Munich

Houstonian Selling Hitler's Desk

Get Lit: The Pitchfork 500

My Oh My

Can that Guy Forsyth play the blues

Happy Feet

Robert Henry Johnson likes to play, both with his dances and with his audiences

Roll Out the Barrel

Hackemack's is a barrel of fun

Dish

Hackemack's is a barrel of fun

Stressing Strauss

Da Camera examines the 20th-Century Enigma composer

News of the Weird

Da Camera examines the 20th-Century Enigma composer

Texas Beer

Da Camera examines the 20th-Century Enigma composer

Texas Wants Beer!

Our state is the top beer market in the country, so why are we falling behind in the microbrewery movement?

Hitler's Desk, Death of a Bookstore, and Premium Problems

For sale in Houston, slightly used

Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition, Lust, Caution, Excellent Cadavers

For sale in Houston, slightly used

Rendition

It's not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller's as conventional as they come. We're (water) bored. (Sorry.)

Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider performs Friday, May 11, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Skyblue72 and Stillife also perform.

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy, and comes up aces

Ready for Some Football?

The Houston Symphony sure is

Comida sin Fronteras

In 21st-century Houston, it's getting hard to tell the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex

Bring On the Backlash!

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

Beauty at Buchenwald

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz's nation of idiots lands a little close to home

Some Serious Opera

Idomeneo may be dry at times, but Mozart is still a genius

King of the Roads

A Houston author tells how our traffic got jammed

Max Factors

Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, what if Hitler were once a human being?

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Best German Restaurant

AnneMarie's Bistro

My Finny Valentine

Getting misty-eyed over creamed herring and sweet German beer at AnneMarie's Bistro

Who Stollen Christmas?

Joe Mannke gives us the dish on German food

The Bambi Syndrome

Texas is overrun with native whitetails, so why do restaurants have to buy their venison from game farms?

Letters

A Wave of Laughter, Strip Search Horrors, Fine Frye

One Little, Two Little, 40 Little Indies

Worldfest-Houston offers movies you won't otherwise see

Lost in the Jungle

A young company wrestling with a young Brecht turns up some old problems

The Gold: A New Musical

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Before We Go: Devin the Dude, ZZ Top, Camp Jam Houston, The Orb, Something Fierce and More

Free Press Houston has added Devin the Dude, whom Rocks Off is currently trying to track down for a prospective new feature (email us, mang!) and Prince Paul to its Summer Fest August 8 and 9 in Eleanor Tinsley Park. See FPH's or Pegstar's Web sites for ticket info (hint: it's $7 per day). Yesterday ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Oktoberfests

Photo by dave77459​The Texas Hill Country is full of place-names that make Texas Traveler yearn for her nth-generation German heritage. New Braunfels conjures up the scent of the bratwurst and sauerkraut my Moomaw used to make on weekend mornings (food which I loathed, by the way, until I turn ... More >>

Hedda Gabler

UH theater graduate students take on the story of one cold Scandinavian

Flashforward, Episode 3

If nothing else, at least there's eye candy...​Oh, FlashForward. If you were a person, you would be the really eager dyslexic kid who wants to make daddy proud but just can't make the homework make sense. And just like that situation, there's a way to fix the problem and make everything work, ... More >>

The 11 Stupidest Events from the World of Music, 2009 Edition

Hi there, 2009. Please have a seat. Are you comfortable? Would you like some coffee, or perhaps a cigarette? No? Okay, good. Let's just cut straight to the point, then. You suck, and frankly we're sick of your bullshit. You were an awful year, filled not just with economic collapse, scary right-wi ... More >>

Brew Blog: Great Lakes Brewery's Dortmunder Gold

​Listening to Wait, Wait ...Don't Tell Me on NPR a few weeks ago, a caller from Cleveland was challenged to come up with something positive about his city. After a long silence that drew plenty of laughs, he said, "Great Lakes beer." The Cleveland-based brewery is definitely one of many reaso ... More >>

Hitler's Desk: Houstonian Still Trying to Sell It

Der Fuhrer's desk​When last we talked to Houston lawyer Jack McConn, he was eagerly looking forward to selling Hitler's desk, which he had acquired while being part of an Army unit that was guarding the Fuhrer's Munich headquarters. Apparently the market for Hitler desks isn't as lively as it ... More >>

In a Pinch?

We've got you covered this St. Paddy's Day.

St. Patrick's Day at Bar Munich

We've got you covered this St. Paddy's Day.

Bob Schneider's Five Favorite Albums Of All Time

Jeff Swensen/ Bob Schneider on Facebook​It's been said that if you have lived in Texas for at least a decade and you haven't at least been in the vicinity of a Bob Schneider show, you are probably lying. Our introduction to Schneider was kind of heartbreaking, but that's another story for anot ... More >>

Last Night: Gogol Bordello At House Of Blues

Photos by Groovehouse​Gogol Bordello House of Blues April 12, 2011 Check out our pics of the Gypsy punks. Maybe a Jolly Roger would have helped. Tuesday night at House of Blues, Gogol Bordello had the captain's wheel, center stage. They had the ocean, in the form of the seething pit of huma ... More >>

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 >>

Brew Blog: Indian Wells Lobotomy Bock

What's in a name? That which we call a Bock / By any other name would taste as malty.​The other night, I attended a business dinner held at the downtown outpost of the House of Blues. The meal was mediocre, but that wasn't really the point. This was a meet-and-eat event designed to smooth ove ... More >>

10 Semi-Obscure Facts About Led Zeppelin

​On this date in 1968, former Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, and session musicians John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time, rehearsing in a West End studio space in London, England. The first song they played together was a version of "Train Kep ... More >>

Oktoberfest 2011: Where to Binge on Beer and Brats

Insert obligatory photo of buxom woman in a dirndl consuming lager from a stein here. (And remember: Lederhosen are Austrian, not Bavarian!)​If there's one thing that we Americans enjoy doing, it's co-opting other countries' holidays and turning them into giant boozefests for no good reason ot ... More >>

Would You Like Some Cheese with That Beer?

Photo by LexnGer on Flickr​Greg Engert, the only beer expert ever to be named Sommelier of the Year in 2010 by Food and Wine Magazine, first got his interest in fine craft beers from his father. After he studied abroad in Munich and Dublin, his taste for international brewing developed. Eng ... More >>

Ta-ta, 2011

Kiss the year goodbye at a hot New Year's Eve party.

Ta-ta, 2011

Kiss the year goodbye at a hot New Year's Eve party.