's the weekend again. I bet you didn't think you'd make it here from Monday, did you? We assume the next few days are all filled up with plans for antiquing, buying groceries, working in the garden, eating sensibly and going to church for Easter. HA HA HA! We're kidding. But ... More >>

Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Color Runs, Roller Derby and March Madness

It's almost the weekend and time for the inaugural edition of what to do this weekend in Houston: sports edition. Each week, we'll be giving you color commentary on events in and around the area you might want to choose for some weekend relaxation, all for sports fans. It's the first week of spring ... More >>

Zapruder Analysis Of Erin Andrews Shutting Down 50 Cent's Attempt At A Kiss

"So I'm watching the Daytona 500, and they cut to a shot of Erin Andrews making her way through the pits and she bumps into 50 Cent..." Honestly, if I were to start a sentence off with that lead-in, how excited are you for the rest of the story? Giddy, right? There are hooks and there are hooks, bu ... More >>

Monster Jam Invades Reliant Stadium This Weekend and Next

As the Houston Texans buckle down for this weekend's do-or-die against the New England Patriots, just steps away, 3,500 yards of dirt are being fashioned into a monster truck course for the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam on the floor of Reliant Stadium. Monster Jam brings dozens of car-crushing tr ... More >>

The 12C Spider:McLaren's Arachnid Invades City Centre

British engineering was on display at the Houston Motor Club in City Centre last night when McLaren was on hand to unveil its new supercar to the Texas market: the 12C Spider. The Spider sports a unique single piece "MonoCell" body made of carbon fiber with aluminum trimming in the front and aroun ... More >>

Independence Day Party at Spring Tavern

Monster Energy AMA Supercross

The Night After Cancellation, EDC Closes Fest With Massive Turnout

See also: EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds Organizers of the second annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas declared the three-day party a success , despite high-winds that cut its marquee night short on Saturday. Promoters say a whopping 115,000 people were in attendance on the ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom. Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas was shut down late Saturday night/early Sunday morning as a result of high winds ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One Is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play L.A.'s Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is be ... More >>

Stay Tuned For The Electric Daisy Carnival

Rocks Off is pleased to tell our readers that this weekend we will be running coverage from the Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the largest electronic-music festivals in the world and the largest in the U.S., as it takes over the Las Vegas Motor Speedway over there in Sin City all weekend. Last year ... More >>

RIP Carroll Shelby: Texan Developed Mustang, Cobra, Terlingua Chili Cook-Off

Racing and car legend Carroll Shelby died today in Dallas at the age of 89. He'd been ill for some time, but it's still a sad day in the auto world. Not to mention the decadent Texas chili world. Shelby played a role in developing both the Cobra and the Mustang, and he won races like the 24 Hours ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of Blu Loves Race Car Driving

Executive Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of the new Blu Restaurant and Lounge (2248 Texas Dr; www.blusugarland.com) in Sugar Land's Town Square, couldn't stop smiling when I was taking pictures of him in the kitchen. "In New York, the photographers didn't want me to smile," he says, but for me he smil ... More >>

Kathy Reichs: Flash and Bones

Top 5 Sporting Events in Memorial Day History

Ernie Banks' immortal words used to mean something each Memorial Day.​A month from now (hell, even a second after it concludes), nobody is going to remember and/or care about the Houston Astros' Memorial Day clash with the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field. Overall, it's a pretty lame sports day ... More >>

Pit Crew

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. prefer the Beach Boys to NASCAR.

Top 5 Celebrities Who Tried to Go All NASCAR...and Failed

Kyle Busch: Qualified to break traffic speeding laws.​If you're going to travel at more than 80 miles an hour over the limit, you should probably be a professional speedster and not a celebrity with run-of-the-mill driving know-how. On Tuesday, Kyle Busch, a championship-winning NASCAR driver ... More >>

Grand Prix Houston Making a Comeback?

Get this poster back up on Ed Emmett's bedroom wall!​A local organizing committee (LOC) for the Grand Prix of Houston announced Thursday its intentions of reviving the event at a press conference from the Houston Auto Show at Reliant Park. The committee, spearheaded by local businessman George ... More >>

Rick Perry Goes After All Those NASCAR Voters Who Are Torn Between Him And Bill White

Illustration courtesy Rick Perry campaign​ Governor Rick Perry, in a bold about-face, has decided to no longer court the Tea Party, flag-wavin', non-Constitution-understandin' white-man hordes, and has instead to go after the NASCAR vote.His campaign is sponsoring Bobby Labonte's car in this weeke ... More >>

The Forgotten Festival

The 1969 Texas International Pop Festival

Season Tickets for Monster Jam? Really?

Photo by Block Party Press​Somehow or another, I ended up on a Reliant Park event email list. And whenever there's some kind of event for which tickets are available, I get an email. I generally ignore these emails, but I got one the other day that grabbed my attention. It told me that ther ... More >>

Smashburger Expands

Smashburger, the self-proclaimed "fast casual" burger import from Denver, has done well enough since its debut in Houston last December that three more restaurants are opening here. Smashburgers are "one hundred percent Angus." They're "smashed on the grill to sear the meat and seal in the flavor." ... More >>

Houston's Drag Queen Needs Another Bump

The Bayou City Bitch has made the Top 25 in RuPaul's Drag Race, the single most important election since Obama took the presidency.But now the second round of voting has begun, and there are only days left to cast your ballot for Anita Bump.We only wish Anita could muster up more enthusiasm for the ... More >>

For April 15: Five Movies About Taxes

April 15 each year brings with it the journalistic challenge of covering yet another "last-rush filers" story, or some clever way to say that it's the deadline for getting your return in. (We still wonder if anyone's ever been prosecuted because their return had an April 16 postmark.)The subject of ... More >>

Your Chance To Drive A Top-Of-The-Line Dragster

If you've ever wanted to race a full-blown, 8,000-horsepower NHRA dragster down the strip, this crummy economy is giving you the chance. If you can afford it.Urs Erbacher, who as you well know is a four-time drag-racing champ, is offering to train drag fans at his Baytown facility and then let t ... More >>

Indianapolis 500 Legends

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life

Alonzo Bodden

A comedian makes cracks about his own discomfort

Big State, Big Ideas

Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime

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Kevin Fowler, Bring It On

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Billy Joe Shaver, Everybody's Brother

www.billyjoeshaver.com

The Gougers, A Long Day for the Weathervane

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One Shy of the Record

Tunnel Mole on Speed

Grand Prix of Houston

NASCAR can’t monopolize 200-mile-per-hour excitement

Where's The Fire?

Vietopia

A Force in Drag

Ballsy Bikers

Supercross riders crash 'n' burn for your pleasure at Reliant Stadium

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend

Drag Queen

Cheer on homegirl Erica Enders at the O'Reilly Spring Nationals

Balls to the Walls

The Houston Dodgeball Association is all the Buzz

Biking Dirty

BMXers eat dirt and catch air

Pei Wei Asian Diner

Trailblazing

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Austin Lounge Lizards

Never an Adult Moment (Sugar Hill)

Off Track

The Race Car Club goes public

Best Racetrack

Houston Raceway Park

Crash Course

Go, Speed Racer, Go-o!