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Finding the Write Candidate

Miss Pop Rocks: Arrest Me, Dog Chapman

Q&A: Talking Naked Ladies and Sweaty Elvises with Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin of Portland’s Velveteria and Black Velvet Masterpieces

Overblown and Underrated

So you know Houston's goats, heroes and high points? Think again.

Stingaree Music Festival and Texas Crab Festival in Crystal Beach, Texas

Photos by J.C. ReidReason to celebrateTwo of the biggest annual events at Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston are the Texas Crab Festival and the Stingaree Music Festival. In its 24th year, the Crab Festival traditionally has occurred on Mother's Day weekend and celebrates every ... More >>

Smart Pop

Photos by J.C. ReidReason to celebrateTwo of the biggest annual events at Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston are the Texas Crab Festival and the Stingaree Music Festival. In its 24th year, the Crab Festival traditionally has occurred on Mother's Day weekend and celebrates every ... More >>

Christmas Chaos 2

Pro Wrestling Alliance star Booker T takes on RVD

Freaked

Bill and Ted get sidetracked at a sideshow

Hand It to Him

Bill and Ted get sidetracked at a sideshow

These Dogs Still Hunt

Bill and Ted get sidetracked at a sideshow

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about

Romeo in the Rough

Tristan & Isolde's clumsy romance may make you crave Shakespeare

Hit Maker

The A-Team creator unleashes a Cold-hearted killer

Monsters of Hip

Five bands' worth of Urban Outfitters employees grace Cardi's stage with shopworn licks and attire

Playbill

Five bands' worth of Urban Outfitters employees grace Cardi's stage with shopworn licks and attire

Cyndi Lauper

Sunday, April 25

A Tall Order

The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't quite fit

The Kids in America

When the working day is done, Molly & the Ringwalds just want to have fun

Fight Club

Houston badasses pummel each other

Wham, Bam, Thank You, McMahon

Wrestlemania X-Seven enters the ring

The Return of Mystical Houston Rocker Tyagaraja

In 2006, Million Year Dance won the award for Best New Band in our annual Houston Press Music Awards, and followed the next year by winning Album Of The Year for Liberation. It seemed that the band and their enigmatic leader Tyagaraja (a.k.a. Jonathan Welch) would be Houston's next hope for nationa ... More >>

This Week In TV: Oprah to Resign in 2011, World to End Shortly Thereafter

Tom Cruise is not taking the news well...​The sun's back out, I'm ready for turkey, and I can't believe I sold my DeLorean to Mr. T. This was the week in TV Land: • So, Oprah resigned, but not really, or something. Just to make sure we all have time to prepare our families for the ritualist ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Top Five '80s Cereal Commercials

If the food police wanted to really control childhood obesity, then they would just go into every grocery store in America and set fire to the cereal isle. But, we know that the sugar-coated cereal lobby led by Sam the Toucan, Dig-Em the Frog and their evil leader Tony the Tiger is just too powerful ... More >>

Jack Freeman: Why Does Houston's Rising R&B Star Want To Kill R&B?

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmai ... More >>

Pardon Us

Mr. T in DC ​We've had some technical difficulties today, folks. But our little meltdown appears to be over. See you tomorrow, foodies food fans!

The 10 Most Memorable Food Infomericals

If only this was a real video series...​There is something mysteriously hypnotic about late-night (or, worse, mid-day) infomercials. I don't know if it's the manically insane way most of the infomercial presenters behave, or the momentary belief that maybe -- just maybe! -- these pioneers may ... More >>

The 10 Biggest TV/Music Crossover Fails

kimkardashian.celebuzz.com​Kim Kardashian's release of her new single, "Jam" makes Rocks Off sick to our stomachs. It's been our philosophy that while an ass can sell a TV show or low-budget porn, it can't sell an album. You can't mute a CD and still "watch" it. So in lieu of Kardashian's sic ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Lights, Camera, Osama

It'll be the feel-good movie of the year.​On the Geologic Internet Time Scale, the news of Osama bin Laden's death took place almost a century ago. We're already fondly recalling our whereabouts when we heard the fateful news (drinking beer and watching The Killing...NEVAR FORGET) and relivi ... More >>

Top 10 Songs Famous Because Of A Movie

​Wednesday night, surf-guitar hero Dick Dale played to a packed Continental Club, in what Rocks Off's buddy Lonesome Onry and Mean and several others have since said was one of the best shows they've ever seen. The song that sent everyone home with their ears ringing and their fingers on fire ... More >>

10 Fish You're Eating That Are Endangered Species

Human beings: acting like jerks since we killed off the pupfish.​Yesterday, we touched briefly on the plight of the idiot fish, a small red fish with giant, round marbles for eyes. It's delicious, despite its odd appearance. And it's also endangered. Yet it's still sold and served across the w ... More >>

Say My Name: Bands Named After Actual, Real People

Punk Rock Elite​This Friday would have been Z.Z. Hill's 76th birthday, but the popular Texas bluesman passed away in 1984 from a heart attack. Most people only know who the late soul crooner is through his connection to ZZ Top. The moniker of that little ol' band from where we are sitting righ ... More >>